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So glad to see you have bought this important information to peoples attention. Can not possibly say how many times people have said "oh so you can't play video games then?" When they hear I have epilepsy. Photosensitive epilepsy is a very uncommon thing and will not always cause trouble from playing a game. Cheers man 👍 Good to see not everyone is an idiot who believes the trash that has often begun from The Daily Fail or The Scum 😉🤣
Some video games have been known to produce seizures due strobing and 3D effects. I can't honestly say whether it was the television or the video games that caused the 14 year old to have a seizure but some video games have been known to do so.
@@tskraj3190 but as Larry mentioned, people thought it made you get epilepsy. This is a different situation. Technically anyone can have a seizure, but does not mean they have epilepsy
That which they cannot understand, they seek to control. That which they cannot control, they seek to ban. That which they cannot ban, they seek to demonize.
Yup, all those dumb old-timers who are salty over being out of the times with stuff they did for fun, so they attack the more current and more loved form of entertainment out of selfishness and arrogance.
I don't blame Nintendo ~The mother Nintendo killed my child! I urge people not to buy these games! ~implied to be mother but uncredited I got nothing, that's just so stupid and hate that that worked.
Someone making up a word like "Nintendoitis" has already disqualified himself from being any kind of medical authority as "-itis" generally indicates an inflammation.
obviously its referring to a bziarre condition where the inflamation is shaped exactly like the nintendo logo or like Mario, Link, Samus Aran and Mr Game and Watch
@@sarafontanini7051 I had that. It made my nose swell, my body to shrink, I grew a mustache and had this weird obsession to stomp on mushrooms and turtles.
"itis" literally just means "inflammation" so it's not even generally indicating. It just flat-out indicates inflammation. For some reason everybody seems to think it just means "medical condition." You see it all the time in tv shows and stuff. Nintendosis would work better.
A lot of these are frustrating because it's more "I was negligent and don't want to take responsibility, so obviously the video game that was briefly present was at fault". It's like when people were trespassing and getting hurt with Pokemon GO and people blamed the game; Nintendo didn't force you into that backyard bruh
@@bangerbangerbro Exactly! But people were all "lol I jumped into my neighbor's backyard for a Squirtle" like they couldn't have just caught it from their yard
they should also make a law that any one involved in paparazzi forfeit a right to sue for damages.. they deliberately provoke folk, so shouldn't be given a right to sue people for reacting to said provocations.
Greg Pope was really well known across Lancashire, especially back then - he had been the local MP for 18 years when he retired in 2010. My guess is that everyone local reading the article interpreted it as him, and the misinterpretation happened elsewhere.
@@Larry Honestly Larry mate, you never heard of the Manhunt murders? Where the mother of the murderer blamed the game for making her son a complete scumbag rather than acknowledging that she had raised a complete scumbag? The game carried an 18 rating anyway, even if it was the games fault she should have been monitoring what he was playing. The idiocy is real.
Since the whole Pokemon 'Electric Soldier Porygon' incident was alluded to, I feel the need to mention that that whole thing resulted in Porygon pretty much never appearing in any Pokemon anime again, even though the offending strobe effect was caused by an attack from Pikachu, but noooo, they're not gonna nix the brand mascot even though he technically caused the seizures. Porygon was unfairly persecuted.
The second one reminds me of that joke from Frasier where Daphne was describing a newspaper headline reading "High-ranking Government Official Caught in Women's Clothing" and added "Of course once you turned to page 2 you found out it was Margaret Thatcher, but by then you'd bought the paper."
Also, in the "Carl" article, they say his friends said to switch "from speed to amphetamines" but isn't speed slang for amphetamines? Isn't that like switching from blow to coke? Booze to alcohol? Are they wrong or am I? Is it different in the u.k.?Someone correct me if I am drug naive here.
There is an energy drink called "Speed" (black can with a red lightning), which is similar to "Red Bull". I think that's the Speed the article is talking about. The way I understood it was that Carl switched from energy drinks to drugs. But that's my take on it. It could very well be as you claim too.
My favorite part was when "Carl" said his friends had him switch from speed to amphetamines. Speed is just the street name of amphetamines, it's the exact same thing. It's like saying you switched out using LSD instead of acid
What I thought was funny was when Chuck Norris tried to blame violent video games for youth violence... as in, the same guy who starred in numerous violent movies.
As a Boy George fan I've hated The Sun ever since I found out they had a headline claiming, "Junkie George has eight weeks to live" (which, by the way, was in 1986 and George is still here). I appreciate the sensitivity you showed when talking about the young man who passed and his family. It's disgusting that the paper exploited what had happened.
@Dale Gribble A better example of tabloids exploiting death - see princess diana. The Sun is widely derided, in many areas and Liverpool bans it for obvious reasons. The MIrror isn't much better.. and while Hyndburn is a nice place and all... politicians are idiots the world over.
Talking about a serious problem/mental illness like cocaine addiction like that is bad as it is! I think Boy George is doing better nowadays thankfully.
Sadly it wouldn't stick... if the families of the Hillsborough victims and Liverpool fans in general couldn't sue them into bankruptcy I doubt a single person would be able to.
@@th3graveofwrath354 That is a good question, maybe they just figured it's better to ignore it unless directly confronted? Or possibly they had no idea of the story in Japan, not sure how big it was at the time. However, I'm wondering the effect that story would have had on the friends who had the kid over just to have fun playing video games. The article pretty much, indirectly, blames them for allowing him to play it right? I'm not sure I could ever play another game if my friend collapsed on my porch afterward, even if there were no correlation.
sad to say but the sun is untouchable in the UK murdok literally must own alot of people in power no matter what the sun always wins no matter how anti law and nonsensical and blatantly suscious the rulings in there favour go heck look at JD case agasint the sun for proof of that most blatant case of corruption ive ever seen yeah let a judge whos wife is friends with the accuser and whos son works for the accusers friend judge the case im SURE nothing could go wrong and the judge literally dismissing ALL evidence from the accused but treating all evidence from the accuser as fact without even checking first was TOTALLY a legit case "intense eyeroll"
1 - It's great seeing Carmageddon getting representation on these lists considering how much I love the franchise 2 - My favorite part of the whole thing with the 3rd entry is that the mother admitted she didn't blame Nintendo at all and instead blamed the TV, yet the news article went "fuck that" and used her son's death to spread Propaganda. It really shows just how scummy some people can be.
"Even a doctor called it Nintendoitis." Wenn then I wouldn't trust that doctor, because itis means inflammation - and I might not be a doctor, but I don't think a seizure is connected to an inflammation.
It can just be attributed to something that is like a disease. "Nentendoitis" isn't the first time I've seen it use that way, and even looking it up on Google says it's secondary use isn't necessarily involved with inflammation.
@@RippahRooJizah yeah, because people who aren't doctors and don't use latin to explain stuff just put itis at the end of everything. That was more my point.
