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Gamers Strike Back Against Mass Effect Critic on Amazon

Gaming Today · Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

After hearing the offensive and biased attack against Mass Effect on Fox News by Cooper Lawrence, the psychologist who took part in the biased strike on the game, her book on Amazon.com titled 'The Cult of Perfection: Making Peace with Your Inner Overachiever' is full of one-star reviews, mostly coming from gamers.

Ms. Lawrence may think that it's ok to bash a product she has never used, so gamers are now bashing a book they have never read to drop her book rating on Amazon. Currently, there over 40 negative reviews posted. Check out the Amazon link via Gaming Today if you'd like to throw your two cents in or to just read some of the funny comments against her.

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Amazon is now deleting any one-star negative reviews of the book.

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malingenie - 715 days 8 hours ago

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We are becoming a force to be reckoned with. Wretched is he who fails to recognize the hordes of nerds, gamers, geeks and freaks with too much time on their hands.

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TheTwelve - 715 days 7 hours ago

1.1 - *grabs popcorn*

Seeing two sides ignorant of one another go at it like this should prove interesting...

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BrianC6234 - 715 days 6 hours ago

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This is great to see. It means she'll have to keep her big trap shut because her publisher will tell her to. Time to reel in these weenies and tell them to knock it off. Maybe Fox News could do a show about these hacks are ruining everyone with their drivel. They know nothing about games and what they do to gamers. They just do this to get known. Well, gamers are fed up with you morons.

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IzKyD1331 - 715 days ago

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that woman never even played the game, its like reviewing a movie based off what you hear about it.
also, amazon deleting the reviews is kinda like covering up our freedom to actually have an opinion on a book

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CrashSharc - 714 days 17 hours ago

1.4 - HAHAHA

someone should leave a comment that says " contains full frontal nudity... my 13 year old is scarred for life..."

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Bubble Buddy - 713 days 6 hours ago

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Mart, Firstknight, and all those other ppl are going to jump her man.

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ry-guy - 715 days 7 hours ago

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Agreed with Malingenie. I just thought this is karma coming back at this woman. You bash something you've never held, played, experienced so in return we'll bash something we've never read, thought about, or liked.

Ha! This may be a petty thing to do, but it is great to see gamers finally sticking it to people that think we are a group of people that just roll over.

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THE_JUDGE - 715 days 7 hours ago

3 - Lame

some of your kids need better parenting. Who cares what one guy or girl said about the game, sales matter. Stop renting and buy the game. That will show anyone more than your stupid internet b.s.

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malingenie - 715 days 7 hours ago

3.1 - Whaaa?

How did this become about renting/buying?

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Bubble and Squeek - 715 days 7 hours ago

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I sympathise with what you say and broadly agree with what you are saying.

That aside, I also see why lots of people are doing. It is rather annoying to frequently see a favoured hobby continually misrepresented in the popular media.

Incidentally, Amazon only show 7 4 and 5 star reviews. Looks like it was all for nowt in the end.

EDIT: It is tangentally related because that would have a much more positive effect on the gaming community than trash some woman's book on amazon.

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BrianC6234 - 715 days 6 hours ago

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I don't think you understand what this is about. It means these so-called experts will have to shut their traps. They go after games like they're some big menace on society. All our problems are because of games. They're the same type of people who went after comicbooks and rock and roll and whatever else people didn't like in the past. None of that stuff causes problems. It's really about parents just doing their job. Gamers are fed up with this crap. It's time for this to happen.

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3.4 Blademask | 715 days 5 hours ago - User only got 1 bubble - Show

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i Shank u - 715 days 3 hours ago

3.5 - blademask

it sold 1.6 in 6 weeks. come on dude thats not a failure. by the time a year goes by it will prob be around or past 3 mill

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THE_JUDGE - 715 days 1 hour ago

3.6 - My point is

if you want to show her the biggest form of disrespect, don't go down to her level and throw mud back. Go to your local Game or Gamestop and buy the freaking game. In a world where money matters, buying and supporting the game will show her and her opinion is moot and you'll buy and play whatever you damn well please. Silent protests are often the loudest.

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mintaro - 715 days ago

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@blademask
this has nothing to do with the sales of Mass Effect or Uncharted, so stop trying to start contraversy

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Carbon - 715 days ago

3.8 - .

Ans ilent "The Judge" should be.

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pharmd - 715 days 7 hours ago

4 - point made

She should know that what goes around comes around!!!

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R M Spender - 715 days 7 hours ago

5 - that lady is annoying to look at.

i love in the interview when she is asked if she has ever played mass effect and he answer "NoOoOo!!"
just sums up the annoying kind of people trying to get famous by targeting games. no is the time to do it, the non-game players are finally realizing there is money in it.

