game-related lolz of some fashion

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)……..

http://www.somethingawful.com/d/feature-articles/oblivion-mods-one.php

Oblivion mods are now insane, full of anime, goth, and furry add-ons

Omega Tom Hanks Bros

Today's horror

http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2007/07/oregon-trail.jpg

this one's getting stored here for future use in certain ILE threads:

http://img172.imageshack.us/img172/4125/d05b41975089fb79406c16fwj2.jpg

does that dude have tan lines?

http://www.theonion.com/content/news/activision_reports_sluggish_sales

some guy on a CS:S server gets repeatedly blocked & 0wn3d. His manner when confronted with the blocker makes it hard to feel any sympathy with him:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkpAJweqgSk

http://www.somethingawful.com/d/news/simcity-advisors.php

http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/22/2229200

Not so much lolz as awesomez but:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4fD-Ai7-Ok

from the wired review of bioshock:

"I don't know about you, but I have turned into a flagrant murderer of Little Sisters," said a friend of mine as he was playing through the game last weekend. I'll never look at him the same way again.

holy shit:

http://www.stroyca.ru/fotos/folders/49/games_big.jpg

(sorta nsfw)

Topic name:
So when the big daddy is banging a little sisters hole...

Post:
do the little sisters always come? Because one time I was watching a big daddy (the one with the huge drill) bang a little sister's hole and she didn't come and he just walked away

haha eurogamer forums ja?

Someone reposted it on Kotaku and said it was a deleted GameFAQs thread, so I dunno.

oh... in that case, someone made the exact same post on the eurogamer bioshock thread :O

I'm sure it's making the rounds, it's a good one.

http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/4340/sonichx6.jpg

http://www.doublefine.com/news.php/minigames/epic_fighter

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XslM-0SBiyA

http://www.4colorrebellion.com/media/pics/07/09/mother3yaya.jpg

real life donkey kong:
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/jackass/real%20life-donkey-kong-shows-human-stupidity-in-8-bits-302203.php?autoplay=true

BY CEILINGFANBOY AT 09/20/07 10:50 PM

They had an opportunity to make that so much better than they did, but insisted on making the level way too narrow and had too much laughing like an ass on the side.

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.

this is nice

https://www.reddit.com/r/Limmy/comments/1thvxoo/major_spoilers_but_theres_a_limmys_show_reference/?share_id=YlwOPSXWqPiQ0yJmab0U4&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_source=share&utm_term=9

i've really been enjoying retropals lately. i generally don't go for the "people streaming stuff" model, but the hosts have a good rapport and are well versed in, well, terrible games. i was looking for a stream showing off the games for the Mega Duck (aka the Cougar Boy), and they delivered in spades.

if i haven't recommended them before, i also strongly recommend A Question of Character at http://www.youtube.com/@AQuestionofCharacter . i don't laugh out loud very often, but this channel _regularly_ causes me to do so. any channel that make a chronic sadgirl like me laugh as hard as it does gets my strongest recommendation.