Hello again! After yesterdays awesomely original post about rap music, which everyone knows was hard hitting, I thought I would post a top ten list of the absolute best blog posts from the major video game blogs that link to other peoples content. Be it Mega 64 or Screwattack or even just a rap song someone made up to the music of an old nintendo game in an effort to get attention, blogs sure love linking to other people's content! And now I'm going to link you to links of other people's content, now this is true journalism! What's really interesting is how many comments these blogs get for the videos compared to how many they get for original content.

10) Joystiq links to Zero Punctuation. In this classic post, they describe the video as being classic.

9) Over here kotaku has linked to Mega 64, some friends from Something Awful who were turned down by G4, turned down by G4, make a parody of Assassins Creed and Tom Green by dressing as the main character from the video game (except not really, because it takes place in the future actually! Spoiler alert.) and walk around saying lines from the game. In their post Kotaku seems critical of the video saying its not their best work.

8) Here in this amazing post Kotaku posts a video from youtube where a guy raps about Gears of War. This post is amazing because it mentions Kriss Kross.

[pictured below are Kriss Kross, whom I confused with Kid n Play.]


7) In a classic Destructoid post of a Mega 64 skit, he says this is the greatest skit ever. Unless you pay attention to who makes games, that's the guy who made Sonic standing there looking at them. And he sure looks angry. I think he also made the Zelda clone, which is why Zelda shows up at the end.

[This is a real SEGA game. Just look at it. It more or less was Zelda.]


6) In a Kotaku post they post a video from the Angry Gamer Nerd, they talk about how good we have it these days in an attempt to prove their cool for having used a power glove and make kids appreciate how easy games are.

[This isn't an image macro, this is a real adverisment for the power glove. Making jokes about it seems silly when it more or less was a joke. To quote the Wizard, you know that movie about Mario 3 with Fred Savage, "It's so bad."]


5) In this Desturctoid post of content from the Hitler rap guys, I left a joking comment about how Kotaku had posted it a day before. In internet blogocube terms, a day is like missing the boat entirely. Apparently the guy here who posted it couldn't take a joke says "remind me to never promote your game again." The next comment starts with "LOL." For me personally this is the greatest post ever, but for this professional journalized list its number five. The writer of the post says that the video shows us exactly what is wrong with online gaming. Also worth mentioning is the star in the F word, ensorship unless for satirical purposes like my post yesterday about rap, seems silly. Especially on the internet since pornography is right over there. No really, type in the right series of words into google and you'll find all sorts of interesting stuff. I'm reminded of a scene in a film where a child tells their aunts boyfriend "I googled murder." What type of society are we living in these days?



4) Okay this is just crazy someone beat Mario Brothers in just over five minutes! Kotaku had to post a still from the game and a link to the video. They came up with the joke of "oh what could you do in that time?" and list off several things you could do instead of beat Mario Brothers. Simply brilliant and original linking here.

3) While on there today looking for all these old posts, every site has a video about Team Fortress 2's Spy update. I just thought I would mention that as number three. Some of the jokes they tried to use are "Spy update sneaks up on us" Kotaku makes the joke that "This is exactly what happens when you're all sneaky. Someone goes and sneaks right back, uploading your introduction video all over the internet..." Woah, what a thing to say. Such cunning linguists over on kotaku to copulate correspondence with such a comfortably cutting wit. It's particularly well done and is a must read and makes the top three. Honestly, at this point the joke is pretty much hammered home isn't it? Do I really need to post a number 2 video?

2) This link actually leads nowhere. As the previous paragraph points out so perfectly, the joke I'm telling with this post is all but told. Perhaps not as tongue and cheek as yesterday, which some people, maybe all people who read it didn't get. The idea of top ten lists for gaming journalism is a silly idea. Today I thought I'd point out how silly it is to take someone's content. Just post it on your own blog and make comments on it, saying somethng very generic and basic that requires minutes of thought. I've nothing against any of the bloggers that do this, it's the nature of the internet. It's just when the content isn't amazing content to begin with that I take offense. What could have been used for a top ten list or reflection on a recent video game (only from the last five years though, no one goes old school. In fact, no one even calls old school games old school anymore.) and its moral choices or whatever. I might wake up tomorrow with some other bitting commentary on games journalism, so be sure and read it and not get the jokes there too. I've some ideas on how to better parody them.

1) What has to be my favorite video preview of a game ever, Joystiq, Kotaku, and even our own Destructoid linked to it. But not only them, Kottke, Goatse,1up, some site here, Electro Lemon and whats her face's website they write on, this site, Joystiq again from their xbox subsite or whatever, and even me yesterday. Why in gods name does everyone want to post this video?

Obviously to top this top ten list, duh.