The ME:A 'Story DLC Cancelled' Sinclair Networks Facebook hoax

Not really. I just find it a bit ridiculous that people are still saying stuff like this and even worse, believing it.

Because...surprise! People argue in real life too. It ´ s actually very common, believe it or not. ANd if people actually bothered to listen to Liam ´ s ENTIRE banter with other companions, they would quickly realise that everything, that was written here about him, is not true. I ´ m sorry, it ´ s simply not true.

Same with Gil. Because as I said, people argue. It happens. What matters the most is their ability to overcome their differences and work as a team. Which they did. In both cases.

And it makes them a very believable characters. But that ´ s just my opinion.

The Smithsonian?! FAKE NEWS!

Ah, I love the Smithsonian. They really do have some of the best articles.

Yeah sometimes I wish I could do this.

Yet I liked Liam for that very reason. The whole "thing's shouldn't be this hard!" vibe of his reminded me of...well, fuck, me at twenty something years old. I'm not so far removed from 20-something me that I don't distinctly remember thinking precisely the same thing.

Will bookmark this. It can be useful later.

Hating a character isn't a bad thing.  I hate Liam because he is stupid and don't think about consequences just like I hate Vivienne because she is a selfish bitch who only joined the inquisition to keep her status quo. For a character to make me feel something for them means that they were well written.


A badly written char would be just boring and not make me feel any kind of emotion about then, just like Jacob in ME2.

But they're characters. Not actual people. Seems like actual people get rather upset about what other people think about characters they like. That's a little odd to me. I'm  not trying to be mean here. I just want to point out that this seems to be some kind of sensitivity that comes up throughout this forum often enough where it's actually troublesome to people or seems troublesome  to people whether others like or don't like some of their favorite characters. If it was a real person - someone you actually knew personally - it would make more sense but they are not real. They are written. It's one thing to be thin skinned  about real flesh and bone people in your own life where you might take offense if someone doesn't like them. It's another more concerning thing to feel be that way about a character in a game or story. I mean it's not just here either. It comes up with TV shows a lot. And frankly, it's pretty disturbing to watch how people get sideways over a character they love or hate. I've seen some crazy shit around this topic (actually the craziest I have seen was  in the IMDB forums before they closed them). I can think of some examples that made me wonder if people were locked up in mental institutions and given a few hours to access the internet for good behavior or something. It's a little scary when you step back and see how rabid people will be over a character,  something not even real... 

Again, this isn't intended to be directed at you but just a point I wanted to mention because I think it's a point worth making. 

I agree with this. Certain people are scary when talking about fictional characters. I ´ ve seen it many times and been insulted and harassed by those people as well.

No clue on that one. 

I did get a story about Ben Merritt's shenanigans re Fallout 4 Group. Goes something like this:

UK company GAME.co.uk set up an exclusive Fallout 4 Facebook club. Ben Merritt was added to this club and eventually began posting content from his YouTube channel. The content was videos of him building outposts and towns in fallout 4. Merritt incessantly spammed his content and had some friends plus some of his fake accounts comment on and like his videos. Other users complained about Merritt's incessant spamming and the group admins removed Merritt only days after he joined the group.

Sometime later Merritt's friend Fangtasia HK (I think she may be real... Or not?) posted a cosplay picture of her dressed as Piper (Fallout 4). Merritt used a fake account to immediately comment how it was "bullshit" that he was removed due to spam and the group admins confirmed Merritt was using sock puppets to spam. The person who told me the story found several fake accounts and some of the info I linked earlier.

That's about it. Merritt seemingly likes embellish and lie to self-promote for... whatever reason. I wanted to know if he had his IMDB entry and sure enough, he does. That was written by Mika Kibashi one of the links I posted earlier. This is similar to the fake Patrick Sinclair page written by fake Jorg Kellar. Merritt might even be into trademark infrigiment; I'm pretty sure Vault Boy™ is a Bethesda trademark.

There's more stuff out there about him but I think this is more than enough. I think Merritt is a 3rd rate YouTuber and garden troll with too much time on his hands. At some point this stuff turns from "sleuthing" to witch hunting. I prefer to stay well away from the latter.

Ben, if you're reading this, stop your bullshit. You should come clean and apologize publicly. 

In any event, that's it for me. Thanks everyone! 

Oh, fuck that. That we can go from talking about Sinclair Networks to Shrilly being a dick to characters we like and/or dislike is why I came here.

Again, it's a good thing.