NCIS this week had two sailors taking their MMORPG fights into the real world. http://www.tv.com/ncis/the-immortals/episode/274457/summary.html The scenes (especially the dialogue) of the punky lab tech playing through levels was cringemaking. (the entire show is so derivative. "NCIS is that anything like CSI?", "Only if you're dislexic", you wish...)
Tony Hawk was in CSI a couple of months ago. was ok.
And this from a couple of weeks ago: http://www.nbc.com/Law_&_Order:_Criminal_Intent/episode_guide/55.shtmlwhich was more interesting if you realised that it was basically the ID Software story with added murderation. (game segments supplied by Fat Frog http://www.fatfrog-studios.com/laworder/index.html)
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― koogs (koogs), Monday, 24 April 2006 08:42 (eighteen years ago) link
they play a lot of videogames on the OC
― sunny successor (katharine), Monday, 24 April 2006 13:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Yellow Kid, Monday, 24 April 2006 17:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― c(''c) (Leee), Monday, 24 April 2006 17:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― JW (ex machina), Monday, 24 April 2006 17:44 (eighteen years ago) link
...as well as buying items for an online game called Kingdom of Loathing (including "hell ramen")
Clue: if you don't want people to think you're a lazy fucking moron who isn't qualified to write for a church newsletter, TRY RESEARCH.
― Ricky Nadir (noodle vague), Monday, 24 April 2006 21:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― polyphonic (polyphonic), Monday, 24 April 2006 21:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― JimD (JimD), Monday, 24 April 2006 22:25 (eighteen years ago) link
Ah, I miss this! Best awful games based ITV crime mini series EVER!
― JimD (JimD), Monday, 24 April 2006 22:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― JimD (JimD), Monday, 24 April 2006 22:30 (eighteen years ago) link
It gives me the vibe that "oh noes, the evil killer played sinister online game before his mind snapped" - why else the little aside about "hell ramen"? And it's Kingdom of Loathing...
― Ricky Nadir (noodle vague), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 05:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― antexit (antexit), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 14:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 14:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 14:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 15:01 (eighteen years ago) link
There are some crucial video game scenes in Yi-Yi.
Also, in the film D.A.R.Y.L.
― polyphonic (polyphonic), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 15:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 15:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― sunny successor (katharine), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 15:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― antexit (antexit), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 15:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― polyphonic (polyphonic), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 15:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 15:56 (eighteen years ago) link
WHOA
― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 16:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dan (Mind Blown) Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 16:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 16:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― kephm (kephm), Monday, 1 May 2006 23:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― kingfish doesn't live here anymore (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 1 May 2006 23:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― jeffrey (johnson), Monday, 1 May 2006 23:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― melton mowbray's APOCALYPTO! (adr), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 08:23 (eighteen years ago) link
slocki OTM
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 10:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 11:27 (eighteen years ago) link
http://technology.guardian.co.uk/games/story/0,,1947550,00.html
"Apparently it's OK to be a sports buff , a movie buff , or a food buff ... but being a games buff still somehow offends society. People prepared to conduct tedious 15-hour analytical conversations about football or Kieslowski or the best place to find balsamic vinegar will have the audacity to call you a nerd for mentioning anything more obscure than Grand Theft Auto. Well, fuck your snobbery."
― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 14:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― teh_kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 14:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― Brian Emo (noodle vague), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 15:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 16:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 16:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― Craig Gilchrist (Craig Gilchrist), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 16:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 16:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― Marmot (marmotwolof), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 16:33 (eighteen years ago) link
yeah, but we've talked about this before, haven't we? the fact that modern video games sound like movies, so they use the 4-bit beep-bloop-blop sounds has a redundant shorthand to convey to dense and/or people that "yes we is playing the games"
― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 16:35 (eighteen years ago) link
Weren't the soldiers at the end in a 'biohazard' truck?
― ONIMO feels teh NOIZE (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 16:44 (eighteen years ago) link
Lane's husband and flatmate are also constantly playing Soul Calibur III (PS2)
― webber (webber), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 22:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 16 November 2006 00:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ste, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 12:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― g-kit, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 13:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― creme1, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 15:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― Will M., Tuesday, 8 May 2007 21:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― melton mowbray, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 10:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ste, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 10:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ste, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 13:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― s1ocki, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 13:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― JimD, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 15:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ste, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 15:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― kingfish, Saturday, 12 May 2007 16:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― Curt1s Stephens, Saturday, 12 May 2007 17:13 (seventeen years ago) link
First episode of Charlie Brooker's Gameswipe is up on YouTube - I enjoyed it, especially the contributed sections. Nice to Rab and Ryan from Consolevania, and surprised to see Rebecca Mayes from The Escapist turning up too.
― Nhex, Wednesday, 30 September 2009 22:08 (fifteen years ago) link
watching now, very funny. loved the guys complaints about gtaiv haha, in the second part vid.
― Great Scott! It's Molecular Man. (Ste), Wednesday, 30 September 2009 22:29 (fifteen years ago) link
lol project natal"presumably the high score table is some sort of offenders register"
― Great Scott! It's Molecular Man. (Ste), Wednesday, 30 September 2009 22:45 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah, watched this. so there is more episodes coming?
― I'm the best maaaayne, I did it (CaptainLorax), Wednesday, 30 September 2009 23:18 (fifteen years ago) link
doesn't look like it's on next week, checking beeb4 schedule.
― Great Scott! It's Molecular Man. (Ste), Wednesday, 30 September 2009 23:32 (fifteen years ago) link
What was this? Should I grab the torrent?
