game-related lolz of some fashion

http://toothpastefordinner.com/072406/nobody-cares.gif

tho i do enjoy the 8-bit shirts

Not as funny as I remembered it.

Though you can't beat them when they're on:

http://www.penny-arcade.com/images/2005/20050826h.jpg

any one see Samantha Bee reporting from San Andreas on The Daily Show?

http://www.chrisdiclerico.com/2006/06/29/samantha-bee-live-from-san-andreas/

whaaaaaaaaaa

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v200/chakisaki/e3/e36.jpg

which made me laugh for like 10 minutes, just due to chaki's wide-eyed expression of joyful exhuberance combined with the prince's thumbs up

http://www.videobomb.com/posts/show/3400

Moron
Not Tonight

Bill Oreilly report on super mario bros in 1988.

Contains mullets, Nintendo headquarters, and Howard Phillips sporting a pre-Conan coif

Mega Man in Contra, SMB

Also there was this one hill where, if you hit it at the right angle, you jumped directly up into the air at a 90 degree angle. Why was that so hilarious? Oh right, DRUGS.

http://images.starpulse.com/AMGPhotos/gscreens/screen250/drs000/s009/s009703z2db.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexey_Pazhitnov

Roger Dean designed the Tetris logo!

If the hats should pile up to the top of the play field, you're out! But don't panic! As you stack hats, you'll get help from your Russian friends; Alexey and Vladimir. You can use them to move stacks and discard unwanted hats, or save them for cash bonuses in avoided overtime.

Maybe if your Russian friends were the chix from tATu it would've gone over better?

redneck coworker secretly recorded losing at FarCry to office mates

some Austrian guy posted this on a YouTube Flashback Legends beta clip:

valet176 (2 weeks ago)
Crazy machine - no interesting. You are crazy and stupid generation

nMe vs. iLx

http://www.destructoid.com/final-fantasy-and-duck-hunt-in-lego

Bionic Commando!

http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=12139

# wrestleman911nvr4gt Says:
May 23rd, 2007 at 5:20 am

YOU ARE THE FAGGOT, BRENDAN PARKER, YOU FUCK WITH WWE SMACKDOWN VS RAW YOU FUCK WITH ME. ILL GIVE YOU SOME STARS FOR YOUR REVIEW, YOULL BE SEEING THEM AFTER I KNOCK THE SHIT OUT OF YOUR HEAD SHITHEAD. GO BACK TO PLAYING YOUR LITTLE ELFCOCK SUCKFUCK GAYMES AND LEAVE THE REAL DEAL TO THE REAL DEALERS BEFORE WE DEAL WITH YOU. I HAVE BEEN TO YOUR KIDS SCHOOL, THEY GOT A NICE GYMNASIUM UP IN THAT BITCH, I HOPE NO ONE ACCIDENTALLY FALLS ON YOUR KID WITH HIS ELBOW STICKING THE FUCK OUT, YOU MIGHT BE VISITING HIM IN THE HOSPITAL (IF YOUR LUCKY)……..

i love that retro games have entered the cd era.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-9id115PxY

honestly - who asked for this???
i'm sure somebody is happy. somebody

well excuuuuuse me princnhex

It was me, I asked for it

oh man i had no idea they actually made them do these

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxyW6AJ-yIk

Dynasty Warriors 3 is a masterpiece pic.twitter.com/YKHKavdBY4

— Daniel Ahmad (@ZhugeEX) June 8, 2024

Amazing.

Phantom Thieves Successfully Clear Biden’s Palace https://t.co/HcsO1xTkpm

— Hard Drive (@HardDriveMag) July 21, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65s6_9-Gh30

I think Dunkey has been on a winning streak lately, but I am a sucker for him playing any game that lets him throw objects and bonk NPCs. Like his review of Hitman or Far Cry 5 or the new Indiana Jones game (which I actually did see somewhere described as the best slapstick game since Hitman):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZxxpnK0LqU

I am a simple man, but I almost did a spit take every time he bonked someone on the head.

There's also this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqWQs_K-bME

Look who's a Dunkey fan.

https://www.reddit.com/r/videogamedunkey/comments/1haj7qb/the_alleged_uhc_assassin_was_a_dunkey_fan/

a hell of a headline
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/gooner-9-11-averted-as-zenless-zone-zeros-butt-obfuscation-technology-is-rolled-back-in-the-face-of-horny-outrage/

Everyone who complained about that should have their hard drive confiscated for investigation

Not quite sure what thread to talk about this in, but Polygon is functionally dead now - sold off to a company trading in such high quality sites as ScreenRant, 99% of the staff has been let go.

It was easy to make fun of some parts of the site - it certainly didn't push the envelope in game reviews, and was often insanely generous to everything geek culture, but it did employ a lot of cool people and was I think tyhe only mainstream website to give consistent coverage to DTV and world action cinema stuff, got into Gundam and the High&Low series through them.

Their video content was always excellent, often very insightful (all their stuff on urbanism in games), often funny, often posted by me to various threads here.

This one is a little lol, mostly sad, but fitting to say goodbye:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQgdUD63XIY

Yep it was the gaming news site I went to daily, they were definitely cringe-inducing at times but still loved them despite their flaws. Not sure who I’ll replace them with, RPS is good but not particularly news focussed. Might just need to hold my nose and go back to Eurogamer.

I used to read Polygon a lot - I’ll not read it now. I’ve been a subscriber to Aftermath for a while, but while I support what they’re doing, there’s definitely a lack of reviews and it’s mostly coverage of the games industry/ecosystem than specific reviews or guides or those things you generally expect from a gaming site. I’m hoping it’ll get there eventually.

