she's legal. or is it the williams genes you are worried about?
― little mushroom person (abanana), Wednesday, 22 June 2011 17:40 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NL77-jlfDTs
― XBOX BING GOATSE (jamescobo), Thursday, 23 June 2011 16:21 (twelve years ago) link
This thread has now encompasses so many youtube vids that it crashes Firefox if I attempt to load all the messages at once. Still, one more won't hurt...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yd4rUuzlpdw
― Pheeel, Saturday, 25 June 2011 22:41 (twelve years ago) link
lol robin williams named his daughter after a video game
― weird bibby fetish (forksclovetofu)
robin williams played a lot of battlefield 2, playing as a sniper. he's a total gaming geek.
― Introducing the Hardline According to (jim in glasgow), Saturday, 25 June 2011 22:47 (twelve years ago) link
RW: Huh-haw, 'oh, fabulous! would you look at this darling area with the barrels of ooze?' BLAM BLAM! 'Oh no! so this is the ooze!' Oh here comes miss liza minelli. *Why yes! Feel free to just saunter in front of this scope! Click your heels and get ready to see Judy!* BLAM BLAM!. 'Now that wasn't very nice! -- you be quiet Señor Wences! Hand job? Wha? BLAM BLAMN 'Oh my Lord! They're having a THREESOME in the ooze! It's a mengrié trois OF DUTY! Why --"
KID: DUDE. SHUT THE FUCK UP.
― Pleasant Plains, Saturday, 25 June 2011 23:34 (twelve years ago) link
v lol
― Roberto Spiralli, Saturday, 25 June 2011 23:38 (twelve years ago) link
http://i52.tinypic.com/aeobck.gif
― little mushroom person (abanana), Sunday, 26 June 2011 21:05 (twelve years ago) link
omg PP
― 151 bieber gang (absolutely clean glasses), Sunday, 26 June 2011 22:43 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.zacgorman.com/IDNIN/BayouBilly_WEB.gif
― Don't start the chain you know? (forksclovetofu), Monday, 27 June 2011 04:51 (twelve years ago) link
today's joke: http://shirtoid.com/41227/its-dangerous-to-go-alone/
http://shirtoid.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Its-Dangerous-to-Go-Alone.jpg
― Crazed Mister Handy (kingfish), Saturday, 2 July 2011 22:20 (twelve years ago) link
Games People Play By JOEL BAKAN
THE Supreme Court’s decision to strike California’s ban on selling and renting violent video games to young people raises the obvious question: what are children and teens playing on their computers and digital screens?The answer isn’t pretty. Among the most popular “casual” games (so called because they are quick and simple to play) are twisted, violent games with names like Beat Me Up, Bloody Day and Boneless Girl.Young people don’t need to rent or buy casual games. They are available on computers, tablets and cellphones — free. (California’s law wouldn’t have applied to these games, even if it had survived the court’s scrutiny, because they are not rented or sold.)Many popular casual games contain as much violence as notorious video games like Postal 2 and Grand Theft Auto 4, if not more. But they tend to exist under the radar; they’re part of an obscure world into which teenagers and children escape and about which parents are often in the dark. (I learned about them only after I asked my 12-year-old son what he liked to do online.)Nickelodeon’s addictinggames.com, a premier casual game site, calls itself “the largest source of the best free online games.” It attracts 20 million unique monthly users, mostly children and teens. Though violent games aren’t the only type of games on the site, they are well represented — and many appear on the site’s list of most popular games. A quick look at the list supplies a sense of what entertains many of us.Like other leading casual game sites, addictinggames.com makes money by running advertisements. According to Viacom, the site’s corporate owner, the aptly named site allows “junkies” to “gorge themselves” and to “fuel their addiction.”Viacom’s interest in promoting addiction helps explain why Nickelodeon, the award-winning children’s network, might want to push brutal, violent entertainment. Violence sells. And it continues to sell to children, teens and tweens “hooked” at an early age and hungry for more. The games at addictinggames.com and other premier game sites may be casual, but their use of graphic violence to generate profit is strategic and calculated.Joel Bakan is the author of the forthcoming book “Childhood Under Siege: How Big Business Targets Children.”