Larry Bundy Jr My teachers insisted we use internet explorer because Google Crome was a virus according to them! Then they wondered why the ICT lessons took so long to get started by the time we could finally start working the lesson was already over. We were at least allowed to play flash games in our down time when they finally loaded though so at least there's that.
I don't remember that particular story but there were at least a hundred others just like it at the time. Blame Pokemon, but don't blame people that don't have the sense to look where the hell they are walking. It sounds even dumber if you've actually played the game too because the pokemon mostly bunch up in areas where there is constant cell usage and they tend not to walk around very far. So you don't need to keep walking when you find one, it's actually better to stand still while you chuck your balls at it's face. Then add to that the fact that your phone vibrates when you get close to a pokemon, so you don't have to keep your placid glassy bovine like eyes glued to the screen constantly. :/ Reminds me of the George Carlin quote. "Think of how dumb the average person is. Now realize that half of the world is dumber than them."
@@Walawalacookie Not to mention Pokemon GO isn't even made by Nintendo! It's made by some random 3rd party company Niantic who previously made a GPS-focused mobile game that pretty much all but few never played. Man people are dumb. Even IF Pokemon GO was to blame truthfully (which it isn't due to it just being people dumb enough to walk into traffic while playing without looking) Nintendo didn't even make the darn game! Nor did The Pokemon Company or Gamefreak! It's just Niantic who used their unpopular GPS mobile game as a base and just injected Pokemon content into it.
I mean, to be honest "Carl" could be talking about the co-op mode 'Save the world' which DOES let you buy weapons and upgrades, although I doubt the collective braincell at the Daily Mirror realised this.
I bet it was a troll. Too much perfect nonsense, such as switching from speed to amphetamines. They're the same thing... Speed is the street name for amphetamine.
"Old media hates new media." Mate, in college I had a professor whose actual title in the journalism department was "technology and media" and I went to him with a proposal about why running my own electronic magazine via a website should count for one of my electives. HE SHOT ME DOWN. He said "the internet is not media." I said "But you're in technology though?" He said yeah -- the technology of print and visual media, NOT DIGITAL. I slapped my hand on my forehead and walked the hell out.
It used to be gaming publications and developers defended games from this type of slander. Now they contribute to it and wonder why they're slowly being laid off.
Most modern game journalists are rejects from other fields, and just work on video games because it's the only field left that will accept them. And considering how journalism in general is going, that's already a low bar they can't pass.
The tree wise men of gaming. But if they are the three wise man, Gerald Anderson Lawson would be the drummer boy for what he created in the gaming industry.
"His friends recommended he switch from Speed to Amphetamines" - wow, I mean yes, shitty friends, but unless poor Carl lives somewhere with the WORST quality of Speed in the country, AND the kids are daft as a tabloid reporter... that's a noop. Speed is SUPPOSED to be Amphetamines. And how would he even afford either? Unless he keeps bringing home the cricket trophies, he should barely have money to scratch together a baggie of Meow a week. *rolls eyes*
"an excellent council" - aside from the ashens reference this is a hilariously british kind of brag: "It would be hubris to assume we are the MOST excellent council, rather we are just one of many superlative councils serving crown and country"
The main difference being that back then, the slander came from ignorant old people with an agenda, and now it comes from within the game journalism industry, full to the brim with young people with an agenda
Kendall Osborne on the bright side people seem to be waking up and seeing these journalists for the lying fear mongering scum they truly are the only people who still believe the tabloids today are the elderly and your auntie Karen on Facebook who also believes that vaccines cause autism.
That's almost as bad as parents who own guns, don't teach their kids gun safety, then leave the guns in an easy to reach place with the safety off, and then blame everyone, and everything else but themselves when their little darlings who have never done anything wrong shot themselves, a loved one, and/or friend playing with it while they were not looking, or were not home watching them for any number of reasons. To be clear I'm 100% pro 2A here in the USA, and own several guns but my step daughter, and all the kids in my family have been taught to never touch a gun without adult supervision for hunting purposes, or at the shooting range.
@@CommodoreFan64 Man humanity is dumb and arrogant. That's what got them entirely wiped-out in the universe that the game Splatoon takes place in. Let's just hope our far future isn't full of dumb people who get themselves ended just like in the backstory of the Splatoon universe's timeline.
@@MrGamer1992 Yep those were the ones, and they even got a massive recall making them a bit collectable these days. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burger_King_Pok%C3%A9mon_container_recall
I like how in the first one it ends with, Then he started playing sports and was no longer a drug addict. Yah, because athletes never get into drugs and/or steroids 🙄
and its not like he might just not be doing it do to being exhuasted and filled with adrenaline from the sport and training. basically replacing one addiction with another addiction as plenty of atheltes work themselves to exhaustion and live to do nothing else but that
As someone with epilepsy, I really appreciate you going into detail about the relationship between that and video games. One of my first questions for my neurologist when I was diagnosed was whether it was safe for me to play video games, having seen all those epilepsy warnings before. Thankfully the answer was I'd be fine to play them. And all the extra info you provided is even more reassuring. I'm glad I don't have to risk another grand mal seizure from playing Splatoon.
aw, thank you. yeah its always annoyed me the scarenmongering and false information the press has lead people to believe about the connection between games and epilepsy. one even wen as far as to claim you can catch it from games.
Can't remember if it was The Sun or the Daily Mail (they're all the same to me tbh) but I remember they reported on a kid's suicide and talked about how it was Doki Doki Literature Club's fault after the game breaks the 4th wall so much that "the game pestered him with messages on his phone" (even though that never happens in The game). Cue all the other big outlets including the BBC reporting on this.
Jesus christ, I remember that article. It was memed to hell and back for just how blatantly _STUPID_ it was. They listed several functions or features of the game that don't occur whatsoever. They were just outright exploiting a tragic death, all for money. Pathetic
I know, it's so amazing that these outlets think the risk of being exposed as frauds is worth it. A reputation is hard to build, but easy to destroy, and they are all too eager to destroy it!
@@cosmosofinfinity people have memory of a goldfish so they forget everything sooner than later. It must be REALLY nasty scandal to change their mind and opinion
@@SpecShadow The only one that really had any backlash was when they illegally hacked the mobile phone of a murdered schoolchild. Even then it took a decade for them to face consequences and they just re-launched the paper a few weeks later.
Correction: It was not the first airing of the Pokemon anime in Japan that caused seizures, it was specifically the airing of the episode, "Electric Soldier Porygon."
Ahh the good old it happened once so it'll happen to everyone. Fun fact, every serial killer has eaten food, therefore food makes you a serial killer...I'm looking at you Corn Flakes.
the other type of paper here are refered to as "broadsheets" (because of their size) they're often more business focused, and only really feature this kind of news if it affects the stock market.
