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Friday, January 7, 2005

World champeen Halo player revered as a god

Zed sez, "this guy is a full-time professional Halo player who looms so large in that world that when he took a vacation, Halo message boards were full of speculation as to what it all meant."

Over Thanksgiving, on Day Five Without Zyos, the message boards of the online world were abuzz with rumors. Zyos has quit. Zyos is playing under a different name. Zyos is dead. Five pages of this, growing more fevered as it went, until one of Zyos' handlers, one of the people in the business of "building Zyos' brand," logged on.
"Guys," he said. "Zyos is fine. He's just on vacation."

Link (Thanks, Zed!)

posted by Cory Doctorow at 04:10:36 PM permalink | Other blogs' comments

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