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green - 715 days 7 hours ago

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serves her right.Hope her credibility goes down the drain

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Adamalicious - 715 days 1 hour ago

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I kinda don't think she had that much to begin with. Just look at the books she's written - you can actually tell they are crap from the covers!

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monkey602 - 714 days 22 hours ago

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*tut tut*
Never judge a book by it's cover...

...That was actually kinda stupid, I suppose that is why nobody said it before me! Ah well :D

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Killer B - 715 days 7 hours ago

7 - skank ho

I left a 1 star review of her book for kicks. It's a nice change to see gamers band together...instead of the typical spewing of fanboys propaganda.

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binard328 - 715 days 7 hours ago

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Just to let you know, if you look at the book again, all of those one star reviews have been removed. At least, that's what happened when I refreshed the page.

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resistance100 - 715 days 6 hours ago

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http://www.amazon.com/gp/pr...

Theres more back up lol

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fjtorres - 715 days 7 hours ago

8 - Their hearts are in the right place but their brains...

:-(
Those nice folks don't understand that Amazon review forums are moderated. And policed. Unlike certain forums that are free-for-alls open to corporate shills.
Today all the negative posts have been removed and the book is back to 7 reviews and 5 stars.
<sgrug>
All they're doing is annoying the Amazon mods.

If they want to get back at her they should go to her personal blog or just simply edit her Wikipedia entry since that has no credibility controls.

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R M Spender - 715 days 7 hours ago

8.1 - bubbles dude!

all gamers unite!!!!! this is just the beginning of the real video game war! dont let people like her or jack or freaking hillary try and take away freedoms. stop it before it gets out of control. people who never pllayed a video game need to find some other doink to ride on their road to perfection i mean ehhh riches.

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Commando47 - 715 days 7 hours ago

8.2 - One thing though

...she ain't worthy enough to have a Wikipedia account. Maybe because she will demean Wikipedia next because they spread male chauvinistic lies to little girls.

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erx3 - 715 days 6 hours ago

8.3 - Her info

Here is her myspace page.
myspace.com/thecooperlawrence show

Her email through her website
cooper@cooperlawrenceshow.com

She's not cool enough to have a wikipedia page. Unless....

Yeah I don't have much to do at work.

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jessupj - 715 days 6 hours ago

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Someone should sign her email up to a bunch of crap :P

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R M Spender - 715 days 7 hours ago

9 - only 7 reviews now....

i saw some very entertaining reviews on the author but by the time i finished making my amazon id they were all gone... now she is the most loved lesbian in the world, well i have never met her but just looking at the cover to her book i am assuming, and i dont think lesbianism is healthy for children without parental supervision.

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Commando47 - 715 days 7 hours ago

10 - One Star Go Poof!!

I was there at Amazon just now, placed my "flattering" comment and realized that all the 1 star reviews are gone.

Too bad, i thought one day we could go book burning one day.

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Death - 715 days 7 hours ago

11 - Never under estimate the power of idiots,

especially in large groups.

Glad to see gamers haven't taken the high road to show we do not fit into the ignorant stereotypes often laid out by the ill informed...

-Death

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JBaby343 - 715 days 1 hour ago

11.1 - Exactly!!!

Excellent comment. Bubbles for you. People should just let it go. It's no big deal what she says.

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Maldread - 715 days 7 hours ago

12 - Hehe funny i guess

Agree with fjtorres though, i don`t think it will hold up.

But it is funny that the worst critics of games, movies etc, find them so horrible that they havn`t even seen or played them. Shows how much research they actually do.

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monkey602 - 715 days 7 hours ago

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When i read the reviews there where only 3 one star reviews. one said "I wouldnt mind re-enacting a Mass Effect scene with her" now how does that help? Some fool threw away all cause by saying that!

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shotputking - 715 days 7 hours ago

14 - all we can hope for

all we can hope for is that some housewives gloss over the total review scores, which will be affected by all these 1 scores, and decide not to purchase it... then, after this media attention-whore loses all the sales she would have gained because of her anti-video game tirade, things will even out, and hopefully she'll learn her lesson about trying to take advantage of jumping on a bandwagon when she knows nothing about the subject just to get publicity.

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GodsHand - 715 days 6 hours ago

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I left a two star review, see what happens.

I say it also Fox's fault too, always the media showing the negative, rather then the positive.

She says, do we have to be there to see ever second to make sure the child does not see a semi-sex scene. I would answer no, because do you do the same for movies, television, the dreeded INTERNET. I think not.

