This wasn't written by a game journalist. I'm glad you took the 10 seconds it would take to figure that out before commenting. "Hi, I'm a troll on the Internet and I have nothing better to do on a Friday but harass people trying to be creative."
Wow, for so many people on this site to take this article so serious proves my theory hat the majority here has below a 8th grade education. Its just a satirical article over the Psn network going down. Of course its bullshit. Its suppose to be totally unbelievable. That's the fun part about it. You people have no damn sense of humor when someone even jokingly says something about your favorite console. Do you realize how Fucking sad it is the lengths you go to protect those stupid plastic models filled with computer components? Fanboys act like extreme religious zealots. I felt the article was clever and meant not as "flamebait" but as a quick chuckle. Lighten the fuck up people.
If you take the time to read both you'd realize the similarities end at provocative titles. One offers multiple forms of use to gamers while the other simply wanders through the head of a confused guy with Down Syndrome attempting to figure out how to work his toy.
This really belongs somewhere else... like a forum or story writer's club. It offers nothing of any sort of use to gamers, and it's horribly stale.
Maybe if it wasn't one of the most ridiculous attempts at humor aimed at an informed crowd of gamers looking for any semblance of real information... maybe then it wouldn't be crucified.
The bottom line is that whoever approved this needs to be examined, because this is pure garbage.
Guess there's no news to report so Bitmob allows community users to right "joke" articles which, apparently, is news worthy enough to be approved for n4g. *sigh* I ain't laughing, and it's not because I can't laugh at the PSN situation, it's just a lame "article".
another stupid article. Alot of websites sure are making fools of themselves. I wonder if the traffic they bring (if any at all) will have a lasting impression..
PSN outage sure has shown alot of true colors in everyone. Maybe its a good thing. To see how f'd up things/people are. Take notes people..
because we're sick and tired of hearing about it. that's why most of N4G does not care for PSN articles, unless it is something NEW.
the only ones who care about these articles are trolls and or xbox 360 fanboys who want to see Sony disappear so they can dance all day in front of a TV and buy 20 DLC's that make up 1 game.
And folks, comments like the ones above about an article trying to satirize the knee-jerk reactions that people have are exactly WHY N4G is seen as a fanboy cesspool!
How is it that people never seem to learn that the first part of not getting caught is not taking the fucking bait?
How many times do we have to point out that if you don't want people like HHG to get popular, then don't click on it and bitch because that's WHY his articles are so popular? How many people have done it anyway?
How many times do we have to point out that it's not just one group of fanboys causing every bad thing on this site while the other is never innocent? How many times do we STILL see the singling out happen?
How many times have we said that calling out a gaming company about something they've done or are doing doesn't necessarily mean that we've suddenly jumped the fence or were traded to the other team (assuming we've PLAYED for any team at all in the console wars)? How many times has that been completely ignored in favor of people trolling constantly just because there's no one that cares enough to stop them or doesn't have enough power to do anything about it other than to constantly try to be the voice of reason?
This article is playing on how all of you have been acting, and yet, instead of growing brains, we all just do exactly what we've been doing: overreacting yet again. I don't understand why it always has to be!
Maybe you're just angry that you got showed up exactly for how you guys were: a bunch of backstabbing douchebags. Wouldn't be so bad if it was just one or two people, but most of the site constantly saying "better join us or leave the site"? Seriously?
This article was meant to be funny. That's all! Nothing else! If you didn't think it was funny, then fine, but shut the fuck up and click on another story. Some of us who play Sony games and systems might HAVE thought it was funny because we didn't go "OMG, Sony MUST win, we MUST disregard and sense and sanity" or call for the deaths of the hackers or say that Sony were complete saints, just as we did with Microsoft before.
The TL;DR of it all (because I know attention spans are very low on the front page side of this site, too): I don't understand why no one can just take a joke without bitching that THEY were the ones that got shown up, or how is it that the only way to combat the "blame game" is by proving the blamers completely correct!
I rarely comment on N4G but after reading the comments in this I really was. And you posted exactly what I was going to say. Saved me a lot of typing lol.
Its pathetic how fanboys on both parts totally ruin most of these comments on any articles here, and this just proves it. It is OBVIOUSLY a joke article. Meant to me not serious and satirical. I get it some people may not think its funny but actually bashing on the article calling it trash and an attention whore is just dumb.
LAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is a joke.
Nicely done.
Funny! Funny!
If ONLY it would have been that simple -_- ....lol