TSM Episode 78: The Mass Effect of Media Witch-hunts

Who recommended MASS EFFECT to you? Where did you hear about it? NAME THEM! NAME THEM NOW!

I do not now play, nor have I ever played, ‘violent’ games.

The Starlight Megaphone
Produced 2012.12.16

When a lunatic kills some innocent people, the world’s media weigh in, wrongly blaming Mass Effect for the heinous crime on the basis of a FaceBook ‘like’. The panelists instead suggest that the world’s media and their uncritical audiences are even worse.

10 Comments

  1. Drachonus
    Posted 2012.12.17 at 04:32 | Permalink

    hope I’ll be remembered as the lowest donater for the US division. couldn’t put 1 peso in.

  2. Drachonus
    Posted 2012.12.17 at 05:09 | Permalink

    hmm, so that neutralised the $10 donation from before. shrugs. puts back $1000 donation.

  3. Lusipurr
    Posted 2012.12.17 at 15:41 | Permalink

    Huh?

  4. Drachonus
    Posted 2012.12.17 at 16:09 | Permalink

    remember Shawn, I donated $10 about a month or so ago. not 2 cents. the penny was to undermine your 2 cent donator as in a penny for your thoughts as he threw his 2 cents in.

  5. Lusipurr
    Posted 2012.12.17 at 16:14 | Permalink

    I’m not sure what you’re trying to say. I assume it is not vitally important?

  6. Drachonus
    Posted 2012.12.17 at 20:51 | Permalink

    you accused me of only giving a total of 3 cents in donations total on this podcast.

  7. Lusipurr
    Posted 2012.12.17 at 21:41 | Permalink

    I see. Some corrections:
    1) Logan Moll was our 2¢ donator.
    2) John McKelvey donated $10 and 1¢ respectively, if that is you
    3) We received nothing for the 1¢ donation. It went straight to Paypal as the fee of the donation, so you donated to Paypal, not to us.

  8. koboldekobold
    Posted 2012.12.18 at 12:46 | Permalink

    It amazes me the extent to which simple people look for an incredibly easy answer to the why fucked up things happen (and it is always about assigning blame as opposed to doing anything constructive). Even if it had been the killer who liked Mass Effect, what does that prove aside from the fact that he liked a not amazing western rpg (Even with something that is outwardly violent like GTA, it is a weak argument, but something like Mass Effect seems like a stretch, even for these pinheads)? I like that you take these clowns to task, and only wish that they were in a position where they had to absorb their rightly due criticism.

  9. Lusipurr
    Posted 2012.12.18 at 12:57 | Permalink

    @Kobold: You should have seen some of the savage things that the mental midgets wrote!

    Seriously, Hell is a place, and it is full of people like that.

  10. koboldekobold
    Posted 2012.12.18 at 14:00 | Permalink

    @Lusi I can only imagine. A place like that does seem rather hellish.