I say burn her book, she's a witch of Salem.

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ravinash - 714 days 9 hours ago

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Its not so much always showing the negative stuff but rather showing balanced news.
The bring a so called professional on to talk about a product she has no idea about is nothing short of astonishing.
It just goes to show that this so called news agency works from nothing but hear say, stereotypes, rubbish.

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kingme71 - 715 days 6 hours ago

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Amazon removed the 1 *'s, seems hardly fair since she was allowed to bash ME on TV without being censored.

Fight back, leave a 1 * with the impression you read the book, not based on her TV interview.

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kingme71 - 715 days 6 hours ago

17 - Why not email Cooper

I'm sure Cooper would love to hear from everyone:

cooper@cooperlawrenceshow.com

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monkey602 - 715 days 6 hours ago

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haha that's sure to have some interesting results. If anybody does email her, you should post a copy of what you said here for us all to enjoy.

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digger18 - 715 days 5 hours ago

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Oh what sad little children to go and do this. Just shows what a bunch of a**wipes the gaming community are.

Ok, she may have said something wrong about a game and hasn't even played it, but there was no need for this s**t.

*Hangs his head in shame*

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kingme71 - 715 days 5 hours ago

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This is no more childish than a public protest or a strike against a corporation. What happens when people protest or strike? They carry signs in a public forum explaining the wrongs for all to see putting pressure on the corporation/entity in hopes of change.

Emailing a well thought out response is a good option, but often that finds its way into the trash bin. I don't condone spamming email for the sake of spamming, that accomplishes nothing.

Reporting to a public forum such as Amazon comments is a form of electronic protesting. It will raise awareness with the indivdual, the publishing company and possibly Fox News that they need to keep in check their reporting habits and fact finding before spreading their stories as fact.

I put more blame on Fox News than Cooper though. She was just part of the story, there were other members live that had voiced similar opinions. Cooper just wound up being an easier target due to her indivdual exposure.

If Cooper makes amends, I would be all for the Amazon negative comments coming down, but in the mean time, this is no different from a 60's Vietnam sit in or non smokers carrying signs outside cigarette factories.

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jessupj - 715 days 5 hours ago

19 - lol, here's a funny comment I found

"This book is just awful. The author is clearly not qualified to offer any advice or help. This is a true waste of paper. Eventually it may get marked down to a point where it would be a cheap alternative to toilet paper. Even then, it may be worth the extra cost to get real toilet paper, so you don't support this woman or her publisher. "

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resistance100 - 715 days 5 hours ago

20 - THE INTERNET STRIKES BACK!

@jessupj - Can't help but laugh at that one

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yienmaster - 715 days 5 hours ago

21 - Here is my email to her

Cooper,

I cannot think of a more unprofessional thing to do than to go on national television to criticize a product you have never used. You are so misinformed about Mass Effect that you literally have no idea what the game involves. I certainly hope you do more research for your books and show than you did in this case, otherwise you are polluting our nation with lies and assumptions, and passing them off as fact. Please consider recanting your statements about Mass Effect. If you had played the game, you would realize how far from the truth you really are. This situation is analogous to calling the film Titanic a pornographic film. You have taken less than 1% of the content of a piece of media, exaggerated it, and considered it a representative sample of the media as a whole. You are sorely mistaken, and I hope you realize your mistake and feel guilty for so shamelessly bashing a high quality product because of your own lack of research. Actions like these show that you are only looking out for yourself. You are standing in the way of the evolution of society in the same way that people did in the 50's when rock and roll music was "going to destroy our youth and topple our society". Please do some actual research, play the game Mass Effect, and realize how incorrect you are. My "representative" sample of you is an ignorant attention hog, and I don't think you deserve a single viewer/reader if this is the way you go about your business. I'd thank you for your time, but it's worthless as far as I'm concerned, so I don't feel you've lost anything valuable by reading this email (if you even read it at all).

-(My Name)

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monkey602 - 715 days 4 hours ago

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Real nice letter dude!

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wallace1000 - 715 days 5 hours ago

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Thats great. Reviewing her book without reading it is just what she did so power to all those negative reviews :-) Stupid woman!

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Leathersoup - 715 days 5 hours ago

23 - But in her small world...

...she probably believes herself to be a martyr of some sort.

Plus now she's getting publicity that she never would have otherwise.

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JBaby343 - 715 days 1 hour ago

23.1 - Good Point About The Publicity

Sometimes controversy can give publicity you just can't buy. I'll wait and see what happens although I really don't care either way. It's just interesting to see the two sides playing with eachother.

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