Video game infauxmercial: Action Circle!

Posted by Xeni Jardin, December 12, 2007 1:39 PM | permalink

"What's the matter -- tired of all your rhythm-based video games? It's true, with rhythm games, the better you're doing, the fancier you look! But all of that is about to change...." Jesse and Jordan and Gene of TSOYA produced this excellent infauxmercial for FunnyOrDie. Link.

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#1 posted by rerutled , December 12, 2007 2:48 PM

Well. Nothing homophobic about that.

No siree.

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#2 posted by Jesse Thorn

, December 12, 2007 6:09 PM

Rerutled -- I can understand how you'd think that, but I know the folks who wrote it (they're my best pals), and their intent was definitely to lampoon homophobia in video games, not celebrate it. Maybe something got lost in translation, but that was definitely the goal.

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#3 posted by Dave X

, December 13, 2007 5:08 AM

I'm having more of a problem with it just not being very funny, Rerutled...

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#4 posted by markfrei , December 14, 2007 10:26 AM

Mildly offensive and not really worth it for humor value. I'm a fag that likes a good gay joke. This is just kinda lame.

A far better video statement about homophobia in gaming is the guy that played online as GayDude (or some name to that effect) and recorded the other players audio comments during play (as he generally kicked their asses). Scary and funny.

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#5 posted by Beanolini , December 14, 2007 12:37 PM

Markfrei- do you mean this? Scary indeed.