A delicious tale of spite comes to us from the delightful website Final Fantasy VIII is the Best And If You Don't Agree I Will Destroy You. The story goes back more than 20 years, and involves the erstwhile game magazine GameNOW. In its first issue after a name change and a rebranding in 2002, a letter from a reader expressed his feelings about Final Fantasy VIII: it sucked. He also complained about a screenshot from the game that the magazine used, apparently more than once. He ended the letter with:
If you are going to put the same screen shot up again and again, at least put up a good one. Still, I know you will probably put it up again just to tick me off.
That sounded like a challenge to the magazine staff. And they were up to it, sneaking in that same screenshot seen above into almost every issue of the magazine for the next two years! They even made a contest out of it at one point. They might still be doing it if the magazine hadn't folded after the January 2004 issue. But that was just enough to complete the final troll, which was too clever by half. See it and wonder, in the post that tells the whole story. -via Metafilter