gaming is pathetic
 

ok - i don't mean all gamers are pathetic - but i just saw a gatorade commercial for gamers playing halo3 - puh-freaking-leese this is the single most pathetic thing i have ever heard

What the Gatorade, The Halo3(if you say so im not giving you the poo-shooting ak47), or the fact that Gatorade is using a popular, and awesome game to promote their product which clearly has nothing at all to do with video games because its used for athletes, not gamers?

its just the idea that you would need to drink gatorade to play a video game. i drink gatorade on long and strenuous hikes (like 15 miles up and down thousands of feet of elevation) - the very thought that someone would drink an energy drink to play a video game is just . . .frankly . . . stinkystupid!

its actually not an energy drink, but if it was I would see the point with games and the drink, because alot of gamers pull all nighters or longer. And the energy drinks help them keep awake and focused on the game. But yeah, for gatorade its stupid.

thank you - that's my point. . . drink caffeine - cool, but a 'sports replenishment drink makes NO SENSE at all

agreed, I normally keep my fridge stocked with jolt, and normally have a drawere full of tins of Jolt (thats the soda and the mints) for when i have lan parties.

Don't listen to the shit-flinger. He has his reasons to be "anti-video games".

http://img.timeinc.net/time/daily/20...monkey1018.jpg

Let it go zero..........you can't expect these experiments to be performed on humans.

i gotta go cook dinner lol, nice pic, be back later i think

but the shocks really hurt

Don't need a sports drink for videogames? My ass. Have you seen the videogames they're making these days? Yeah, Halo and all that shit is still for the lazy types, but DDR, Guitar Hero, the upcoming Rock Band, and anything for the Wii forces you to actually be active in your video game playing.

bah - kids these days. . . in my days we played with boulders wrapped with venomous snakes . . . while wearing nothing but barbed wire wrapped around our crotch

I hate Halo. I hate Halo 2. I'm not going to try Halo 3, because I'll hate it.

Zelda, Resident Evil, Mario/Donkey Kong, and Sonic are the only games I like.

Still not as intense a gamer as Segata Sanshiro, though.

depends on how tight you wrap the barbed wire

yikes

Nope. Segata Sanshiro > You.

I am an AVID gamer, but when they began referring to pro gamers as "atheletes", I drew the line. Granted, the pros are exceptionally talented players, they have godlike hand-eye coordination and reflexes, and are rarely fat losers who live in their parent's basement.


Those people dont tend to move beyond the basement.

But gatorade is for replenishing electrolytes after strenous activity. I definately see what zero is getting at; they are marketting it as if the "stress" of gaming demands the replenishment.

In my experience, gaming for hours on end demands cans of biscuits (pilsbury, of course) and beer. Lots of beer.

Kids today are pussies.

Back in "the day" we would load up on double espresso latte's and a pound of chocolate and settle in for a few hours of PONG.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...nmule/pong.gif

Pong... woohoo... i could totally stare at a little white dot that goes Bee-boo, bee-boo, for hours. Man, that game may be the first comercialized video game (its infact not the first actual one) but it does not hold a flame to Gears Of War. I mean, if pong had curb-stomping in it, that would be different....

Gears of War blows Zero for quarters, man.

Man thats it, im gonna go get my shotgun/chainsaw then you'll be sorry

But seriously, your wrong, gears is one of the best games i've ever played. Its one of the best games out there.

...And we LIKED it!....Did you hear the crotchety old man voice? :)

I thought you'd say that, that's why I threw away all the shells and poured out the gas. Now what, biotch?

Btw, nice picture of bruce willis, thats from the original die hard right?

I do believe it is.

-knocks him to the ground and curb stomps him, leaving his head a pile of gibs and fragments of skull- Thats what!! COME GET SOME, COME GET SOME!!!.

I had an extra guy!

-Has since refilled chainsaw and shotgun- Well.... guess im just gonna have to.... -chainsaws his head off, shoots said head- Hmmm... wheres your 1up NOW?!

wow.... im really lame...

Yes, you are.

thanks, I needed the self esteem boost

Well, I normally get a boost when I'm right about something...

What happens when your wrong... like about GoW?

I get off of here and take a shower, so long.

I don't even drink gatorade for sports. I just use it has a everyday beverage. I beleive the point of the commercial is not that gaming gets you exhausted to the point of the need of gatorade but that is the perfered drink of the common gamer. This is all just my theory though.

I haven't seen the Gatorade commercial yet but I have seen the one for Mountain Dew's Game Fuel for Halo.I don't drink Mountain Dew and I would never play Halo.I am a member of a gaming forum and I love getting on there and making fun of the people who live and die for the game.Like the people who are gonna shell out almost 200 dollars for a speacial edition that comes with some lame and most likely cheap made plastic replica of Master Douche's helmet.it's like there begging to be even more geeky than they already are.

And as far as calling pro gamers athletes, that's just stupid.There's nothing athletic about sitting on your couch playing games.Don't get me wrong, i love video games and have been playing them for years and will continue to play til I no longer can but I would not say I'm an athlete in any way.

Gatorade eh? I know Mountain Dew introduced their "Game Fuel" for Halo 3. Anyway, it's just marketing like anything else. This is probably the biggest game release I've seen (with 7-11 even selling the damn game) and of course they'll market the hell out of it. Cereal based on your favorite cartoons, underwear with the best superheros on them, and Mountain Dew with video game characters on it.

lol, i just saw this and had to post it into this thread, well its a link, and it is totally relevant to this thread. check it out, its a webcomic that I've been reading for a few years now.

http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/comic.php?d=20070914

I drink gatorade just because I like the taste. :eek:

I drink Gatorade because the more I drink the less there is for people who actually play sports.

"Hey, I need something to replenish my fluids after playing B-ball with the fellas! Where be all the Gatorade at?"
"I drank all of it! And I'm gonna just piss it all out after sitting around doing nothing!"