Ladies and gentlemen, I crave your indulgence and ask you to take my hand as we enjoy a glimpse into insanity. For the past several months, a lone maniac has demonstrated his lengthy wait for the highly anticipated Fable II via the gift of facial hair, refusing to shave until the game is released. In a Lionhead forum post dated 03-01-2008, at 23:59, user Armblast made his dramatic stand:
I refuse to shave till Fable 2 release: I will post here Every week the photo's of the "progress"... I dont care if you care...this is to help me cope w/ waiting (I figure 1 annoyance will take my mind off of another)
Unlike many people on the Internet, Armblast actually followed through with his threat, and has indeed regularly updated his progress toward the almighty chinwarmer we see pictured above. Go and check out the (far from pretty) transformation from stubble to neckbeard to full-on Lord of the Rings.
Well, it certainly didn't get Fable II released any sooner, but you can't blame a guy for trying. Thankfully he didn't decide to do this for Home; otherwise, he'd have died as a man composed of 95% facial hair after choking on his own fuzz.
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5:00 PM on 08.25.2008
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Destructoid has fallen into his evil plan for 5secs of semi internet fame.
Too many f*cking attention whores lately. You should make this worth post worth by making fun of his stupid antics on a podcast, JIN STERLING.
And Destructoid gave him an ARTICLE!
Anywhoo, I told him he was not allowed to play it until he could shave anyway!
P.S. J 4 Joke (I don't have a kid... thank god).
your Stink is gonna reach the heavens and it's gonna look like an upside down beard too LOL
At least he don't have to wear scarves during the harsh Canadian Winters B|
2. The game is going to be released so refusing, which implies protesting in some odd way, is just stupid.
3. If attention is what you wanted then congratulations you got it.
4. Also grats on reducing your chance of getting laid (from 1% to 0%). Not because of the beard but the fact you are doing if for a game. Imagine someone doing this but replace Fable II with "Candy land Special sugar free edition" you'd look like an asshole..
Good job.
Fuck it, I aint even gonna start calling him names.
Sometimes I wonder for the sad state of humanity, this guy just makes me wonder even more, what a complete and utter shambles of a person, I mean really.
Please god let this happen.
I will upload pictures of my unshaven armpits once a week.
(that'll take the sexy out of girl gamers, huh?)
how any of you could call this lame is beyond me.
FUCKING BAD ASS
I could stop shaving from now until it releases and accomplish as much as this lame.
Welcome to the internet.. where people pay attention to you for absolutely no fucking good reason.