Prince of Persia on "Life"

[mltvcocktail]

If you haven't seen this prepare to have your mind blown about how little some people know about video games.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=bB3ir_h3VeY

"It's a hard drive full of games!"

[cyber34]

I actually just saw this before looking here (and remembered reading about it a while ago). It really is a shame how some people are out of the loop.

[wideawakewesley]

Yeah I groaned when I watched it too. Still enjoying the show mind you.

[magunwarrior]

Yeah I groaned when I watched it too. Still enjoying the show mind you.

My sentiments exactly.

[hydrocoptic]

omg...that was just sad.

[tokenuser]

If you haven't seen this prepare to have your mind blown about how little some people know about video games.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=bB3ir_h3VeY

"It's a hard drive full of games!"ISOs people. I rarely play any game from new media - the CDs/DVDs stay in the box until I need them again. Much faster to load/read from disk than magnetic media.

[eddielee]

The worst part of that was the "I'm 30 years old, I live in my mom's basement, and I have a Captain Kirk costume in my closet." Please, how stereotypical can you get.

[quorumcall]

When I first saw the promos for this show, I thought, Captain Winters in primetime? Heck yeah! But then, one night, I watched an episode that had him going to talk to two college guys at a restaurant. That scene was an atrocity filled with some of the worst stereotypes and crummy acting I've seen. This clip reminds me of that horrid night forever etched in my brain.

[satori]

yeah, I cringed as well. I'm a huge fan of this show, it just keeps getting better and better... until this episode. I'm hoping the writer goes back to being a plumber now that the writer's strike is on.

[heyseuss]

I move my fingers in mime to the onscreen joystick moves as well. You should see me in a crowd of people watching someone on DDR.

[gonzooo]

ISOs people. I rarely play any game from new media - the CDs/DVDs stay in the box until I need them again. Much faster to load/read from disk than magnetic media.
Regardless if you use ISOs or not, it's not just a "Hard drive full of games". I think the gripe people have with that one is that it seems to suggest the actual machine is called a hard drive, which it so obviously is not.

My guess is a writer talked to his "gamer buddy" and he said something like "Well, a console is pretty much just a PC, but you generally fill the hard drive with games." and that's from where they evolved that very vague and possibly deceitful line.

[heyseuss]

Regardless if you use ISOs or not, it's not just a "Hard drive full of games". I think the gripe people have with that one is that it seems to suggest the actual machine is called a hard drive, which it so obviously is not.

My guess is a writer talked to his "gamer buddy" and he said something like "Well, a console is pretty much just a PC, but you generally fill the hard drive with games." and that's from where they evolved that very vague and possibly deceitful line.

I think that they wanted to communciate to people pretty much what you said, and what the guy in the said, that a console is a computer. To most people though, they wouldn't understand the difference between the CPU and the hard drive, but 'hard drive' is a more familiar term. I only have 5 games on my consoles hard drive and one of them is the 2GB Rumble Roses, woohoo.

[matteekay]

I adore the badly composited level indicators and "You Have Died"'s, set in Papyrus, of course. What other typeface would creative folk use?

[heyseuss]

I adore the badly composited level indicators and "You Have Died"'s, set in Papyrus, of course. What other typeface would creative folk use?

That's how they wrote in prince of persia times.

[matteekay]

Of course! God, I feel like such a fool...

{winkwinknudgenudgeknowhatImeanknowhatImean}

[serenity]

Of course! God, I feel like such a fool...

{winkwinknudgenudgeknowhatImeanknowhatImean}

Say no more, say no more.

[neverendingwhitelights]

Any chance of me watching this show now has gone flying out of the window of the 37th story into a pit of venomous cobras and rusty ice picks pointing directly up into the sky as if to say "impale thyself on me, my unrusted friend!"

[saqibnk]

I still think Life is a good show even after this low, low point in the series. My only question would have to be, how did the kid manage to program the game to load an Excel file after reaching a certain level...actually how the hell did he manage to install Microsoft Office on his Xbox

[satori]

I still think Life is a good show even after this low, low point in the series. My only question would have to be, how did the kid manage to program the game to load an Excel file after reaching a certain level...actually how the hell did he manage to install Microsoft Office on his Xbox

well it's just a PC right? and it's doubly compatible because the X-box and Excel are both from the same company.... and they both have the letter x in them.

[geeksunny]

well it's just a PC right? and it's doubly compatible because the X-box and Excel are both from the same company.... and they both have the letter x in them.

Well now technically it runs a stripped down modified version of the Windows 2000 kernel thats not capable of running more than one application at any single moment. ;) But this is television, its not supposed to make sense.

[ryudo]

The worst part of that was the "I'm 30 years old, I live in my mom's basement, and I have a Captain Kirk costume in my closet." Please, how stereotypical can you get.

Not to sound racial but at least in this case he was Black and thin, not white and 300 pounds with bad acne.

[satori]

Well now technically it runs a stripped down modified version of the Windows 2000 kernel thats not capable of running more than one application at any single moment. ;) But this is television, its not supposed to make sense. ...right.... isn't that the point of this thread.... it doesn't make sense, If you need me to actually map out what I'm saying, well it's that despite these being Microsoft products they don't play together. What is *your* point?

[geeksunny]

...right.... isn't that the point of this thread.... it doesn't make sense, If you need me to actually map out what I'm saying, well it's that despite these being Microsoft products they don't play together. What is *your* point?

Exactly what I said, although I guess it wasn't very explicit. It wasn't designed to. Yes, it is closer to a PC than any other game console out there but it still can't even run Windows. After years and years of hacking it the closest thing people have gotten to running Windows on it was running a mostly-broken mostly-featureless version of Windows CE that can barely handle Notepad, and using a DOS emulator to run Windows 98.

Just because they are both from Microsoft doesn't mean they're going to work with each other.