― kingfish, Wednesday, 30 September 2009 23:43 (fifteen years ago) link
it was a one off, he wants to make more though, and it got better ratings than Screenwipe and Newswipe
― zappi, Thursday, 1 October 2009 00:14 (fifteen years ago) link
CSI:NY Series 8 Episode 15 was set in the world of competitive video games. one bloke patched the code to make himself a smaller target and increase the size of the others. there was something else about legal highs. anyway, the most startling thing was they showed the code that the bloke had used for the patch:
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7215/7156991304_390c498b6d.jpg
it's quite obviously just html, printed in a cursive font (why?). did nobody notice? and both sheets are the same...
― koogs, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 09:13 (twelve years ago) link
Everybody knows that real hackers use Comic Sans.
― 'scuse me, while I Rim the Sky... (snoball), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 09:23 (twelve years ago) link
cool. that code doesn't even do anything lol
― PSOD (Ste), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 14:28 (twelve years ago) link
You don't handwrite code before you type it in?
― smash sbros (Will M.), Wednesday, 9 May 2012 00:10 (twelve years ago) link
This, according to Eastenders, was what a videogame looked like in 2010.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Il7gPKRhSDshttp://a.imageshack.us/img690/6885/eastgame.png
I love how Phil Mitchell and his creepy son are playing it as if it's a two-player fighting game, when there's clearly only ever one player character on screen.
― Pheeel, Friday, 11 May 2012 12:24 (twelve years ago) link
― smash sbros (Will M.), Wednesday, May 9, 2012 1:10 AM (2 days ago)
pshaw! Only n00bs handwrite their code. Real programmers use punch cards and punch the holes with their teeth.
― banal like anal (snoball), Friday, 11 May 2012 12:39 (twelve years ago) link
(i have pages and pages of handwritten z80 assembly... and i'm not alone:
http://sandywhite.co.uk/fun/ants/AAsource.htm
but that's real code, not just random html)
― koogs, Friday, 11 May 2012 12:49 (twelve years ago) link
that fake game has kind of awesome art
― thomp, Friday, 11 May 2012 13:17 (twelve years ago) link
xp Guess I was spoilt by the BBC Basic's built in assembler.
― banal like anal (snoball), Friday, 11 May 2012 14:28 (twelve years ago) link
SVU is a hall of famer at hilarious video game depictions, between the hooker-beating GTA rip Tenacity (which totally hooked Fringe's Lincoln Lee) and the MMO obsessed South Korean parents becoming US trailer dwellers addicted to something that looked like a single-screen Dragon's Lair. Oh and that way early episode where Kragan brags to a murderous preteen baout how he made it all the way to level 14 and bagged himself a Gorgon.
― GM, Monday, 14 May 2012 20:45 (twelve years ago) link
ok, heads up for uk people
CH4 this saturday @ 21:00Charlie Brooker - How Video Games Changed The Worldhttp://www.channel4.com/programmes/charlie-brooker-videogames-changed-the-world
followed @ 23:05 byIndie Game: The Moviehttp://www.channel4.com/programmes/indie-game-the-movie
― koogs, Thursday, 28 November 2013 20:37 (eleven years ago) link
I wonder how much of this is going to be new stuff, as opposed to a retread of Gameswipe plus Minecraft plus GTAV.
― fashionably early Christmas themed display name (snoball), Thursday, 28 November 2013 20:46 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVGD5suu90I
― fashionably early Christmas themed display name (snoball), Thursday, 28 November 2013 20:52 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/11/youre-like-a-dog-at-the-controls-of-a-helicopter-charlie-brooker-tries-and-fails-to-teach-newsreader-jon-snow-about-videogames/
― koogs, Friday, 29 November 2013 18:03 (eleven years ago) link
Seems like the bulk of the programme is going to be a chronological order countdown of twenty influential games.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xAIpVxL3HUhttp://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/nov/29/charlie-brooker-video-game-television
― fashionably early Christmas themed display name (snoball), Friday, 29 November 2013 19:08 (eleven years ago) link
holy crap, rab florence got mad skinny. so was this any good?
― Nhex, Saturday, 7 December 2013 05:46 (eleven years ago) link
I enjoyed it but it's one of those things where you could spend days arguing about the omissions. talking heads generally good. first time I'd heard Jeff Minter talk. thought the #1 entry was a bit fatuous though
― koogs, Saturday, 7 December 2013 06:58 (eleven years ago) link
I forgot this came out.
― An Android Pug of Some Kind? (kingfish), Monday, 9 December 2013 17:42 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/sep/20/grand-theft-auto-5-adult-gamers
I like this too
― An Android Pug of Some Kind? (kingfish), Monday, 9 December 2013 18:32 (eleven years ago) link
i keep forgetting this thread.
Dead Pixels, the channel 4 (UK) thing has large chunks of people grinding in a mmorpg. last episode had three of them punching a mammoth to death.
― koogs, Sunday, 28 April 2019 19:20 (five years ago) link
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4419540/?ref_=ttep_ep14
there's a whole gamergate episode of SVU. lots of acronyms being explained. and tutuola is a massive gamer, despite never having mentioned it ever before.
― koogs, Thursday, 14 October 2021 11:16 (three years ago) link
"Trivia: This episode holds the record for the lowest rated episode for the whole series."
― koogs, Thursday, 14 October 2021 11:19 (three years ago) link
iirc that was the one that had a blatant Anita Sarkeesian stand in, hoop earrings and all. never did see it
― Nhex, Thursday, 14 October 2021 13:52 (three years ago) link
"Burger Boss" in Bob's Burgers
looks to be pretty fleshed out with proper 8-bit sprites and multiple themed levels (city rooftops, icy caves...)
― koogs, Sunday, 5 May 2024 15:32 (eight months ago) link
Law and Order, Series 17, Captivekidnapped boy is playing on a 'GameBox III'. they use the saved-game data to establish a timeline.
― koogs, Friday, 28 June 2024 13:52 (six months ago) link