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Giantbomb E3 thread
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hamchan said:
She did a pretty good job of burning herself down with her own words on the podcast and then Twitter. Internet dog piling on her at this point is just excessive and starts to even justify some of her statements.
She reminds me of an alcoholic friend of my father's, before he became sober.
There is some really hateful and misogynistic shit in this thread - seriously guys, listen to yourselves, it's a video game podcast ffs - but yes, she was being pretty rude the whole time even after her apologies. She just interrupts people way way too often. I don't know if it's because she was drunk or what but somebody should have done her the favor of simply explaining to her that she needs to wait her turn to speak.
Rich Uncle Skeleton
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!! This would be approximately .775 milliard times better. Rich Gallup would also be acceptable.Smash88 said:
MegaKungFuRadio
Member
StuBurns said:
QOTW next week should be, "What would you buy with $775 million?"
MegaKungFuRadio
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Lijik said:
Or just build two of them.
Fox Mulder
Member
MegaKungFuRadio said:
that's also a fair point she tried to make in her incoherent drunken rambling.
I didn't even know who she was, but during the train wreck, people were saying she writes well on some site. She probably could have contributed to the discussion properly if she hadn't got shitfaced again.
MegaKungFuRadio
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bkfount said:
I was going to say that was a point she made, but thinking back, I couldn't remember if she made it, or if she interrupted someone else making the point to reiterate it. Probably the latter.
Bam Bam Baklava
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Curufinwe said:
Why does it have to be about gender?
Spirit of Jazz
Banned
Curufinwe said:
You Sir are a gent. Would you wish to participate in tea and scones with me tomorrow mid-day whilst we speak of the awfulness that harlot Leigh forced upon our Bombcast?
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Because it always is. :lol
I'm really surprised people are still talking about this. Hopefully by the time Tuesday rolls around, we'll go back to big ass ramps and MAYBE? and FK in my coffee.
I'm really surprised people are still talking about this. Hopefully by the time Tuesday rolls around, we'll go back to big ass ramps and MAYBE? and FK in my coffee.
Lol, I just got to the part where she's explaining/apologizing what happened last year. She must have been really drunk to have thought she did any better this year.
To be fair, I have still found this Bombcast to be worth listening to, and the pure exasperation of Ryan's sighs are kinda priceless.
To be fair, I have still found this Bombcast to be worth listening to, and the pure exasperation of Ryan's sighs are kinda priceless.
MegaKungFuRadio
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StuBurns said:
I find it a lot offensive. I'm sure it wasn't unprovoked, but she seems to be completely dismissing the facts that she was a) loud, bordering on yelling and b) not letting anyone else in the room speak. I'm not surprised, because from what little I've heard from her in discussion type formats, she is one of those people who gets so wrapped up in her own opinion that she becomes deaf to any contrary information, which is enraging for any reasonable human being to listen to.
I took the cry of sexism and the attempts to rally a following on Twitter to be her way of seeking enablers. The fact she got belligerently wasted two years in a row says to me that she has a real problem. I guess that's why I didn't find anything about this particular GB podcast to be funny. I thought it was kind of sad. Egging on someone to wreck herself when she obviously can't stop.
I don't think that's true, she is the second worst podcast guest I've ever heard, the first being this Irish guy who was on 4Guys1Up last year, and he got more shit than she has I think. And he deserved it, he was a fucking idiot.Zek said:
Maybe it is the case, and the person who told her to kill herself is a twat of course, but her negative reactions are because she's an awful drunk, not because she's female.
I'm a dick when I'm drunk, so you know what I do? Not drink
MegaKungFuRadio
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Zek said:
I feel like her attention whoring is spawning most of the scandal. And yes, I would be saying "whore" even if she was a male, because "gigolo" is a clumsy word. She is playing the wounded victim card quite heavily on Twitter.
EmCeeGramr
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StuBurns said:
i don't think you saw the chat last night
mattbodega must haved kicked like a hundred people in there for saying shit like that (and worse) even before she got particularly idiotic
StuBurns said:
Nah, she definitely got more shit. In the past, Garnett used to get drunk as hell on his podcast and he never got shit. He was loud, rude, and did the same shit she did. He never got the same kind of flack.
Maybe the difference is that it was "his" podcast. I don't know. Either way, I stopped listening for quite awhile after that.
In general, Giant Bomb is pretty terrible with guests. Doesn't matter who. :lol
So, yes. You definitely get more shit if you're a woman from the internet losers. Good or bad. From Jade Raymond just working on Assassin's Creed to Leigh being on Giant Bomb. If you have an inny, you're treated as the enemy.
I just think this whole thing is pitiful. Someone you don't know got drunk and acted poorly on the internet, get over it. The people who personally sent her(or anybody else they don't like on the podcast) insults so she would see them should be ashamed of themselves.
That is bad to hear, you're right, I don't really know what her reception was and how harsh the comments were. Still, I find it hard to believe it's because she's female. Maybe I'm wrong, but I think she was an embarrassment, and I can promise you it is nothing to do with her gender.EmCeeGramr said:
Again, I don't think that's the case. Remember him at TGS last year talking about that CG RE film? He got raped on GAF for that podcast because he was slashed and being a cockhole.Kintaro said:
wolfmat
Confirmed Asshole
On her blog:
Note that this is just a bunch of guys who generally enjoy hating on people on the internet anonymously.
I'm gonna say it: I think the Venn diagram of userbases of 4chan.org and giantbomb.com shows considerable overlap.
