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9:11am: Halo 2 Wank
Recently, HBO, arguably the world's most popular Halo fansite, linked an obscure gaming blog known as Tied the Leader. The authour is self-confessedly a Halo 2 fanboy. Pawing back through the archives, I discover a post with 92 comments, compared to the blogs usual, oh, two.

"Bungie. Smarter Than You."
This post is the single farthest I have ever seen anyone go just to say "STFU" and Reducto Ad Nitpicker. (admittedly, some of the complaints he quotes are ridiculous, such as blaming Bungie for the fact that a controller thrown 'cross a room will break) The comments are all either "I agree" or "ur wrong". A good number of them seem to come from Halo2Sucks, a website mentioned prominently in the article.

( from their front page; a statement of intent )
In short, they're basically Halomians. Their website contains such gems as this, which purportes to be from a former Bungie consultant. I'm not sure if it's a parody or serious. The forum has a post wherin a guy figures out that the game sucks from playing it once. Also, Halo 2 is dead. It's the weapons! It's not the fact that I suck! Honest! And an entire subforum more.

From the replies on the TtL post;

Halo 2 fans:
Imagine that. A game that rewards the player for being smart. Here's an idea! Learn to counter the weapons! The OP speaks! It's a slippery slope, man! Um, you've started a war. "LT Colonel Halo Hater, Sir." is now in my vocabulary.


H2S:
Having to find good weapons and make do with one's spawns=weapon whoring. Dual weilding=easy kill. Not what they wanted=bad. Pardon me while I miss the point. I call you on your error while missing the larger point! Ur a moran! H2S is t3h revolution! Halo 2 would be good if it were the first in a series.

Neutral:
STOP WANKING. Look! I can use latin! This post seems to have been written about another fandom entirely (*cough*PrinceOfPersia*cough*). I'm sorry, I seem to have lost my point.

Dramatic Reading forthcoming.
EDIT: Dramatic reading of the H2S SoI done. Can anyone torrent it? Knowing F_W, Yousendit will drop the file by nightfall.

*Bragging? Where?

9:50pm: Maybe someone forgot to tell him it was a dancing competition?
If you've been watching ABC's "Dancing With The Stars", you will be familiar with the drams of better couples getting voted off while Master P plods his way through every week. From the controversy of him not putting in as many hours as the other stars (20 for him a week, compared to 100+ a week for most of the others), to his flat out refusal to wear proper dance shoes instead of sneakers named after him, to his shamelessly plugging his album this last show as the judges tore him a new one.....

Most of the fans on the ABC BB for the show are disgusted that he keeps getting voted through by the fans every week....and Master P's fans hit right back with accusations of people being "playa hatas" and the judges are racist.

People pray for his removal....
People come back defending him (Some go as far in a few threads to call him a "good sport")
Calls are made for a change in the voting system....and maybe the judges....
Then there are others who I am pretty sure are just trying to rile people up calling for the fans to vote FOR Master P.....

11:40pm: J.K. Rowling is a Pop-Culture Hitler, Part II
You remember J.K. Rowling is a Pop-Culter Hitler? The author's back with J.K. Rowling is a Pop-Culture Hitler, Part II and moustachioed JKR pictures (plus Hitlers with lighting bolt scars.)

Thanks to J.Molo (aka spawn_of_kong on LJ)on wank_report