-
Hey, guest user. Hope you're enjoying NeoGAF! Have you considered registering for an account? Come join us and add your take to the daily discourse.
Giantbomb E3 thread
- Thread starter Pooya
- Start date
MannahContana
Neo Member
Kintaro said:
Does Garnett go and twitter and encourage further angst and behaviour though? Last year she aplogised and noone was asking for her head. She has made it worse for herself with her POST behaviour. I think people are more angry with the twitter behaviour then her podcast behaviour.
Bam Bam Baklava
Member
Didn't someone send death threats to Jeff Gerstmann over his Twilight Princess review?
Rich Uncle Skeleton said:
Mr Jared and Johnny V are two guests that immediately come to mind that add to the awesomeness.
jacobs34 said:
I really doubt they knew she would do this again. They probably assumed that she learnt her lesson from last time and out of friendship invited her back again.
EDIT: Now that I think about it she's probably getting more shit than Garnett because she went nuts on twitter afterwards. This reminds me of the Just got defriended by a girl I see regularly... thread. Basically the louder you are the more shit you attract.
MegaKungFuRadio
Member
Rich Uncle Skeleton said:
Seriously. I wonder about people who defend the Wii like that. It's as if they live in some alternate reality where a trickle of quality Nintendo titles over three and a half years somehow makes up for not being guaranteed to have something worthwhile to play month to month.
EricDiesel
Member
That kind of garbage is 10x worse than anything Leigh did or said last night. Jesus Christ. I don't enjoy the idea of being lumped in with these assholes.wmat said:
I actually enjoyed her being on the stream, in a "total fucking chaos" sort of way. The unnecessary "FUCK BOSTON" outbursts and "Oh, it's because you're not a girl. [Not because you were polite and also barely said anything the whole night.]" shit had me rolling my eyes, sure. But to say that I didn't enjoy the Bombcast would be a lie.
She probably deserves some flak for being rude, but not this hateful misogynistic shitstorm. These people should be ashamed of themselves.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Curufinwe said:
On GAF someone basically called her ugly in lieu of any real constructive criticism. I'm sure no one ever called Jeremy ugly?
Then again, people just call Gabe fat because he hates the PS3, so what the fuck I guess.
I'm almost glad that the queer members of the industry aren't that visible, simply because "fag" would be thrown around without a second thought.
MikeE21286
Member
Hahahahah :lol:lol
Leigh : "my sources say....$775 million dollars"
British guy from EA: "I declare that to be an illegal amount of money!"
I lost it :lol
Leigh : "my sources say....$775 million dollars"
British guy from EA: "I declare that to be an illegal amount of money!"
I lost it :lol
MegaKungFuRadio
Member
MikeE21286 said:
I like Paul Barnett. Too bad he was dead tired for the podcast. Don't see why he apologized for it, though.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
FStop7 said:
Yeah, really. I'll fully admit that I do it too - I completely respect the fact that Tak and Naoki did their bits in English at the Konami event (because god knows most of us could not do the same thing in Japanese), but I still think YOU WILL BE SUCKED is hilarious.
But I'd like to think that was all in good fun - that there's a level of understanding between everyone in the thread that we were laughing at the trainwreck and not the fact that they were Japanese people speaking broken English. In fact, Tak should just put "YOU WILL BE SUCKED" on a T-shirt and sell that sucker for 30 bucks. I'd buy one.
Something like the "775" thing I think is fair game. You're laughing at that because it's just ridiculous. But the moment any aspect of her gender enters the equation, a line has been crossed. The problem is that it's so easy to cross that line - especially because of the Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory.
And really, it's as simple as "775? How stupid." vs "775? What a stupid bitch." One's cool, one's not. And if people can't see that... well, I can't help ya. :lol
StuBurns said:
hamchan said:
Well, I hope that's the case. What's stupid is that even Shane "mangod" Bettenhausen did it when he was still on 1up Yours and had to play the Sony fanboy, so it's not limited to internet idiots.
XiaNaphryz
LATIN, MATRIPEDICABUS, DO YOU SPEAK IT
Keeping in mind she did the exact same thing the previous year and apologized for it then does the exact same thing again this year, of course it's going to be a lot worse the second time around. That's where a lot of the excess anger's coming from.Kintaro said:
firehawk12 said:
I'll do it, too. I'll post in a thread "This is retarded" or whatever. Where, IMO, the line is drawn is when someone starts initiating direct contact with the person they dislike - emailing them, sending them DMs on Twitter, posting comments on their blogs, about how bad they suck, how they should kill themselves, etc. Especially when one isn't putting their real name next to their words.
The 775 thing was ridiculous, as was her behavior in general. That's what happens when people get drunk and lose control... Watching the guy from the office get wasted at a company party and make an ass of himself is hilarious, the first time. The second time it really isn't funny.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
FStop7 said:
Seriously, all that effort just to be an asshole. It's strange what the internet has driven people to do.
catotheyounger
Member
Looks like there just may be a Olly Moss and Robert Ashley episode of the Bombcast.
Kintaro said:
As someone who wasn't offended by either of Leigh's appearances on the bombcast, it's not that hard to see why she gets more shit than the other "perpetrators." She kept fueling the fire by starting Twitter and blog wars.
Sure, some comments went overboard, but I wouldn't consider that to be any sort of "double standard."