The likelihood of seizures in movie theatres are far higher than video games. Both can still happen but there are piles of ways to have a seizure that are unrelated to video games
@@MLBlue30 Actually that's pretty much it. The game is over 20 years old now. There's just no reason to revert that ban. The Remakes and the Mobile version were rated acordingly and are completely legal.
I'm gonna guess, that either doom, night trap, mortal kombat, or grand theft auto. is mentioned on this list. I stand corrected. (Grand theft auto, is on a newspaper on the number 2 spot. Also I'm surprised, carmageddon is also mentioned.)
I wish I could say that the media has learned their lesson about blatant lying to the public, or that this is a scummy Euro thing, but everything coming out of Denver, Colorado's 9News proves otherwise.
"My mates said I should try playing with amphetamines" instead of speed. Uh... That's what speed *is*. Amphetamine. The Mirror over here is clearly trying to go for a perfect streak of unresearched statements!
@@PrototypeSpaceMonkey Except the way it's presented is that the friend is claiming amphetamines are different from speed, and not just the same but cheaper.
You forgot "books" in the list of things the press have been against. Literally quotes where they talk of all the new books from the "printing press" could cause young people to walk into lamp posts reading in the street... 100+ years later and people complain about the young walking around reading off phones walking into lamp posts.
I remember the second law suit which resulted in later GBA games getting a warning message on start up and then the DS getting its warning message baked into the firmware. so you had to see it every time you start the DS up (unless you hacked it). The Sun is to blame for so many things!
Have to say Larry it was a nice touch to actually end the article with a tribute to Jasminder Bassi. The tabloids forget/ignored that an innocent 14 year old boy died tragically just so they could sell papers. The media’s disregard for people’s feelings really disgusts me.
Both Star Trek TNG and The Orville had episodes dealing with holodeck addiction, but the crew never stopped using the holodecks. In the end, it's about having self control and only you can do that.
Haha why am I not surprised it features the Mirror and the Sun? Surprised there wasn't a News of the World one in there too Always happy to see a Bad Influence clip too 🙂
@@Larry I was wondering if the Pokemon Cards at knifepoint thing would be in here......but where would it fit under? Trading cards aren't really 'new media' even if they are based on a videogame
I remember this one thing about some christians wanted to ban Doom for imagery of demons and hell. Dude you're literally killing demons in hell, what could be more christian than that?
Sadly, I told my mom, who's a Christian, about the fact that you kill demons in hell, and she *still* said no because it'd be corruptive anyway. So some Christians just don't care if you're killing the demons, the fact that they're in the game at all is grounds for banning.
One thing you missed about the suicide fortnite story is that speed is amphetamine. It's literally just a street name for plain old house hold amphetamine. So him being encouraged to switch from speed to speed suggest that it's written by someone who have no experience with drugs at all. The supposed effects of the speed is also extremely dubious.
My ex girlfriend had epilepsy. She was once triggered by flashing lights in a nightclub. I accompanied her to every neurologist appointment and nobody ever told us about wearing an eyepatch to stop photo-epileptic seizures. Thanks, Guru Larry! (She has no trouble with video games as far as I know)
Ah 11:05, oh how I miss Chef Excellence haha. As always Larry, an excellent video sir and definitely an eye opener at how The Scum and Mirror newspapers like to report such nonsense (I would know, I had to deliver those nasty rags)
It’s crappy journalism like this that has us so distrustful of the media in general today. Well, there’s always been crappy journalism but we’re just more aware of it these days. And people definitely love to fan that distrust too...
They didn't even titled their piece of lies "Child killed by Nintendo", they titled it "Nintendo killed my son". 1st person. Implying it was the mother's word. That's a extremely disrespecting thing to do to someone who lost her child.
They've moved online now. Yesterday I accidentally used Bing (which might explain this) and I looked up coovid neinteen (spelled correctly I'm misspelling to avoid getting b&) symptoms and instead of a helpful list of symptoms or the NHS website the first page was entirely comprised of fear mongering by tabloids. I might be dying over here Bing and tabloids this shit should be illegal 😡
Right wing Murdoch shitrags like The Sun and The Daily Mail sell millions of copies daily in the UK and and are read by people who are the primary voting demographic, the sooner tabloid print media dies and News Corp collapses the better.
I swear i remember an article kinda like this with lots of people complaining that their legs really hurt because of pokemon go and it was just because they weren't sitting on their ass all day
You do know that PGo was involved with numerous accidents, right? And before you said anything, I said *Involved*, not caused. PGo is a game that isn't fully compatible with society today because not everyone has the sense to, say, not look down at their phone while driving or crossing a street or off a cliff, etc.
I know I chose what games I’m going to put money down on by someone’s opinion in a niche magazine... “Ethnics in video game journalism!!” GAMER GATE BABY!!! it spawned an INSANE “cottage industry” that is still unfortunately going on....
I’m a 2nd generation gamer. My dad started out in the 80s playing Donkey Kong, PAC Man, and his favorite, Galaga. He actually taught me how to play video games. Mom also loved, and loves to play video games as well. My entire family got closer playing games, board games, video games, etc.
My parents believed the epilepsy thing for a short amount of time and for about 5 years after each game would include a piece of paper warning about epilepsy even gameboy games.
_If you enjoyed this episode, check out the Fact Hunt Special episode on the press' story about a video game they claimed brainwashed kids..._
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Can't believe you're still uploading after all these years. Brilliant content!
0:34 and lets not forget about jazz music and how it is corrupting our youth lol
So glad to see you have bought this important information to peoples attention. Can not possibly say how many times people have said "oh so you can't play video games then?" When they hear I have epilepsy. Photosensitive epilepsy is a very uncommon thing and will not always cause trouble from playing a game.
Cheers man 👍 Good to see not everyone is an idiot who believes the trash that has often begun from The Daily Fail or The Scum 😉🤣
Some video games have been known to produce seizures due strobing and 3D effects. I can't honestly say whether it was the television or the video games that caused the 14 year old to have a seizure but some video games have been known to do so.
@@tskraj3190 but as Larry mentioned, people thought it made you get epilepsy. This is a different situation. Technically anyone can have a seizure, but does not mean they have epilepsy
I definitely trust any "news" story that is featured right above a story about a smoking, poker playing, dog.
That dog has a sick party pad in Malibu 🤑🐕🦺🎉🃏
Bless Your Perfection
How dare you besmirch Phil Helmutt like that!
I dont trust any "news" at all. The entier industry sucks.
This is why i believe lizard people are slowly taking over the world.
They blame anything they don't understand.
That which they cannot understand, they seek to control.
That which they cannot control, they seek to ban.
That which they cannot ban, they seek to demonize.
@@whatevr99 Vivian James
They wrote a whole song about it, in fact th-cam.com/video/aeWydlLmlNM/w-d-xo.html
Video games, Soundcloud rappers, black people...
