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12:25pm: Yet another bad_rpers_suck post!
I'm sure we're all aware of Bad RPers Suck, where a group of people rant about...well...bad roleplayers. Then the fun starts when the bad roleplayer in question comes along and brings his or her friends. Then we have flame wars, get posted up here and then the flame wars begin again. But that's irrelevant to this story.

It starts off with this post, in which the question is asked about whether someone has ever cried over the death of their character. There's a few "um, it's just a game" but a lot of "oh, I know the feeling."

Presumably, minadraconia was one of the former in regards to the previous post, and then her sockpuppet friend, werskalen, posts the following rant written by minadraconia on her own journal. Not intended for said community, this rant was apparently about the aforementioned post about character death and how some people take roleplaying all too seriously (and how there are two entirely different methods of roleplaying -- emotionally vested and detached, but both can work equally well), but also about some other things too. Sadly, I can't get through the circular logic to the actual point. People take offence, presumably at the incoherence of said rant, but there are mentions of how we're better than you (closely followed by the "You have no friends because you're mean!"), although the comment about jazz hands amused.

I'd go on further, but I just can't make out what the hell's going on.

8:42pm: Behold the real creator of Mario!
OK, what I'm about to post didn't take place on a fandom-related board, but that's part of why it's so bizarre. :P

snopes.com, an urban legend debunking site, has a section on the forum called "We've got mail!" where they post assorted weird messages from clueless visitors. With some of these people, you just have to wonder why they contacted snopes about some of this stuff.

A guy who claims to be the creator of Mario has contacted snopes on a couple of occasions. snopes posted his latest message in its own thread called "He's baaaack!" And then, not only was he back, he was there under the name of "apachearrow."

He had one pic up that "proved" his artwork was stolen, but he seems to have taken it down. At any rate, it was just a bunch of mushrooms that would've fit in with just about anything from the 60's, or in the background of the Smurfs.

He said he was leaving, but ended up coming back, and the thread went for 13 pages, which is when snopes closed it. I can't pick out a highlight from his babbling, but if anyone finds a favorite, feel free to post it.

If this isn't "wankage," feel free to throw things at me. ;)