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The War Against Virtual Beer Pong
Michelle Shildkret, 360i on behalf of TIME.com writes "JV Games was all set to release 'Beer Pong' for the Nintendo Wii when parents and lawmakers got a whiff, forcibly renaming the game to Pong Toss and filling its pixelated cups with water instead. But the game is still rated 'T' for teen, and anybody who encounters it will be able to draw clear conclusions as to its intended purpose (drink and get drunk)." Lesson: Don't play games that simulate drinking before you play games that simulate driving, or larceny.
Lesson: Don't play games that simulate drinking before you play games that simulate driving, or larceny.
... or shooting at politicians. After all, you might miss.
When our name is on the back of your car, we're behind you all the way!
I can't wait until they come out with the wii game where you play a drinking game where you drink if your character in the game your character is playing for drinks....erm.
concerned parents began sending angry letters to JV Games and Nintendo... until JV Games agreed to change the title of the game to Pong Toss and fill its pixelated cups with water.
Well then let's just hope that nobody finds excessive urination offensive.
Or stimulating for that matter.
Honestly, when water isn't safe, where do you turn?
Question: What's the life expectancy of a WII and TV in a dingy basement and a bunch of drunk college kids around?
Answer: You mean if by some chance it's not stolen first? Not Long.
It's not what your Sig can do for you, but what you can do for your for your Sig.
Can't we all just get a pong?
That would surely be the death of /.
Your post reminds me of an experience at work some time back. I work with content for mobile phones. As part of my job at one point I would provide ringtones to AT&T that our company had licensed. These had to go through a somewhat stringent approval process. There was one batch I was submitting which contained the song "Drink in my cup". That song was denied due to references to alcohol. In the same batch was "Gat in my lap". That song was passed. Ridiculous.
The War Against Virtual Beer Pong is actually a first-person shooter. It's the prequel to Duke Drinkem Forever.
I can fuck for my country?! Sign me up for three tours!
"Trolls they were, but filled with the evil will of their master: a fell race..." -- J.R.R. Tolkien on Olog-hai
Because your adult "child" might play this game away from home! Gotta protect the "kids", right? Why is it video games are the new evil that's replaced song lyrics?
Here's a message to the helicopter parents: Let Go.
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Who's god?
The almighty dollar!
change the pong paddles to flowers, because you could hit someone over the head and hurt them with paddles.
Rhymes that keep their secrets will unfold behind the clouds.There upon the rainbow is the answer to a neverending story
Sure, but what if I have no friends or it's like 10 AM and no one wants to start drinking?
If I'm ACTUALLY playing one player beer pong, it's harder to lie to myself and say it's not just alchoholism.
Senator Larry Craig will see you now, "Private" Flayer.
Microsoft is to software what Budweiser is to beer.
It's more environmentally friendly to play Beer Pong on the Wii - you only need one plastic cup.
--I'm not talking about dance lessons. I'm talking about putting a brick through the other guy's windshield.-
...is what the brew-ha-ha is all about.
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I can't wait until they come out with the wii game where you play a drinking game where you drink if your character in the game your character is playing for drinks....erm.
Just like been there... World of World of Warcraft!
"The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became truth." ~1984 George Orwell
It's a good thing there aren't any violent games for the Wii.
Anthropic principle: We see the universe the way it is because if it were different we would not be here to see it.
What about the black choppers, you didn't mention the black choppers! They are coming for us all!
Control is an illusion, order our comforting lie. From chaos, through chaos, into chaos we fly
Faithfully recreating the beer pong experience would involve your Wii giving you a nasty week-long cold that you get from the other players who drink from your virtual cup of beer.
have been circumscribed
circumcised , my boy circumcised .
I am a circumcised male and consider it nothing less than genital mutilation
Debian FTW
excuse me are you lost?
War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.- Shelley
Being smug in bars was a horrible idea. If I go into a bar it's for a few drinks with friends. It's not to get banality and various forms of Self righteousness in my ears. You want to be smug? Do it at home pal. In exchange I, as an arsenist, won't light you on fire. Not only is it disgusting it smells, especially in clubs; smugness makes the entire place smell like ass, and with people sweating it's a disaster waiting to happen.
Saying smugness should be allowed in public places and in the media is like saying people with AIDS/HIV should be allowed to masturbate freely in public and are legally encouraged to rape everything they see.
There, Fixed that for you.
What gets me the most is how people my age (35) and a little older will almost have a conniption about their kids doing the very same things that they (and I) did when we were that age. I drank, sometimes to excess but not often. I had sex/b>, as did most of my peers. I didn't mess with drugs but I knew many who did. This is what is known as High School.
Up until that point I was about to believe you...
It's more environmentally friendly to play Beer Pong on the Wii - you only need one plastic cup.
Especially if there are two girls, they can easily share one...
no.. wait... I think that's going too far.
I think we were drunk at the time.
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Wii sports golf made the best Wii drinking game in my opinion. Drink for every point over par and every point you opponents were under par. Good times...
Sounds like a game you play to lose:
Oh, say does that Star-Spangled Banner entwine / The myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's vine?