Update: Was a big misunderstanding. Apparently people have posted stuff like that before and been serious. By christ, that saddens me. Oh well, Cheapy responded. No hurt feelings all around.


As a big fan of CAG (although admittedly I'm a lurker more than active community member) and the CAGcast, I was amused by the contest CheapyD and Wombat did two weeks ago to win a copy of 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand, presumably for Xbox 360. The contest rules were simple, curse in the show feedback. And so one of the rules of the internet is as follows.

Give your audience permission to cuss and they'll be fun with it. Forbid them from cussing and they'll be downright ugly.

I THOUGHT I would be cheeky and overly obvious with my entry. Something blatantly sarcastic and couldn't possibly be misconstrued as serious feedback. A friend and I were both amused by the Live apologizing that was going on. Sort of an "oooo, we went too far, let's back it up." To be fair, they are critical of all systems and anytime they go a little too far, we always see them back up a bit over the next couple podcasts. But regardless, we joked about this and I thought, "hey, that'd be a great thing to post about." And so my entry on the contest was going to be cheeky, fun, and basically laced with enough bullshit nobody could ever take it seriously.

Thus enters the second week of Cheapy apologizing to his redmond masters. God forbid he say anything (Shaq Fu) ing wrong about his Xbox...
Edit: In the original post, enters was posted as Entires... because I'm a fucking moron.... and wanted to win a game rather than comment on the show.

Now I showed this post, after it went live, to a couple friends and all of them thought phrases like Redmond Masters gave it away. I was wrong...

This weeks podcast held a suprise for me at 33:42

Give it a listen....

Wow, shocking huh? Apparently I wasn't blatant enough with my sarcasm to reveal it as such. And so I posted this in the show feedback.

[i] Dear CheapyD,

Hi, remember the contest you ran two weeks ago? The 50 Cent cuss in the show feedback contest? That you mentioned directly after pointing out my comment as a Sony Fanboy thing? Yeah... about that. That was where my entry, or what you considered legitimate feedback, was coming from. Imagine my suprise, discovering what you had to do in the show feedback was taken seriously. I was neither being critical nor fanboyish, just filthy mouthed and sarcastic. Listening to the show right now and have yet to figure out who won it but just trying to point this out. How you could take ANYTHING seriously in the feedback where you openly invited filthy language is beyond me. If I was really that concerned about your "redmond masters" (seriously, THAT'S the giveaway to sarcasm), I would have stopped listening to your podcast long ago, like I did with Talking About Games Podcast (Jay managed to keep Paris in check, without Jay, it was gonna be harsh).

Of your many quarks (no podcaster is perfect), only two annoy me. The first is the fascination with fecal matter. But I can deal. The other is the point you often make about how, if PSN was as good as XBox Live, you'd gladly pay money for it. This is not a sentiment I and many others share. After all, looking at XBL price, tripling that (assuming Nintendo does the same adjustment), you're spending more than an annual DS Lite purchase in services alone. As for Live itself, I said it before, I'll say it again. Without live, you really are getting half a console with a 360. But oh well.

But all in all, sorry you missed the sarcasm in my post. I thought I was being cheeky and fun and I showed the post to a couple friends making sure it was obvious enough. We were, apparently, wrong. Also, for the record, I do not smell of poo. I do smell of Herbal Essences shampoo though, and Kilo Axe Bodyspray. I figured if I'm trying to clean up any confusion as to the intent of my post, might as well clear up confusion as to my scent as well.[/i]

So far, no response yet. I fear I didn't inadvertantly piss off a bunch of fans of the show. Here's why, when I grief, I grief with funny names. Nothing tied all over the internet. sheppyboy2000? It's everywhere. It's my email, my instant messenger, my steam, my ebay, so on and so forth. So far, a wave of crap hasn't hit me... yet. I expect it to and I hope the olive branch I extended at some point gets picked up.