Escapist News Network: Nerd Flu

[MelasZepheos_v1legacy]

Orbital Drop Shock Trooper.

Yeah, I'm boned.

 

[Fenring]

The intro felt waaay too much like The Onion's ONN intro for breaking news. That's the only problem, love everything else.

And I have both had the nerd flu and can say what ODST stands for.

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

YES! I'm completey safe. No idea what 'ODST' stands for and I don't indulge in any of the contributing factors! Result.

You're also a regular poster on a video-game-related website's forums.

Maybe you should take some extra Vitamin C tonight. I'm just sayin'.

Do we have to worry about R0F1 at GameX? I worry that with the influx of British smarm and Austrailian gamer angst that Yahtzee will bring, this virus may gain a memetic awareness aspect, thereby making it... the R0F1_MA0 virus.

Oh, also... did anyone else just absolutely lose it and crack up laughing watching those Japanese gamers sway back and forth in time to the movements of digital breasts?

 

[Graham_LRR]

The intro felt waaay too much like The Onion's ONN intro for breaking news. That's the only problem, love everything else.

I suspect that both ONN and myself are pulling from the same source material here.
IE: Actual news programs.

 

[quiet_samurai]

Neck Beard Ferocity... I now wish i could change my account name.

And I would totally do that news anchor chick...Kathleen

 

[iyaerP]

So on that chart? I qualify for all of them.

Does this mean that I am infected?

 

[Teh_Doomage]

Absolutely hilarious.

Can't wait for next week.

 

[BehattedWanderer]

Nice new addition. Classic Escapist style, too, of mixing humor with news, and watching it develop from there.

 

[MrSnugglesworth]

Orbital Drop Shock Troopers.



FUCK!

 

[Gl1tch]

Oh god, my car's in the shop! Be gone, lion!

NOOOooo.....

 

[Fenring]

The intro felt waaay too much like The Onion's ONN intro for breaking news. That's the only problem, love everything else.

I suspect that both ONN and myself are pulling from the same source material here.
IE: Actual news programs.

Of course, I don't get the channel, so I can't say for sure, but I suspect The Onion's is almost exactly the same as CNN's.

As I said before, I love it, I look forward to watching more of these in the future.

 

[zoozilla]

Loved it.

I don't know how you guys could read that dialogue without even cracking a smile.

 

[Roamin11]

Oh dear did anyone pick up the Holy grail refrence at the end?

 

[Chunko]

The creators of loading ready run have done it again

 

[DJShire]

Not all DJs look like that....

You're correct, all DJs BUT the two guys in Daft Punk look like that. Haha.

Some DJs do try to look good, but DJs, by far, dress very casually, and we all tend to have messed up hair because we're taking very large headphones on and off throughout a set.

 

[CobaltBomber]

...toasty?

OT: Nice, should be interesting to see where this goes.

 

[The Random One]

I was going to say I didn't find it really all that funny, but I actually laughed out loud at the Venn diagram of nerd risk groups. So it gets a thumbs-up from me.

 

[jdnoth]

It's like phailhaus with higher production values.

 

[bakonslayer]

I was there. It was a death-zone. I walked out of the Telltale Games Panel, ran into Graham, shook his hand, and contracted the Nerd Flu directly from the source - PAX...
Damn, Graham. Damn...

But seriously. Two days after Pax, I did get a terrible flu - so this is not as far-fetched as it should be. I went to my doctor and he immediately asked me if I was at any gaming expos recently, because 20 minutes earlier he had diagnosed another person with H1N1 who was previously there.

Although, to give PAX a break, I gotta say - they put on a very clean convention. The people of Seattle bathe... Which is hard to say about California.

 

[Knight Templar]

I watched this right after Hard News but liked this more.