Yup, all those dumb old-timers who are salty over being out of the times with stuff they did for fun, so they attack the more current and more loved form of entertainment out of selfishness and arrogance.
Nintendo copyright claimed my son would be a headline.
Nintendo DMCA'd my son.
Nintendo: we won't kill you, but we will try to take your online income
Nintendo sent my son to the YMCA!
lmao but they did that to me once
I don't blame Nintendo
~The mother
Nintendo killed my child! I urge people not to buy these games!
~implied to be mother but uncredited
I got nothing, that's just so stupid and hate that that worked.
Exactly same thing happened to the woman who got burnt by mcdonalds coffee.
welcome to the times where roleplaying games apparently made you into an occult devil worshipper. Humans are weird.
@@kiddhkane Yeah, I feel bad for giving her shit for so long. I was definitely hoodwinked with that one.
@@Victor-mm2jb You and millions of people. That's what PR and MSM does on a daily basis.
UK "news" do be like that
Someone making up a word like "Nintendoitis" has already disqualified himself from being any kind of medical authority as "-itis" generally indicates an inflammation.
Nintepilepsy would be a faaaaar better name.
We called it "Nintendenitus" or, Gamer thumb.
obviously its referring to a bziarre condition where the inflamation is shaped exactly like the nintendo logo or like Mario, Link, Samus Aran and Mr Game and Watch
@@sarafontanini7051 I had that. It made my nose swell, my body to shrink, I grew a mustache and had this weird obsession to stomp on mushrooms and turtles.
"itis" literally just means "inflammation" so it's not even generally indicating. It just flat-out indicates inflammation. For some reason everybody seems to think it just means "medical condition." You see it all the time in tv shows and stuff.
Nintendosis would work better.
A lot of these are frustrating because it's more "I was negligent and don't want to take responsibility, so obviously the video game that was briefly present was at fault". It's like when people were trespassing and getting hurt with Pokemon GO and people blamed the game; Nintendo didn't force you into that backyard bruh
Some people oppose Logic.
That's exactly what I said
The one time I tried it I found that you could catch them from like 30 metres away or something like that. So that would be really unnecessary.
@@bangerbangerbro Exactly! But people were all "lol I jumped into my neighbor's backyard for a Squirtle" like they couldn't have just caught it from their yard
@@luisalbertoarenasaraya4579 I don’t get why, he’s pretty good at rapping from what I’ve heard.
Liverpool's ban on The Sun really should go worldwide...
Why anybody would buy that rag after Hillsborough is beyond me, they're a fucking disgrace
they should also make a law that any one involved in paparazzi forfeit a right to sue for damages.. they deliberately provoke folk, so shouldn't be given a right to sue people for reacting to said provocations.
@@sweetpepino1907 I totally agree man
@@sweetpepino1907 Toilet paper?
@Michael W. in fairness paparazzi are so scummy they unite all ideologies in hating them.
they're secretly making free publicity about the games they talk about, because people don't give a shit about their ego
hello
@@bostpoxfox goodbye
I can only imagine how the parents felt about having their son’s death exploited like that. Absolutely disgusting
Alright, that Pope one was pretty hilarious. How do they think they can get away with stuff like that?
People are really good at reading the headline and extracting what they want to hear...without actually reading the article.
Alright is alwrong.
Kinda like "Sea Bears and Fairy Tales Are REAL!!!"
Well, the pope and vatican are the ones to worry about, given their pedophilia tendencies, and they not letting anyone see what's in their vaults.
Greg Pope was really well known across Lancashire, especially back then - he had been the local MP for 18 years when he retired in 2010. My guess is that everyone local reading the article interpreted it as him, and the misinterpretation happened elsewhere.
No mention of the "Manhunt murders", where the only person who owned a copy was the victim? :/
That's news to me, do you know who posted that?
@@Larry en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhunt_(video_game)#Murder_of_Stefan_Pakeerah
@@Larry Honestly Larry mate, you never heard of the Manhunt murders? Where the mother of the murderer blamed the game for making her son a complete scumbag rather than acknowledging that she had raised a complete scumbag? The game carried an 18 rating anyway, even if it was the games fault she should have been monitoring what he was playing. The idiocy is real.
@@sizzxrk On the wiki page, it says that the parents of the victim were the ones who blamed the game, not the mother of the murderer.
@だSpear Happy Tree Friends is pretty famous and has nothing to do with anything.
Since the whole Pokemon 'Electric Soldier Porygon' incident was alluded to, I feel the need to mention that that whole thing resulted in Porygon pretty much never appearing in any Pokemon anime again, even though the offending strobe effect was caused by an attack from Pikachu, but noooo, they're not gonna nix the brand mascot even though he technically caused the seizures. Porygon was unfairly persecuted.
that darn Rodent.
#porygondidnothingwrong
Candace Dugan justice for porygon
Porygon 2 did have a background appearance in one of the movies
#JusticeForPorygon!
The second one reminds me of that joke from Frasier where Daphne was describing a newspaper headline reading "High-ranking Government Official Caught in Women's Clothing" and added "Of course once you turned to page 2 you found out it was Margaret Thatcher, but by then you'd bought the paper."
Ok that’s a good joke.
Frasier is a fantastic sitcom in general!
Also, in the "Carl" article, they say his friends said to switch "from speed to amphetamines" but isn't speed slang for amphetamines? Isn't that like switching from blow to coke? Booze to alcohol? Are they wrong or am I? Is it different in the u.k.?Someone correct me if I am drug naive here.
I don't think Matthew Barbour was aware of that.
Larry Bundy Jr - a journalist not knowing about drugs..... nah, don’t believe that either 😉
I was just going to say this.
That was my thought..."Jimmy quit smoking pot because ganja was so much more potent."
There is an energy drink called "Speed" (black can with a red lightning), which is similar to "Red Bull". I think that's the Speed the article is talking about.
The way I understood it was that Carl switched from energy drinks to drugs. But that's my take on it. It could very well be as you claim too.
My favorite part was when "Carl" said his friends had him switch from speed to amphetamines. Speed is just the street name of amphetamines, it's the exact same thing. It's like saying you switched out using LSD instead of acid
I was gonna say...
@@ninjabluefyre3815 same here
@@robertevans9962 well even then that makes no sense as the article frames it as being a step up in intensity
What I thought was funny was when Chuck Norris tried to blame violent video games for youth violence... as in, the same guy who starred in numerous violent movies.
That’s almost as dumb as Arnold Schwarzenegger censoring guns because they’re violent.
And also had his own TV show that earned him becoming an old meme of people exaggerating his strength, including his roundhouse kick.
I wouldn't go dissing Chuck Norris.
Chuck Norris fought COVID-19. Now, COVID-19 has to stay in quarantine for 14 days.
Yet they is a Atari 2600 game based on him.
@@dhenderson1810 Chuck Norris doesn’t flush the toilet.
