Anyone who follows gaming sites has probably read their fair share of stinker rumours recently. I’ve amalgamated a few of the recent ones into a generic format below and included a few links to the stupidest ones.<\/p>\n
First the general structure:<\/p>\n
My [ friend’s | father’s | mum’s ] [ friend | father | mum ] works at [ Nintendo | Sony | Adobe | Electronics Boutique | Microsoft | unrelated graphics card manufacturer<\/a> ] and they said that the new [ PS3 | Revolution | PSP | Nintendo DS | stupidly large Microsoft handheld ] is going to have [ implausible 3D projection technology<\/a> | dual analog joysticks | an internal HDD | flash memory | touch sensitivity ]. This will undoubtably make it a [ PS3 | Revolution | PSP | Nintendo DS | Xbox360 ] killer !!!<\/p>\n
Sincerely yours,<\/p>\n
[ l337 | MS | SoNy | Nintendo ] [ fanboi | grrl | Gamer | H4x0r ]<\/p>\n
BTW: [DS | Xbox360 | PSP] [ rocks | sucks ] !!!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
And now an example:<\/p>\n
My friend’s dad works at Nintendo and they said that the new Revolution is going to have implausible 3D projection technology. This will undoubtably make it a PS3 killer !!!<\/p>\n
Sincerely yours,<\/p>\n
NintendoGamer<\/p>\n
BTW: PSP sucks !!!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
On a serious note though, what is so implausible and funny about a “mom” working at Nintendo<\/a>? I had hoped we’d be over that sort of gender stereotyping by now. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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