"PROTIP: If you have creative issues with something, and you want to blame the director, make sure the person you're pointing fingers at is actually the director, first."
—A forum post detailing the excessive scapegoating of Tetsuya Nomura, but this applies regardless.
"Some people think I'm in charge of every decision, design or no, of Magic. I'll get angry letters, for example, where they blame me personally about packaging or translation or tournament software. But hey, it comes with the territory of being one of the faces of the game."
—Mark Rosewater, head designer for Magic: The Gathering (link here
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)"The final proverbial nail in the coffin was that "this is Working Designs, and this game really blows". If this game was made by THQ it would've gotten a 4. However, like I said, this is Working Designs and my score dropped one last time for this frisbee to a 1. Thank you very little."
"Have The Rolling Stones killed."
—Montgomery Burns, after being insulted on stage by The Ramones, The Simpsons
"I feel sorry for Game Freak. They made a handheld juggernaut and it seems I'm the only one who knows they're the ones who made the games.
—A forum post.
"I went to get a soda from the vending machine, only to find out it's out of order. THANKS OBAMA!"
—The Misblamed trope in Memetic Mutation form.
"First rule of leadership: Everything is your fault."
—Hopper, A Bug's Life
Conventional wisdom is that Shelley Long’s career collapsed because she left Cheers for movies. I am not going to argue against that point of view....Additionally, Long’s fans saw her as Diane and they weren’t especially eager to see her branch out into other roles. Many probably harbored a grudge against Long for leaving the show. Over the years, I have heard a lot of people take delight in Long’s perceived failure post-Cheers. There’s a mentality that Long was a little full of herself and got what she deserved for jumping ship on a hit show. That argument is not without merit. But I think you have to remember that Long spent five seasons on Cheers before she left. Early on, she was the show’s anchor. But after five years of watching Sam and Diane’s on-again-off-again relationship, things were beginning to get a little stale. Cheers actually became more successful after Long’s departure.
—LeBeau, "What the Hell happened to Shelley Long?
, "What the Hell happened to Shelley Long?Sure, they had the misfortune of their commercial and artistic apex coming at a peak for mainstream rock music at its most blunt and least imaginative, and the double misfortune of being directly influential on a lot of the bands responsible for making it so. But that was never Linkin Park themselves. Their best music was electric, boundary-pushing and undeniably vital.
—Andrew Unterberger, "The 15 Greatest Linkin Park Songs"
"But honestly, it's hard to blame Lester for the series being run into the ground. Much like Joel Schumacher, who took incredible heat from critics and fans (including me) for turning the Batman series into garish camp comedy, in the end, Lester was really only doing what his producers wanted. The sad, miserable fate of the Superman movie franchise rests solely with the Salkinds, who were too busy counting beans to realize how much potential for greatness this series really had. (There's a tendency to invest more money in the sequels of a hit movie, but in this situation, perversely, the budgets dwindled as the series went on.)"
—The Agony Booth's recap of Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
