Katamari Damacy Therapy

Posted by Xeni Jardin, July 3, 2008 4:34 PM | permalink

A deeper look inside the personal psychodynamics of everyone's favorite giant-ball-of-stuff-roller-upper. "Katamari Damacy Therapy," by Glitch in the System. [Comedy.com, thanks Ben Fritz]

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#1 posted by rosie , July 3, 2008 5:04 PM

I can't get sound, is anybody else having that problem? This looks great... Katamari Damacy is one of my favorite things!

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#2 posted by ohgreedohyes , July 3, 2008 5:18 PM

what's either hilarious or quite sad is that i read this headline very differently. for me, katamari damacy IS my therapy at times. i am constantly stressed out and rolling up obnoxious policewomen somehow helps me sort through everything. sometimes when i get grumpy, my boyfriend asks me if i want to "play my katamazooies."

i am twenty-five going on seven.

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#3 posted by Parn , July 3, 2008 5:25 PM

@ohgreedohyes:

My browser was loading slowly, so I had time to first assume that this video was literally about using Katamari Damacy as therapy. =) I love this series so much that sometimes, when I'm driving and the stress rear its ugly head, I imagine myself rolling up every other car in the road (and the lights, and the roadsigns, and the people). ^^

@rosie:

It sounds nice to me. Maybe your sound device is busy, or Flash is having some problem. You could try reloading your browser. =]

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#4 posted by zeroy , July 3, 2008 5:55 PM

OK. This is going to upset some people, but it's about time someone said it.

Games are not culture.

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#5 posted by Tenn , July 3, 2008 6:01 PM

ZEROY!

Your words, they upset me.

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#6 posted by Avram , July 3, 2008 6:41 PM

Why not, Zeroy? More work, creativity, and sheer artisanship goes into a modern major-release computer game than into a painting.

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#7 posted by rosie , July 3, 2008 7:14 PM

Excellent! Yes, relaunching Firefox did the trick! This is so great. I am also a katamari addict. While driving, I've sometimes wondered if my ambulance-sized katamari could pick up random objects along the streetscape - thankfully never acted on that urge. Imagine the headlines on that one!

Someday I'll get a 360 to play the newest katamari games, because I can never get my brother-in-law to stop playing long enough to let me have a turn on his 360. :-(

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#8 posted by Parn , July 3, 2008 7:39 PM

@#4: Zeroy, Wikipedia disagrees.

@#7: I wish I could be a real Katamari addict! I don't have a PS2 and I don't know anyone who has a 360. I have a PSP, though, but the controls are less than ideal (and make my hands hurt). Glad to know the trick worked!

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#9 posted by buddy66 , July 3, 2008 7:49 PM

#4, you mean ART, right? Culture includes a lot more than art.

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#10 posted by Lea Hernandez , July 3, 2008 7:51 PM

ZEEEEEEEEEEEEROY!

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#11 posted by genericvox , July 3, 2008 8:13 PM

This video is spot-on! ROYAL RAINBOW!

Zeroy, since when do you (alone) define what is and is not culture? I see several people already disagreeing with you, myself included.

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#12 posted by Antinous , July 3, 2008 8:28 PM