The answer isn’t pretty. Among the most popular “casual” games (so called because they are quick and simple to play) are twisted, violent games with names like Beat Me Up, Bloody Day and Boneless Girl.
Young people don’t need to rent or buy casual games. They are available on computers, tablets and cellphones — free. (California’s law wouldn’t have applied to these games, even if it had survived the court’s scrutiny, because they are not rented or sold.)
Many popular casual games contain as much violence as notorious video games like Postal 2 and Grand Theft Auto 4, if not more. But they tend to exist under the radar; they’re part of an obscure world into which teenagers and children escape and about which parents are often in the dark. (I learned about them only after I asked my 12-year-old son what he liked to do online.)
Nickelodeon’s addictinggames.com, a premier casual game site, calls itself “the largest source of the best free online games.” It attracts 20 million unique monthly users, mostly children and teens. Though violent games aren’t the only type of games on the site, they are well represented — and many appear on the site’s list of most popular games. A quick look at the list supplies a sense of what entertains many of us.
Like other leading casual game sites, addictinggames.com makes money by running advertisements. According to Viacom, the site’s corporate owner, the aptly named site allows “junkies” to “gorge themselves” and to “fuel their addiction.”
Viacom’s interest in promoting addiction helps explain why Nickelodeon, the award-winning children’s network, might want to push brutal, violent entertainment. Violence sells. And it continues to sell to children, teens and tweens “hooked” at an early age and hungry for more. The games at addictinggames.com and other premier game sites may be casual, but their use of graphic violence to generate profit is strategic and calculated.
Joel Bakan is the author of the forthcoming book “Childhood Under Siege: How Big Business Targets Children.”
looooooooooool great analysis! hold on a second, brb, i have to write an opinion piece on the cultural impact of napoleon and i'm planning on basing the article around what some random guy standing in line at taco bell what he thinks
― Z S, Sunday, 3 July 2011 22:56 (twelve years ago) link
According to Viacom, the site’s corporate owner, the aptly named site allows “junkies” to “gorge themselves” and to “fuel their addiction.”
Ok sure but video games cannot create a chemical addiction and so even if there is emotional addiction involved you can't really call those users "junkies" or blame the system bc they could also easily get addicted to collected rare + obscure barbie dolls or stamps.
― Mordy, Monday, 4 July 2011 01:40 (twelve years ago) link
But hey you know pornhub really lets "junkies" "gorge themselves" and "fuel their addictions" to pornography.
― Mordy, Monday, 4 July 2011 01:41 (twelve years ago) link
i read that as "notorious video games like portal 2"
― my Sonicare toothbrush (difficult listening hour), Monday, 4 July 2011 01:43 (twelve years ago) link
not that it has anything to do with what this guy is talking about but game design teams in the post-wow/zynga world do actually spend a lot of time trying to think of ways they can get people to play games compulsively (and ideally make lots of micropayments) with minimal introduction of new content; this is why everyone knows people who aren't alcoholics or hoarders but play way too much farmville.
― my Sonicare toothbrush (difficult listening hour), Monday, 4 July 2011 01:50 (twelve years ago) link
Gotta have my dopamine
― Crazed Mister Handy (kingfish), Monday, 4 July 2011 05:59 (twelve years ago) link
Newspapers encourage social-decline 'junkies' to 'gorge' themselves on mixed feelings of fear and self-righteousness.
― textbook blows on the head (dowd), Monday, 4 July 2011 06:33 (twelve years ago) link
I learned about them only after I asked my 12-year-old son what he liked to do online.
"Videogames are to blame for me being a bad parent!"
― You get nothing for a pair, not in this game (snoball), Monday, 4 July 2011 06:59 (twelve years ago) link
"Boneless Girl" isn't even a game, it's that little java thing of a realistic-looking girl model falling through space that someone made to demonstrate ragdoll animation. It's a bit creepy, but not in the blood/gore/evisceration sense the writer of that article is suggesting. RESEARCH FAIL.
― Pheeel, Monday, 4 July 2011 10:45 (twelve years ago) link
― Mordy, Sunday, July 3, 2011 9:41 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
yeah actually it does?