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/ is good

"Of some fashion" doing some heavy lifting in the thread title, but I saw this trailer the other day, and if you told me it was based on a video games I would have believed you:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUwG3vNTOxM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZgTdoBNNjU

this is how this guy's book starts https://t.co/MVYOztjWry pic.twitter.com/TdUNKMuDtj

— largest rodent (@capybaroness) July 4, 2025

Some fantasy author guy brought up Fatman from MGS2 as an example of how awful Hideo Kojima's writing is, and he's getting dragged to such a degree that "Orc City" was actually a top ten trending topic for a while there.

I always liked Fatman as a character and a boss, so this has been fun; I don't necessarily like this social media pile-on thing but... oh who cares the guy's an obvious douchebag.

"I have beautiful hands..."

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/business/china-video-games-women.html

“Some male gamers have turned against Revenge on Gold Diggers. After its developer, Qianfang Studio, publicly thanked female players for their support, some men posted screenshots canceling their purchases in protest. The game’s director later issued an apology for hurting players’ feelings. Qianfang Studio did not respond to a request for comment.

The government’s responses to the game have been more ambivalent. Shortly after the game’s release, the studio changed its Chinese title to Emotional Anti-Fraud Simulator. The English-language title remained, and the move was widely believed to be an effort to deflect criticism and appease the government.”

https://i.postimg.cc/JhJBmVHp/9ebd81d3-390e-4ef6-9353-25f05ae0c6b8-602x452.webp

I don't know the context but lol

sad dystopian lols

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLg2KWY2J5c

The final moments of The Matrix Online on Friday 31st July 2009

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfeGPilWZp0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nr-izMMG5x0

wtf

Aaahhh! What the hell?!? What am I playing here?!? 😂#XboxShare #Mixtape pic.twitter.com/5eZICBFKQD

— Niko (@NikoMueller) May 7, 2026

the discourse on this game is so funny

Lol what is this

the highest-rated game of the year on opencritic. this is what the critics want

(called mixtape) (it looks bad imo)

it seems pretty bad but i don't care enough

games criticism is in a dire state and pretty much always has been

*but i don't care enough to find out for myself

but it’s really dire now i think

i don't think that it's really gotten meaningfully worse, it's just been awful as long as i can remember and there's decent bits here and there on the fringes these days but never anything more

broadly, some problems that come to mind:
-reviews heavily tend towards engaging with games as products rather than art, there isn't really a healthy culture of criticism overall
-games are generally much more time consuming than music or film so the scale of coverage possible for critics is much smaller
-the media ecosystem is extremely top-heavy in its coverage, much more than in other mediums, there's not much in the way of healthy niches away from the immediate mainstream
-the games publishing ecosystem is more chaotic and it's very hard for most games other than the big aaa studios + a few particular bigger indie publishers to get much coverage at all
-gamers as a population are probably generally crazier in how they engage with reviews than the kpop fans who harass critics who give kpop albums anything but positive reviews
-there's no money in any of this for anyone and the economics of everything are just even worse than other forms of criticism

I feel that a lot of video game criticism, at least the stuff I engage with, is in the form of live streams or long form video, which seems to serve the media under consideration and ssolve the problems you list. People like Jacob Geller or youtubers like MinnMaxx (which often involves Geller). They're smart, seem to feature plenty of robust debate and discussion, and they're fun, too. (Geller's book of essays is great, btw.)

there's some ok stuff on youtube but it's a real shame that that's the only real way for it to have any sort of broad audience, video essays are just not a very good medium and there's plenty that might have something interesting to say but don't justify their length at all

I disagree. Maybe the epic five hour video model is a bit too much, but I've seen a lot of people do good, smart, tightly written/edited things with the format, and of course it lends itself well to discussing a dynamic visual medium like games. I do think the loose podcast format often doesn't really help, since it encourages time-wasting chit-chat and goofiness, like a morning drive show on the radio, but that at least keeps the vibe jovial.

a 5 minute video feels like 3 hours for me and "goes on too much" is not a criticism i'd level at any other artform

https://theonion.com/christ-article-a-video-1819595653/

a lot of the better places gradually falling to "wahhh we don't review games any more because it takes too long and they don't get enough cliiiicks" is bad imo

The hardware editor of (the shambling husk of) Rockpapershotgun got promoted to Deputy Editor recently and apparently said "we need to do more hardware reviews because it's important we all understand how the games we play are made", fuck outta here

fucking £100 brightly coloured elite gaming mouse-ass dickhead

Ultimate Drummer - step sequencer x Dark Souls x Xavier: Renegade Angel = GOTY?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRYB6WaVGY4

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2F419pp1s17taf1.png

eh

https://www.reddit.com/r/comedyheaven/comments/1h0srsc/water_temple/

mostly sad lols from this piece about Amazon's disastrous game studios & their AI push, but this bit tickled me

"For other Amazon games, meanwhile, generative AI's use was more upfront. Courtroom Chaos starring Snoop Dogg, for instance, is a generative AI powered game, where players can engage in LLM-based debates with the rapper over generated legal cases."

https://www.eurogamer.net/amazon-ai-game-project-trident-laid-off-anyway-report

players can engage in LLM-based debates with the rapper over generated legal cases

they'd be paying ME to do this, right?

lol i was gonna say imagine paying to argue with an AI

I mean we'd be training the AI, so paying us would've made sense.