L4D Blog - Lose the Thumb

[Zipfinator]

Left (It's his left hand) 4 (4 fingers) Dead (His finger is dead/gone). It matches up with the letters better than Dead 4 Right.

[vcool]

Oh, I see now hehe.

[dissonance]

I actually read the blog post and it turned out that was an old design. Thank god.

Also, can someone explain this to me? The meaning somehow eludes me.

But as it turned out, it still wasn't perfect—the final piece of the puzzle would actually arrive from a helpful fan. We had by this point shown off the new branding at E3, and it had only taken one fan about three seconds to point out that if we used a four-fingered left hand instead of a right hand, we could get a nice pun, with all three words of the game's title presented visually.

"Left" for dead, as opposed to "right" for dead.
Left hand? Left... for, erm, four... get it?

[vcool]

Zips already explained it above.

[dissonance]

YEAH I KNOW.
My submit button is moving at the speed of a glacier today.

[MayheM]

anyone else see it?

That is so Mos Def!!! Yeah I totally see it too!

[no00dylan]

Ha ha ha ha ha, what is it with peoples slow commenting today?

[Zipfinator]

Ha ha ha ha ha, what is it with peoples slow commenting today?

My comments aren't slow... who said they were? STOP JUDGING ME DYLAN!

[Australian Bushman]

Good blog post.

"Happy to admit our mistake if it meant making it better, the game box was again retooled".

[notoorjus]

Anyone else didn't get the "4 fingers left" until reading it right now?