DAILY MANIFESTO

GR Mailbag #1

Posted on Monday, June 13 @ 22:01:47 Eastern by Daniel Bischoff

I had this exchange today in my e-mail (I've changed the names to protect those involved.):

Normally, I would start an email like this extremely professionally....but in this case:

Are you fucking serious?!

Number one: You can ABSOLUTELY remove your credit card from Xbox Live. I've removed four personally, and helped point three people in the right direction.

Number two: You first "hack" example was actually a hack on Infinity Ward's servers...not XBL. That same hack affected PSN users as well.

Number three: Your other "hack" example is a GLITCH. If you never took your game online, never even plugged an ethernet cable into your console of choice, that glitch existed.

Do you even know what a "hack" is? Do you have ANY journalistic integrity whatsoever?

And finally, just like every other idiot in the industry claiming that "no network is ever completely secure": Reuters, a MAJOR security firm went on record both BEFORE and AFTER the attack on PSN claiming that the holes in Sony's firewall were so big you could drive a truck through them. They have further added that after analyzing Sony's NEW network, it's still "cheap" and "unsecure".

Do some fucking research. People like you make other gaming journalists look bad. You have clearly done no work whatsoever, as you are a Sony fanboy that simply can't accept that his company screwed him. XBL hasn't ever been hacked. EVER. Will it ever? Who knows, but to date, their security has been up to snuff, unlike Sony's.

I'm sure I won't get a response from this, as you just got all of your credibility destroyed, but I'd love to hear your "fanboy" responses to my actual facts.

Sincerely,
'Buttmunch'

Here's the official Game Revolution response:

Dear Buttmunch,
Reuters is a fucking news outlet you moron. Goddamit, you're stupid.
http://www.reuters.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reuters

If you have a question for Game Revolution, or just for me, and think it'd best answered in front of all your peers and the internet at large, please drop a line to daniel[AT]gamerevolution[DOT]com. Any funny spam will do.

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Comments

SweetHat
Joined: May 2011

Posted: Jun 13th, 2011 at 10:10 pm
Dude next time Cave Johnson quotes for idiots like that

Alright this next test may involve trace amounts of time travel. So word of advice: if you meet yourself on the testing track don't make eye contact. Lab boys tell me that'll wipe out time - entirely. Forward and backward. So do both of yourselves a favor and let that handsome devil go about his business.

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Longo_2_guns
Joined: Jun 2003

Posted: Jun 13th, 2011 at 10:27 pm
WHY IS THIS A MANIFESTO AND NOT A MAILBAG! THERE'S EVEN A MAILBAG TAG!

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danielrbischoff
Joined: Nov 2009

Posted: Jun 13th, 2011 at 11:37 pm
I DON'T KNOW HOW TO POST IN THE MAILBAG AND THOSE TYPES OF PAGES HAVE PROBABLY NEEN BURIED BY THE NEW FRONT PAGE DESIGN.

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Longo_2_guns
Joined: Jun 2003

Posted: Jun 14th, 2011 at 12:30 am
AH FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT!
In all seriousness, this was perfect for a snappy response rather than a direct assault. Usually works better with idiots since you can goad more idiotic things out of them.

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Diabolus
Joined: Nov 2008

Posted: Jun 14th, 2011 at 12:51 am
Everyone who makes comments on the front page is a f*gg*t, f*gg*t.

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Longo_2_guns
Joined: Jun 2003

Posted: Jun 14th, 2011 at 3:41 am
I've long since accepted that I'm a ***got. That's what makes me such an authority on the matter. Because my ***-detector is fine tuned like crazy.

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Lien
Joined: Feb 2008

Posted: Jun 14th, 2011 at 1:30 am
Nice try Daniel, we all know it's you. No one writes to you, like ever. Try asking nicer next time if you want us to send hate letters of our penis to your mailbox.

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danielrbischoff
Joined: Nov 2009

Posted: Jun 14th, 2011 at 10:43 am
I wish I could make something as convincing as this up.

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Klandathu
Joined: Apr 2008

Posted: Jun 14th, 2011 at 1:57 am
Was this like...a real thing? I really hope it is.

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danielrbischoff
Joined: Nov 2009

Posted: Jun 14th, 2011 at 10:43 am
Yes, this was a real e-mail I got.

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Klandathu
Joined: Apr 2008

Posted: Jun 14th, 2011 at 2:23 pm
I love this website ever so much.

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mrallamericanboy
Joined: Jun 2006

Posted: Jun 14th, 2011 at 7:34 am
he seems really upset by this. i'm pretty sure you can remove your credit card info but i seem to remember it was a pain in the ass.
more than anything i really hope that microsoft is using some of the xbl revenue to keep security up to date. i will say that my ccard hasn't been stolen yet so that's something...

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drathbone
Joined: May 2011

Posted: Jun 15th, 2011 at 1:58 am
It's really easy to remove your CC info from XBL. You login online go to manage account and billing and remove the CC's.

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Daddio
Joined: Nov 2008

Posted: Jun 14th, 2011 at 8:49 am
this dipshit doesn't know what he is talking about. every single time microsoft updates the dashboard they automatically set everyones credit card information to auto renewal which is what they did to me last time ... when my credit card was cancelled already. they then auto renewed my gold membership when i didn't want it, let it go for 2 months and suspended me.

i was content with silver and using promo codes whenever i got ahold of them but i couldn't even use promo codes because of my 'owing 2 months'. i had to call microsoft, who put me on hold for 25+ minutes and ***** them out for what they did.

only after several e-mails and phone calls did they finally give me my account back.

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devaldogz
Joined: Apr 2011

Posted: Jun 14th, 2011 at 1:25 pm
How did buttmunch have any time to write that email between sucking c@ck and whining to his momma about not wanting to do homework for school?

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danielrbischoff
Joined: Nov 2009

Posted: Jun 14th, 2011 at 8:23 pm
Apparently he writes for another gaming site... one that I can't reach no matter how I try to get there. He didn't want me to know what the site was but I found it with the help of Google!

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Gabyea
Joined: Nov 2005

Posted: Jun 14th, 2011 at 6:15 pm
i miss duke... the left behind hate mail was the funniest. :c,
and i would also think that daniel is a sony fanboy, but i see him all the playing on xbox live.

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danielrbischoff
Joined: Nov 2009

Posted: Jun 14th, 2011 at 8:22 pm
Do I have you on my friends list?

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Gabyea
Joined: Nov 2005

Posted: Jun 14th, 2011 at 9:24 pm
yes, my gamertag is lost gab, i usted to play gears 3 with you, i see those nights didnt mean nothing to you :C.

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danielrbischoff
Joined: Nov 2009

Posted: Jun 14th, 2011 at 10:22 pm
HAHA sorry! Clearly I have a lot of gamertags on my list. What are you playing these days?

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Gabyea
Joined: Nov 2005

Posted: Jun 14th, 2011 at 6:27 pm
^"see him all the time"^
edit button please

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