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The Mushroom
Samael sent
us a link to The Mushroom
which sorta looks like The Onion but
with a Video Game focus. Stories include FF7 charachters
potion overdoses and Lara Croft's coming out. Nowhere near
the quality of its inspiration, but hey its
saturday, and I'm procrastinating on writing real code and
its amusing.
That site was a festering boil on the good name of absurd comedy. I'd never seen NGR before, but thanks for posting the link -- it was at LEAST 10 to 15 times more humourous than Mushroom.
Mushroom is uninspired WANNABE "humor".
Mushroom Guy(s?): If you're reading this, give it up. It's embarassing.
The Mushroom is putrid! It's nothing but a pale copy of The Onion, with no point and nothing worth saying. The Onion is hands down the greatest satirical site out there, but you should already know that. If I were to choose a second best, it would be The Fig Blabber. It's satirical news that slams Hollywood and the entertainment industry. I've seen plenty of comedy sites that warrant a look, but these are the only two that keep me coming back regularly.
Another example that most gamers are immature little pigs. That laura croft bit started out funny but took a turn for the tasteless. There was no need to say cruel things about gay women. They get enough crap from the rest of the world and it would have been just as funney or funnier without it.
FUNNEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The bit about carmack And Romero (http://www.themushroom.com/archives/makeup.html) started out with an interesting preimse that could have turned out to be humorous, but as I read on i was disgusted. I'm not the type that gets offended easily but the scenerio they described was uncalled for, and unfunny, and it literally made me sick to my stomach.
Oops. Please ignore my several typos in that last post. Sorry about that.
Sure. Perhaps one that even has something classifyable as humor on it.
Its pretty pathetic that the Mushroom can't come up with anything better than what they've got. (this week, Lara Croft gay, a month or so ago it was Solid Snake gay. Massively creative!) Its more pathetic that they ripped off the Onion so badly. I can't look at the thing without instantly realizing how much less funny it is than the Onion. Looks like a bunch of losers from an Electronics Boutique who are making an incredibly lame attempt to be funny.
I wasn't impressed by the site.. if you're looking for videogame humor, you might want to try National Game Review.
Isn't this post a month or two ago?
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Stealth Falcon
Besides, if you're going to put that much work into something, why not make it look unique?
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Every year during my review, I just pray the words "slashdot.org" aren't mentioned.
the User Friendly parody is humorous. I love how they keep throwing in "Linux" and "FreeBSD" everywhere on unrelated issues...it reminds me of certain people here =)
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Posted by The Mongolian Barbecue:
Man that site is lame. And did you see all the links? A collection of tasteless unoriginal trash. Like the dilbert hole, only worse...
nuthin special tho...i kinda liked the lara croft as a lesbian thing, tho i have a few lesbian friends and parts would prob be offensive to them
"There is no spoon" - Neo, The Matrix
Yeah, NGR is cool, but if you want REALLY evil game-related commentary, try Old Man Murray.
They're the official game site of the U.S. Postal Service! Really!
J.
damned vulpine http://sb.drtwister.com/
For a loyal Onion fan such as myself, it's sites like this that make me want to vomit. At first I was irked that they stole the Onion's site design, but after reading a few of their stories I became far more sympathetic, suddenly realizing that they have neither the talent nor creativity to come up with something, anything, original. You'll note the site's ads, which are even more liberally dispersed on the pages than on the Onion. I give these greedy hacks a week before they go public.
I think there is a world market for maybe five personal web logs.
As previously noted, this is essentially a copy of theonion except that it uses video game related stories, the basic color is different, and the stories aren't as funny as the ones in theonion. Ahhh, there is nothing like "open source" web pages.
On a related note, I recently bought a copy of theonion's "This Stupid Century"; this book is composed of fake front pages from "The Onion" newspaper. Do not read through this book at your local bookstore as you'll then look like an idiot just like me. Strange ppl will stare at you as you stand there laughing to yourself. Buy the book and take it home! It really helps if you know and appreciate key events in 20th century history and culture. For instance, do you find this headline to be funny? "Al Jolson Mistakenly Lynched by the KKK."
Hehe,
I really liked that a lot. Man could almost hear those words in my head. I've been playing kingpin for some time now.. The 100 mb demo is sure worth the download. Love the AI, babes (ewrm hoes) and the dudes (um buddies and fsckers) who hang around corners and beat the shit out of you if you mess with them.. that's uless you happen to have a dollar on you and buy their friendship..
Good game.. where is the linux binary?
PS: the models are much cooler than any q2 engine based game (mode details and so on.. babes have clevage, not to mention herion syring marks). Good game. draws you in more than half-life IMHO. and worthy of a linux port (dont you love games that say fuck every other min -- characters talk)
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Isn't this post a month or two ago?
I don't know about the post, but The Mushroom has been around for several months. The only thing I've found to be funny about it are the interviews..
\broken_record{ This was memepooled on April 4th.} -peter
This was too funny! They need one like this for the warez and wannabe hacking community.
This isn't a new site, been around for a while. No where near as good as The Onion, even through they clearly try to be like them. Sometimes it's reasonably funny since it's about games, but not v very often.
The book's called "Our Dumb Century" and it is indeed hilarious! Support The Onion! Buy this book (ISBN: 0-609-80461-8)!
Heh, maybe that study was right after all...