SomethingAwful is, hands-down, the best forum on the Internet. If you've got time, this is probably the quintessential SA drama, and it's epic in scope:
Agreed. Not seen the Animal Crossing LP's yet, but am a big fan of the raocow super mario ones where he plays insanely hard rom-hacks and just rambles and rambles :)
3) Finally, and most disturbingly, Jeff was not heard from again. I personally e-mailed him for permission to run his story on ZUG, but after an initial response, I never heard from him again. All of his Web sites have come down, and he is nowhere to be found.
Just because someone is spreading something be word of mouth doesn't mean that they are necessarily financially invested in the product they are promoting. People do promote products that they enjoy/find useful.
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?s=1a3f8a1a28...
Also from SomethingAwful, though the original post is now archived, the P-P-P-Powerbook prank:
http://www.zug.com/pranks/powerbook/
And, if your day hasn't been thoroughly wasted yet, this is my all-time favorite product of SA:
http://lparchive.org/LetsPlay/Animal%20Crossing/index.html