Comments on: News of the World takes Maddie Bungie story

By: Tonka

Tonka — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:31:56 +0000

Destructiod couldn’t hit a nail if it was stapled to their own fucking forehead. One of the most miserable blogs out there and a strong reason to ban amateur reporting.

By: Psychotext

Psychotext — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:08:24 +0000

Funny thing… I have copies of those books in PDF format and there wasn’t a Maddie (or Madeline, or Maddy) reference in any of them. I have the actual books too, but I’m far too lazy to re-read them on the off chance.

By: deftangel

deftangel — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:01:50 +0000

Destructoid as usual hit the nail on the head in their usual style…

http://www.destructoid.com/newsflash-the-name-maddie-is-not-like-the-name-hitler–105503.phtml

The existing reference to a “Maddie” in Halo fiction was in the first book written in 2001.

By: LeD

LeD — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:06:09 +0000

And it’s Bungie we’re talking about here, not Rockstar. I don’t think they have a track record of courting controversy.

By: pjmaybe

pjmaybe — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 13:51:52 +0000

When this originally broke, I did think it had bugger all to do with the McCann case. For starters, it goes against the grain – americans giving a flying toss about something that doesn’t happen in their backyard for starters…

By: Psychotext

Psychotext — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 13:39:57 +0000

True enough. If they same thing happened to someone in a council estate it would have been all you could do to stop the Sun / Mail organising a lynch mob to teach the bad parents a lesson.

By: David

David — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 13:38:38 +0000

“as i have no simperfy for people who neglect their children.”

To repeat exactly what the McCans story is really about.

Neglect to the highest order the reason that child went missing is because they left her alone. End of story this game has nothing to do with that and the name Maddie isn’t owned by the dam McCans. The only reason they get sympathy is cause there middle class well off dick’s.

By: PsychoKnight 1

PsychoKnight 1 — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 13:29:01 +0000

As a person liveing in the uk it f**king pisses me off hearing about poor old macans boo hoo well guess what u shouldnt have left ur children alone what king of f**king retards would leave their kid alone to go out and stuff their fat f**king necks they should have been arrested or charged for neglect as it was their own fault and they proberly killed her themselves the f**king pricks rrrrrrrrrrrraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrr it makes me mad i dont want to hear about their stupid sob storys anymore as i have no simperfy for people who neglect their children.

By: Tonka

Tonka — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 12:50:01 +0000

It had lots of coverage in Sweden to.

By: LeD

LeD — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 12:44:12 +0000

No_PUDding:

Of course it was. It’s dark humour as a defense mechanism. As a father of two daughters, there are a number of things I need to block out.

By: pleasant_cabbage

pleasant_cabbage — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 12:43:18 +0000

@psycho
Nope. The majority of sightings have been by indigenous residents by and large. That’s why I used that as an example of the maddie story not being of exclusively uk interest.

So what is the new stuff anyway?
/fleas

By: morriss

morriss — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 12:41:47 +0000

I live in Europe too, LeD and I have. You live in France though who typically couldn’t give a rats arse about England.

By: No_PUDding

No_PUDding — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 12:38:19 +0000

Hahah, that’s a really distasetful and not funny joke right?

By: LeD

LeD — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 12:33:26 +0000

morriss

Nope. I live in Europe on a daily basis. Never heard anything on the news, never read anything in the paper. It might have been reported in the ‘rest of the world’ section two years ago, but that’s about it.

By: Psychotext

Psychotext — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 12:31:51 +0000

By: LeD

LeD — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 12:30:01 +0000

Yeah this kind of kid is just paedo fodder. Literally asking for it.

By: Psychotext

Psychotext — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 12:29:35 +0000

You know, it would have been far more interesting had they locked the parents up for neglect like should have happened.

By: morriss

morriss — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 12:27:51 +0000

LeD: It did and still does make the papers in Europe.

By: Psychotext

Psychotext — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 12:19:15 +0000

There was some coverage in other countries, but it was only a passing interest.

The sightings were mostly paranoid brits on holiday. I thought I saw her once too… god help any poor parent with a kid looking anything like her.

By: pleasant_cabbage

pleasant_cabbage — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 12:15:00 +0000

I’m not at all offended. In fact I find it hard to believe how someone could catch that quick snippet of text in the trailer and made an article out of it in the first place. Seems odd.

I just thought the maddy thing was huge in a lot of places.
I don’t think Oprah/Pope meets just anyone Well ok the Pope does.

I’m thinking more of the sightings by French people, Belgians etc. It definately wasn’t a UK/Portugal only story.

By: LeD

LeD — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 12:03:59 +0000

pleasant_cabbage

I don’t mean to offend, but why do you think people from other countries would care to hear about some missing kid from the UK? It never made the papers in Europe, apart from Portugal.

By: Tonka

Tonka — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:58:56 +0000

LOL

By: Psychotext

Psychotext — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:49:37 +0000

onoudidnt

By: pleasant_cabbage

pleasant_cabbage — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:45:57 +0000

By: LeD

LeD — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:44:52 +0000

Tonka

Well they made no big mistery about the plot: the search and recovery of a missing child in southern Europe.

By: pleasant_cabbage

pleasant_cabbage — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:43:58 +0000

LeD I can’t see Bungie needing to cause this kind of publicity to sell an expansion, but claiming it’s a UK only thing seems incredibly off.

By: Tonka

Tonka — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:39:47 +0000

Any news on what this “expansion” is about? I fucking hate teasers because I get teased every fucking time and then I can’t fucking stop thinking about what the fuck its all about and it usually isn’t revealed until I have gotten caught up in the next fucking teaser campaign and the five fucking months later I start thinking about some old fucking campaign and everyone else has forgotten just what the fuck it was all about.

SO FUCK THIS SHIT AND GIVE IT TO ME STRAIGHT BUNGIE!
I WANT THE TRUTH!

By: LeD

LeD — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:39:38 +0000

So it’s a publicity stunt designed to get press in the UK? Because I can tell it will largely be lost on the French, German, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, Turkish, Canadians and people in Glorious Republic Kazakhstan. And Bangladesh.

By: morriss

morriss — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:31:23 +0000

I love it.

By: Psychotext

Psychotext — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:28:31 +0000

If what you just said means that Bungie employees don’t watch Oprah then I think I’m going to go out and buy another copy of Halo or something.

Seriously though people, get over it. Maddie is a char in the expansion, like it or not.