In my inbox this morning:

although i honestly didn't think about it much, the use of buzzwords when discussing how nintendo's huge success is attributable to hyped-up today show watchers who hop on the hip wii bandwagon was intentional irony.

we games journalists keep from descending into the slippery slope of frothing and babbling or whatever you said about kiddie pools of shit (and for my part, i dislike easy vulgarity as shortcut to humor, but let's agree to differ in taste) by having fun with words, even when others aren't necessarily in on the joke. and i don't feel particularly soulless or eaten away at just yet!

Now, if that's the case, and Leigh was taking the piss, then okay – mea culpa. Personally, I didn't get an especially ironic vibe from the piece in question, but then it's not like I've never made an obtuse in-joke, so I guess I ought to take her at her word. So, yes, I was wrong and I apologise. 

Oh, but Leigh? The highbrow vulgarity we do here at Eegra is certainly not easy. Not by a motherfucking longshot.