DownGrader
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Sometimes, reading the news on the Internet and seeing some rumour being published, you know it's bad. By "bad", I mean something so fishy you wonder how anyone sane could believe in it. And it's not like it suddenly becomes true, like Assassin's Creed plane photos - it just becomes even more laughable after debunking.
My recent favourite is the "leak" from some Finnish retailer about New Nintendo 3DS launching in Europe somewhere between 9 and 15 January, IIRC. This photo is wrong on so many levels... First of all, here we have "European" box without any European ratings. But look, it's an Australian rating! (And the system launched in Australia first! Coincidence, eh?). Besides - look at this price tag. Have you ever seen these inch-size tags being used as actual price tags in a something bigger than a shady pawn shop, let alone in electronics/game retailer? I've seen them... fifteen years ago, when the electronic databases haven't been really a thing, and I lived not in a very developed country... and even then it was more a thing of the past! Not to say these tag printing/labeling machines are so cheap and common I could easily male a hoax about retail Wii U version of Bayonetta 1 coming in the US. But, oh well, I could just print fake price tag on a printer - and it would be more believable.
Anyway, stop the pointless analysis. Post your favourite crapfakes, clickbait pre-E3 top secret announcement lists, fan speculations disguised as rumours and leaks and other similar stuff.
My recent favourite is the "leak" from some Finnish retailer about New Nintendo 3DS launching in Europe somewhere between 9 and 15 January, IIRC. This photo is wrong on so many levels... First of all, here we have "European" box without any European ratings. But look, it's an Australian rating! (And the system launched in Australia first! Coincidence, eh?). Besides - look at this price tag. Have you ever seen these inch-size tags being used as actual price tags in a something bigger than a shady pawn shop, let alone in electronics/game retailer? I've seen them... fifteen years ago, when the electronic databases haven't been really a thing, and I lived not in a very developed country... and even then it was more a thing of the past! Not to say these tag printing/labeling machines are so cheap and common I could easily male a hoax about retail Wii U version of Bayonetta 1 coming in the US. But, oh well, I could just print fake price tag on a printer - and it would be more believable.
Anyway, stop the pointless analysis. Post your favourite crapfakes, clickbait pre-E3 top secret announcement lists, fan speculations disguised as rumours and leaks and other similar stuff.