A Familiar Face...

[Tenebrae]

Check http://www.theage.com.au/ and see if you recognise anyone.

(Not sure how long this'll last, but worth grabbing a look)

[Deathwisher]

As a born Dutchman I see where the article is coming from (At 6ft1 I am barely average in height and I must admit to the occasional pang of jealousy on the subject :smalltongue: ).

Nice to see that they used Death's little helper to illustrate the point. Not so nice, that I cannot find any reference to OOTS or the Giant, so it seems they just took the image without giving proper credit. Or did I overlook something?

[Fitzclowningham]

OMG that is so awesome!

[Tenebrae]

No, I don't think you overlooked anything. Just a fan working for the newspaper, I'd guess, who somehow managed to slip it past their editor. Still, a reference would have been nice.

[Phase]

If the Giant lived in Australia, we would have a slight conflicy on our hands...

[Jukashi]

After working for an online publication for three months, I can tell you that it's most likely someone just googled "short men" and nabbed whatever picture they thought most amusing.

[Yendor]

Next question: where precisely is that image from? Looks like the Dungeon of Dorukan.

[David Argall]

We now have two threads on this sighting.

[VetMichael]

SWEET! does this mean Belkar is moonlighting, or does he get RP experience?

:belkar: RULES

[ChaoticEvilGuy]

that i so cooooool!
:smallbiggrin:

[Surfing HalfOrc]

The same article is on Yahoo News, but Death's Little Helper is nowhere to be seen... :smallfrown:

People have seen Elan appear in a crossword puzzle, and not a gamer crossword, and now Belkar makes the news!

Where else have Our Heroes appeared, besides officially approved goods and services?

[VetMichael]

Maybe we should ask the powers that be to post a sticky thread dedicated to spotting OOTSers which appear randomly throughout the web?

[Thamir]

YEH Australia gets its moment in the sun HOORAY WORSHIP ME YOU FOOLS BECAUSE I AM AUSTRALIAN!

I eat meat pies (ah actually I'm vegetarian)
I follow the AFL (actually I don't know the names of any teams)
I play cricket (nup)
I feel a connection to Australia! (I hope to one day move to England because we don't have gaming shops or conventions)

OK maybe I am not the model Australian but at least I saw the picture before I read about it in the forum. I had no idea until I opened the age online web page and :belkar: in fact the age is only a Melbournian news paper so we are superior to you all, even Sydney which is probably trying to milk our fame.

[Yeril]

I cant find the article, where am I looking? :smallsigh: :smallfrown:

[SoD]

Same here...no familiar faces from this computer...

[SteveMB]

It's a newspaper. It changes from day to day.

[SoD]

Yes, I get that axpect of The Age. It is a newspaper. I happen to be Australian.

[NerfTW]

Likely someone pointed out to them that they were using a copyrighted image to promote the article, and they took it down.

[VetMichael]

For those who missed it, it was an article on "short man syndrome" which, on the "paper"'s cover, it showed our favorite sexy, shoeless god of war


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