― Ayatollah Colm Meaney (Princess TamTam), Monday, 4 July 2011 11:28 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/user/ClassicsOfGame
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpRQgt28gJs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9s-ls2pu-vE
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 5 July 2011 17:01 (twelve years ago) link
Wow that channel is amazinghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1qJOc-ghC8
― brooklyn's complicated relationship with bacon (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 5 July 2011 22:17 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/gjisd.png
― PM me for invites to 77+ (cozen), Saturday, 9 July 2011 07:47 (twelve years ago) link
chris rock one is uncanny, and mencia follow up is a træt
― Roberto Spiralli, Saturday, 9 July 2011 13:25 (twelve years ago) link
[Kathie Lee] Gifford... dispensed the following advice to someone concerned whether it’s “OK for men to play video games in their 30s and over”.
“No, that’s weird,” Gifford says, adding “Xbox.”
― little mushroom person (abanana), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 18:55 (twelve years ago) link
oh man Two Best Friends Play season 2 finale : Man vs wild is some great lolz
― Ste, Tuesday, 12 July 2011 21:06 (twelve years ago) link
Okay, adding that game to my gamefly queue.
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 12 July 2011 21:14 (twelve years ago) link
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6014/5935791347_8dd6540295_z.jpg
― groovypanda, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 08:39 (twelve years ago) link
The new wacky sitcom, ''Get Over Here!''
― (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 21 July 2011 05:17 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/EUlya.jpg
― groovypanda, Monday, 25 July 2011 08:09 (twelve years ago) link
haha
― Summer Slam! (Ste), Monday, 25 July 2011 10:46 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BahAMyaph8U
― polyphonic, Thursday, 28 July 2011 20:33 (twelve years ago) link
that's sort of amazingThis FPS Life
― generous doler out of lollies (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 28 July 2011 20:50 (twelve years ago) link
don't really understand what he means by putting work in for a relationship
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 28 July 2011 20:51 (twelve years ago) link
it prob sucks if it feels like work imo, but then again I've never been married
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMs3VPzcN24
― № (am0n), Thursday, 28 July 2011 21:09 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i'm not really sure how to react to that divorce video
― Nhex, Saturday, 30 July 2011 00:04 (twelve years ago) link
"lolz" is probably not the right word for it but I thought it was pretty weird.
― polyphonic, Saturday, 30 July 2011 00:11 (twelve years ago) link
when he said "i wanna share this with you, because you guys have become a huge part of my life", i felt bad because i was only watching for games lolz.
― i'm not a lawyer, but i play one on a messageboard (stevie), Saturday, 30 July 2011 08:55 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-uTnqYHZ-I
poe's law?
― 我爱你 G. Weingarten (dayo), Sunday, 31 July 2011 12:11 (twelve years ago) link
thats a fragmaster vid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_J9n8mgQaY
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i_qxQztHRI (Princess TamTam), Sunday, 31 July 2011 16:54 (twelve years ago) link
no encyclopedia dramatica entry? so it's self aware? that makes it less funny
― 我爱你 G. Weingarten (dayo), Sunday, 31 July 2011 17:17 (twelve years ago) link
ED entries are for legit crazies, not for dudes making parody vids
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i_qxQztHRI (Princess TamTam), Sunday, 31 July 2011 17:24 (twelve years ago) link
the whole opening thing about "I don’t know how much the rest of you know about Japanese culture (I’m an expert)" is a meme on gaming messageboards. kinda disappointed in myself for knowing about that :/
― zappi, Sunday, 31 July 2011 18:49 (twelve years ago) link
I should have known something was up when he drank milk from a champagne glass
― 我爱你 G. Weingarten (dayo), Sunday, 31 July 2011 20:50 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvQFnK5FWZY
― I'm a nerd and nerdy things happened (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 6 August 2011 03:50 (twelve years ago) link
B^U
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKbsdMRqhcI (Princess TamTam), Saturday, 6 August 2011 03:54 (twelve years ago) link
UNFUNNY SHIT: THE ANIMATED SERIES
― future events are now current events (Z S), Saturday, 6 August 2011 03:55 (twelve years ago) link
NOW I MUST THINK OF A HIJINK TO GET THE TV BACK
― future events are now current events (Z S), Saturday, 6 August 2011 03:58 (twelve years ago) link
this is the best example of crowdsourcing in the entire world