The gag with the spine art reminds me of this (video boxed sets of the series Monk): https://trout.me.uk/monk.jpg
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A game magazine that spent two years taunting a Final Fantasy VIII hater
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#52Love the ending. I’ll not spoil it.
Re: A game magazine that spent two years taunting a Final Fantasy VIII hater
#53Laughed out loud. And FWIW loved Final Fantasy VIII. More then VII. The soundtrack was fantastic, I used to have an imported full orchestral arrangement that was in heavy rotation in my tweens.
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#54Lovely 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…
Agree, with "hater" in the title, I expected a 20 page manifesto discussing every little detail that's supposedly wrong with the game. That was pretty moderate and the inside joke this created is like funny little easteregg.
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#55Also > At my day job as a video game history librarian
How did they do that one?
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#56The gag with the spine art reminds me of this (video boxed sets of the series Monk): https://trout.me.uk/monk.jpg
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#57Re: A game magazine that spent two years taunting a Final Fantasy VIII hater
#58Fans of the FF games are very passionate about their favorite game(s). In the earlier days of the Internet, there were endless debates about VI vs VII. Those truly had an inspirational effect on people—but rarely in a good way. Or maybe it's just the perfect cross section of Internet-arguers and JRPG-obsessives that makes for insufferable, endless debates and ranking lists. Anyway, enough beating around the bush. Her…
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#59The internet needs more websites like this. This is The Good Internet
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#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
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Huh! How do they achieve this effect? Does Reddit give you that much control over CSS?