If you visit sites that serve ads aimed at gamers, which is just about every major gaming and manga site nowadays, then you may have seen ads that look like this, from the game formerly called Civony, but is now Evony:
WE CAN GO POSE FOR ROMANCE NOVELS AND BE FAMOUS TO WALMART SHOPPERS! MY LORD!
This, folks, is actually one of the older ones, and it isn’t in circulation any more – but it’s pretty typical of the stuff I’m seeing more of lately. BUSTY POUTY WOMEN CAN BE YOURS IN A BROWSER STRATEGY GAME THAT OTHERWISE WOULD HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH IT. MY LORD.
In any case, today’s post is going to be all about sex in advertising for browser games and downloadable MMOs, broken down by game. YES THIS IS A HOT TOPIC. SHUT UP. Continue reading →
I’ll be taking a break from Phailpail (and a lot of my other online activities) for a while, because things are going to get very busy around here soon. In case you’re wondering, I’m a researcher in real life, and I’ll be giving several talk over the next month – and I’d rather not fail in front of a bunch of grim-faced academics and industry professionals, thank you very much :O So I’ll be spending most of my time preparing for these.
That’s not to say I won’t be updating – I will, just maybe not at the frequency I’ve been updating over the last few weeks. If you want to get instant updates on site updates, please follow me on Twitter: ZenAndTonic’s Twitter. Once things are less busy, I’ll return to a more frequent update schedule.
Remember My Little Pony? If you do, you either loved it or despised it – there are very few people in between. The damned glittery, shiny freaks of 80s culture still hang on in our collective consciousness today, though, as shown by these videos:
Here’s a kickass, kickass My Little Pony live action trailer that parodies certain summer blockbusters that you might be familiar with.
I’m as much a fan of video games as anyone else, but I know it takes a particular form of dedication and talent to be good at making video games. If these ads are anything to go by, the colleges advertised here are attracting exactly the wrong kind of people.
Yes, game design is all about OH DUDE WHERE’S THE RIGHT PLACE TO INSERT THE PEW PEW PEW – which, if the guys are anything like depicted in the ad, won’t happen with a woman without the use of a credit card first. But more importantly, programming with a video game controller is kinda like wiping down a toilet bowl with your face – even if it’s possible, it’s gonna be painful and messy, and why the HELL would you want to do it? D:
Also, in a display of confidence in their own design course, Collins College allowed the “gamingoutloud” domain in the ad expire. Good job!
I’m all for not disturbing the people around me with my off-key renditions of Bohemian Rhapsody, but this is just ridiculous.
Apparently, this mike, attached to the back of the Wii, works by muffling your voice. Or sucking your soul out of you until you have barely enough brain function left to make intelligible squeaks. One of those two, I guess!
I’ll be honest here – I’m still not very sure about how serious people are about this, but I just can’t resist.
According to blogs like Pillow Biters, die-hard Twilight fans want to make Twilight into a religion called Cullenism. These fans, denizens of a forum called Twilight Academy (closed to public access) have already written several tenets for this religion, described as follows:
As a Cullenist we believe:
* Edward and the rest of the Twilight characters are real
* Stephenie Meyer is the (or one of the) best author(s)
* The twilight series should be worshiped
* If you are good in life, you will be bless with eternity with the Cullens, if you are bad in life, you will be sent to James’ cave.
ATTENTION PEOPLE WHO WANT TO START A NEW RELIGION BASED ON TWILIGHT: Continue reading →
So, what do you when you have a beauty queen for a wife, and you’re not able to get her pregnant? That’s the problem Demetrius Soupolos of Stuttgart, Germany faced – and so, he got this terrific idea! Soupolos noticed that his neighbor, Frank Maus, had the following qualities:
- Maus looked kinda sorta like Soupolos.
- Maus and his wife had 2 healthy children.
THEREFORE WHY NOT HIRE HIS NEIGHBOR TO SCREW HIS WIFE, RIGHT?
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Apparently, this mike, attached to the back of the Wii, works by muffling your voice. Or sucking your soul out of you until you have barely enough brain function left to make intelligible squeaks. One of those two, I guess!
