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12:22am: Gaming blog wank. Film at 12:01.
OR: Joystiq hypes post for massive rest damage!

Joystiq posted a post yesterday saying that there would be a big news announcement at 12:01 in the morning today. The post ran to close to a thousand comments of speculation, and excitment was at a fever pitch.

The announcement?

Nintendo's processor for the Wii has been in production since July.

Read the comments. Just read the bloody comments. Most amusing is all the people complaining that they stayed up for this, and the people claiming they're deleting their Joystiq bookmarks. And that "Bill" guy spewing his "GAF" acronym everywhere. He's worse than Rann's smileys.

Please, no Wiibashing.
EDIT: Robert Summa: Why people hate America.
EDIT2:

348. Wow. so much hatred. I'm sure you guys are setting your expectations so high, expecting something like sony saying "lawlz J/K ab0u7 500k unitz ROFLTACO j00 g0t n00b'd! kthxbyehavefuninternet" or a joint collaberation between Ninty Sony and MS that Wii will be some sort of connecting link between the two behemoths to combine their powers into being a hypermega destroctobot hellbent on ruling your mom.

In the business, we call that an OH SNAP.
Oh, that explains it.
EDIT THE RECKONING: Oh, so this is GAf. And Joystiq alologizes[sic].

6:16pm: Light Vs. Raito: Wank
I couldn't pass this Death Note FFR wank up. I was just wondering where this exact wank was earlier today. Thanks you, mousy on wank_report!

Over in fanficrants, </a>arislanchan</span> tells Death Note fans that "it's Light, not Raito".

</a>arislanchan</span>:So, the main character of Death Note is a young man named Yagami Light, written 夜神 月. The furigana of 月 is given as ライト- literally transliterated, 'Raito'. However, despite the fact that his name has officially been confirmed by the author as 'Light' and the fact that the only use of 'raito' in the Japanese language is occurs as the english loanword for 'light', fans persist in calling him Raito. A lot of fans.

A few reasons seem to be given for this: "I'm used to it from the scanlations, it's habit!", "it sounds better that way", "it's more Japanese"

1) I understand getting used to it from the scanlations; I did too. But... so? The scanlations (referring to TOWNL's, here, as they seem to be the most widely read) referred to him as Raito for only five volumes before switching to Light. Given the manga is 12 volumes long, he's actually called Light longer than he's called Raito. That alone should be enough to get used to it, surely?

2) Obviously it's perfectly subjective as to which sounds better, but personally I can't see how intentionally mangling another word sounds good.

3) No, it's not more Japanese, really. Raito is neither a Japanese word, nor name. It's only spelled out in Japanese syllabary out of necessity. Raito is not a reading of 月. Neither is 'Light' of course - but at least it's related in meaning.

Basically... his name can be correctly written in three ways: 月, ライト, or Light. If you insist on transliterating the furigana (which are, in this case, a pronuncation guide for Japanese speakers on how to pronounce a foreign word), then why not call L 'Eru'? His name is written as エル, so why do you not choose to write that out literally?

Obviously, call him whatever you want, I'm not trying to force anyone into anything. Just needed to rant, because people's blind rejection of his real name is irritating, and so is reading fics in which over and over he is called "Raito" (not referring to very old fics, here).

Conclusion: his name is not Raito. It has never been Raito, and it never will be Raito. It'd be kind of nice if people could get over it.

As another mouse named Luna on wank_report says, "Death Note fandom seems intent on proving that it is just as batshit insane as the big-name fandoms."