The BioWare and Mass Effect Thread!

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I think I was just temp banned. My nick wasn't crossed out and I can still view my user profile.

No doubt they might've been looking for a reason to shut the TIM thread down. It was THE most anti-bioware thread on there. Myself and others were openly stating BW's writing is overhyped tripe and that ME's reaper story is no more complex than something you'd find in a TPS like Gears of War.

http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/325/index/7835600/275

The stuff that careers are made of.

I just searched for anything Hepler-related and scrolled through the massive, massive wall of results. But yeah I do keep up with Sawyer and Lesi because they're persons of interest, but not Hines. I can barely muster up any enthusiasm for anything Bethesda-related for reasons I can't articulate.

What the dykes and trannies don't want to understand is that if Hepler could write worth a fuck, we'd love her. There might be a few people here who think Avellone or whoever is cool, but shit is as shit does and he'd be hated for his writing, not his hairstyle or what kind of car he drives. Using misogyny or whatever as a defense for her terrible writing is more insulting to women than the original "offense". My wife likes the sims and sucked at Mass Effect combat. Those two facts have nothing to do with her vagina. Genuine feminists would be punching this fake butthurt crowd in the face... if they didn't hit like a girl.

A lot of the people writing to her are being genuinely misogynist. Sure, there's legit (and worthlessly vague) writing criticism here and there, but it's being drowned out. And it's easy to go after the low hanging fruit and dismiss them all as a bunch of bitter misogynerds. Bad apples and the bunch.

If you start the conversation by bringing your sex into the equation and saying that it makes you a good writer then expect the opposition to insult your sex and say it makes you a shit writer.

Will someone please explain to me who this bitch woman is and why is she significant in any way? I mean I know her name and that she reviews games or some shit, but what has she actually achieved in life to give her this so called "star" status?

Her licking a PSP, or whatever the fuck that is, is suposed to be what exactly? Sexy? Erotic? This is the reason she is in ME3? Did someone tell her she ingested a couple of billion bacteria by licking a HAND HELD device? Judging by their reaction, the two guys behind her gave the PSP a good rub with their balls before giving it to her.

I can understand having celebrities in games. It helps sales. I get it. But why HER?

Transparent nerd baiting and EAware's attempt to to get IGN to give them a good score.

Because she licked a PSP.

All of the above.

Because she licked a PSP.

http://twitter.com/#!/stillgray/status/171764788765011968

My God... this just keeps getting more and more drama filled.

That's our Rex!

Annie did the same thing in one of the Codex's usual misogynerd threads. It's just a really easy button to push and it riles guys up so much. :3

Honestly, this misogynist scapegoat is a logical fallacy in itself. Even if people are making genuinely misogynist statements about Hepler - Why? She's not the first female game developer. She's not the first female to write for a game. If people were being genuinely misogynist, this kind of drama would have happened years ago. But it didn't. So if someone looking at this situation would step back, look objectively, and connect the fucking dots, he would see that the misogyny is just superficial 4chan nonsense and that people are either pissed at her for bad writing/what she says about gameplay, or are just being trolls jumping on the trollboat.

But no, like fucking retards, the general populace misses the forest for the trees and sees what it wants to see. Perhaps /v/ nullified its impact by being so varied with the insults but, dude, it's fucking /v/.

http://www.themarysue.com/inclusion-what-jennifer-heplers-story-is-all-about/

Same reason the 95% of the pretend tough guys on the internet are 140 pounds and 5'6" in RL.

Thats it? That's what she is famous for? She would be better off licking and sucking dick. At least that's a respectable profession.

Bioware is really scraping the bottom of the barrel with this one alright.

Has nothing to do with my general point.

Edit: Interesting to know, nonetheless.

But it's someone who's looking past the misogyny and seeing the real issue? Not the general populace and probably won't reach them, true.

Pretty much yes, that's all the reason behind her inclusion in ME3.

That and pictures such as this one:



She fits in Bioware games just right.

Ah, I see. Yes, thankfully exceptions exist, otherwise ITZ would be here a lot faster than it is.

Edit: Still, they had to write

Why? Is there some moral standard of acting or talking that I'm aware of? If you are walking on the street and some drunkard hurls epithets at you, do you run home and cry on the internet? Why is there such a stigma against people saying "bad things"? It's even less morally wrong online than in reality, to be honest, because you can't incite public riot or physical violence.

Yeah, real sexy! A truck driver in drag playing video games. That's about to take a dump.

Thank you for the explanation but I still don't get it what is so great about her.

Because X360gamersPs3 in general over internet want scopie her naked wet boobs and she is a host on IGN shows. So EA managment do theirs math and hire her. Its obvious for what target ME3 is aimed for.

rex has aged like a motherfucker.

Seems to be that a general consensus on the feminist blogs is coalescing around the idea that anyone against Hepler is both misogynist and also an advocate of Call of Duty mindless button pusher style gaming (TOTALLY UNLIKE MASS EFFECT BROS), so Hepler defenders are lovers of equality AND of 'smart' gaming.

I wonder how that came about. "We shouldn't skip combat" = "Combat is the ONLY thing that's important, I don't want no story in my Bioware games."?

It's just a pity Bioware sucks at story and character interaction too.