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by Grumah 09/02/2007, 2:50pm PDT |
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I like video games. I really love video games. As a friend and as a life partner (gay?). It is my opinion that video games are the most worthwhile form of media to exist. The most amazing moments of my life have all been video game experiences. That probably means I am boring (and by probably I mean certainly), but I am still right about the form of media being superior to TV movies and music. It beats playing jacks and solitaire (?) all the time.
Before we were able to own a NES or even an Odessy2 (lol) (parentheticals sure make my snarking moar SPIECY) I would go over to my sister's house/apartment/townhouse object/device and play SMB over and over again eternally. She didn't have any other better games, unfortunately, but I got my start with Nintendo and real video games that way. When me and jay-ho first got our own NES and hooked it up to our shitty black and white tv with the dumb little prong attachments which needed to be screwed in with a screwdriver while carefully holding the prongs against the metal screws, that was the most incredible experience of our lives at the time. Besides figuring out how to operate the complicated machinery in the back of our crap tv by ourselves, finally seeing the picture for SMB go from fuzzy and unplayable to crystal clear was pretty much life changing. Yeah, we were boring. :(
So why would anyone volunteer to be even more boring than me by playing Donky Kong past level 2? The faggot fuck loser of the lowest degree "brags" in the movie trailer how it's the "hardest game ever made" as if that is such a great reason to set a world record with it. He's probably wrong anyway, just watch some AVGN and find better examples of hard games (Silver Surfer). The concept of "challenge" has been so overrated that now we get a vicious backlash in the form of Bioshock or other newer casual games, where dying doesn't punish you in the least and in fact might be considered a benefit.
I guess the guy in this movie, King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters, could be correct that this is the hardest game ever. Anytime I played the actual Donky Kong game I would beat the first level, play the first few seconds of whatever level 2 was, die, and play something more interesting like o I dunno Yoshi's Island HL2 Gears of Wowamazing. As far as I am concerned the game ends when you rescue Princess Daisy, I mean Princess Toadstool, I mean Princess Peach, I mean no wait... it's just Daisy.
Not that Daisy. :(
So I haven't seen the movie yet. I dunno, I guess it might be ok, but I can't get over the shitty game they picked to set a world record with. I can bet what the average response to my post here will be. "lol 'n'-joy your mini-games and 'innovashun' and shitty rehashes wiitard wiiaboo (lol)" Or "overlong unreadable mess tl;dr."
My point is, some games don't stand the test of time. A lot of the great classics are a pile of dogshit today. It's sad and unfortunate and unavoidable. The video game medium is still growing up and learning what to do with itself. So here is some gay movie with ugly hairstyles about setting a world record of some kind in Donky Kong. This could be considered a post in the high score zone forum also, but in all my years I don't think I ever broke any records or anything that could be considered worth taking screenshots. Except for games that didn't have scoreboards, or old SNES carts I gave away/lost. Like my full clear for Yoshi's Island. Yes, I even had 100% on the secret maps. I got 120 stars in Mario 64 (not an amazing accomplishment, at least it didn't used to wow I used to be amazing at that game). I fully cleared the entirety of Goldeneye. But I never ever beat Doom which was boring as a bag of shit after Goldeneye anyway. I never even beat Halo 1 on legendary because I couldn't stand playing the same parts over and over. Does that make me more or less of a loser than the losers in that movie? Less. Was I not supposed to answer that question myself? Too fucking bad. >:( |
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King of Kong non-review (verdict: negative) by Grumah 09/02/2007, 2:50pm PDT 
Jsoh exposes problem with modern documentaries: the oddball subjects! NT by Errol Morris' career is over. 09/02/2007, 8:06pm PDT
I tried out for a Tetris tournament once... when I was 7 or something NT by Grumah 09/03/2007, 12:39am PDT
Did you mean Werner Herzog? NT by Google 09/03/2007, 2:30am PDT
No, I meant Errol Morris, asshole, but Herzog is done too. NT by Him and his wacky topics. 09/03/2007, 2:37am PDT
You must've meant Herzog, no one else qualifies as much as he does. NT by Google 09/03/2007, 3:07am PDT
Herzog does fiction occassionally. Morris is pure doc. NT by And commercials. 09/03/2007, 5:47am PDT
