Yay, research and citation.

I take it most of us have seen the newest Family Guy episode, I Dream of Jesus. The one where Peter sings Surfin' Bird (the bird, the bird, the bird is the word. Oh the bird bird bird the bird is the word). Yeah, well someone posted a clip on YouTube, 2:56 long. I was watching most of today, very nice clip, high quality good color, good sound. Looked back at it this evening and it was removed due to "Copyright infringement" on Fox.

Little thing Fox, these people, called fans, line to post things like this. The things that are posted will then draw people to your show and help you. But when you pull asinine stunts like this (by the way, that YouTube video makes no profits, there wasn't anything ad related on that guys page or the video) you only hurt yourself.

As if that weren't enough (I actually don't think it is) let me point out this bit of genius in the Fox office,

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It's old yes, but the reporter/author went on air with evidence of "Graphic sex scenes" from Mass Effect. This evidence? Something someone told her before the show starter. That was it, one little report from someone. What does Mass Effect really have you ask? No nudity, simple a profile/side view like you always see on TV.

And yes, gamers being the awesome breed of superhuman we are, did punish here for this little idiotic stunt. On the article it notes that at one point the Amazon page for her new book had 412 one star ratings out of 472 ratings total. As the article quotes from one of the reviews,

"I know all about this book but have never fully read it. Why? Due to the overwhelming backlash, I have no choice but to agree with the 1 star ratings. The rumors are rampant that this book was poorly written and poorly researched. So without verifying the contents myself - I give it a 1 star. Good thing video games aren't judged in this manner - whew!!!"

Gotta love it eh.

As of now the Amazon page has 78 1 star reviews out of 91. After Amazon.com removed the ones that weren't really reviews. Which means, yes, she does suck at writing.

Thank you and have a nice day!