What a shocker. A celebrity has a Nintendo DS in her hands ... and is playing
Brain Training! Wow, only
Brain Age or
Nintendogs could ramp up the cliche' levels. Tom Cruise's former snatch of the month, Nicole Kidman, has begun her campaign to be the pale
face of the DS by advertising that she's utterly rubbish at
More Brain Training, something I don't find impossible to believe if her ability to play
rock, paper, scissors is anything like her ability to pick relationship material.
Look at her, she can't conceive that she got a score of 52. You show that mad Japanese professor who's boss, Nicole! We're rooting for you. Speak into that mic. Speak loud and ... oh. Oh, well no wonder you're losing, how do you expect it to understand Australian!? No cookie for you! Still, could be worse, you could be stuck with Tom and his Scientology pals, worshipping the corpse of L. Ron Hubbard twice nightly and frying ghosts off your body with little electroboxes.
Anyway, this works perfectly with Nintendo's plan to keep their hooks in this so-called 'casual' market. All I can do is repeat what was asked in the comments thread for this video -- what does a game of chance have to do with your intelligence?
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11:26 AM on 06.26.2007
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blue.
Blue.
BLUE!
BLUE!
FUCKING BLUE!
BL-UE!
BALOO!
... !
blue = Baloo?
WTF?!
On a serious note: RPS is pretty badass.
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1761338
AKA
BLUE.
I say having Nicole Kidman as a rep is a good choice. I don't know if you've noticed but gaming still has a stigma attached to it. By making it more mainstream, it not only helps the industry but also helps removes the nasty assumptions people have about us not unlike the assumptions some of us have about other people.
It's not making me want to buy one (since all Nicole Kidmans is sold seperately)... but it's still cute.
But, seriously, I'm glad someone finally stuck it to Nicole Kidman because she's never bothered anyone ever and, frankly, I'm sick of it. All worth it to read the phrase 'snatch of the month.' The product of an all-nighter for sure but worth every second.
It gets annoying after awhile.
There we go...
*imagines an Alba/Kidman DS threesome*
Now that's a game I'd like to play at Vegas. The dealer shows scissors: what do you say? What DO you SAY??
Taking it personally? Maybe you should re-read your post. If you don't like the commercial than whatever. I'm sure you've got more writing skills than to resort to talking about a woman's snatch in an attempt to play the "I'm clever by bashing" card.
on another note, are we in some kind of pre-E3 drought? It seems no good news has come out recently.
It's a clever pun that means both!
Metallic Rose: Good faux-70s band name, heinous handheld color.
Doesn't make me wanna buy one though.
Then again I don't want to play brain age.
I like her cause she is a great actress.
*see: to die for.
Oooh, that's a low blow. It made me laugh though, so it's alright.
For those of you who don't know, Nicole Kidman has lots of rumours going on about her apparent lack of fertility. Apparently she miscarried and that was the result of her break up with Tom Cruise and she has since lost a baby with her new husband Keith Urban.
I never thought I'd see the day I'd see such tabloid allusions on Destructoid.
Jesus christ man, you are over-friggin reacting!!!
She is a woman, she is a celebrity, people refering to her as dumb or a whore is pretty much inevetible. calm down.
Rock.
ROCK.
ROH HOCK.
ROCK-A.
ROOOOOCK.
Crappy voice detection aside, my grandad owns her at this game, and he hasn't got a clue what's going on. Still, can't knock Nicole, even if I do have to watch her massacre The Golden Compass... She's universally recognised and massively uncontroversial - perfect Nintendo material.