A game magazine that spent two years taunting a Final Fantasy VIII hater
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Re: A game magazine that spent two years taunting a Final Fantasy VIII hater
#2That was hilarious. Thank you.
Re: A game magazine that spent two years taunting a Final Fantasy VIII hater
#3Lovely story. Wouldn't call this taunting a hater at all, if I had to guess I would say that the person was happy that the magazine acknowledged him and created an inside joke together with him. This is how you make super fans for your brand.
I wish more brands interacted with their audience in this human-like, friendly banter, playful sort of way, instead of the sterile corporate happy-speak as if the reply is a way to perform for an audience, or instantly trying to sell you multiple calls to action if you interact with them.
Re: A game magazine that spent two years taunting a Final Fantasy VIII hater
#4The fact that the website this comes from is "ff8isthe.best" makes this so much better. I love hyper-specific websites.
Also, I love documentation on these obscure things from times passed. I'm not sure where else I would have ran into this, but I appreciate the author for writing this kind of thing down.
Re: A game magazine that spent two years taunting a Final Fantasy VIII hater
#5Viz in the UK had a long-running single frame comic called “rude kid” depicting a mother asking her son to do something and his response was some variation of “bollocks” or “fuck off.”
https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=6e8c819a630d1523&hl=en...
Went on for years and for all I know still continues today.
Re: A game magazine that spent two years taunting a Final Fantasy VIII hater
#6Lovely story. Wouldn't call this taunting a hater at all, if I had to guess I would say that the person was happy that the magazine acknowledged him and created an inside joke together with him. This is how you make super fans for your brand. I wish more brands interacted with their audience in this human-like, friendly banter, playful sort of way, instead of the sterile corporate happy-speak as if the reply is a way…
Or that the person never existed and was merely a funny editorial device to keep a joke going.
Source: Wizard comics did stuff like this all of the time.
Re: A game magazine that spent two years taunting a Final Fantasy VIII hater
#7The fact that the website this comes from is "ff8isthe.best" makes this so much better. I love hyper-specific websites. Also, I love documentation on these obscure things from times passed. I'm not sure where else I would have ran into this, but I appreciate the author for writing this kind of thing down.
This was what the Internet made beautiful for a time, international access to hyper-specific deep sites on highly specific topics.
Instead we get 9000 identical sites regurgitating the same identical garbage; I want sites where I can enjoy people going into way too much detail about something they feel strongly about, like why steam engines were going to lose to diesel no matter what, because diesel can get traction going up an incline that a steam engine simply cannot do (and that detailed page is lost to me, I can't find it).
It's just how subreddits devolve to meme-reposting unless actively and strongly countered; forums were a bit better at that but you had to have active moderation.
Re: A game magazine that spent two years taunting a Final Fantasy VIII hater
#8The gag with the spine art reminds me of this (video boxed sets of the series Monk): https://trout.me.uk/monk.jpg
Re: A game magazine that spent two years taunting a Final Fantasy VIII hater
#9I've seen similar in forums. A couple of diligent haters, posting frequently, can supply enough drama-energy to keep the forum active for years.
Re: A game magazine that spent two years taunting a Final Fantasy VIII hater
#10The fact that the website this comes from is "ff8isthe.best" makes this so much better. I love hyper-specific websites. Also, I love documentation on these obscure things from times passed. I'm not sure where else I would have ran into this, but I appreciate the author for writing this kind of thing down.
This was what the Internet made beautiful for a time, international access to hyper-specific deep sites on highly specific topics. Instead we get 9000 identical sites regurgitating the same identical garbage; I want sites where I can enjoy people going into way too much detail about something they feel strongly about, like why steam engines were going to lose to diesel no matter what, because diesel can get traction…
> I want sites where I can enjoy people going into way too much detail about something they feel strongly about, like why steam engines were going to lose to diesel no matter what, because diesel can get traction going up an incline that a steam engine simply cannot do (and that detailed page is lost to me, I can't find it).
You can find plenty of that as content, it just exists on platforms rather than individual sites, and mostly as video.