The Onion & Fallout 3

[Brother None]

Humorous parody news network the Onion has a video editorial on post-apocalyptic shooters, including Fallout 3, entitled Are violent Video Games Adequately Preparing Children for the Apocalypse?

Thanks Bewitched.

 

[Silencer]

I knew we could count on America's finest news source.

"The game Fallout 3 has taught my son Charlie that it's easier to kill cyborgs with a grenade than a shotgun."

On the other hand, will it teach him that Coracs are very difficult to kill?

 

[Ausdoerrt]

<3 the Onion.

"Playing games, alone and friendless, is the best way we have to prepare them for the solitude in barren wasteland" hahaha.

 

[Daemon Spawn]

That's hilarious. How do those people keep a straight face?

 

[4too]

Variations On A Theme

Variations On A Theme





More humor about the entertainment industry and fan reaction.

Histories of irrational exuberance make this skit on misdirection very viable.

Note the zinger about "adding new content" versus standard blockbuster content, and time relativity in the 'differing' art formats.


http://www.theonion.com/content/video/wildly_popular_iron_man_trailer


Haiku 17 syllables versus 90 -no-> 900 page bloated, paid by the pound, marketing epic.





4too

 

[Nagah]

Very nice. I like the example of the six foot long irradiated beetle needing to be chopped into bits by a fire ax.

::Signs up for Beetle Chopping!::

 

[Holocausto]

Yeah I watched it from the topic in beths official forums. It's absolutely hysterical. The onion cracks me up. But it gives me such an odd feeling knowing that F3 is getting such widespread attention. It really reinforces my belief that most people are just consumers of the obvious rather than seekers of the fine and nuanced.