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9:07am: Racism wank, Joystiq style
Over on Joystiq (yes, them again), Vladimir Cole posts a piece containing pics of the upcoming XBox 360 Blue Dragon bundle, which will only be available in Japan. A fairly normal type of post, but Vlad the Offender opens it with this:

If you're wondering why us round-eyes ain't gonna see a price break on the Xbox 360 this holiday, Japan might have something to do with it.

The commenters go off, some of them pointing out the racism implied by the phrase "round eyes", while others aren't nearly as offended.

"angry reader" calls for Vladimir's firing:

As a Japanese-Chinese American, I am highly offended by this post's lack of sensitivity. Not only do you use an offensive racial slur that is considered antiquated by the civilized, you alienate American history by ignoring the fact that "we round-eyes" also include a vibrant immigrant history that Asians have contributed heavily towards.

If Summa's accidental Wii overhype was ripe enough firing, this one is also without any second thought or question. I hope joystiq takes into account the readership. By keeping this bigot as a commenter, you tell us that IBM processors are worth more than our collective historical and contemporary contributions.

Monkeys replies:
Well, this post was by Vladimir Cole...you know the guy who pisses off 90% of Joystiq commentators.

angry reader's response:
Monkey,

That's no excuse for his insensitivity. He's a "professional" journalist that has a wide readership. His job standards bind him to professionalism that if violated, should justify canning. If someone on IGN or Engadget or CNN uses that term loosely, be it explicit or implicity, he would be fired immediately.

Once again, I cannot believe that some mainstream news source uses a term that brings up a two century history of explosive West vs East tensions.

Others chime in and promptly miss the point:

Yeah, describing a shape as spherical rather than non-spherical is so racist!

Grow up.

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Uh.."round eyes" refers to white people Mr.Angry Reader. And really, calm the fuck down. It was one comment, was kinda funny, and it's such a small thing. Let it go everybody.

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Angry Reader and Max Payne, calm the fuck down. It's ONE comment, Jesus Christ. It's barely anything. That's not even offensive. All asian people know their eyes are different than a caucasian person, so why the fuck are you getting so pissed?

Still more responses follow, and that's only the first page...

ETA: Don't know if I overlooked this the first time around, but it appears comments have now been locked "as the bulk of comments posted were off-topic." Heh.

6:14pm: I'm tired of these motherfuckin' Orihime fans on this motherfuckin' Wiki!
Hats off to a mousie on wank_report; we've got short but cute Bleach wank!!

As we all know, the Wiki is Serious Business. And curse its editors' offspring when it puts - in alphabetical order according to first name - Rukia Kuchiki after Orihime Inoue on its BLEACH page.

ileenka, for one, spots this grievous error and sets the name order the right way - the one where Rukia is most definitely more important than Orihime. See, I wouldn't get all the fuss myself, until I switched Ginny with Orihime and Hermione with Rukia. Then this entire thing made sense. The Wiki changes it back, whining, "Look, we don't care how much you hate Orihime! Our decision is FINAL, young lady!"

And so ileenka bitches about it in her El Jay. She also links her LJ post onto Wikipedia, going, "Neener, neener, neener, look at me bitching about how you oppress me on the internet!!" So it shouldn't be surprising when Wikipedia editor finestela - who appears to have made his/her LJ to comment on ileenka's post - comes over to "clarify," right? You'd think.

Insults Highlights include!

Anything said by xjabedx. For example: Do you even know the rule of English? When you put names in alphabetical order, you go by the last name and not the first. Why don’t you go back to whatever retarded school you come from and ask your teacher to teach you the simple step of alphabetizing, you little shit. So before writing anything, you need to get your facts straight and try not to let so many stupidity drip out from you brain, onto the keyboards and into the web and infecting ileenka’s journal with your stupidity.

geraldtuyq: Are you stupid times two hundred and seventy nine?! Or is it retarded times seven hundred and fifty one!?!?

finestela: By the way, your breath stinks... I guess it has something to do with the pile of horse manure you've just shoved back down your throat...

geraldtuyq: Neutral system my ass, why do you need to vote for the order of characters? Just go to the OFFICIAL BLEACH SITE and take the order of characters from there. THAT IS WHAT I CALL FACTUAL INFORMATION.

ileenka: Finn guy: You don't pay for 90% of the servers on the internet, so why should your ideas prevail?

ileenka: Thanks for posting here. You have just proved yourself to be unworthy of being taken seriously.

And I'm not sure what fanartist is doing in there.

FreezePage hates me. :(