[JGZinv]

I'd go after that with a backpack of RAID and a baseball bat.

[Scourge of Ages]

To: PC Gamer
First: Good job guys, congratulations!
Now: For moment number 3, "The Arrival of GTVA Colossus," the screenshot you provided is not in fact of the Colossus, but the SD Lucifer. The screenshot you captured that from, btw, is from a fan-made campaign.
-Thanks,
*
http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php
http://www.hard-light.net/wiki/index.php/Colossus

Dear *,
  Thanks for writing in! We are fully aware that the screen does in fact feature the Lucifer, however we really wanted to capture the feeling of something getting bown up, one of our favorite aspects of Freespace 2, and this particular instance is (as I am sure you are aware) the GTVA Colossus taking down the Lucifer after it has arrived. Apologies for any confusion!

[General Battuta]

Ha, I don't think he realized it wasn't actually from FS2.

But, he sounds like a nice guy, and we should not harass him. Or we might wreck our good name!

[Droid803]

Well, taking down a lucifer was the colossus's advertised role.
It's not too off

[Scourge of Ages]

And you can't fault their reasoning: "We wanted to show a pic of something being blown up. (The best part of FS2)"

[Blue Lion]

Maybe they couldn't find a pic of the C blowing up a Sath? I mean really, what else does it blow up that looks cool?

[Kolgena]

Maybe he thought that might be spoiler material? I mean, a Sathanas is not shock and awe if you see it in some game magazine, rather than see it (well, not really, unless you're really close to it in the nebula) shred the crap out of a friendly ship.

[Mongoose]

We should probably just be happy that the game got a shout-out in the first place, and not sweat the small stuff so much.

[Klaustrophobia]

i really don't think they are worrying about spoilers ten years later.

[Titan]

Ohhhh, I get it now. Yeah, I guess that is kind of sad.
To be fair though, the guys who put this article together did have to find 200 moments, and pics for many of them. Still, for number 3 on the list you'd think they could put in a little more effort. Maybe the googler didn't actually know what a Colossus was?

It was #3 on a mini-list of 9 moments. And I don't think order had any impact.

[übermetroid]

i really don't think they are worrying about spoilers ten years later.

What is the standard time that spoilers are no longer worried about? 

10 years?

[Mongoose]

i really don't think they are worrying about spoilers ten years later.

What is the standard time that spoilers are no longer worried about? 

10 years?

Depends on the venue.  I'm part of one or two anime-related forums where any significant event in a series is grounds for a spoiler-marking, even if said series was created ten or twenty years ago.  Granted, that's a much more niche form of entertainment, one that doesn't have nearly the cultural penetration of something like Star Wars or Final Fantasy 7.

[Blue Lion]

i really don't think they are worrying about spoilers ten years later.

What is the standard time that spoilers are no longer worried about? 

10 years?

Depends on the venue.  I'm part of one or two anime-related forums where any significant event in a series is grounds for a spoiler-marking, even if said series was created ten or twenty years ago.  Granted, that's a much more niche form of entertainment, one that doesn't have nearly the cultural penetration of something like Star Wars or Final Fantasy 7.

I think thats the first time I've seen the word anime and penetration without..... hey how about that magazine article eh?

[Vrets]

Ha, the Colossus blowing up the Lucifer.

I guess they felt obligated to call out an older game. Would've been cool if they'd actually played it.

Can you see the next letter to the editor?

Hey PCgamer, the Colossus never destroyed the Lucifer.

Oh, you misunderstand. The image was in reference to the time that the Colossus was destroyed by the Lucifer while defending the Sathanas system (as I am sure you are aware).

How about the next one?

PCgamer, I think that the Colossus destroyed the Sathanas.

Who's retarded now? The Sathanas system was destroyed by the Lucifer fleet.

And the next one?

Hey, long time reader here. I just wanted to point out that it was, in fact-

**** you. Buy Fallout 4, we gave it a 110/100.

[Kosh]

[Droid803]

People, stop overreacting. It's one picture, and it's hardly as bad as when Interplay put the EAC Eclipse from Inferno as the picture for FS2. At least the Colossus is in the mission, and it's not firing at some fan -made ship.

[Titan]

People, stop overreacting. It's one picture, and it's hardly as bad as when Interplay put the EAC Eclipse from Inferno as the picture for FS2. At least the Colossus is in the mission, and it's not firing at some fan -made ship.

^QFT^

[Colonol Dekker]

Blargh, it's not in PCGUK.

I bought the mag for nought

[Snail]

The fact that they're mistaking fan-made material for retail grade quality stuff is simply testament to the productivity of the community.

[Vrets]

The folks at PCGamer are second-rate hustlers.

It would please me to see Fs2 outlast them.

Oy, Kosh: you need to remove the subtitles from that image. Otherwise it is self-defeating.