Internet "journo" insults Felicia Day, net goes nuts!
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Arcanaville,
Posted on: 2012-07-01 03:10 in Comic and Hero-Villain Culture
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Actually, what boggles my mind more than anything is that the writer in question publicly admits that|
Originally Posted by Elf_Sniper
I lol'ed at this. Says a lot for his research abilities. How you could confuse
Olivia Munn http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1601397/ with Felicia Day http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1260407/ After even a moments consideration? Both Female. Both (imo) Attractive. Both Have Hosted Geek Chat Webcasts. Hang on, has anyone ever seen them in the same room at the same time? |
a) he actually didn't know anything about Felicia Day before going off on her
b) he was drunk and thus tweeting wildly
I have no idea why the writer thought either statement would make his actions seem anything but *worse*. Both admissions make his acts even more reprehensible.
Actually, its a pet peeve of mine that there seems to be a growing subculture of the internet that believes "sorry I was drunk" is an excuse for anything. As far as I'm concerned its an admission that you're aware you're a harmful person when intoxicated, but you do it anyway because you could give a damn about anyone else.
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Originally Posted by Arcanaville
Actually, what boggles my mind more than anything is that the writer in question publicly admits that
a) he actually didn't know anything about Felicia Day before going off on her b) he was drunk and thus tweeting wildly I have no idea why the writer thought either statement would make his actions seem anything but *worse*. Both admissions make his acts even more reprehensible. Actually, its a pet peeve of mine that there seems to be a growing subculture of the internet that believes "sorry I was drunk" is an excuse for anything. As far as I'm concerned its an admission that you're aware you're a harmful person when intoxicated, but you do it anyway because you could give a damn about anyone else. |
Agreed.
"Drunk" doesn't make you do a damned thing.
"Drunk" is just a convenient excuse to be an ****** when one feels like being an ******.
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So unless you're socially awkward, bullied, outcast, living in your parents basement, living off Hot Pockets and lacking an ounce of muscle, you can't be considered a gamer. |
Originally Posted by Johnny_Butane
When I was in high school, my friends and I used to have people trying to kick the sh out of us every day because we played computer games. We were harassed constantly. When using the internet was a social stigma, we were the outcasts but we took our lumps and called ourselves geeks as a point of pride.
Now that gaming is "cool", when actors or rappers go on about how huge gamers they are for playing Halo a couple of times or having run a raid in WoW, I can understand real geeks and gamers who who cringe at that. Like I said before, most are as legitimate as Vanilla Ice's street cred. IMO, being a gamer is like Woodstock; if everyone who claimed they were there had been there, they would have needed 10 fields. If everyone who claimed they are obsessive gamers was one, high school computer labs from the 80's and 90's would have been overflowing with people elbow to elbow and today there wouldn't been a free slot on any game server anywhere.  |
J_B, there's more than one way to be a gamer. You're way just happened to be the kind that forms an unrealistic sense of elitism.
Some of us have demanding work weeks that require a bit of our time and can only play when we can because we might have families to support. Being a gamer doesn't have to keep a person from living a productive life, you know?
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Nooo! My nerdiness will be stripped away! I must resign before it's to late. lol|
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No Doctor Who. So you're a poseur.
Plus everyone knows that Money the Grabbing wasn't a real game. It was just a lame attempt to cash in on a new wave of "gaming is getting mainstream".  |
MtG...god I sure did waste a lot of money on the game : /.
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When I was in college, these would sometimes go on sale for like a buck:|
Originally Posted by Rylas
So unless you're socially awkward, bullied, outcast, living in your parents basement, living off Hot Pockets and lacking an ounce of muscle, you can't be considered a gamer.
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I am embarrassed to say I still occasionally crave them. And that I was in college back when these could be purchased for a buck.
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Totino's? No, my wife and I never, ever buy those anymore. Never, no sir.
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Originally Posted by Arcanaville
When I was in college, these would sometimes go on sale for like a buck:
I am embarrassed to say I still occasionally crave them. And that I was in college back when these could be purchased for a buck. |
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Nooo! My nerdiness will be stripped away! I must resign before it's to late. lol
MtG...god I sure did waste a lot of money on the game : /. |
So they've got a picture of me sitting in the booth after setup with this "WEEKLY TASK FORCE MAN?!?!?" look on my face.
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Originally Posted by Arcanaville
Actually, what boggles my mind more than anything is that the writer in question publicly admits that
a) he actually didn't know anything about Felicia Day before going off on her b) he was drunk and thus tweeting wildly I have no idea why the writer thought either statement would make his actions seem anything but *worse*. Both admissions make his acts even more reprehensible. Actually, its a pet peeve of mine that there seems to be a growing subculture of the internet that believes "sorry I was drunk" is an excuse for anything. As far as I'm concerned its an admission that you're aware you're a harmful person when intoxicated, but you do it anyway because you could give a damn about anyone else. |
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Originally Posted by Hyperstrike
Agreed.
"Drunk" doesn't make you do a damned thing. "Drunk" is just a convenient excuse to be an ****** when one feels like being an ******. |
Agreed!
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Very, very much agreed.