EricDiesel
Member
I come bearing GIFs.
In the words of the Partridge Family: C'mon, get happy!!
In the words of the Partridge Family: C'mon, get happy!!
Xenon
Member
I have not listened to a gaming podcast for years. But I was cleaning out the car and decided to turn day three of the GB pcast on...
THAT FUCKING CHICK IS A LIKE BLACKHOLE TO ANY MEANINGFUL CONVERSATION!
I made it to 40 or so minutes. That's all I could take.
If they every put her on the show again they need to rig up a dog shock collar so that if she interrupts someone she gets a little jolt, ok maybe a big jolt. Something tells me she'd talk through the little ones.
THAT FUCKING CHICK IS A LIKE BLACKHOLE TO ANY MEANINGFUL CONVERSATION!
I made it to 40 or so minutes. That's all I could take.
If they every put her on the show again they need to rig up a dog shock collar so that if she interrupts someone she gets a little jolt, ok maybe a big jolt. Something tells me she'd talk through the little ones.
MegaKungFuRadio
Member
Cday said:
That was pretty good. That and the time she said to Ryan that she really wanted to hear his thoughts and went on to interrupt him every two words. Actually, that may have been the same time...
voodoopanda
Member
I liked when someone said, "Ryan, do you think 3D is a gimmick?" or something like that and Leigh started answering, "No, no I don't think..." :lol
MattyGrovesOrMe
Member
CcrooK said:
jett said:
Atilac said:
Son of Godzilla said:
Smash88 said:
Letters said:
Jax said:
approvingly quoted by Jax said:
SquirrelNuckle said:
peterb0y in response to someone saying the criticism is getting too harsh said:
kman3000 said:
C-Jo said:
xxracerxx said:
xxracerxx said:
MickeyKnox said:
Atilac said:
Big Ass Ramp said:
Luchen said:
Letters said:
Freedom = $1.05 said:
Vik_Vaughn said:
Xenon said:
Stay classy GAF.Atilac said:
Yeah, gender clearly has no place in this conversation.StuBurns said:
Big-ass Ramp
hella bullets that's true
MattyGrovesOrMe said:
But I don't hate her because she's a woman. I said "bitch" because it worked, I would have called a dude a "fucker" or something like that in the same situation. I might have even called a dude a "bitch", now that I think about it.
wmat said:
Hey, I said this one:
It's from my twitter. It wasn't anonymous. It was my personal twitter account. She changed my name to "Anonymous" to fit her narrative. And she's a "business journalist"?
How many people on that podcast were female?MattyGrovesOrMe said:
It's pretty easy to identify the person you are discussing when they are the only female without knowing the person's name. Example, I would have said "The rockband guy" because I don't know his name, and don't think it's worth researching because I know everyone on here would know who I meant by saying that.
There was one woman in the podcast, she was awful, but saying "that woman" is perfectly legitimate in terms of a method of identification.
Big-ass Ramp
hella bullets that's true
daycru said:
I guess it's only appropriate to refer to people as "it". let the confusion take its place, at least we aren't designating genders.
cr_blah_blah
Member
MattyGrovesOrMe said:
so if they were talking about Brad and kept saying "guy" instead of "woman" they'd be sexist too? Or called him a "dick" instead of "bitch"?
MegaKungFuRadio
Member
Please, if Paul Barnett were being obnoxious, half of those posts would just say "British dude." But he isn't obnoxious, so they don't.
MattyGrovesOrMe
Member
Your quote was used not because it used gender-disparaging language, but because it suggested that you found it offensive that she might believe people disliked her because she was female. I think the other quotes show that there is certainly a lot of antagonism here (not to mention the far worse stream comments) that suggest otherwise.StuBurns said:
MegaKungFuRadio
Member
Htown said:
Right. I'm the fanboy here.
MattyGrovesOrMe
Member
Htown said:
Kuros is more whitish gray in the actual Wizard and Warriors games though - still kind of works.ThusZarathustra
Member
MegaKungFuRadio said:
This pretty much says it all. Gender has nothing to do with her obnoxiousness. It does however dictate the common denominator of the insults since she was the only female in the room.
Okay, this is fair. She was addressing the 'kill yourself' thing, but as I had slagged her off too, I did feel like she was addressing every male who dared criticize her and just using the fact she was different, i.e. a woman, to write off every complaint despite the fact that it is her that is at fault. (That is not to say some of the people slagging her off did not go too far and said disgusting things).MattyGrovesOrMe said:
I just don't think most of the people quoted above mentioned her sex because it matters to them in anyway, as appose to a manner in which to identify her to other gaffers. It's strange though, I actually wouldn't feel comfortable identifying N'Gai as 'the black guy' or the guy from GayGamer who is sometimes on 1up Yours as the gay guy. I imagine that says more about me than anything else.
I don't believe it's sexism at all for the vast majority of people. The truth is, most men adore women.
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
As proven by their strange defense of a loud, interruptive, incoherent, drunken mess of a female.StuBurns said:
Darn my lack of photoshop skill! So close!MattyGrovesOrMe said:
Glad we're finally getting somewhere.MegaKungFuRadio said:
But seriously, there are plenty of games for the thing, and it's the only console I own and I couldn't be happier with the thing.
Well, I could, if the online was a little less clunky, but I digress.