Herzog Zwei, being German for Duke 2, is pronounced Haetsok Tsvai. NT by Wikipedia 09/03/2007, 7:10am PDT
Kitty haet sock. NT by pic of unhappy cat in a sock 09/03/2007, 8:08am PDT
it's more like hurts augh zzzvy NT by Quentin Beck 09/03/2007, 11:30pm PDT
More pronunciation tips from Australians, please. NT by Caltrops 09/03/2007, 11:47pm PDT
hey watch this by Quentin Beck 02/07/2008, 2:18pm PST
PAULINE was the name of Mario's Earth-girlfriend, as depicted in Donkey Kong. NT by Wikipedia 09/03/2007, 7:22am PDT
Your King of Kong primer by Ice Cream Jonsey 09/03/2007, 6:22pm PDT
It's out on DVD(Rip) now, and I loved it. by Fussbett 02/07/2008, 1:03pm PST
PS: I also enjoyed the quick glimpses of Todd Rogers, but wished for more. by Fussbett 02/07/2008, 1:18pm PST
PPS: While poking around the TG site I noticed that my Mr. Do HS puts me at #13 by Fussbett 02/08/2008, 2:35am PST
TIDDLYWINKS CHAMPIONSHIP LIVE ON TV RIGHT NOW by Grumah 02/07/2008, 4:15pm PST
I still can't find your actual opinion on the movie. :( NT by Jhoh Creebul, Witch Toucher O_O 02/08/2008, 1:08am PST
This is a word for word recreaction of Jso's original post. by Jhoh Creebul, Witch Toucher O_O 02/08/2008, 1:10am PST
Billy Mitchell calls the Onion AV Club by Fussbett 02/08/2008, 12:55pm PST
That was interesting, thanks. NT by bink 02/08/2008, 4:02pm PST
Saw this yesterday and really enjoyed it. by skip 08/02/2012, 5:29pm PDT
Huh, I thought Wiebe came off almost as bad as Kuh. by Jerry Whorebach 02/22/2008, 10:30pm PST
Scot Rubin makes these guys look like the Evil Knievel by Ice Cream Jonsey 03/14/2008, 9:40pm PDT
"Scot Rubin on line one." "The inventor of Crash Bandicoot? Put him through." by Jerry Whorebach 03/14/2008, 11:44pm PDT
The King of Kong DVD extras, part one million. by Fussbett 03/15/2008, 12:14am PDT
Fussbett feels about deleting posts the way God feels about sin. by Fullofkittens 03/15/2008, 7:52am PDT
What would be your opinion now of the story? by Let's Do It Doggy Style 02/01/2012, 8:40pm PST
as a drama of nerd vs jock (who both play dk), it was actually a decent movie by sdroa jists 02/02/2012, 1:24am PST
Billy Mitchell is a jock? by motherfuckerfoodeater 02/02/2012, 9:21am PST
jooooooooooooooooooooooocks! NT by Gabe 02/02/2012, 9:30am PST
Steve Wiebe live stream of record attempt by Fussbett 06/02/2009, 10:07am PDT
I haven't see it available to rent anywhere, even the superhip place across lans NT by Fullofkittens 06/02/2009, 11:37am PDT
I could download it but I still don't really care enough NT by Weyoun Voidbringer 06/02/2009, 11:41am PDT
JsohDoesn'tCareCount++ NT by Fussbett 06/02/2009, 11:53am PDT
it's available for download, but downloading it would be too much work NT by Weyoun Voidbringer 06/02/2009, 12:10pm PDT
So, he doesn't care? NT by Worm 06/02/2009, 12:59pm PDT
Maybe you just need more context by FABIO 06/02/2009, 1:26pm PDT
The camera in fucking Journey had more bandwidth than this fucking thing NT by Ice Cream Jonsey 06/02/2009, 12:58pm PDT
Re: The camera in fucking Journey had more bandwidth than this fucking thing by Fortinbras 06/02/2009, 1:53pm PDT
2 minds, 80 columns: the ICJ/Fortinbras AIM log story NT by Ray of Light 06/02/2009, 2:16pm PDT
That's what I get for dropping it in a notepad file NT by Fortinbras 06/02/2009, 2:44pm PDT
Also it was Gtalk NT by Fortinbras 06/02/2009, 2:44pm PDT
Any chat log with Fortinbras just makes me wish for an INC-Fussbett log NT by The Littlest Hobo 06/02/2009, 3:02pm PDT
Shit. I didn't realize that would be posted. I would have been funnier. NT by Ice Cream Jonsey 06/02/2009, 4:35pm PDT
Atoning for my sins by Bodybag 06/02/2009, 1:57pm PDT
so far the movie isn't about donky kong at all: A+ 4 stars NT by Weyoun Voidbringer 06/02/2009, 2:35pm PDT
Congratulations! NT by Shinji 06/02/2009, 3:10pm PDT
^_^ by Weyoun Voidbringer 06/02/2009, 4:20pm PDT
Re: ^_^ by Creexuls, a monster >:3 06/02/2009, 5:48pm PDT
It's so much easier to watch it when it's right in a post. :3 NT by Creexuls, a monster >:3 06/02/2009, 8:27pm PDT
So what were the rumors of Billy "Duder" Wilson playing up the villainy? by Creexuls, a monster >:3 06/02/2009, 8:55pm PDT
EPILOGUE by Fussbett 04/12/2018, 4:06pm PDT
The arcade community always helps a man up. by reeeeeeeeeeee 04/12/2018, 10:28pm PDT
Been following the feverish lead up by 25c 04/14/2018, 2:44pm PDT
Re: Been following the feverish lead up by Shredder 04/14/2018, 5:51pm PDT
Flack has the most balanced take and description of all of it. by Ice Cream Jonsey 04/19/2018, 6:14pm PDT
The "Oops Billy" Guy by oh dear 10/30/2020, 4:33pm PDT
Help me solve the Daisy mystery in the top post NT by Mysterio (mystery spotter) 07/08/2022, 11:16am PDT
Hmm - the broken image link was a Ukraine flag with the words "No War" on it by Mysterio (mystery spotter) 07/08/2022, 2:36pm PDT
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