Loss of All Meaning - Confirmed!
January 25th, 2008
The folks over at Brawl Central have a serious problem. It involves the use of the word ‘confirm’ to authenticate new info about Brawl. Take this for example:
As said in a previous update, we wouldn’t be reporting on any of the leak stories unless we had confirmation, but this seems like its real.
So in other words - you don’t.
So when it was ‘leaked’ that Zelda’s down-special move was named ‘Twilight Change,’ and mumbled something about the name ‘Sheik’ in parenthesis, they immediately made a news post reading:
Sheik Confirmed!
Well, guess what happened? Turned out there wasn’t even a down-special move listed. So they made an additional news post titled:
Sheik De-confirmed
Wait, ‘de-confirmed?’ Well great, now saying something is ‘confirmed’ is totally useless, as it can be just as quickly de-confirmed. But, oh, does this get better. Read the rest of this entry »









