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The Mass Effect 3/BioWare Thread

Valestein

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The hell?

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Any gay or gay-friendly Mass Effect players please apply!
 

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I don't think Chris is been unreasonable here.
He is rebuking homophobic remarks before a single one was made.

Basically, BSN posters are guilty until proven innocent of any fault attributed to them, including homophobia.

It's a strange mentality that you expect the worst from your very own online community and don't believe it is inhabited by likable people.
 
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Well I didn't read the topic so I'll take your word for it. All I saw was that Chris gave a warning 4 hours after the topic began so been the optimist that I am I assumed that one of the members stepped out of line.
 

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It might seem he's not being unreasonable, but these days even merely questioning something a gay man says is considered offensive. "Bigotry" is short hand for "your statement is not in accordance with liberal and feminist values, and I don't need to explain why."
 

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Full lenght ME3: Take back the Earth trailer



Reminds me of this Starship Troopers thing, where everybody gets full emotional about some stupid bugs.

"Nooooo you killed the child you Husk bastards!!!!111 I take this very personal!!! Wahhhh dieeeeee!!!!!"

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I don't want her to die, I'm not one of those EXTREME grimdark characters BioWare write. I just want her to work in an industry more suited to her unique talents.
Like? MLP?
Hey, MLP is written much better than anything BioWare has come up with. There's like character development and stuff.

Not that I'd know anything about that, of course. That show's for girls.
 

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I don't think Chris is been unreasonable here.
He is rebuking homophobic remarks before a single one was made.

Basically, BSN posters are guilty until proven innocent of any fault attributed to them, including homophobia.

It's a strange mentality that you expect the worst from your very own online community and don't believe it is inhabited by likable people.
Wyrm-kun, you do know that forum moderators can delete posts they find to be inappropriate? What do you think happened in that thread in the 4 hours between the original post and Priestly posting his warning?
 

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Full lenght ME3: Take back the Earth trailer


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That is the creepiest-looking girl I have seen in a long time. Fuck, why do they use CG when it'd look a thousand times better to just use real actors?
 

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[URL='https://twitter.com/#%21/search/realtime/%40BrandesHepler']https://twitter.com/#!/search/realtime/@BrandesHepler[/URL] said:
I'm so glad this storyline mode exists in ME3! Sometimes I come home after work and just want to have fun, not shoot things.
I remember the times when good girls not wanting to shoot at all played Sims, not corridor shooters.
 

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I've never heard of a videogame figure being "Internet lynched" like this before. Extra lulz that it may all be because of some faked screenshots.
 

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https://twitter.com/#!/Crispy98680408/status/171512774101450752

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@paragadeshep @BrandesHepler I'm sure *most* people would be offended to discover they've been involuntarily lumped in with these morons.
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@davidgaider @paragadeshep @BrandesHepler I'm sure most respectable writers would be offended as well.

:lol:

But to be perfectly honest, this thing has exploded and gone too far. I mean, yeah, the lulz factor is there and it's pretty funny but some of the vitriol is way over the top.
 

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The thing I hate about this is the idea that apparently Hepler is the cause of Bioware "becoming shit" when Bioware has had terrible writing for ages.

Also the nonwriting related insults are too much.
 

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The thing I hate about this is the idea that apparently Hepler is the cause of Bioware "becoming shit" when Bioware has had terrible writing for ages.

Also the nonwriting related insults are too much.

Agreed, Hepler has become the sacrificial lamb, standing in for all of Bioware's failings. Some of the Twitterists even admit this.
 

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And to be honest the whole "luls ur fat" thing actually discredits the whole criticism thing since instead of commenting on the writing quality people focus on personal qualities which is derrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrp.
 

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I see a bright future for her as an advocate of gay rights, what better credentials that being e-lynched by the homophobic videogame crowd?
 
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I think the real villain of this story is BioWare's management, for hiring an unqualified writer who doesn't even like video games.

This.

I'm guilty of a fair amount of mudslinging against Hepler myself (in my defense, she does paint herself as a large target). But the real idiots in this sordid story are Biowares HR department.

You wouldn't hire a chef who never cooked without a microwave, a grade school teacher who hates children or a mucisian that's deaf. (In before Beethoven).

So why hire a writer who's never worked with interactive media, hates video games and whose sole published work is universally regarded as a steaming pile of feces by critics and user reviewers?

It's tragic, really. I think Hepler would do a better job in a career where she was actually passionate about what she produced. Like, say, burger-flipper at McDonalds.


Damn it! I did it again!
 

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