Goodnight Sweet Prince
Over the years video games have become much bigger deals to geeky types like me. Immersive gameplay, the ability to play against other real players across the globe and to not have to wait for your unreliable mate to come over with his other controller; these are things that are important to us – I mean come on… Street Fighter 4 multiplayer…nuff said.
Unfortunately, there has been a casualty in this development – the 21st century Luddites if you will -evil gameless buffoons out to smash and destroy this beautiful technological advancement. The threat is real, and precautions need to be taken.
I am of course talking about your partner! That’s right, that girl or boy has it in for your Xbox, gives the evil-eye to your PSP, and hates the air that the fan from your PC blows in and out each second.
Somehow, these mindless Mario-haters have mastered the tubes enough to make these dastardly propaganda videos. Watch and take note, this is only the beginning:
OH NO SHE DITENT!!
I’m sorry to have put you through that, but you needed to see it. This isn’t the only case on the Internets of game-related butchery:
let this be a warning to us all. Cage your PC, protect your console, and hide your handhelds, because they are coming for us all!
Ken Eakins
Just a quick note to my girlfriend. If you get any funny ideas after watching this, I would like to remind you of a little offence we have called criminal damage.
Seriously though, after watching yourself attempt to smash an Xbox in the most inept and girly manner, who would post the results on the internet ? He should burn her Twilight novels … yeah she has them.
Seems like reasonable behaviour to me. That chick on the first clip is hot. Why on earth would the dude be wanting to play video games?
A lesson well learnt, one thinks. Video games are a piss poor substitute for getting out and having an adventure in the real world.
Sadly, it is difficult to go out and have an adventure evry day after work. It is not difficult to apply ludicrous levels of violence to pixellated foe.Also, it’s fun. Then again so are real adventures.
Everything in moderation. Except maybe crack.
It’s not that difficult to have an adventure each day after work. Perhaps if you spent less time “applying ludicrous levels of violence to pixellated foe” you’d have enough time to go outside.
My girlfriend developed a much more constructive (and effective) way of distracting me from video games: get naked and sit in my lap. No matter how deep into a game I might be, having a naked hottie in my lap always engages certain circuits in my brain….
I spend between 7 and 10 hours a day walking round outside.It holds little or no appeal anymore. Oh and having an adventure every day after work is also pretty tricky with a five year old. Let a little realism into your starkly puritanical world Mort.
I have to admit that I agree a little with all of you here. For example: Yesterday I went to visit an old castles ruins, with my girlfriend (who I find hot), and played video-games before I left.
Just because VG’s don’t involve outsideness, there’s no reason that you can’t enjoy both…and a little sex as well
That’s funny: being told to put a little realism in my world by someone who plays too many video games.
Surely having a five year old is exactly the kind of stimulus required for encouraging adventure in your life, or am I missing something? When I was five everything was an adventure. May I suggest that you may your Xbox and Ex-Box and listen to your kid a little more.
Sorry, that should read “make your Xbox an Ex-box”.
It’s early.
Who plays too many video games ? I don’t play anywhere near enough. That’s what I said…I’m busy doing other things, so like to “relax” occasionally by playing games. And the reality I was espousing was based on the fact that most people have jobs and responsibilities which stop them wittering on about “adventure” like some drunken maudlin teenager. Realism isn’t adventure. If realism and adventure were the same thing …well that would be like living in a video game. And while I concur that kids should have adventure, they also need consistency (the opposite of adventure).Nice pun though.
Personally, I find reality to be very much like a video game and I’m sorry that you feel adventure is only for drunken teenagers. Every day is an adventure to me. Besides, I’m not telling you how to live, I just think video games are a complete waste of time and distract people from living life to the full. Anyway, we digress from the subject matter. In my opinion, more chicks should smash up their other half’s games machines if they’re getting too absorbed in them.
I concur.
That was easy wasn’t it.
“In my opinion, more chicks should smash up their other half’s games machines if they’re getting too absorbed in them.”
Absolutely. People should be more destructive and self-absorbed, breaking others’ belongings when they don’t get their way. I mean really, all the problems in the world today could be easily fixed if only everyone tried to solve their attention-starvation by throwing violent temper tantrums, instead of talking to each other like grown ups.
When will we ever learn?
Cousin X wrote: “all the problems in the world today could be easily fixed if only everyone tried to solve their attention-starvation by throwing violent temper tantrums, instead of talking to each other like grown ups.”
Hmmm. Hopefully you’re not talking about the kind of grown-ups who spend all their spare time throwing temper tantrums at pixellated foe on a child’s games machine though.
Playing video games = throwing temper tantrums? I’m not seeing the parallel. Are video games childish? Sure, just like other games, sports, and hobbies. But they don’t involve doing deliberate harm to an actual person or their property.
And that sums up my point nicely … calling someone childish for their choice of hobby, and then cheering on the rage-driven destruction of their private property, is a bit of a pot-calling-kettle-black situation, don’t you think?
X…if you look at some of the other disagreements Mort has got in to, you’ll notice there is a pattern. The last word will go to Mort…it’s part of his charm. Anyway…it’s hardly rage driven is it ? It’s like watching a care bear try to destroy something. He should sack her and get himself a gamer girl….gamer girls know how to f*ck sh*t up.
Newsflash: BCD 16 in the can.