As a Boy George fan I've hated The Sun ever since I found out they had a headline claiming, "Junkie George has eight weeks to live" (which, by the way, was in 1986 and George is still here). I appreciate the sensitivity you showed when talking about the young man who passed and his family. It's disgusting that the paper exploited what had happened.
It’s because Larry has empathy like a normal human being
@Dale Gribble A better example of tabloids exploiting death - see princess diana.
The Sun is widely derided, in many areas and Liverpool bans it for obvious reasons. The MIrror isn't much better.. and while Hyndburn is a nice place and all... politicians are idiots the world over.
And pretty much ran a smear campaign against Nintendo they're lucky that Nintendo didn't sue thier asses
Talking about a serious problem/mental illness like cocaine addiction like that is bad as it is! I think Boy George is doing better nowadays thankfully.
Jenna Last I heard he was doing well, thankfully, so hopefully he continues to do well.
It's a damn shame the mother of the boy who died from that seizure wasn't able to sue The Sun into bankruptcy.
Sadly it wouldn't stick... if the families of the Hillsborough victims and Liverpool fans in general couldn't sue them into bankruptcy I doubt a single person would be able to.
As much as they deserve it, the sun is owned by some rich people, so sadly, I don’t foresee it happening unless they really, REALLY mess up
Better question, why didn't Nintendo sue? THey're the most litigious, bastards in gaming today! This should have been textbook!
@@th3graveofwrath354 That is a good question, maybe they just figured it's better to ignore it unless directly confronted? Or possibly they had no idea of the story in Japan, not sure how big it was at the time.
However, I'm wondering the effect that story would have had on the friends who had the kid over just to have fun playing video games. The article pretty much, indirectly, blames them for allowing him to play it right? I'm not sure I could ever play another game if my friend collapsed on my porch afterward, even if there were no correlation.
sad to say but the sun is untouchable in the UK murdok literally must own alot of people in power no matter what the sun always wins no matter how anti law and nonsensical and blatantly suscious the rulings in there favour go heck look at JD case agasint the sun for proof of that most blatant case of corruption ive ever seen yeah let a judge whos wife is friends with the accuser and whos son works for the accusers friend judge the case im SURE nothing could go wrong and the judge literally dismissing ALL evidence from the accused but treating all evidence from the accuser as fact without even checking first was TOTALLY a legit case "intense eyeroll"
1 - It's great seeing Carmageddon getting representation on these lists considering how much I love the franchise
2 - My favorite part of the whole thing with the 3rd entry is that the mother admitted she didn't blame Nintendo at all and instead blamed the TV, yet the news article went "fuck that" and used her son's death to spread Propaganda. It really shows just how scummy some people can be.
I was NOT expecting a Chef Excellence joke, but now I have to clean coffee off my monitor due to it. Thank you, Larry.
Luckily I have already swallowed my tea by the time it popped, so i'll only have to wipe a small teapuddle that came to be when I dropped my mug xD
"Even a doctor called it Nintendoitis."
Wenn then I wouldn't trust that doctor, because itis means inflammation - and I might not be a doctor, but I don't think a seizure is connected to an inflammation.
It can just be attributed to something that is like a disease. "Nentendoitis" isn't the first time I've seen it use that way, and even looking it up on Google says it's secondary use isn't necessarily involved with inflammation.
They missed a good one by not calling it Nintendosis.
@@RippahRooJizah yeah, because people who aren't doctors and don't use latin to explain stuff just put itis at the end of everything. That was more my point.
If I remember correctly Wii-Itus was a thing for a bit due to people developing hand cramps from overuse of the wii motion controls.
@@nendymion That's some serious death-grip going on there to cause cramping.
I remember my teacher in primary school telling us how stupid computer games will make us as they hurt the brain. 1992
Oh my school teacher wouldn't let us play games on their computer as "they can break the machine".
@だSpear Well.......I would often install emulators and roms on the college PCs back in 2000, their system was absolutley shocking back in the day lol
Larry Bundy Jr My teachers insisted we use internet explorer because Google Crome was a virus according to them! Then they wondered why the ICT lessons took so long to get started by the time we could finally start working the lesson was already over.
We were at least allowed to play flash games in our down time when they finally loaded though so at least there's that.
Larry Bundy Jr Lol when I was in elementary school we did play games on the computers
@@pinkdiamond1847 I didn't have internet access at school and Google Chrome wasn't even a thing.
Anyone else remember that story of that teenage girl who got run over when she walked onto a highway playing PokemonGo and she blamed Nintendo for it?
She ignores the thing they tell you NOT to do whenever you start the game and had the balls to blame them?
Wow
I don't remember that particular story but there were at least a hundred others just like it at the time. Blame Pokemon, but don't blame people that don't have the sense to look where the hell they are walking. It sounds even dumber if you've actually played the game too because the pokemon mostly bunch up in areas where there is constant cell usage and they tend not to walk around very far. So you don't need to keep walking when you find one, it's actually better to stand still while you chuck your balls at it's face. Then add to that the fact that your phone vibrates when you get close to a pokemon, so you don't have to keep your placid glassy bovine like eyes glued to the screen constantly. :/
Reminds me of the George Carlin quote. "Think of how dumb the average person is. Now realize that half of the world is dumber than them."
Too many Karen's are there?
@@Walawalacookie Not to mention Pokemon GO isn't even made by Nintendo! It's made by some random 3rd party company Niantic who previously made a GPS-focused mobile game that pretty much all but few never played. Man people are dumb. Even IF Pokemon GO was to blame truthfully (which it isn't due to it just being people dumb enough to walk into traffic while playing without looking) Nintendo didn't even make the darn game! Nor did The Pokemon Company or Gamefreak! It's just Niantic who used their unpopular GPS mobile game as a base and just injected Pokemon content into it.
@@zigazav1 You're not wrong. Niantic makes Pokemon go. Even then, it's not their fault that she couldn't string two neurons together.
That Chef Excellence joke was tremendous.
"An excellent reference." - Chef Excellence
"... to wear an eye patch. As the brain cannot trigger a fit, if it's not receiving the same signal to both eyes."
Yo' ho a pirates life for me!
**Demoman noises**
I mean, to be honest "Carl" could be talking about the co-op mode 'Save the world' which DOES let you buy weapons and upgrades, although I doubt the collective braincell at the Daily Mirror realised this.
I bet it was a troll. Too much perfect nonsense, such as switching from speed to amphetamines. They're the same thing... Speed is the street name for amphetamine.
@@tinyknott Interesting, reminds me of the time I smoked weed instead of marijuana
(Part 1 of a 738 episode series)
*999
More like a 1000
Aaand counting
It's probably billions at this point.
And 76% come form Latin America news media.
Mexico alone represents 48% of that group.
4:50 "Two years prior, while working on the Sun..." damn. that office must have some good AC.
Sol Station Alpha has the most advanced AC system known to man!.. daisy chained standing lamps. =P
Looks like all the solar radiation games them brain damage.
