thuanta.com » Rants http://thuanta.com Thuan's gamedev space on teh InterWeb Sat, 19 Apr 2008 19:04:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 LOL @ FutureShop on using 1337 slang http://thuanta.com/2007/11/23/lol-futureshop-on-1337-slang/ http://thuanta.com/2007/11/23/lol-futureshop-on-1337-slang/#comments Fri, 23 Nov 2007 22:53:56 +0000 Thuan http://thuanta.com/2007/11/23/lol-futureshop-on-1337-slang/ I played Guitar Hero 3 and Rock Band for the first time last night and I was blown away. The Guitar Hero franchise has come a long way and Rock Band is setting the bar even higher. I wanted to check out the current prices of the Xbox360 at FutureShop because I’m thinking of getting it just for Guitar Hero 3 and Rock Band but then I saw this sentence in the product description:

Bring on the PWN4G3 with a free one-month subscription to XBOX Live Gold.

I don’t know why but I always get a chuckle when 1337 speak and/or 1337 slang is used in marketing and is done outside of it’s original context. Here’s my message to the marketing department: cut the crap. IMO, trying to advertise your products using 1337 slang is totally n00bish. Then again, 1337 speak is starting to get really annoying…

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