After challenging Blizzard’s World of Warcraft writer panel on an esoteric and useless point of fictional lore about some character named Falsted Wildhammer – and winning! – Blizzcon’s instant nerd celebrity, “Red Shirt Guy”, has now been honoured (well, relatively) with his very own red-shirted NPC, dubbed “Wildhammer Fact Checker”. Falsted has also apparently been put back into the game, the outrageous illegitimacy of his erstwhile disappearance now so convincingly proven and corrected.
Both characters are not yet in the live beta version of World of Warcraft: Cataclysm, but game lead designer and Blizzard forum moderator Alex Afrasiabi AKA Valnoth has confirmed that they’re real, and that those slutty Night Elves are waiting on Wildhammer Fact Checker to rock their world in a bit of private cataclysm. Okay, I made up that last part.
No word yet from Red Shirt Guy himself, but I’m guessing everybody who made fun of him is totally jealous now. Revenge of the nerds, indeed.
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Discuss Blizzcon’s ‘Red Shirt Guy’ giving the Blizzard panel a WoW lesson on the MyGaming forum.