I’m hyped for the sequel “My Son Killed Nintendo”
That sounds like an awesome story to be true.
“Son drew picture of Mario and got sued, Nintendo got counter sued as the picture was a licenced commission for Grand Dad.”
@@Sydney_Angelyt FLINSTONES?!
"Son sues nintendo, fails" actually happened
Add a y to the end and it becomes a article you would see from a hardcore playstation fanboy
"Old media hates new media." Mate, in college I had a professor whose actual title in the journalism department was "technology and media" and I went to him with a proposal about why running my own electronic magazine via a website should count for one of my electives. HE SHOT ME DOWN. He said "the internet is not media." I said "But you're in technology though?" He said yeah -- the technology of print and visual media, NOT DIGITAL. I slapped my hand on my forehead and walked the hell out.
lol, thats hilarious!
It used to be gaming publications and developers defended games from this type of slander. Now they contribute to it and wonder why they're slowly being laid off.
Most modern game journalists are rejects from other fields, and just work on video games because it's the only field left that will accept them. And considering how journalism in general is going, that's already a low bar they can't pass.
The Pope John Paul didn't hate Carmageddon, he just prefers games like Diablo.
And he loves Doom
Yeah, John Paul would play it constantly in co-op with anyone he can, even Roger the choir boy. Then get back playing Diablo.
I think the Pope is more of a Leisure Suit Larry fan.
I mean, you play as the good guys and kill demons.
And he loves Death Game
Gaming isn't going anywhere. It's a part of life now. We have Ralph Baer, Noland Bushnell and Shigeru Miyamoto to thank for that.
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Yea these anti video game people are starting to become a relic.
The tree wise men of gaming. But if they are the three wise man, Gerald Anderson Lawson would be the drummer boy for what he created in the gaming industry.
*HIRONOBU SAKAGUCHI HAS ENTERED THE CHAT*
@Curtis Riceman you can just do what I do and not play them 🤔
"His friends recommended he switch from Speed to Amphetamines" - wow, I mean yes, shitty friends, but unless poor Carl lives somewhere with the WORST quality of Speed in the country, AND the kids are daft as a tabloid reporter... that's a noop. Speed is SUPPOSED to be Amphetamines. And how would he even afford either? Unless he keeps bringing home the cricket trophies, he should barely have money to scratch together a baggie of Meow a week. *rolls eyes*
"an excellent council" - aside from the ashens reference this is a hilariously british kind of brag:
"It would be hubris to assume we are the MOST excellent council, rather we are just one of many superlative councils serving crown and country"
and in the past 30 years, the slander has only gotten worse.
2020, and nothing fucking Changed.
1990s: "Video games killed my son."
2020: "Video games made my son into a sexist, racist, neo-nazi!"
@@Caledon91 That last one amuses me considering that Wolfenstein exists.
The main difference being that back then, the slander came from ignorant old people with an agenda, and now it comes from within the game journalism industry, full to the brim with young people with an agenda
Kendall Osborne on the bright side people seem to be waking up and seeing these journalists for the lying fear mongering scum they truly are the only people who still believe the tabloids today are the elderly and your auntie Karen on Facebook who also believes that vaccines cause autism.
Remember that time a baby choked on a pokéball and the mother blamed the Pokémon franchise for it?
that was a Burger king toy capsule, I remember those things
That's almost as bad as parents who own guns, don't teach their kids gun safety, then leave the guns in an easy to reach place with the safety off, and then blame everyone, and everything else but themselves when their little darlings who have never done anything wrong shot themselves, a loved one, and/or friend playing with it while they were not looking, or were not home watching them for any number of reasons. To be clear I'm 100% pro 2A here in the USA, and own several guns but my step daughter, and all the kids in my family have been taught to never touch a gun without adult supervision for hunting purposes, or at the shooting range.
@@CommodoreFan64 Man humanity is dumb and arrogant. That's what got them entirely wiped-out in the universe that the game Splatoon takes place in. Let's just hope our far future isn't full of dumb people who get themselves ended just like in the backstory of the Splatoon universe's timeline.
Was that the Burger King toy with the Pokeball?
@@MrGamer1992 Yep those were the ones, and they even got a massive recall making them a bit collectable these days.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burger_King_Pok%C3%A9mon_container_recall
I read "utter lies" and all I can think of is _The Secret of Monkey Island._
_"You fight like a dairy farmer!"_
"How Appropriate. You Fight Like a Cow."
I am rubber, you are glue.
"I've got a Tip for you.. Get the Point ?"
I like how in the first one it ends with, Then he started playing sports and was no longer a drug addict. Yah, because athletes never get into drugs and/or steroids 🙄
and its not like he might just not be doing it do to being exhuasted and filled with adrenaline from the sport and training.
basically replacing one addiction with another addiction as plenty of atheltes work themselves to exhaustion and live to do nothing else but that
As someone with epilepsy, I really appreciate you going into detail about the relationship between that and video games. One of my first questions for my neurologist when I was diagnosed was whether it was safe for me to play video games, having seen all those epilepsy warnings before. Thankfully the answer was I'd be fine to play them. And all the extra info you provided is even more reassuring. I'm glad I don't have to risk another grand mal seizure from playing Splatoon.
aw, thank you. yeah its always annoyed me the scarenmongering and false information the press has lead people to believe about the connection between games and epilepsy.
one even wen as far as to claim you can catch it from games.
Can't remember if it was The Sun or the Daily Mail (they're all the same to me tbh) but I remember they reported on a kid's suicide and talked about how it was Doki Doki Literature Club's fault after the game breaks the 4th wall so much that "the game pestered him with messages on his phone" (even though that never happens in The game). Cue all the other big outlets including the BBC reporting on this.
Jesus christ, I remember that article. It was memed to hell and back for just how blatantly _STUPID_ it was. They listed several functions or features of the game that don't occur whatsoever. They were just outright exploiting a tragic death, all for money. Pathetic
I remember an article that said ddlc made a girl commit suicide
“Except for Greg pope” are you kidding the whole world talked about him if not for a moment, for Greg that had to be a win.
Did I stroke out or something? I can't understand this for some reason.
@@tarponpet And this is a good example as to why proper punctuation is important.
@@SinaelDOverom Yeah
@@tarponpet at one point Larry says that being used to diss the game was not good publicity for Greg pope who was just a nobody politician.
And yet, "Carl" didn't mention that you can buy skins in Fortnite with REAL money...
Carl was buying guns in "Fortnite" but actually he is an actual gunrunner and was talking about his deal a fortnight ago.
Did... did you say... "skins"??
*FORTNITE MADE MY SON BUY HUMAN SKIN*
“Carl” a “drug addict” didn’t know speed and amphetameans are the same thing?
