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Subject: Joe Staten's Dulcet Tones on NPR
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I know, i'm proud to be a nerd, but it's not what she said, it's how she said it.

  • 01.08.2008 7:11 PM PDT

Yeah. I don't care being a nerd, but calling all Halo fans geeks goes too damn far. We're not all geeks, I can gurantee that.

[Edited on 01.08.2008 7:36 PM PST]

  • 01.08.2008 7:25 PM PDT

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If I wasn't so sadly amusing, and if the product wasn't so formulaic and predictable from NPR, I think I would be offended by the reporter, her assumptions and the perspective from which she constructed and delivered her story. For example, the amazing question: "Do gamers read?"

No, we don't read. We only talk in cat memes and drool.

Joe, bless you for having the patience for dealing with her. Hopefully you recorded the entire interview on video and will be posting it on XBL as a ViDoc. It should be quite amusing.

Oh, and Chana, it's a controller. Not a joystick.

Reporters, bah.

Edit: Should anyone wish to let NPR know how they feel about Chana's report, please send constructive feedback only about how the interview could have been improved.

[Edited on 01.08.2008 9:03 PM PST]

  • 01.08.2008 8:36 PM PDT
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Everything will be gone long before me. When the first living thing was born, I was here, waiting. When the last living thing dies, my job is finished. I'll put the chairs on the tables, turn out the lights and lock the universe behind me when I leave.

Could she be more condesending and stuck up?! She first asks if gamers read (making it seem like we're a bunch of idiots), then she calls the ones that do read-geeks. They couldn't have picked a worse person to do a Q&A with (and I was hoping for a little more info on Joe). But, good job on writing the book Joe. I can't waif for the next one (hopefully there will be another).

  • 01.08.2008 8:49 PM PDT
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Wow, that woman annoyed the hell out of me with her biased opinions of gamers. She's obviously one of those idiots who thinks games are still cartoony crap like Super Mario Bros. I love how she's all surprised that video games have... OMG... STORIES!!!! -blam!-. Next she'll interview Marty and be like, "Why waste time using a full orchestra for a game these geeks could complete in an hour?"

  • 01.08.2008 9:25 PM PDT

Sit Down Child

Alright Number 1!!!!!! Bungie should of never promised for halo 3 to be the last! You guys are now dominating the Book era now!...

  • 01.08.2008 9:53 PM PDT

Halo 3 Sonnet

We are the Bungie community, and thus, by definition, we are given the right to complain about any work that Bungie produces, mentions, or even thinks about, with no limits set by knowledge, logic, common sense, or understanding of sarcasm!

Staten was cool, but of course they go for the "dumb gamers" view.

I sort of wish gaming would go more mainstream that it is now so this stuff doesn't happen, but then there really would be a lot more dumb gamers.

EDIT: Although you will never read this, great job on the book.

[Edited on 01.08.2008 10:07 PM PST]

  • 01.08.2008 9:57 PM PDT

Hmmm that was pretty weak. Gamers reading is a surprise...? And then they call us geeks. Last time I checked.... geeks read. A lot. I've read all of the Halo novels and it has made the games that much more enjoyable. Hell, one of my life missions is the theft of the Halo Story Bible so I can enjoy all the backstory each individual who has contributed to Halo has cooked up over the last 10 or so years. Interview definitely left a sour taste in my mouth. Also the way they act as if story is some sort of new shinny object being dangled in front of us. I am aware of quite a few games involving hugely indepth/rich stories from decades ago. Baldur's Gate or FFVII anyone? Homeworld? Bah but I digress

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to scour the internet for some sorority party pictures of our friendly too cool reporter so I can go "play with my joystick." What a biotch

~Josh

[Edited on 01.08.2008 10:05 PM PST]

  • 01.08.2008 10:03 PM PDT

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I wonder if there is a Teabaging Medal?


If there were, it would be called "TESTOCULAR!"

The world called "Covenant"?

Put down your joystick?

Did she even pay attention?

