we should go back to the middle ages where you were inslaved if you owed someone money


by Ted Grant

Pity the poor fan of sports video-games. Already duty-bound to spend $60 a year on the same game over and over and over again, in some perverse preview of their Purgatorial tedium, now it transpires that the very athletes whose likenesses, names and game statistics make their favorite games possible are suing the makers of those games for using their likenesses, names and game statistics with neither permission nor compensation.

This is, of course, an insult to the real victims. The fans:

I’ve always hated lawsuits about people being upset about being in a video game. They should be honored it’s not like it ruins their reputation and makes them evil or anything. Just a bunch of old money grubbers.

Suing happens to be one of the easiest ways of making money in the US. Trust me, they’re proud, but greed is a mofo.

wow, bitter old jerks much?

seems that they spent all of their money, and they need more

Huh, so this is what happens when you retire without any proper real world job skills. Lazy douches.

i hate lawsuits, we should go back to the middle ages where you were inslaved if you owed someone money.

Football players have enough money. EA has enough money. I don’t know who to hate more. I find American Football to be the worst sport ever, curling is better. On the other hand, EA is a terrible developer and generally published crap.

hi, im a nfl player and earn millions upon millions of dollars from my contract and endorsments alone, now i dont think thats good enough and want to sue a computer game company for using my likeness which improved my fans experience when playing such games as nfl made by ea, Having millions of dollars and getting into places for free isnt just as good as it used to be

Holy moly shit toad get off your enormously high horse and give us little guys some happiness

Gotta love the nfl players who make millions of dollars and then sue for maybe 20,000$. If they spent there money better then they wouldn’t even bother doing something like this.

Yeah…those darn retired athletes who were cheated out of money owed them by collusion between a video-game company and their union! Don’t they know they’re hurting the fans! Why, if EA had to pay the retired players fair compensation, MADDEN 2010 might cost a whole $65!



I’m cool with the gay thing just don’t touch my ass and stay 25 feet away from me.


by Ted Grant

The Consumerist brings us yet another story of corporate malfeasance, or at least less than adequate customer service which is, at best, a minor inconvenience, with the story of an XBox 360 owner who found his gamertag changed against his will because it contains the highly offensive word “gay” in it.

Let’s see how the always reasonable Consumerist readers react:

Try a gamer tag like BrokeBackMountaineer.

Two whole comments in, and we already get a Brokeback Mountain joke. How timely.

A child playing XBox live may not have parents that are ready to explain homosexuality, heterosexuality or any sex related topic yet.

Ten comments in before someone asks us to think of the children…

I too find the term “homophobic” offensive. It’s a convenient classification to demonize and lump together people who disagree with you, whether or not they have an irrational, pathological and psychological fear of homosexuals. It’s like calling someone a fascist when they exhibit no attributes of fascism: a convenient personal attack to confuse the issue.

Funny, isn’t it, how only homophobic people ever seem to be offended by the use of the word “homophobe.”

I’m constantly amazed at the fact that gay people feel the need to advertise their ‘gayness’ to anyone and everyone.

Noone feels the need to use the login “theHETEROgamer”.

Get over it and stop broadcasting your sexual preference like it’s a badge of honor…

Yes, gay people telling you they’re gay is “advertising their gayness.” Lord, how I’m tired of that argument…

The XBL TOS also says something about no sexual references in a gamertag and while you didnt say penislovinggamer, you did make a semi sexual reference.

Yes, because all being gay means is OH MY GOD I HUNGER FOR COCK! GIVE ME COCKS! COCKS COCKS COCKS!

Keep your sexual preferences to yourself, people. I’m sick and fucking tired of gay people wearing their gayness on their shirt sleeves as a badge of honor. You know what? I really don’t want to know how you like your sex. Do you see heterosexuals using monikers that mean, “I like to give it to my woman up the ass?” Hell no, because that would be offensive. Equally offensive is your compulsive desire to tell the world just how gay you are. Knock it the fuck off. Go home and be gay in the privacy of your own home, I support your right to fuck who you want, however you want it, just keep it to yourself, damnit.

“Look, you can be gay, all right. Just don’t be gay any time I’m around. Or might be around. Or might think about it.”