Lol
4:00 ah yes, because sports have absolutely no history of drugs or injuries, nope, just wholesome fun
Yeah, let's just outright lie to our customers. That's totally not gonna cause a major PR scandal or possibly get us sued. Let's do it!
I know, it's so amazing that these outlets think the risk of being exposed as frauds is worth it. A reputation is hard to build, but easy to destroy, and they are all too eager to destroy it!
@@cosmosofinfinity people have memory of a goldfish so they forget everything sooner than later.
It must be REALLY nasty scandal to change their mind and opinion
@@SpecShadow The only one that really had any backlash was when they illegally hacked the mobile phone of a murdered schoolchild. Even then it took a decade for them to face consequences and they just re-launched the paper a few weeks later.
Because the people that want to ban/censor games don't care about the actual information. Not will they ever dive deeper than the headline.
Correction: It was not the first airing of the Pokemon anime in Japan that caused seizures, it was specifically the airing of the episode, "Electric Soldier Porygon."
and to this day the pokemon Porygon was never seen again in a episode of Pokemon because of this exact incident...
@@xman5393 Albeit it was Pikachu's Attack that caused the flickering lights...
Porygon did nothing wrong
@@catriamflockentanz my man Porygon was framed
@@catriamflockentanz And it was Team Rocket's missiles.
Ahh the good old it happened once so it'll happen to everyone.
Fun fact, every serial killer has eaten food, therefore food makes you a serial killer...I'm looking at you Corn Flakes.
You mean a cereal killer?
@@jorgito93700 a serial cereal killer
@@MrHatman26 Someone call the Shrub Patrol!
Is it just me or do UK newspapers universally fit the USA's definition of "tabloid"? Even the BBC is wrong often enough to make them iffy.
the other type of paper here are refered to as "broadsheets" (because of their size) they're often more business focused, and only really feature this kind of news if it affects the stock market.
This is why i don't trust the news at all anymore, and rather do my own research.
All news nowadays must be taken with a grain of salt.
The Sun, on the other hand, needs to be taken with an entire mine.
Honestly what's next?
"My son stabbed himself with a kitchen knife, therefore all kitchen knives need to be banned"?
Don't give them any ideas.
Replace knife with guns and the horror ahow never ends
Only in the UK
That’s Bri’ish policymakers for yeh
Wasn't there a judge in the UK who talked about banning knives that had pointy tips because of the increase in stabbings?
I can’t imagine how Mrs. Bassi must have felt just being used like that.
WOW, NOW THAT WAS AN EXCELLENT MEME REFERENCE.
It's an outdated meme, sir, but it checks out.
He gets a pass for being friends with Ashen IRL.
Stay fresh, cheese bags!
Agreed
@@Berilac I spat my drink everywhere, thanks for that.
Is the Chef Excellence reboot being teased?
I'm from Hyndburn, or Hindburn as you call, I can confirm our council is still just as shit of not more 😂
The likelihood of seizures in movie theatres are far higher than video games. Both can still happen but there are piles of ways to have a seizure that are unrelated to video games
Dishonesty in the newspaper industry? Surely not!
Fun fact: The original PC version of Carmageddon is STILL banned in Brasil.
@だSpear I think it because they are too lazy to care to remove the ban.
@だSpear Why? Do you suddenly know the real answer despite being the one who asked the question?
@@MLBlue30 Actually that's pretty much it. The game is over 20 years old now. There's just no reason to revert that ban. The Remakes and the Mobile version were rated acordingly and are completely legal.
3rd world country after all.
Trust Bolsanaro to ignore the real issues
"Change from speed to amphetamines"
Speed is an amphetamine lmao.
pssst, nobody should knw that!
Do you mean more Generic amphetamines instead of Speed? However, I would rather regard them as god awfully dangerous for anyone’s lives!
@@SlapstickGenius23 Speed IS generic amphetamines......
@@Si_Mondo I get it now.
Speed is literally methamphetamine.
Never in my life have I heard of someone with the same surname as me, that isn't family. Small world.
I get that a fair bit with my surname, never met anyoen else with it in the UK.
I'm gonna guess, that either doom, night trap, mortal kombat, or grand theft auto. is mentioned on this list.
I stand corrected.
(Grand theft auto, is on a newspaper on the number 2 spot. Also I'm surprised, carmageddon is also mentioned.)
I wish I could say that the media has learned their lesson about blatant lying to the public, or that this is a scummy Euro thing, but everything coming out of Denver, Colorado's 9News proves otherwise.
So weird to see my city in a random comment lol
"My mates said I should try playing with amphetamines" instead of speed.
Uh... That's what speed *is*. Amphetamine. The Mirror over here is clearly trying to go for a perfect streak of unresearched statements!
The Mirror probably ran a story about a man who smoked marijuana because pot wasn't doing it for him anymore.
@@scottgaultney 😂😂🤣🤣 this comment absolutely killed me, thanks mate I needed that 👍
Good advice from his friend. Why buy expensive brand-name Speed(tm) when generic amphetemines are just as effective and much cheaper?
@@PrototypeSpaceMonkey Except the way it's presented is that the friend is claiming amphetamines are different from speed, and not just the same but cheaper.
You forgot "books" in the list of things the press have been against. Literally quotes where they talk of all the new books from the "printing press" could cause young people to walk into lamp posts reading in the street... 100+ years later and people complain about the young walking around reading off phones walking into lamp posts.
I remember the second law suit which resulted in later GBA games getting a warning message on start up and then the DS getting its warning message baked into the firmware.
so you had to see it every time you start the DS up (unless you hacked it).
The Sun is to blame for so many things!
Just want to immediately give you props for including a 16-bit version of Tell Me Lies
I thought it was just me hearing that tune.... and mentally filling in the blanks...
The time they claimed duck hunt dog was the father of those resident evil dogs 🤨
pretty sure that must have been an April Fool's site
They *_WHAT?_*
He was kinda blood thirsty. The look on his face when there was no duck carcass for him.
seems legit,that dog was an asshole
I'll remember that the next time I'm playing RE.
It'll make shooting those zombie dogs so satisfying.
My uncle from Nintendo turned me into a newt.
Not again!
He did?!
A newt?
Well...he got better.
Does your uncle weigh the same as a duck?
“Nintendo killed my son.”
“Killed your son?”
“. . . . he got better.”
I know people with epilepsy. Some have complained about emergency vehicles lights setting them off. Go figure 🤷♂️
3:49
Larry. Unless it's different in England, speed and amphetamines are the same thing.
Anyone that who knows drugs and call BS right away
Amphetamine is the 'proper' name for it, speed is just street slang, so yea same thing here in England
Imagine if the recommendation wasn't to change anything about his habits, but just to call it something else so it doesn't sound as bad.
Nintendo does what your Son don't.
Nintendo does what nintendo does
Kill my son?
@@Robeebert living
"Daily mirror"
Oh here we go.
times like these I like to hum the "man from the daily mail" Irish republican tune.
