TastyProphet

@Legion_: Why would somebody be lucky if she talked to them? Judging by that interview with Jaffe she has about as much conversational panache as a frozen turnip. I don't think men like her for her winning personality. Or are you saying that everyone here should count themselves lucky if she acknowledges them simply on the basis of her good looks alone? I've never got the way some guys worship girls in that way...it's a little creepy. It reminds of that weird kid in Hey Arnold, the heavy breather. I hope most people here have more self esteem than that.

@Oldirtybearon said:

@TastyProphet said:

@Brodehouse: It's hardly that simple. The issue is she appears to have absolutely no knowledge about the field she has chosen to work in- I'm not saying this is definitely the case, but she does come across that way to a significant majority. You couldn't possibly level that sort of criticism at Ryan Davis. Ok, at a stretch, you might counter that by saying she's only associated with gaming but association still requires some level of expertise surely? Following your line of argument, it would be fine for a cardiologist to know everything about the heart but little about the blood that pumps through it. This is a bit illogical. I'm not saying all presenters should know all there is to know about every video game ever, but her total lack of knowledge just makes her look ridiculous and infuriates those that actually give a damn (I'm guessing).

She also isn't helping the cause for women who do want to be taken seriously in the industry. I can only imagine how vexing it must be for a girl who blogs about games and is genuinely passionate about the medium to then turn on the tv or whatever to see Munn shoving hot-dogs down her throat and licking PSPs (OMG gamer grrrlll for da win amiright?).

Oh, and enough of this 'she is an actress guys, doing what she has to do to have a career, you'd all do it too derp' attitude. There are plenty of actors and actresses out there who don't resort to faking an interest in something just to get their, inevitably doomed, career off the ground.

@Demoskinos@Legion_ Ultimately she's a fake, a fake who runs the risk of unfairly damaging women's already tenuous reputation in the gaming medium. That's why people can't stand her. It has nothing to do with her attractiveness, or lack thereof- this thread just got derailed early on by childish retorts and personal attacks (for the record, it's one thing to take a pot shot at an already established celebrity's looks and quite another to personally, and directly, attack a forum user who at least had the courage to add a profile picture in the first place.)

Holy shit, I didn't think I could get extra salt on fanboy tears.

Your butt hurt is astounding. Seriously. Olivia Munn should give two shits what a forum dweller who spends way too much time playing video games thinks? You need to look in da mirra and get some perspective on your life and, apparently, your perceived self-importance. I'm not saying Munn is the best in the world at what she does, but this rampaging butt hurt over the fact that she got a job at G4 for being pretty and being a natural in front of the camera somehow invalidates her entire existence/career is pretty fucking stupid. Also, that comment about her "inevitably doomed" career does more to show people how vindictive you are. Seriously. Go masturbate or something. Relieve that stress somehow.

As @Legion_ so eloquently put it, no honour. No code. No class.

Haha- so much rage! You're clearly the one who's 'butt-hurt' as you put it. What's wrong, did I hurt your feelings by calling out your fantasy girlfriend on her bullshit? On that note, I love how you jump straight to masturbation, projection much? As for me being a forum dweller...er, I have about 6 posts, you have well over 2000. Fucking 2000 posts on a single forum. I think if anyone needs to re-evaluate their life it's you buddy. Or you could just continue to toss Legion's salad. To each their own.

@Brodehouse said:

@TastyProphet it's actually far simpler than you want to pretend. She's a presenter, her job is to read the teleprompter, keep the show moving, not to be a journalist or a expert in the field. Your 'cardiologist' example is porous, her role is more analogous to the receptionist. We don't demand that hospital receptionists be doctors, they merely need to perform clerical and communicative duties. This 'women in games taken seriously' shit is absolutely pathetic. The behaviour of one cable show host does not somehow reflect on all women developers, producers, marketers anymore than Jeff's lifestyle reflects on all men in the games industry. I don't believe David Jaffe has a broom duct-taped to his window and a bunch of broken cars on his lawn just because Jeff does, why would anyone assume lady artists and writers and coders like to lick consoles because Chobot did it? The idea that one woman represents all women is candidly horseshit, and I'm sure any woman would back me up. It also continues the trend to think that men and women who like video games are so Goddamn stupid and detached from reality they'll believe what they see on TV more than their own life experience. We're not infants, stop that rhetoric. As for 'pandering with her looks', congratulations. You've just kicked anyone working in a number of industries in the crotch. Models, actors, tv presenters, they take care of their appearance because it is literally their job. Just like singers take care of their voices, manual labourers take care of their bodies, writers and office workers take care of their brains. The idea that a job based on looks is somehow less earned than one based on math is just ignorant. You're still acting as if her job is to be a journalist, as if the shows she's on are about journalism. Her job literally is Look Good, Deliver Lines. Carson was no different, if Carson had a unibrow and a face tattoo, he wouldn't have had the Tonight Show.

