game-related lolz of some fashion

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omg PP

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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

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.”

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

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.

But hey you know pornhub really lets "junkies" "gorge themselves" and "fuel their addictions" to pornography.

i read that as "notorious video games like portal 2"

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.

Gotta have my dopamine

Newspapers encourage social-decline 'junkies' to 'gorge' themselves on mixed feelings of fear and self-righteousness.

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!"

"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.

But hey you know pornhub really lets "junkies" "gorge themselves" and "fuel their addictions" to pornography.

― Mordy, Sunday, July 3, 2011 9:41 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

yeah actually it does?

http://www.youtube.com/user/ClassicsOfGame

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpRQgt28gJs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9s-ls2pu-vE

Wow that channel is amazing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1qJOc-ghC8

http://i.imgur.com/gjisd.png

chris rock one is uncanny, and mencia follow up is a træt

[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.”

oh man Two Best Friends Play season 2 finale : Man vs wild is some great lolz

Okay, adding that game to my gamefly queue.

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The new wacky sitcom, ''Get Over Here!''

http://i.imgur.com/EUlya.jpg

haha

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BahAMyaph8U

that's sort of amazing
This FPS Life

don't really understand what he means by putting work in for a relationship

it prob sucks if it feels like work imo, but then again I've never been married

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMs3VPzcN24

yeah i'm not really sure how to react to that divorce video

"lolz" is probably not the right word for it but I thought it was pretty weird.

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-uTnqYHZ-I

poe's law?

thats a fragmaster vid

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_J9n8mgQaY

no encyclopedia dramatica entry? so it's self aware? that makes it less funny

ED entries are for legit crazies, not for dudes making parody vids

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 :/

I should have known something was up when he drank milk from a champagne glass

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvQFnK5FWZY

B^U

UNFUNNY SHIT: THE ANIMATED SERIES

NOW I MUST THINK OF A HIJINK TO GET THE TV BACK

this is the best example of crowdsourcing in the entire world

Wow, that was really good

They're all good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DED-1UXXsgE
"that noise means he's fucking the vacuum cleaner"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjnozEUrmek

wow, i didn't realize these were a series

is this that really offensive gamer strip we had a long thread abt BITD?

no, that was another one... i forgot what its called, but i remember the misogyny was different