Covenant = group of aliens

Joysticks = atari 7600

Oi.

  • 01.08.2008 11:14 PM PDT

No one is as stupid as I appear.

Since when do we play halo with a joystick?

  • 01.08.2008 11:57 PM PDT

Yay. This is cool.

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i'm nearing the end of contact harvest and so far it's been really good stuff...one issue, get someone to proof read it next time, i'm not kidding you there are so many spelling mistakes and missing words /backwards sentances here and there...but other than that i think his writing style is pretty damn good.

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After Reading Contact Harvest, Johson is the ultimate badass in the universe.

  • 01.09.2008 8:22 AM PDT

Cogito Ergo Sum

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i'm nearing the end of contact harvest and so far it's been really good stuff...one issue, get someone to proof read it next time, i'm not kidding you there are so many spelling mistakes and missing words /backwards sentances here and there...but other than that i think his writing style is pretty damn good.

Ya, I noticed this as well. It didn't really distract me from the book or anything, though it was kind of funny sometimes. I can't think of any instance where Staten contradicts something.

  • 01.09.2008 8:34 AM PDT
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Joysticks? Covenant? Nerds? Annoying Lady? Weird.
But not as weird as this. No one said "1ST POST" etc...

  • 01.09.2008 10:18 AM PDT
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You know, I've always thought that show's name was disceptive. They do not consider "all things". The don't even consider most things.

At best, they consider a handful of things... :)

  • 01.09.2008 11:00 AM PDT
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Most of your are forgetting the demographic that listens to NPR: middle to upper class, well educated, adults.

While I include myself in that demographic, listen to NPR, and play Halo on a regular basis, I realise that most of their audience does not have any familiarity with video games in general, let alone the Halo trilogy.

On top of that, I wouldn't be surprised if the average NPR listener looked down upon gamers with a condescending attitude.

Despite all of this, I thought the reporter did a good job covering the general story of Halo (with a few factual errors) and, in the end, presented Halo as much more than just your average shoot 'em up mind-dulling video game.

Flame all you want, but I thought it was great.

  • 01.09.2008 11:20 AM PDT

It's what we know we aren't, that makes us who we are.

"Do gamers read?"

lol

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  • 01.09.2008 11:41 AM PDT
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My GOD I hate NPR. Buncha little pseudo-intellectual liberal snobs. She makes an extreme effort to appear completely clueless about Halo and even gaming, as if the whole thing was such a silly, low, childish thing for commoners that she would be sullied if she knew anything about it. I'm sorry, but I thought journalist were supposed to, you know, read up on their subjects before wasting an interviewee's time.

  • 01.09.2008 1:04 PM PDT
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Thanks for posting this, Luke. You gave me the reason to never listen to an NPR podcast, more than yours and Frank's word. When the interviewer shows nothing but contempt for Halo and its fans, is drives me away, and probably most of the others who already posted. Seriously, she made us sound like nothing but -blam!- idiots and jackasses. Geeks? Maybe some, but not all of us. I'll admit I'm a nerd, but so what?

Oh yeah, and great job on the book, Joe. In the process of reading it now.


Wow she had such thinly veiled contempt for Halo (if not all gaming). It was an effort to listen to it, but I think Joe handled himself admirably, it wasn't his fault that they edited the BLAM! out of his explanations and tried to downplay the hell out of storytelling in video gaming.

  • 01.09.2008 1:18 PM PDT

AWESOME

Do I read?

No lady I don't read, I'm just in tenth grade taking a college level language arts class for absolutely no reason.
-By the way she didn't just insult halo gamers she insulted all gamers thats alot of people I'm thinking revolt here.

A bunch of Geeks...

So what lady Geeks are the smart people that run everything technological, don't get all mad at us because were smart all I see you doing is reporting and insulting gamers.


A joystick?

Please we stopped using those a decade ago were have you been lady.


-I just can't get over that reporter she knows nothing about gamers!


[Edited on 01.09.2008 1:23 PM PST]

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