[1.Local]: The best of 2009, January-June
Reader comments -- ahh, yes, the juicy goodness following a meaty post. [1.Local] ducks past the swinging doors to see what readers have been chatting about in the back room over the past week.
The story's not over 'til [1.Local] has picked it to bits and pieces ... So what did the local denizens have to say about the world of WoW during the first half of the year? In fact, the [1.Local] scene itself became the news back in June, as [1.Local]: The epic rap battle comment war edition hit readers' screens: "Players disagree over Blizzard's upcoming badge changes. Rap battle ensues. Site is left terrified and confused."
epsilon343: Ahh yes, the rap battle. Nothing like mad rhymes to cool off tempers.
Higher on Killchrono's list of memories, though, was all the commotion about scamming: Aaah, I remember that run of articles about scamming. The best (and simultaneously worst) part about them were the numerous comments by phishers and scammers who tried to justify their actions by saying non-security savvy people deserved to get hacked and how they were 'doing them a favour' by showing them how stupid they were. A testament to how deplorable and vile malicious scammers truly are.
Ear ye, ear ye | |
Big news, big scandals, big conversations | |
A real game-changer | |
Change is ... hard | |
Rocketing back in time |
Before we leave you for the week, we'd like to raise our glasses in a toast to reader Geninn of EU Eonar, who submitted the artwork at the top of this week's [1.Local]. "It might be a bit too shiny and sparkly," he wrote, "but I'm sending it just in case you find it appropriate for an article."
"Too shiny and sparkly"? During the holidays?! Nonsense! In fact, we'd love something else shiny and sparkly for next week's July-December 2009 wrap-up. If you've got WoW-related artwork you think would make a great [1.Local] header next week (or any other week, for that matter), shoot it over to me at lisa (at) wow (dot) com. Bonus points if you can come up with something festive that doesn't include the traditional fireworks-over-the-city shot. (We'll leave that one for the Around Azeroth crew.) Please include [1.Local] artwork in the subject line, so your submission doesn't get lost in the shuffle.
Until next week!
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