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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?
Can't we all just get a pong?
That would surely be the death of /.
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.
...is what the brew-ha-ha is all about.
I haven't posted in so long, my sig is out of date.
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
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.
I think we were drunk at the time.
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