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NCIS Doesn’t Understand MMORPGs, Writes About Them Anyway [Video]

By all accounts, it seems either television writers are lazy with their fact checking, or deliberately want to bother gamers. This sort of thing tends to happen. This time around, NCIS writers flex either their gamer-trolling muscles, or showcase that they just don’t care to see if what they write is a thing.

A commenter on this Reddit thread claims that he worked as a writer for one of the shows that tend to do this to gamers, and that these scenes are intentionally designed to enrage younger viewers with their inaccuracy, rather than made out of a simple lack of awareness. He also claims there’s an “unwritten coldwar” between drama writers to out troll each other, which actually turns these apparent gaffes into amazing, clever trollings.

(reddit via Geeks are Sexy)

  • Anonymous

    NCIS is the worst thing on TV, even ignoring this crap.

  • http://www.google.com/profiles/108037014675127192334 Binary

    I know a writer that worked for a certain British show in which two kids were playing a Tyrian-type game (obviously) on a console… one of them using a XBox controller, the other one a PS2 controller.

    He didn’t write that up, and when he noticed it on set, being a huge gamer, he complained to the director about the inaccuracy of it. According to him, the director just sort of shrugged and moved on. Didn’t care.

    I know some writers try to be accurate about it, but they don’t have final say on what the prop guy should bring in. And many directors don’t care.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1157851424 Scott Beeson

    Yeah, sure. “We MEANT to say those completely asinine things”. I’m going to start using this every time I say something stupid. “Oh, I was just trolling you”.

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