Um, can we just stop and talk about this commercial please? I’ve been watching it daily and the same thought comes across my teeny, tiny brain. At the 0:19 mark, the girl wipes her freckles off and blows them onto another girl. LIKE THAT IS SO GROSS. It looks like she’s wiping the sweat off her face and then spraying her dance partner with it, who for some reason looks ecstatic.
Also, I understand the whole idea behind the ad, which is crazy mixing and matching…but why the hell would you want to exchange your clusters of melanin with other people? It’s almost like swapping moles with someone. Yuck. Keep your freckles off of me.
I have freckles, too, but these suckers are staying with me. Unfortunately. Actually, who wants them? I’ll spray them all over your face at some sweaty party where the music comes from a video game? (Btw, why would you even deejay a party with that game? That’s like serenading someone’s wedding reception with Rock Band, complete with the loud plastic tapping of the guitars and fake drums. I dun get it.)
So like, I know there aren’t any jetpacks or big guns in this Ni no Kuni game from Studio Ghibli (plus, I’m not a fan of RPGs) but holy crap, I want to play it. Will it ever get released in the States? *lower lip trembles*
I watched this yesterday and almost cried. This was basically my weekend. That, and prepping for Thanksgiving, helping my mom buy a new TV, buying her a birthday present and meeting up with friends, all at the same time.
I know this video/comic is SUPER OLD but whatever, I still see people talking about 2 Girls 1 Cup like it’s the second coming.
Anyway, I thought this video was really touching. If my mom was wheel-chair bound with a debilitating disease, I’d introduce her to Animal Crossing to keep her company (cause I’d be too busy with my own life, thank you very much), too.
Well, it WAS touching until Mike Hong reminded me that you actually get letters and packages from your Animal Crossing “mom” so whoever made the original comic is dumb. That wasn’t your mom leaving you messages. That was your FAKE mom. Your real mom was probably busy trading her one-room cottage for a huge mansion from Tom Nook and planting oversized peaches for her new forest. I bet all the gifts you got were from the Recycle Bin, too.
If I was terminally ill, I’d spend my time setting the highest scores possible on all the video games so no one else could possibly beat me after I die. Yeah, I said it. Screw you for getting to live while I have to die.
Ugh, the things people would do to get your sympathy over the Internet!!!
PS. It’s been about 2 years since I’ve checked my little AC town. I’m too scared to see what it looks like now.
A companion cube has been found in Toronto (via DDOI). Things like this warm my heart, because it’s nice to know there are nerds all around us. Plus, I’ve gotten that stupid cube stuck so many times in portals that it’s really ridiculous.
It’s always a good thing to enjoy playing a video game as you try to figure it out, until they show you a YouTube video of someone completing the same game in under 18 minutes.
Boring grown-ups talking about things I enjoy make me puke–especially when it comes to video games, which is an area that I am honestly going to say I know little about. I’m a huge n00b and a total outsider, but I do appreciate the video game industry’s impact on pop culture. But whatever, I’m not going to go into that because I stopped writing term papers like 5 years ago.
Apparently fans of Mass Effect were just as annoyed when they watched Cooper Lawrence’s retarded comments about sex and video games and its influence on young, innocent boys. They utilized their nerdy skills by bringing Lawrence’s equally retarded book rating down on Amazon to a “lowly single star.”
One word: AWESOME.
It’s nice to see that smart people who can appreciate the value of technology, escapism and “internet tubes” create their own “mass effect” (oooh nice use of puns) in retaliation. Nerds rule, dude.
I also had this whole other paragraph written in my head about this, but I forgot what I was going to say cause someone brought extra pizza in the kitchen and I am going to eat a slice.
But let me say this:
Geoff Keighley is the smart guy featured in the Fox News interview above, and he is pretty cool. I met him once when WOW was putting together the proposal for our I, Videogame series for Discovery, and he came on as a consultant. So this man knows what he’s talking about, instead of that giant vagina face spouting idiotic ideas about sex.
Seriously, would you believe scientific research that concluded that boys couldn’t tell the difference between real life and video games? What kind of kids did they invite to this study? Amoebas? Fetuses? Let’s get real, here.
The only study I could google was this University of Maryland study that found students were less affected by graphic and gory video game imagery. In other words, these students believed these pictures were “harmless,” suggesting “that many young adults are oblivious to the impact of raunch and gore rendered in ever-crisper detail by the current crop of video games.”
Yay for crisper and more realistic details in new video games. But there is a HUGE difference between not becoming upset when you see a CG character’s head getting blown off…and not being able to understand that it’s fake. Way to distort science, lady.* A nice, concise summary of the study can be read here.
*Apparently, I’m not the only one interested in finding out what this U of MD study is. This blogger even emailed Dr. Killen (who did the previous study), and she wasn’t even sure what Cooper Lawrence was talking about. The only recent video game related study aimed “to assess late adolescents’ evaluations of and reasoning about gender stereotypes in video games.” Still, gender stereotypes =/= reality.
ANYWAY, I have an expense report to compile so my bosses can get reimbursed for everything they spent money on and therefore, make even more money than I ever will. Fun.
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