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Heh, just kidding. Anyway, the topic is that joke article itself: are people really that gullible? Because I've seen the same exact thing at two other message boards with at least ten people falling for it.
So - do you think people buy into what they read on the internet too much these days?
Yeah. People are gullible. Most of them probably didn't even look at the link. It wasn't even cnn.com.
That trick has been pulled before, and people belived it every time. Really makes you lose faith in humanity, eh?
There were loads of things that gave it away as false. The bottom of the page prety much killed it
Obviously, those people have never played games like Splinter Cell or Metal Gear Solid where the whole game REVOLVES around terrorism.
Idiots.
OMG i can;t believe i clicked that. Dude I thought all hope was lost when i read that topic. lol
Good Show.
If ONLY tifa's breasts could talk, I'm sure they could tell us all kinds of stories....
I'll admit I was confused when I saw the CNN logo at the top of the page but by the time Id finished reading it, It was obviously a joke.
this was posted before in another forum i was going "what the hell is going on?" the way it had put one or 2 things in is what gave it away
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Originally Posted by ThroneofDravaris
And yes, people believe anything on TV or the internet lately.
I'm sure everyone's heard about the original radio broadcast of War of the Worlds. I used to think people couldn't be so gullable as to believe that a fake news broadcast, or article could be real again, but stuff like this, how fast it spreads over the internet, and how slow people are to realize it's fake, or to listen to people telling them it's fake kind of shakes my confidence in mankind. I'd say the majority of people who fell for this article never actually read it, never made it past the first paragraph, or looked at the URL, and thought that they could actually trust people on the internet have their facts straight.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rye
The fact that anyone could have fallen for that is a sign that the human race is quickly coming to an end. We won't be able to survive much longer with amoeba-like intelligence.
wow that almmost made me piss my pants lol
Aww come on xDQuote:
Originally Posted by nik0tine
Ok theres a difference to what you're saying but still :pQuote:
Originally Posted by nik0tine
It's about bloody time they got that horrific game banned. :cool:
That's a really good point. This kind of thing ain't unprecedented.Quote:
Originally Posted by Vivi22
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Originally Posted by Meat Puppet
Mind if I ask what the original broadcast was?Quote:
Originally Posted by DocFrance
orson welles dramatized the novel of War of the worlds on radio in the 30's
everyone shat themselves thinking it was true
Oh yeah, I remember reading about that. I was thinking of the movie with Tom Cruise :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Shoden
Anyone who thought that page was real after reading "Mario could not be reached for comment" should be castrated or shot. And anyone who read the whole thing and wanted to write Congress is too stupid to waste a perfectly good bullet on.
"President Bush has already indicated he's opposed to Square-Enix role playing games. "Mario doesn't blow up power plants" Bush said on thursday. Mario was unavailible for comment."
"I mean, look at the size of Tifa's breasts! They're destroying our childrens future. The problem of explicit video games is spiraling out of control." Clinton wrote in a letter to the head of the Federal Trade Commission. Tifa's breasts were unavailible for comment."
Hahahahaahahaahah XD
I'm sure Jack Chick would love to ban FFVII anyway. But there is no article on his site about that, only that REALLY COOL D&D comic, wich made me burn my house just in case I forgot something having to do with magic.
well you can't blame people for being naiive. I mean you never know what Bush will do next :tongue:
Could someone provide a link to the article? I haven't seen it elsewhere, but I'd like to read it...
Here you are, sir.
http://auritribe.net/cnn/
Thanks. I needed some comic relief. Excuse me while I spend the next few minutes laughing hysterically.
lol the topic title is 'ofmg final fantasy vii bannd?!?' and i thought u ment like a final fantasy vii music band or soemthing. wow that was really weird. i didnt understand a word u were saying lol.
As funny as that is, it's more sad when gullible people read right over that and chalk it up to a serious CNN article. :mad:Quote:
"President Bush has already indicated he's opposed to Square-Enix role playing games. "Mario doesn't blow up power plants" Bush said on thursday. Mario was unavailible for comment."
"I mean, look at the size of Tifa's breasts! They're destroying our childrens future. The problem of explicit video games is spiraling out of control." Clinton wrote in a letter to the head of the Federal Trade Commission. Tifa's breasts were unavailible for comment."
I saw this article posted on another site a few weeks ago. I laughed then, and I'm laughing now. :D
Stop mocking me. :cry:
There are a lot of gullible people focused on a certaing topic. What I mean is that there are times when people don't believe what they read because it does not involve with their views on something. As soon as something pops up about a certain topic that they agree on, then they become gullible.
*mocks you* haha. ;)Quote:
Stop mocking me.
T-MaN, you are correct though, if I'm interpreting your post right. If there's a story about something that we care about, in this case, Final Fantasy, we tend to get a bit more emotionally involved than with a story involving something we don't give a wit about, and an interest in or an attachment to something is a breeding-ground for gullibility and leads to a better chance of taking an article like that at face value.
There was an article I saw on one of these joke news sites about a "lion slaying 40 midgets". Before knowing it was a joke, my first reaction was one of mixed hilarity at the headline and disbelief at the horrible death of so many people in a freak circus accident. It was because I found a story like that to be extremely believable that I didn't question the source until a little later. It can happen to anyone I suppose, unless you're one of those hardened cynics who doesn't believe anything they hear or read.
The way this story was written though, it didn't even attempt to be realistically written, since the author probably knew he could get a rise out of fans simply by bringing up the game, I suppose. I know that it worked on some people at other sites.
I took T-MaN's post slightly differently. The way I understood it, he was saying that people will generally not question the accuracy of a source as long as it agrees with what they personally believe.
Perhaps that is what he was saying. That is what I thought at first as well. Then I thought 'what would personal bias have to do with believing this kind of story?' and that probably forced me to interpret it differently.
It is true that people tend not to question the credibility of a source if it strengthens their beliefs. I'm just wondering if that applies to this case, because who reading that article was leading a front to ban FFVII or believed that someone was, prior to reading the story?
the only way they could ban an FF game is if it has an extreamly explisit sex sene.
*Works on 1337 "Hot Coffee" mod for PC FFVII*
What it was in the source code! :eek:
What he means is that the people who believed the article was true tend to also believe that President Bush is evil and out to ban all video games ever made. And he also eats babies for lunch.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shadowflare
Ah, okay. In that context, it makes sense. I haven't paid attention to politics for so long, I forgot that Bush-hating would be a factor in something like this. When I read it, I just see the president's name being used, and don't attach anything to it. When someone biased against Bush sees it, they see red.
And I suppose that this just demonstrated his point. Funny how that worked out.