YOUTUBE: iPad Games

Need more proof that Apple's newest product, the iPad is possibly more ridiculous than you already thought? Check out this segment of Bleep Bloop, a College Humor web-series, specializing in testing out new technologies. This is sarcasm at it's best, folks!

Sergio del Limónar

YOUTUBE: Internet Bridge Troll

You know you've seen it before. You're on YouTube or watching a video on another site and you glance down to the comments section only to see bully-like comments made for no apparent reason. This is the work of the "troll." A newly coined name for the pessimist who makes comments either to simply start a fight from safety of their own bedroom or because they have nothing better to do than take out their misdirected anger on innocent videos. Either way, these "trolls" bait more people than they should. And that is the point of this video from College Humor entitled "Internet Bridge Troll". Always clever and topical, the creative team at CH have done it again with this clever video showing us that the "trolls" can be beat, you just have to know how.

Buzzy

YOUTUBE: Minesweeper

As a kid I used to get an unhealthy amount of anxiety playing video games. Dual mode on the James Bond inspired "GoldenEye" gave me veritable heart attacks and "Mario Cart" wasn't much better. Basically any game with a timing aspect stresses me out to the extreme.

If I play any type of electronic game, I prefer to keep it to Solitaire or Pinball on my computer at work. Even the fairly tame Minesweeper is out of the question, although I have tried my hand at it enough in the past to be convinced victory is more or less a combination of luck and if the PC likes you rather than skill.

Either way, this (oldie but goodie) video from College Humor is classic. Poking fun at Hollywood's attempts to make cinematic versions of video games, they have come up with a mock-trailer for "Minesweeper: The Movie".

Satirizing such a simple game might seem difficult but tie it into the obvious war-flick genre and the melodramatic possibilities are ripe. In the discussing strategy, the situational "8 Box" comes up, to which the response is "8...God help us all."

I just wish playing these games was as much fun as watching this video!

Sergio del Limonar