So while it's sad, it's really business as usual "out here".
Note that this is just a bunch of guys who generally enjoy hating on people on the internet anonymously.
I'm gonna say it: I think the Venn diagram of userbases of 4chan.org and giantbomb.com shows considerable overlap.
So while it's sad, it's really business as usual "out here".
MegaKungFuRadio
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Kintaro said:
Funny how Garnett Lee was the exact comparison I was thinking of, because he does a lot of the same things (not as gratingly loud, however, which counts for a lot) and he is the only other person I can think of off the top of my head that can make me turn off a podcast. I'm sure he gets shit on all the time. The difference is he just takes it
like a man*
*
Obviously, I'm joking in the spoiler tagged text.
EmCeeGramr
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Oh, I don't think it's necessarily sexism at ALL.
Except for one part, where people in the chat kept insinuating... unflattering things about her when she greeted Brad and sat next to him, while they simultaneously praised Brad for being "their" irresistable sex machine that the "bitches" all love
yeah, that part was creepy and disgusting and there WAS an element of sexism there, though leigh managed to distract them from that with her shouting antics
Except for one part, where people in the chat kept insinuating... unflattering things about her when she greeted Brad and sat next to him, while they simultaneously praised Brad for being "their" irresistable sex machine that the "bitches" all love
yeah, that part was creepy and disgusting and there WAS an element of sexism there, though leigh managed to distract them from that with her shouting antics
Rich Uncle Skeleton
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Yup, this. She would be fucking annoying on any podcast, but being on GB, where any guest simply detracts from the pure awesomeness of the main crew, just multiplies the effect by.... some.. unreasonably large number.Kintaro said:
ColonelColon
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MegaKungFuRadio said:
I don't know man. I've never heard Garnett being nearly as obnoxious and rude as Leigh Alexander has been on these two podcasts.
andycapps said:
Just got to this.
What do you do? You don't invite her on. Pretty easy man. Unless they knew she would act a fool, in which case, they used her for hits for their stream and called it a night. Also, they could have told her to leave. That's easy too. She's a writer like them. Nothing difficult there. Sack up and she's "ruining" your podcast and take control.
I can't really get mad at the GB guys for putting Leigh back on the podcast, they knew what they were going to get out of her, and probably thought it would be funny. It became painfully obvious that she was not in on the joke around the half an hour mark. I just feel a bit bummed out for the other guys their, they seemed a bit ambushed by the stupidity.
Curufinwe said:
No one cares about 1up anymore. So, that's probably why. :lol
StuBurns said:
No one else told him to kill himself, called him terrible, sexist names or even got close to the shit Leigh is getting.
Face it man. There IS a double standard on the internet. You're blind if you don't see it.
Did she act a fool? Definitely. Does she deserve the amount of crap she's getting? Nope. Does she deserve some crap? Sure. Roughly the same amount that other podcasters get when they fuck up their shows by involving booze. Either they get loud, stupid, or say stupid shit. Most do all three. Very few of them have nip slips though. :lol
Rich Uncle Skeleton
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:lol You don't think he knows what games he's interested in on the system? I can tell you straight-up, there's no "maybe" about it for me: If my Wii was my only system, I'd be fucking bummed. I think the analogy was fine.Htown said:
MegaKungFuRadio
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ColonelColon said:
Right, but he did go on rants where he gets into the "I am right, fuck everyone else" mentality which Leigh also seems to be prone to (though not so much this time). Those sort of things make me not want to listen. People will bring up the Denis Dyack podcast or the Shadowrun podcast, but the one podcast he ruined for me was the one with Simon Cox and Jane Pinckard guesting where he goes apeshit over the PS3 losing BC, saying that he's arguing for the average consumer. Even then, it was very clear to me that he was quite wrong, confusing average consumer with NeoGAF consumer once again. He often seemed to pander to the hardcore audience for approval, and other times seemed to be trying to emulate Luke Smith, but doing so very poorly. I liked Garnett when he was himself: enthusiastic, happy, sometimes a little dumb. Moreover, it ruined a rare appearance by Simon for me, his previous guest appearance on Yours being pure gold.
Again, Leigh wasn't so bad on the podcast this time. She wasn't good, but she didn't say anything so close minded that I had to stop listening, unlike last year. What bothers me is her reaction to criticism and playing victim on Twitter.
MannahContana
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wmat said:
Come on man, its the internet, she's been asking for a nerd fight for years:
http://sarcasticgamer.com/wp/index.php/2008/04/leigh-alexander-sarcastic-gamer-are-obnoxious-dweebs.html
She then goes on twitter starts telling people to suck it, and to piss off to their basements while she's at E3.
I feel a little sympathy for her but its hard to get fully sympathetic with a person who ignited it further via twitter. She has a huge ego, thinks alot of herself and can't let it go. She's attracting the loons to herself like moths to light.
You're totally right those things didn't happen, but you're wrong if you think he was any where near as much of a dick.Kintaro said:
Maybe there is a double standard, clearly no one would be making sexist comments about men, so the fact people did that makes it factual. But I don't think a lot of people think that way. In truth, I think people shouting racist, sexist, homophobic shit are just picking on something that sets them apart from that person. They dislike someone, pick on the most obvious difference between them, and insult it. I don't think anyone went "hey it's a girl, lets rip the fuck out of her", I think it was "this woman is fucking awful, lets rip the fuck out of her", and then they couldn't articulate their dislike so they use immature insults.
It's horrible, but I don't think it's deep seeded sexism or anything.