Stop acting like she's just a glorified receptionist. If she was just a presenter then fine, problem is she also does interviews- that's the rub. If she's talking about video-games, acting like she loves them and even going so far as to interview people who actually make games, then...yeah...I sort of expect her to know something about video-games in the first place and not make a total fool of herself. Though you clearly don't. I never said she represented all women in video-games, you're being purposefully reductive-the sad truth is that most women in the gaming media today, Chobot included, mirror her. That's what's bullshit; G4 and the like need to start hiring women based one their knowledge of the medium, there are plenty qualified, and not on looks. I find your argument that all presenters have to be beautiful as part of their job description both horrendously prejudice and just plain wrong- Conan O'Brien, David Letterman, Stephen Fry- all presenters at some point, none of them lookers. Or are you simply saying that all female presenters must be hot? Because that's what it's beginning to sound like.

You need to get off that white horse of yours and realise a lot of what your saying in her defence just doesn't add up when you really take the time to think about it. Maybe if you, and others like you, took the time to do so we might finally get some interesting female presenters who aren't just there be be gawked at. It's because G4 think gamers are 'so God-damn stupid and detached from reality' that they hire people like Munn- they think we're all so desperate that we'll be stupefied by her combination of good looks and the fact that she sometimes says something vaguely to do with video games. Stop perpetuating this fucked up stereotype by incessantly defending her credibility and prove them wrong.

@UlquioKani said:

@TastyProphet: Your issues with them are the fault of the people who chose to employ them.

By that logic if I punch a toddler in the face at a day-care centre, it's not my fault but the fault of the centre itself? Blame rests with both parties here but mainly her's as, in this case, it's all about her personality- something which only she has control over. G4 couldn't really know exactly what they were getting until she was in front of the camera.

@Bourbon_Warrior said:

@TastyProphet: I would hardly call her career doomed, being in a HBO series as one of the main characters been in one of the biggest grossing movies of the year. She never licked a PSP, that was Jessica Chobot. You can hardly hate on someone who was being directed by the fine producers at G4 as a stepping stone into show business industry.

I'm not hating on her. I didn't insult her did I? I just gave my evaluation of her as a professional. If you think being associated with HBO and being in one, rather awful, blockbuster make you a successful celebrity, then you have a somewhat superficial definition of success. Megan Fox had all that and more- I'd still say she was the very opposite of a truly successful woman. Fair enough about the PSP thing though; shame you had to gloss over the bit about hot-dogs eh?

Also...' the fine producers at G4'...this phrase made me lol...a lot.

@Brodehouse: It's hardly that simple. The issue is she appears to have absolutely no knowledge about the field she has chosen to work in- I'm not saying this is definitely the case, but she does come across that way to a significant majority. You couldn't possibly level that sort of criticism at Ryan Davis. Ok, at a stretch, you might counter that by saying she's only associated with gaming but association still requires some level of expertise surely? Following your line of argument, it would be fine for a cardiologist to know everything about the heart but little about the blood that pumps through it. This is a bit illogical. I'm not saying all presenters should know all there is to know about every video game ever, but her total lack of knowledge just makes her look ridiculous and infuriates those that actually give a damn (I'm guessing).

She also isn't helping the cause for women who do want to be taken seriously in the industry. I can only imagine how vexing it must be for a girl who blogs about games and is genuinely passionate about the medium to then turn on the tv or whatever to see Munn shoving hot-dogs down her throat and licking PSPs (OMG gamer grrrlll for da win amiright?).

Oh, and enough of this 'she is an actress guys, doing what she has to do to have a career, you'd all do it too derp' attitude. There are plenty of actors and actresses out there who don't resort to faking an interest in something just to get their, inevitably doomed, career off the ground.

@Demoskinos@Legion_ Ultimately she's a fake, a fake who runs the risk of unfairly damaging women's already tenuous reputation in the gaming medium. That's why people can't stand her. It has nothing to do with her attractiveness, or lack thereof- this thread just got derailed early on by childish retorts and personal attacks (for the record, it's one thing to take a pot shot at an already established celebrity's looks and quite another to personally, and directly, attack a forum user who at least had the courage to add a profile picture in the first place.)