A little bitter, boys? Heh, I can't say that I disagree with the post--fatbabies really is a heap of crap.

Heh heh -- I was just in a sour mood and I saw that stupid faux interview they put up. They really did email me and tell me they could repost entire articles as long as they attributed them. They're fucking idiots.

There should be a license for people to use HTML.

Heh, I hear ya. You should at least have to have some sort of degree to run a page. Anything, really--as long as you can pass a test for basic grammar, and non-idiocy... I say, all the power to you.

A test for basic grammar would disqualify the operators of many gaming web sites. It's appalling how many people can't distinguish between "you're" and "your," and don't know the proper uses of "it's" and "its." :-<

God, I sound like my father.

po

I'm waiting for someone to make a bad Star Wars reference now.

*waiting*

*waiting more*

*checks watch*

Okay, I won't sink to the level of many gaming sites (namely B&W sites) and makes stupid jokes.

I hear ya, Peter. Granted, I only finished grade school about 10 years ago, but I seem to remember learning the difference between "their," "they're," and "there," as well as the difference between "were" and "where" (how people could possibly mess that one up is beyond me). Do they just not teach that sort of thing nowadays? Actually, I know a lot of people my age (19 or so) who can't spell at all... something I take pride in being able to do. ;)

I just saw this on a nameless (it's not really nameless, but I'd rather not give the parent company any free press), and it kind of made me laugh--is it just me, or does this sentence lack at least a couple commas?

"I have decided that while I am away I�m going to leave my machine on for just over three days and see how my tiger gets on."

God, I really hate ragging on a site's grammar, but this is another sentence from the above-mentioned site:

"No no no, calm down the patch is not out yet *G* Lionhead made a small announcement a while back, but for the ones who were not around then take a look here, it basically describes how to temporary work around a few bugs such as Land 5 Creature Curse problem, Save/Load problems and Creature freezing problem."

Damn... not a single period.

Heh heh... today at FGN Online, they used the classic Looses for the word Loses. It was corrected when I went back later in the day. That's still the single most annoying screwup I see... well, next to Turrent for Turret. *sigh*

--Dave

"they used the classic Looses for the word Loses."

Yeah, that and "you're a looser" really bug me.

Another stupid, game-specific one is people referring to Diablo's rogues as rouges.

I will often make a mistake with its vs. it's and sometimes with their vs. they're, but it's due to my lack of patience with my own writing. I just don't proofread as well as I should.

What is up with Rouge?!? I've seen that so many times I thought it was some kind of joke.

Heh... there are way too many common mistakes to mention. I can't think of any, other than the ones you guys have already mentioned.... it just bothers me. I guess if I ever posed for Playboy, it'd say "bad spelling" under my turn-offs. heh

Ahhh... that Clancy favorite... Rainbow Six: Rouge Spear!

--Dave

My favorite is triology.

Amanpour

That sounds like a board game, doesn't it?

"Tri-Ology -- from Milton Bradley."

I'm with you guys. I really hate seeing blatant bad spelling. Especially on a web page or in the newspaper. Maybe I'm being too critical, but I expect more than that.

And how about when people confuse "to" with "too." That's a tough one to mess up, to. J

THat's a nice one, yeah... I thought of another - "through" instead of "threw."