2:15 AM on 12.10.2006
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Kotaku (the only other website on the internet who can claim to have derived their name from a Mary Shelley novella) had an article up today revealing to the world that the Electronics Boutique/Gamestop conglomerate would be dropping the price on the Collector's Edition of Final Fantasy XII just in time for the holidays. If you don't have FFXII already, you will be able to get the Fancy Sparkly Edition (now with 20% more homoeroticism!) for the same price as the regular Lame-o Edition (that gives you crabs), $49.99.
More important than that, they had a link to one of the most disturbing photo galleries you will ever see on God's green internet. Gamestop recently concluded a contest where people could dress up as various Final Fantasy characters, and, as you can probably guess, the lamest of the lame and the, er, fattiest of the fatties showed up in droves to strut far too much flesh in costumes not meant for reality. Sadly, they wound the gallery in a tight ball of Flash and bad juju that prevents me from ripping off their images, but hit that link that I provided above for copious amounts of photographs that you can use to frighten the elderly or traumatize young girls into bulimia.
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There are some good one's in there with the bad one's but none that are eye gouge worthy.
I mean, c'mon! Half of those pictures are of Japanese people! They shouldn't even know what GameStop is!
Ugh, I almost vomited a few times looking through that gallery. Who in their right mind would dress as Yuna with cankles that large?!!
I abhor looking at fat people in skimpy costumes as much as everyone else, but some of those costumes are pretty damn good. I wouldn't cosplay myself, but what's with the hateful revulsion? Did cosplayers kill your family and rape your dog or something?
Really, have you seen bad cosplay? The majority of these are actually pretty decent and some are damn amazing.
The elitism of some gamers is amazing. Some act as if hte obsessive are a geek exclusive group. This isn't any more hardkore or obsessive then those people that paint there whole body and go to football games.
No, I didn't enter it. Mainly because I don't have the time, money, patience, or obsession.
But it still irks me.