
Anyone who has stared into the pitch-black eye of madness known as the Fox News Network's "coverage" of Mass Effect and its "Luke Skywalker meets 'Debbie Does Dallas'" gameplay, is probably now familiar with psychology specialist Cooper Lawrence, who laughingly admitted on the show that she had never played Mass Effect, but still assured the program's viewers of the game's vicious, child corrupting qualities.
We imagine the chuckles came to an abrupt end when Lawrence checked the Amazon ratings of her newest book, "The Cult of Perfection: Making Peace With Your Inner Overachiever," whose middling review had been torn asunder by incensed gamers -- many of whom took the time to mention that they had never actually read the book, but hated it anyways. Amazon recently took down these negative reviews -- a shame, as we're sure they'd provide more entertainment than the actual book ever could.
Lawrence has since apologized in a New York Times article, claiming she was misinformed about the game, and that she's "seen episodes of 'Lost' that are more sexually explicit." Nice work, Lawrence. You might have settled things with the gaming community, but now you've pissed off the DHARMA Initiative, who are capable of doing much more than just downvoting self-help literature.
Update: X-Play's Adam Sessler recently spoke his mind about the "Mass Stupidity" debacle -- his video comments can be viewed (and enjoyed) after the jump.












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or is the 420 1 star reviews just from the joystiq community?
also its beautiful how we can bitch among eachother but as soon someoen like cooper or JT comes along we instantly come together like that big ass transformer and tear them down.
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- Scott
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"I am completely ignorant"
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To bad Geoff didn't fire that one off during the "debate". Amazing how a simple scene in a game is blown out of proportion, where as the magazine industry promotes skinny girls in little or no clothing on their covers and billboards in the media.
Uninformed? The game industry has been targeted for years... It's easy to pick on someone who doesn't fight back but when they do, well, ask Cooper.
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OH NO SOMEONE ON FOX NEWS LIED ABOUT A VIDEO GAME
THIS IS CLEARLY A CONCERTED EFFORT TO CRIMINALIZE VIDEO GAMES AND PUT ALL GAMERS IN RE-EDUCATION CAMPS
WATCH OUT FOR THE GAMEROCAUST, MANNNN
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THIS IS PERSECUTION!
So they ARE hurting us directly.
So like I said, I can't believe you'd say something like that. Unless you're not really a gamer.
GET OUT OF HERE CRAB PEOPLE!!! YOU'RE NOT WANTED HERE!!!
Letting misinformed idiots like Lawrence on the air does it's part to create a national pandemic of people screaming for the ESRB to be reformed, and for any game with a swear word in it to be removed from store shelves. Next thing you know, it's an election issue, and they are passing laws based on a fundamental lack of understanding of the subject matter.
Just because on-air slander and lies don't affect you immediately and personally, doesn't mean they aren't a significant piece of a current or future problem.
Lack of knowledge and understanding among the public is part of why R rated movies are available at Best Buy, but AO video games still are not, despite ostensibly being rated for the same crowd of people.
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Letting misinformed idiots like Lawrence on the air does it's part to create a national pandemic of people screaming for the ESRB to be reformed, and for any game with a swear word in it to be removed from store shelves. Next thing you know, it's an election issue, and they are passing laws based on a fundamental lack of understanding of the subject matter.
Just because on-air slander and lies don't affect you immediately and personally, doesn't mean they aren't a significant piece of a current or future problem.
Lack of knowledge and understanding among the public is part of why R rated movies are available at Best Buy, but AO video games still are not, despite ostensibly being rated for the same crowd of people.
- Scott
Politics' impact on gaming is somewhere in the 470s of 'important issues the nation must address'. I do indeed like video games, but not to the point of needing to spam Amazon in order to restore gamers' reputation as mature members of society who have lives outside of just gaming and spamming Amazon to restore gamers' reputation.
Btw, NOBODY THINKS IT'S FUNNY WHEN YOU TYPE SARCASTICALLY IN ALL CAPS. STFU U TWELVE-YEAR-OLD, AND STOP ABUSING THE GODDAMN CAPS BUTTON. IT'S NOT FUNNY.
Oh you bet and the user images were made of Win and Epic too Amazon pulled those too.
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So what? Is all over then?
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But you know what's funny? She wouldn't be in her position if she wasn't slightly attractive. Hell look at her book which has her posing. The fact is the thing that she's fighting against is the same thing that's gotten her a job and all those guest spots and radio shows. Whether we like to admit it or not, sex sells.
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I don't expect Foxnews to ever make a retraction or apology. They are more interested in ambushing people to gain ratings with their faux controversies.
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These are the same people who thought video games were the devil beforehand.
- Scott
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must be feeling like total fools.
Fox should just flat out correct their false
reporting or face legal action.
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Halp plz!
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http://youtube.com/watch?v=VBTh1xy5XAI
Oh shi-*boom*
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NON-APOLOGY NOT ACCEPTED!!!1!
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