[Updated] Jeff Bell asks message board user: "And your contribution to society is ... what?"

Careful dude.

He might go after you too.

Bruce Willis did that?? That's fucking awesome!!!! I mean I'm surprised he didn't go up to some fucking forum user and castrate him with his bare hands.

yeah, that was great.
he even invited the guy into iChat to prove it was him.
pretty badass.

wow, that's fucking lame.

And your contribution to society is...what?

yea working class people have every right to harass the higher ups for no reason at all.

/sarcasm

"RICH PEOPLE ARE SOME OF THE BIGGEST ASSHOLES IN THE HISTORY OF AMERICA"

Yeah, paying the lion's share of American tax dollars does that to people.

Evan: It's not like those rich people can't afford it.

Didn't laugh the first time, nor the second time, knock it off.

I got that game free with my Xbox Live subscription... I played it once.

Fernando, that last line of yours gave me such a grammatical headache! I need some tylenol.

Well, they do.

Nope, I don't think you would do that.

No. I don't think so either.

You did, however, prove Jeff Bell's point with that comment...so congratulations, you've made your contribution to (Internet) society!

@ Bob

Reading just made me lol at work. I have to be careful the boss might think I'm enjoying being here.

Pathetic? the guy invited him into the ring, of what he's selling for a living? Do you expect him to invite him to a game of cards? 10 paces at sun-up? how about a nice game of russian roulette?

I think the real question is, doesn't "Microsoft's corporate VP of global marketing" have ANYTHING better to do with his time than troll message boards? I mean how much of microsofts time is this guy actually wasting?

On top of that, it's a PUBLIC forum. Does he not expect ridicule from consumers of his product? how about if that guy is a stock holder? He has all the right in the world to question some marketing minion if he's putting MS's profitability on the line.
Jeffy boy doesn't even know who this person is... for all he knows, it's a 24 y/o fresh out of college, and i'm sure if someone asked jeff the same question at that point in his life, he would be sitting there with his dick in his hand with no answer.

It's one thing to ridicule an actor and claim his movie is going to suck, and get that shoved up your ass personally. It's a completely different beast to riducle a marginally higher up in a public company which many people have an invested interest in, and then have this clown message you back acting all tough.

Wow jeff, you've had the position for a year, we're all so impressed. Was that jump in campaign all your own? or how about that neato campaign with all the boxes and wireless mics flying around?
Face it, MS sells it's self. It's like a marketing campaign for your local utility, the people are going to buy it anyways, so you're not even remotely neccesary.

Calm down. It's just an amusing story and not serious business. I don't think I need to explain the implications of a corporate exec going all vendetta on some kid outside of the forum.

And why should we compromise our reporting just because somebody doesn't like us? isn't that the whole point of fair reporting? To not let personal trifles get in the way of information ... as silly as that information may be?

"I don't think I need to explain the implications of a corporate exec going all vendetta on some kid outside of the forum."

What? There is no implications. I personally have been attacked by one of the top guys at Gearbox software, for example (those guys are real jerks). Lots of people have been attacked by one of the old PR guys on the Epic software message boards. This happens all the time. People are people, and when an employee of ANY company attacks any other person anonymously, it's not a big deal. It really does happen all the time.

The more interesting news is the update that says this information leak has been "dealt with", for a few years now there has been much internal strife in the NeoGAF administration staff, nearly all of it invisible even to the regular posters there.

This comment is two shitty Internet memes duct-TAPED together.

With that picture you just won my heart. I'll even put it in a little container for you.