Hey Piers Morgan wouldn't have a job today otherwise. Ha, ha!
Have to say Larry it was a nice touch to actually end the article with a tribute to Jasminder Bassi.
The tabloids forget/ignored that an innocent 14 year old boy died tragically just so they could sell papers. The media’s disregard for people’s feelings really disgusts me.
Both Star Trek TNG and The Orville had episodes dealing with holodeck addiction, but the crew never stopped using the holodecks. In the end, it's about having self control and only you can do that.
It's just not a good day without getting a "Hello, you" from Guru Larry.
It wasn’t the first airing of Pokémon that caused the seizures, it was a later ep called Electric Soldier Porygon
Likely it is to trip up people who just copy the video as Double Dash wasn't released around 2008, but Mario Kart Wii was.
I think he puts in little inaccuracies like that on purpose to catch plagiarists. He's caught plagiarists that way before.
I mean I guess it could technically be the first airing if we count the season as a whole as one airing of Pokémon
I'm convinced that Daily Mirror is just the bastard child of Daily Mail and The Sun.
So two wrongs don't make a right, but two rights make a left?
That digital version of "The Gonk" in that second bit is amazing.
My dad had epilepsy and played video games quite a bit. He took medication to keep the seizures under control and never had one while playing games.
"Don't try speed, try amphetamines"
Dammit, Larry, I was about to go to bed.. now I need to watch this..
Mwahahaha >:D
Haha why am I not surprised it features the Mirror and the Sun? Surprised there wasn't a News of the World one in there too
Always happy to see a Bad Influence clip too 🙂
@@Larry I was wondering if the Pokemon Cards at knifepoint thing would be in here......but where would it fit under? Trading cards aren't really 'new media' even if they are based on a videogame
Uk youtubers always upload late at night do uk people sleep during the day.
@@belstar1128 it's mostly to grab the US audience I think..
I want to compliment Larry on the language he uses. The words are well chosen and the sentences are constructed with due diligence. Well done Larry!
It's absolutely disgusting to use the tragic death of a child to sell papers
That Ashens Chef Excellence reference came out of nowhere and I bloody loved it.
Didn't know about the eye patch and epilepsy thing, that it cool.
Always great to see you upload Larry, thank you for the great episodes!
I remember this one thing about some christians wanted to ban Doom for imagery of demons and hell.
Dude you're literally killing demons in hell, what could be more christian than that?
That's like saying "fuck the devil" at church and getting kicked for it.
Sadly, I told my mom, who's a Christian, about the fact that you kill demons in hell, and she *still* said no because it'd be corruptive anyway.
So some Christians just don't care if you're killing the demons, the fact that they're in the game at all is grounds for banning.
Wasnt that actually a fake publicity stunt by the studio/publisher or am I thinking of a different game.
One thing you missed about the suicide fortnite story is that speed is amphetamine. It's literally just a street name for plain old house hold amphetamine. So him being encouraged to switch from speed to speed suggest that it's written by someone who have no experience with drugs at all. The supposed effects of the speed is also extremely dubious.
My ex girlfriend had epilepsy. She was once triggered by flashing lights in a nightclub. I accompanied her to every neurologist appointment and nobody ever told us about wearing an eyepatch to stop photo-epileptic seizures. Thanks, Guru Larry!
(She has no trouble with video games as far as I know)
Ah 11:05, oh how I miss Chef Excellence haha. As always Larry, an excellent video sir and definitely an eye opener at how The Scum and Mirror newspapers like to report such nonsense (I would know, I had to deliver those nasty rags)
Well, he's making a cameo in Ashen's next movie if that's a help? :)
@@Larry Ooh, I loved Ashens' last one and was keeping an eye out for that. Cheers for the reminder matey :D
I was thinking 'why did Larry go with Fleetwood Mac for the intro song?' then I remembered the lyrics 😅
Now it's going to be in my head for a week.
Sadly I automatically associate that song with Todd Howard now.
can you elaborate?
what song name?
@@pinkdiamond1847 I have other words for Todd Howard without ruining one of my favorite Fleetwood Mac songs.
@@Finnishmanni The song is called Little Lies
Nintendo Killed My Son... that thumbnail though!
It’s crappy journalism like this that has us so distrustful of the media in general today. Well, there’s always been crappy journalism but we’re just more aware of it these days. And people definitely love to fan that distrust too...
They didn't even titled their piece of lies "Child killed by Nintendo", they titled it "Nintendo killed my son". 1st person. Implying it was the mother's word. That's a extremely disrespecting thing to do to someone who lost her child.
Who even reads newspapers anymore anyway. Unless of course you're karen. Then that would explain the hate in this newspaper.
They've moved online now.
Yesterday I accidentally used Bing (which might explain this) and I looked up coovid neinteen (spelled correctly I'm misspelling to avoid getting b&) symptoms and instead of a helpful list of symptoms or the NHS website the first page was entirely comprised of fear mongering by tabloids.
I might be dying over here Bing and tabloids this shit should be illegal 😡
Right wing Murdoch shitrags like The Sun and The Daily Mail sell millions of copies daily in the UK and and are read by people who are the primary voting demographic, the sooner tabloid print media dies and News Corp collapses the better.
One of the worst forces for censorship doesn't exist in the irrelevant papers... but in each and every single one of us
@だSpear There are more comic creators beside Marvel.
You sound like one of those people who slags something off without having any knowledge about it.
Old people my dad hates the news paper but he still reads it out of habit.
Oh no... pokemon go makes people go outside and exercise and have a life.. its absolute horror
I swear i remember an article kinda like this with lots of people complaining that their legs really hurt because of pokemon go and it was just because they weren't sitting on their ass all day
@@LootandScoot I know... they just figured out how to move their legs for very extended periods of time 🤣
You do know that PGo was involved with numerous accidents, right?
And before you said anything, I said *Involved*, not caused. PGo is a game that isn't fully compatible with society today because not everyone has the sense to, say, not look down at their phone while driving or crossing a street or off a cliff, etc.
videogame "journalism" is a joke
Journalism is a joke in general. 2nd oldest profession. And 1st one is better. Because whores at least usually honest about what they do.
@@shadowflash705 I always thought hunter/gatherer was the oldest profession? But either way, being a NEET is older than any of them.
I know I chose what games I’m going to put money down on by someone’s opinion in a niche magazine...
“Ethnics in video game journalism!!”
GAMER GATE BABY!!!
it spawned an INSANE “cottage industry” that is still unfortunately going on....
I’m a 2nd generation gamer. My dad started out in the 80s playing Donkey Kong, PAC Man, and his favorite, Galaga. He actually taught me how to play video games. Mom also loved, and loves to play video games as well. My entire family got closer playing games, board games, video games, etc.
My parents believed the epilepsy thing for a short amount of time and for about 5 years after each game would include a piece of paper warning about epilepsy even gameboy games.