Finishing the Fight: Fanboys retaliate against FOX News
Lately the mainstream media has been crawling out of the woodwork to at least address the topic of video games if not to simply bash it in an uninformed fashion. Starting with Kevin McCullough and ending this week with FOX News, it's been a constant deluge of complete and total douchebaggery. Naturally, this topic has garnered a good amount of attention from game blogs, much to the chagrin of those that seem to think that exposing and expounding on the issue only lends these people validity.
Admittedly, they're granted a little validity, and they get some pretty epic pageviews for a day or two, but eventually the hype dies down and they are largely forgotten. Unfortunately, talking about the unapologetic manner in which the mainstream media pretends they are actually well versed in the topic of gaming is the only way we can fight back. Until now.
Following the broadcast of a recent round table discussion led by Cooper Lawrence regarding the recent Mass Effect scandal, gamers flooded Amazon leaving one star ratings and tyrannical screeds in the review section for Cooper's book The Cult Of Perfection.
Unfortunately, Amazon is now deleting one star ratings on the book, alienating a pretty hefty portion of their customer base in the process. So big ups to Amazon in that regard. However, in spite of Amazon's attempts at scrubbing the reviews quite a few remain on the page at any given time, speaking pretty highly of the tenacity of gamers if nothing else.
Granted, not everyone that completely loses their mind (or makes a REALLY informed decision) and makes a frothing, completely ignorant statement about games has an Amazon page we can send hordes of rabid fanboys to vandalize, but even these small victories are cherished.
[Via FileFront]
