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Fable Forum Goers Fall For Huge Hoax

Posted by Zonk on from the i-am-the-bard-send-me-money dept.

CheeseMonkey writes "If you've played Fable, you have probably seen the Bards in the game, and may have had them tell you to find a "better bard". That better bard was found on the Fable forums (reg. required). Or, so it seemed. He led on the gaming public for two solid days with a series of incredibly well crafted poems. Finally, he fessed up. I extensively blogged the whole ordeal, so you don't have to sift through all the rubbish."

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  1. Poor Title by Chris+Pimlott · · Score: 4, Funny

    I suggest "Fable Forum Fans Fall for Fantastic Fabrication" instead.

  2. Re:I fail to be amazed. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Yeah. Well crafted my fucking ass.

  3. meta-blogs by jeffehobbs · · Score: 4, Funny


    Somehow, blogs about blogs (meta-blogs?) usually wind up being more interesting than the blogs themselves; which makes me wonder if blogs about blogs about blogs would be even more geometrically interesting than that.

    Or what about a message board post about blogs about meta-blogs, such as this one you're reading right now? Possibly, following the previous logic, what you're reading now is the most interesting thing ever. We are through the looking glass, here, people.

    ~jeff

    1. Re:meta-blogs by KDR_11k · · Score: 2, Funny

      Possibly, following the previous logic, what you're reading now is the most interesting thing ever.

      Now that's a blatant attempt at Karma whoring...

      --
      Justice is the sheep getting arrested while an impartial judge declares the vote void.
    2. Re:meta-blogs by GreyWolf3000 · · Score: 4, Funny

      Nice post about a post about a forum about a meta-blog about a blog about a forum.

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      Slashdot: Where people pretend to be twice as smart as they really are by behaving like children.
  4. Re:Here's what happened.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I nominate all those people for the Greater Internet Biggest Nerd/Loser competition.

  5. He'd have started a roleplaying guild. by bluemeep · · Score: 2, Funny

    Probably would have wrote some fanfiction and cosplayed at an EQ convetion, too.

  6. Gah! by Databass · · Score: 5, Funny

    He lied to me through Poetry! I HATE when people do that!!