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Todd Howard's Wikipedia Page Under Siege from Tumblr Vandals

Unread post by Poetlister » Sat Apr 28, 2018 8:46 pm

The video game community is known for meme-ifying famous video game developers. Industry leaders like Nintendo's Reggie Fils-Aime and Japanese game designer Hideo Kojima are no strangers to the meme treatment. But when it comes to Bethesda's Todd Howard, internet pranksters might have met their match with a group who wants to put an end to their memes: Wikipedia editors.
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Unread post by Ming » Sun Apr 29, 2018 12:58 am

This edit ought to win some sort of vandalism prize:
Bodd Joward (born 1971), also known as Toad Coward, personally killed my family, burned my crops, and withered my skin. He currently serves as director and executive producer at Bethesda Game Studios, where he has inserted his soul into every game copy of Fallout and The Elder Scrolls series just like some kinda funky horcrux and is now tryin gto sell copies to the general public.

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Re: Todd Howard's Wikipedia Page Under Siege from Tumblr Van

Unread post by Poetlister » Sun Apr 29, 2018 9:10 am

Needless to say, the article is temporarily semi-protected. As for the perpetrator of that edit,

"20:55, 25 April 2018 Ferret (talk | contribs) blocked Kittygaleru (talk | contribs) with an expiration time of indefinite (account creation blocked) (Clearly not here to contribute to the encyclopedia)"

The block reason is clearly nonsense. Kittygaleru certainly was contributing, albeit in an undesirable way.
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Unread post by Johnny Au » Sun Apr 29, 2018 8:24 pm

Arrow, meet knee.

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Unread post by Johnny Au » Sun Apr 29, 2018 8:31 pm

Ming wrote:This edit ought to win some sort of vandalism prize:
Bodd Joward (born 1971), also known as Toad Coward, personally killed my family, burned my crops, and withered my skin. He currently serves as director and executive producer at Bethesda Game Studios, where he has inserted his soul into every game copy of Fallout and The Elder Scrolls series just like some kinda funky horcrux and is now tryin gto sell copies to the general public.
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He had to put his game on the Nintendo Switch of all platforms! The same platform with Kirby Star Allies! How dare he!

Look at what happened to poor Kirby! Toad Coward traumatized the poor pufffball! Kirby became Americanized!

It's among the few pieces of Wikipedia vandalism I fully condone.

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Unread post by Anroth » Tue May 01, 2018 6:25 am

To be fair, Skyrim is one of the best games of the last 10 years. It should be on all available platforms.

I have bought it 3 times now :/ And if I ever get a PSVR it will be 4.

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Unread post by Johnny Au » Fri May 04, 2018 2:50 am

Breath of the Wild later happened.

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