Hoax of the day: Halo 3 on the PSP, or the experiment to see if people read

Okay, this isn’t hard news, but it deserves posting for the same reasons that explain why clips of George W. Bush dancing, awkwardly, in some foreign country deserve airing all over CNN from early morning until the evening highlights. A few days ago, there was this self-proclaimed hoax of Halo 3 being playable on the PlayStation Portable uploaded on YouTube. If you don’t quite remember that hit the jump, to watch it.

Anyhow, several days after the Halo 3 on PSP hoax video was upload, video author IIxDylanxII revealed the reasons why he embarked on that little stunt of his. Apparently there was a method to the madness, and the ultimate purpose was to see how well people read, or if people bother to read through long bodies of text at all.

We’d like to explain it to you in detail, but we don’t want to drown you in large bodies of text the way he did, just click on the embed below and get a better idea. Oh and before we go we’re tagging this under off-topic and opinions and analysis, but we’re not giving our take, we’re asking for yours. Well, what’s your take on his experiment? Does IIxDylanxII’s logic hold water? Did IIxDylanxII succeed in driving home a crucial point? Or does IIxDylanxII somehow ultimately contradict himself? Let us know in the comments.

Watch the original hoax after the Jump.

Okay, this isn’t hard news, but it deserves posting for the same reasons why clips of George W. Bush dancing, awkwardly, in some foreign country deserve airing all over CNN from early morning until the evening highlights. A few days ago, there was this self-proclaimed hoax of Halo 3 being playable on the PlayStation Portable uploaded on YouTube. If you don’t quite remember that, hit the jump to watch it.

Anyhow, several days after the Halo 3 on PSP hoax video was upload, video author IIxDylanxII revealed the reasons why he embarked on that little stunt of his. Apparently there was a method to the madness, and the ultimate purpose was to see how well people read, or if people bother to read through long bodies of text at all.

We’d like to explain it to you in detail, but we don’t want to drown you in large bodies of text the way he did, so just click on the embed below and get a better idea. Oh, and before we go we’re tagging this under off-topic and opinions and analysis, but we’re not giving our take, we’re asking for yours.

Well, what’s your take on his experiment? Does IIxDylanxII’s logic hold water? Did IIxDylanxII succeed in driving home a crucial point? Or does IIxDylanxII somehow ultimately contradict himself? Let us know in the comments. Keep it clean.