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Originally Posted by Grey Pilgrim
Totino's? No, my wife and I never, ever buy those anymore. Never, no sir.
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Incidentally, food industry, stop telling me my food has 100% real cheese: it just reminds me that the food industry believes there's an actual alternative to 100% real food.
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Haha, indeed... it reminds me that there regularly is imitation bits (and other things) mixed in with real bits. Not the most appealing advertisement for those of us who use their skull's innards.|
Originally Posted by Arcanaville
Incidentally, food industry, stop telling me my food has 100% real cheese: it just reminds me that the food industry believes there's an actual alternative to 100% real food.
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However... I have finally discovered an excellent 100% fake cheese that my wife and I make pizzas and nachos with. Not going to get into it too much (and I am not preachy at all about any such thing), but after studying what exactly milk is naturally... and then what is added to it (whether it be before or after it comes out)... and after having sinus problems that were better after cutting out milk products... the search for a good (taste and texture) alternative cheese was fruitless (yes, I said that intentionally)... Until recently... Woohoo!
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You, me, and thousands upon thousands of others.|
Originally Posted by Tater Todd
Nooo! My nerdiness will be stripped away! I must resign before it's to late. lol
MtG...god I sure did waste a lot of money on the game : /. |
Hell I've never even been able to play the last deck I made, cause the only people I really played with aren't exactly on speaking terms with one another anymore.
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They're usually still less than $1.50 around here. They're the perfect single-person size and I love their bubbly crust. Man, now I'm craving one.
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Originally Posted by Arcanaville
When I was in college, these would sometimes go on sale for like a buck:
I am embarrassed to say I still occasionally crave them. And that I was in college back when these could be purchased for a buck. |
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You, me, and thousands upon thousands of others.
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)i used to enjoy making decks that were 'designed' to be somewhat unpredictable by virtue of sheer size and using lots of cards that offered different combo possibilities. (My favorite is still using Ashnod's Transmogrant followed by Detonate against an opponent that was using a fast mana/large, expensive creature deck. Especially when he summoned a Shivan Dragon the next turn and i transmogrified it as well. The look when he realized that the combo the first time wasn't a coincidence... "No, you can't be serious." Boom. ^.^)
Anyway, while i haven't followed her all *that* closely Felicia Day seems as an authentic of a gamer with as much enthusiasm for gaming as many other gamers i know, and i've known a lot of them over the years. And no, not all of us were beaten up or harassed for being gamers even if most were considered at least somewhat weird.
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Also, so much more filling than a Hot Pocket. Thank God, I have 5 or 6 of them in my freezer right now.
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Originally Posted by Tenzhi
They're usually still less than $1.50 around here. They're the perfect single-person size and I love their bubbly crust. Man, now I'm craving one.
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Once I recall they went on sale 10 for $6 and I filled my freezer with them, literally. Something about that crunchy crust and those pepperoni cubes.
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Originally Posted by Tenzhi
They're usually still less than $1.50 around here. They're the perfect single-person size and I love their bubbly crust. Man, now I'm craving one.
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Man, I could go for one of those right now.|
Originally Posted by Arcanaville
When I was in college, these would sometimes go on sale for like a buck:
I am embarrassed to say I still occasionally crave them. And that I was in college back when these could be purchased for a buck. |
And it's 6:40am here.
Why, yes, I have eaten more than my share of these over the course of my life. My wife cannot, for the life of her, understand the appeal.
To each their own. More for me.
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Having been a gamer for a long time (30+ years) of many flavors, I cannot recall an era when being a computer (or video) game enthusiast was ever a social stigma.
Now pen and paper RPGs might hold said stigma, but computer games? No. If anyone had a geek stigma, it was owing to their own decisions outside of the gaming.
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Dude, hate to tell you this, but from reading your posts, and not just this one but over the years, I don't think people were trying to kick the **** out of you for being a gamer. They were doing it because you're an utter ******* ****.
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Originally Posted by Johnny_Butane
When I was in high school, my friends and I used to have people trying to kick the sh out of us every day because we played computer games. We were harassed constantly. When using the internet was a social stigma, we were the outcasts but we took our lumps and called ourselves geeks as a point of pride.
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And don't forget that Miss Day did tweet and link to, off her youtube channel at the time, DR's CoH Avatar music video.
Also you can be a fan of video games without honing your skill in any particular one or actually make money being a professional grade gamer. You just need to enjoy playing video games and play them a lot.
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Exactly this. Gaming is about enjoying games and having fun playing them, or even just enjoying studying the art, design, and rules of a game even if you don't actually play it, not about qualifying for the RPG superbowl.
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Originally Posted by Father Xmas
And don't forget that Miss Day did tweet and link to, off her youtube channel at the time, DR's CoH Avatar music video.
Also you can be a fan of video games without honing your skill in any particular one or actually make money being a professional grade gamer. You just need to enjoy playing video games and play them a lot. |
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Olivia Munn http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1601397/
with
Felicia Day http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1260407/
After even a moments consideration?
Both Female.
Both (imo) Attractive.
Both Have Hosted Geek Chat Webcasts.
Hang on, has anyone ever seen them in the same room at the same time?