Posted by Ben @ February 27th, 2012 6:15 pm. Filed under: I'm Keeping The Whole Class Back,I'm serious!,Just Crazy Enough To Work,Maybe... but not for THAT reason,Only joking!,The Great Taste of Charleston Chew — Tags: bioware, ea games, mass effect 3, steven mulheron —
This petition is somewhat unique as it was set up by… actually, no, I’ll tell you about that after you’ve read it.
by steven mulheronResponsible department: Ministry of DefenceWe petition the Government to set up a Public Enquiry for the enquiry into the UFO phenomena and any possible extraterrestrial involvement. All relevant documentary, physical, and eye witness evidence, held by, or known to the government, should be disclosed and made available to the public enquiry.
Any private entity or foreign government involvement, in the above subject known by HM government should be made available for scrutiny and possible disclosure to the public.
Right. You’ve read that, right? On the surface I actually think it sounds like a fairly reasonable if slightly silly request, worded intelligently by someone who, we can presume, was probably kicked in the head by a horse just hard enough to give him the urge to write this petition but not hard enough to damage his grasp of the English language.
Which is a bit suspicious when you stop to think about it, because the people who actually think it’s worth mashing their requests into the keyboard for the Prime Minister to summarily ignore usually aren’t the sort of people who are capable of stringing together a sentence in a meaningful manner. Over the last few years Andrew and I have seen people fail spectacularly to construct their asinine requests coherently.
Were we wrong? Are the British public actually very, very intelligent? Is this a grand conspiracy to keep people like Steven Mulheron out of the public view and instead elevate dullards and nincompoops to the public eye?
Well, no. As it turns out this is all part of a marketing campaign by EA Games to promote BioWare’s new video game, Mass Effect 3 – a marketing campaign designed to get people talking about, I don’t know, aliens or some shit. My rather cynical urge not to pay them any bloody notice is tempered somewhat by the knowledge that this blog is currently read by, at most, four people, so we’re not doing EA or BioWare any favours by talking about it. Or ARE WE…? (No.)
Nothing affirms my lack of faith in humanity quite like the efforts of marketing people.
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Really? That’s your threshold for an “abhorrent” waste of public funds?
I like how this highly literate marketing dude hasn’t quite sorted out his Capital Letters for Important Things. Or do we reckon that was deliberate?
That’s two readers identified. I wonder who the other two are.
*waves*
… Err… Didn’t they [i]already[/i] release such information? I seem to recall my pet Daily Mail Reader having a small conspiracy theory over it, maybe a year, year-and-a-half ago.
I realise this is probably not grounds to mock the advertiser beyond what’s already been posted; it just came to mind.
I’ve got nothing to add, except the good news that I might make it up to 5 readers.
Oh yeah. And EA are idiots if they thought this was a worthwhile viral marketing campaign.
I must be one of the 4 as I always pop on here every so often but never comment. But I wont forget you.
The funny thing is EA are denying all knowledge of this despite the marketing page being branded to hell and back and hosted on their domain. They’ve gone as far as to say it doesn’t exist.
Concerned reckons:
I find this misuse of a publicly-funded government website abhorrent. Especially in these times of massive funding cuts and austerity.
I have reported that petition, and EA/Bioware to the government for censure.
I do not expect any action though.
February 28, 2012 at 3:01 pm