samsonguy920 said:
Agente L said:
Let's face it. Saying in a interview that she hates the gameplay of the video games (hates the video games overral actually) wasn't the smartest move a person in the industry could've made, even not being an actual developer.
That doesn't excuse people from acting like complete immature bullies. There is never an excuse for that. I don't care if her writing was bad or good. What is important is her devotion to her job, and considering she is still there and her boss is standing up for her, I would say she deserves recognition regardless of her what she enjoys outside of her work.
As far as I am concerned, those people who acted out against her are no better than racists and bigots.
Search where I said that what she did gave permission to reddit mess with her.
Did you?
Good.
Now search where I said she was a bad writer, she was or wasn't devouted to her job, if she achieved or not the objectives in her work.
Good.
Now search where I said reddit claims and accusations are legit, or actually back up those claims and said I shared their view
Great.
Feeling a bit bad for all this finger pointing, aren't you?
All I did was post something that happened, and a opinion of mine. Hell, most people would agree with what I said, if this was taken off this context.
"Hey, I got a friend working in the video game industry!"
"Holy shit, that's cool! What she does?"
"She's the writer of a pretty big company. Unfortunaly, she's not really into videogames, only into writing."
Let me give you a few options of possibles answer, you and point to me the one you think it's more plausible:
Option 1:
"Really? Why she doesn't just write books/stories/novels then?"
Option 2:
"Oh, can't be happy with everything."
Option 3:
"Maybe she likes writing for videogames instead of novels".
I, sincerely, would pick option 1. I bet most of people would too.
Spot1990 said:
Agente L said:
Let's face it. Saying in a interview that she hates the gameplay of the video games (hates the video games overral actually) wasn't the smartest move a person in the industry could've made, even not being an actual developer.
She never once said that. So you have just lost any credibility you may have had in this thread by the simple fact you don't know the first thing about the topic at hand.
"What is your least favorite thing about working in the industry?
Playing the games. This is probably a terrible thing to admit, but it has definitely been the single most difficult thing for me. I came into the job out of a love of writing, not a love of playing games. While I enjoy the interactive aspects of gaming, if a game doesn't have a good story, it's very hard for me to get interested in playing it. Similarly, I'm really terrible at so many things which most games use incessantly -- I have awful hand-eye coordination, I don't like tactics, I don't like fighting, I don't like keeping track of inventory, and I can't read a game map to save my life. This makes it very difficult for me to play to the myriad games I really should be keeping up on as our competition."
Unfortunaly, the original site which the interview was posted (and the interview itself) was taken down for some reason, so here's the time machine link of it:
http://web.archive.org/web/20061108014116/http://www.killerbetties.com/killer_women_jennifer_hepler?page=0%2C1
Page 2, 4th question from top to bottom.
Seems like I didn't lost any credibility, and you ended looking silly at the end of it.