• Mail Bag: August 19th, 2008

  

  Written by Zeromage 4 Comments
  Last Updated:: August 19, 2008

  This week we reply to a couple of our more annoying readers…
  1. Our First Email is from Ben:

  Dear Sirs,

  Your website offends me. As many people have pointed out before you are abusive, racist, homophobic, nintendo fan-boys, and I will never visit this site ever again. All of your lists are pointless, not to mention utter garbage. The fact that you like Seinfeld tells me that you are a couple of morons. Your video game lists are complete nonsense. You constantly prop up Nintendo and make fun of Sega. I’m sure you are probably some poorly-informed 13 year-old Wii fanboy with tangible and irrational grudge against Sega. I personally don’t take anything you say seriously. And your music lists are even worse. You put Nirvana and the Clash on your overrated bands list. How can you say Nirvana was the most overrated band of all time in one list, and then say Oasis is the best band of the 90s on another list? I know you guys are going to post this email on your site and then make fun of me, but I don’t care. Your site is based off of posting something randomly offensive, then getting all pissy when people get offended. Your site has no credibility and I will never waste my time on it again.

  Kutulu

  Dear Sir,

  Your email offends me, though it seems that you’ve read our website enough to know we are going to make fun of you (which we will). Yes, we are abusive and get endless enjoyment making fun of our critics, but we have never said anything remotely homophobic or racist. And i’m admittedly bothered that you would find anything in our website that could construed as either of those two things. As for the garbage of our lists, we can do nothing about that because we currently work from a landfill and unfortunately it spills into our work. What can we say, we love Nintendo and aren’t afraid to say it. We don’t like Sega so much and aren’t afraid to say that either. But we’ve commented on all this many many many times. As for our music tastes lets just say we don’t wear flannel and don’t think Nirvana is all that great but you can read about that in that article. Our love of Oasis can be read in that article. To be honest I don’t really know what you want me to say… Now I’ll just make fun of your name, its stupid, and thank you for reading our site!

  2. And now for something completely different. Instead of replying to an email like we usually do in our Mail Bag, we have a comment to attack. Gamer Muzz originally posted this message in a video game forum on myspace, and then left it as a comment on our website in response to our Mail Bag where we made fun of him (I guess we hit a nerve). Anyway, instead of approving his comment, we decided to post it here for all of our readers to see and make fun of:

  This is VERY Funny stuff! There’s so much wrong here. So by all means, Let me retort.

  1. It was when they acted like I was taking the article as serious news that I said their story had no substance. In a literary sense it was very weak.

  I didn’t take it any more seriously than anything else they write as I do not read too deeply into articles written by anyone with no Credibility or journalistic integrity. The fact that the Article was a badly written joke had nothing to do with their mistake.

  2. My main intent was to point out yet again that their knowledge of video game history lacks. I’m sure most old school gamers/Mario fans here know that Jumpman was a carpenter, not a plumber. (especially in an article written by Nintendo fanboys.) Come on! LOL

  Can they really be that upset? They’re like 6 year old’s!! HA HA! They posted that shitty article in an open forum and expected me not to say anything? Well, if they hate criticism, they should get their shit right.

  3. My lack of respect for their lack of Knowledge is nothing new as I’ve pointed out many times with them.

  4. Now OW posts a letter to me on their site where I’m bound not to see it. (Like I look at their site!)

  This all started with me questioning their Awful lists. OW acted like a baby about it. Boo Frickity Hoo! If I come across cocky or something thats just too bad. Fact is, I have no problem slamming OW every time they say something stupid. After all, they never had a problem being rude to me! LOL Hell, it’s not my fault that they get facts wrong.

  it’s sad that so called “Professionals” could stoop to such a cowardice, low, pathetic level.

  Hi Gamer Muzz,

  Thank goodness you wrote, we were getting worried you didn’t love us any more! You are, as far as we can tell, our most faithful reader! You top the list of replies to our articles, and your patronage is deeply appreciated. Your hits alone have gotten my 7 series BMW detailed twice! But seriously (well, the part about my car is true), why do you get so angry with us, beautiful? We write satire, we just like to make ourselves laugh, and we don’t exactly shoot for strong “literary sense.” You probably wrote George Lucas a nasty letter about how if the Death Star could destroy a planet, how could it not swat a few rebel flies. At first, we didn’t want to give you the recognition you are clearly begging for by continuing to write to us, over…and over…and over again. But then we thought, Jesus, this poor kid is reaching out! These angry letters are a cry for help! Gamer Muzz, I know the energy of feeling like you are waging a cyber-war against us makes you feel very powerful, and we like that. We want you to feel like you are in control, like we care, and that maybe, just maybe, if you yell loud enough, you will change our minds and we will become the site you have always wanted us to be! I’m sorry that when we were spending our time jumping over barrels to rescue our little lady we neglected to read the linear notes that never existed on the arcade machine we played it on that told us Jump-man was a carpenter and not the lovable plumber he became after entering the 8-bit witness protection program. I think you and your letters to us, Nintendo fan-boy morons, bring in as twice as many readers as you are attempting to alienate. Please respond to more of our articles that you don’t read, especially the ones “buried” on the front page of the site where you can’t find them.

  We love you,

  OW

4 Comments

1. #1 Gamer Muzz says:
   November 20th, 2009 at 10:53 pm

   It’s all good,
   1. I like my mustang. (I buy American.)

   2. If I wrote Lucas a letter, it would be to tell him how ashamed he should be of the Prequels and what he did when he re released THX 1138 on DVD.

   3. Cyber war? LOL You’re giving too much power to the situation. Outside of Myspace, I’ve only posted on one other topic and this one. I haven’t done that much at all.

   4. I don’t care to “Change your minds”
   I’d just like for you to be a little more accurate. Study up a little. Writing satire does NOT mean you have to be inaccurate.

   5. Believe it or not. though your Idea of why I argue with you is completely flawed.
   This may be the best thing you’ve ever written. LOL
   I don;t care one way or another how successful you are. I’m a small business man, I support entrepreneurs!
   Just remember, You were rude to me first.

   And I have to say, I’m almost (Big on the Almost) flattered that you have taken the time to mention me more than a couple times on your site

   Anyway, Like I said before, You’ve been banned from all the groups I’m in on myspace. I like the controversy. I will continue to argue anything I find inaccurate. And maybe someday I’ll think you’ve written something well enough to interest me.

   so feel free to post here
   http://groups.myspace.com/l1games

   or here
   http://groups.myspace.com/gamershardcore
2. #2 Avi says:
   November 20th, 2009 at 11:19 pm

   O-W abusive, racist homophobes? WTF?
3. #3 Delta says:
   November 20th, 2009 at 1:13 am

   Wow, that guy who wrote the first letter is a dumb fuck. Not sure where he got the racist or homophobic vibe, of course it’s their right to be it if they want to. Still, don’t really see anything that would convince him they are.

   And to call them poorly informed 13 year-old Revolution(I will not refer to what Nintendo changed the name to!!) fanboys who have a pointless grudge against Sega? For all the Super Nintendo and original Nintendo games they’d have to have played thoroughly to write about them like they do, they’ve been stuck at age 13 for at least 20 years.