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6:22am: Women, oppressed? Surely not!
Some of you may have vague memories of some recent bother over a cute statue. No? Well, it hardly drew much attention.

Others, however, are not so quick to forget. So when, over on scans_daily, bloodsend makes a post featuring a somewhat objectified image of the male form, reactions are varied.

Some find it a turn-off. Some (presumably having noticed that, hey, this is exactly what a masculine version of Wonder Woman's costume would look like) are amused. Various people declare their undying love for Gail Simone, rumoured to be responsible (the picture is rapidly revealed to be fanart).

radiumhead decides to make a stand for the rights of his oppressed gender.

I dont wanna hear shit about that Mary Jane statue anymore.Women (and gay guys) got this thing.We're even.

(All punctuation his)

Shockingly, several women can't seem to accept that this charming picture makes up for not only the aforementioned statue, but also the fact that about 80%* of female comic-book characters wear, or have worn in the past, a similar costume (and had their bodies drawn in a similar way).

( Those whacky, whacky fangirls. )

It seems to have run its course fairly quickly (between midnight and six o'clock this morning), but it was amusing while it lasted.

And some good points were made.

*A conservative estimate, I know. But I'm pretty sure that quite a few have never exposed their midriffs in battle)

6:20pm: DanceWank-a-thon 2007!
Or, If Your Friends Don't Dance, Then They Ain't No Friends of Mine

*safety dance*

Ahem.

Gather 'round the campfire doodad, children, it's time for a tale of woe, or perhaps, '...woah.' This takes place in the frightening, dark world of... warcraft. In WoW, there is an item called the Piccolo of the Flaming Fire which, as the Use ability says, makes people dance. That's right, dance.

Through the worldofwarcraft community, a thread that had been posted on the WoW forums about a GM that threatened to ban someone for using the Piccolo for an extended period of time (thread since deleted, however neuroxin was kind enough to provide the image screencap that had been posted on that thread.

Funny? Most likely, except that some people don't quite think so.

espilonarge wants their own Piccolo, in the hopes that they can catch the attention of a GM so they can sue Blizzard. Bitching ensues over this between several others, and interrogating the EULA and TOS from the right perspective appears to be the order of the day. This thread was frozen by the mighty netgoth for inappropriate language aimed at other community users. Only twat, though, no twatwaffle or twatsquid. Sadness.

Further down, harald387 speaks up, saying you shouldn't need to have a cooldown on the Piccolo, but if the players would not be IDIOT CHILDREN (their caps, not mine), this wouldn't be necessary. They are told to relax. Also, Meatwad merely wants to dance.

Less wanky, but more ridiculousness, hhallahh thinks using it should flag you for FFA PvP*, pretendeka thinks it's lame, there are words spoken about text exploitation by espilonarge, but he clearly doesn't know what he's talking about, so the whole thing could be fake. I'm betting on it, since it wasn't a blood elf, it was a forsaken. No one thinks dead chicks are sexy. Really.

Oh, but the winner of the batshit award goes to kuangning, and I quote,

I hate the piccolo. I really, truly, loathe the thing. Why? Because it controls my character without my input. For some of us, the avatars we use are an extension of ourselves. I don't do anything on my character that I would consider inappropriate in real life -- and as a night elf female, flinging body parts from one end of the auction house to another in that travesty of a dance is something I would not do in real life. I've never typed /dance on my night elf when she was in caster form, and I've been playing since closed beta.

To be forced to do it, then, by some little twit with a toy is distasteful to say the least. I wish they'd give us an option to be immune to it. I'd run forever for the anti-piccolo. (emphasis theirs, not mine)

Well, now. This person has it out with kreptis, who tells them to not to be so sensitive. Things go back and forth, and several others also join in.

Last remark:

Well, my character is a toy. I don't share my toys, and so being forced to cede control of my character to someone with a trinket really and truly irritates me.

Eek. Someone failed the most important lesson of kindergarten.

And, the whole thing might be faked! Ah, such is the way of things. I suspect lulz were involved. Sadly, no dancing.

*Free for All Player versus Player combat. Basically, make you killable by everyone, including your own faction.