Comments on: Another silly woman writes for The Daily Mail

By: Poison

Poison — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 02:46:01 +0000

Great article – the Daily Mail is fail no matter what subject it’s talking about but this just reinforces falsehoods. Kind of like when FOX did it’s little “report” on Mass Effect’s “pornography”.

By the way, what’s up with constantly mentioning gender? I’m curious if you’d have used the words “blogger” or “parent” or something similar if not for the false idea that women don’t know anything about video games. Just seemed to stick out to me. :\

By: CrazyBlue

CrazyBlue — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 18:49:19 +0000

I think the Daily mail are succeding in distancing themsleves from their audience. Every week at teh train station I see less and less people reading the Dail Mail, and more left wanting to be bought…

By: Groove Vandal

Groove Vandal — Thu, 08 May 2008 12:22:49 +0000

I have posted a comment to this article and had no issues with the image verification. I doubt they will publish it though as it concisely points out why the whole article is nonsensical.

I used to be Daily Mail reader but have abandoned it due to ill thought out articles such as this one. They are becoming more like the Sun every week.

By: BC

BC — Wed, 07 May 2008 21:36:10 +0000

It wasn’t that they didn’t let me post. It was that I couldn’t pass the “type in these letters” test to stop spam …despite getting it right every time. Now, other articles have comments …isn’t it a little odd this one couldn’t?

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 07 May 2008 19:47:21 +0000

That’s the Daily Mail for you. If your world view isn’t aligned with their myopic take on events, your opinion doesn’t exist.

By: cubehouse

cubehouse — Wed, 07 May 2008 12:55:08 +0000

I’ve never got a comment on these articles. They’re not offensive and they’re not threatening and they don’t insult the Daily Mail in any way. I just don’t agree with their article and I don’t get my comment published…
But seriously, what next? Blame obesity on PacMan?

By: jtucker78

jtucker78 — Wed, 07 May 2008 12:37:31 +0000

I think this woman sounds as ignorant and silly as the next guy, BUT is it not possible that she ordered the DS and software bundle second-hand from ebay?
I’ve ordered plenty of items from Hong Kong and Singapore from ebay.
And although it is highly unlikely that she bought goods from Hong Kong that ar also second-hand, it is a possiblity and does stop our evidence from being water tight.
Also the original article said she gave the DS away. So we have no evidence, unless you want to trace the seller from her credit card receipts.
Either way it sounds like a lot of effort to prove.
Good luck filtering through her wheelie bin.

By: BC

BC — Wed, 07 May 2008 11:39:16 +0000

Hmm. It seems to be impossible to add a comment to that article.

By: BC

BC — Wed, 07 May 2008 08:23:58 +0000

http://www.elspa.com/?c=/report/piracy.jsp

If anyone has the correct details for this woman, could they please fill it in? Or should we just point to the Daily Mail?

By: Callum Godfrey

Callum Godfrey — Wed, 07 May 2008 06:00:10 +0000

What really gets me with the national newspapers is the double standards they set. On the one hand most of them (tabloids) are anti-Europe and very pro-Britain, and whenever our national football team scrapes a 1-0 win over a team with no footballing history it is written up as the golden new age of English football. Yet with video games Great Britain is a world leader in one of the most popular entertainment industries with huge potential for growth, and not to mention what the sales of games and hardware is doing to help bolster a failing high street spend in this country… and all we get is bad press on the whole.

When the older generations are past caring about this “issue” and the younger generation are in power I hope the Dailt Mail et al are ready to eat some serious humble pie.