It's something to do.

The Sims tries to introduce dusting via DLC.

Our faith in humanity was dug up and then buried deeper.

Stupid cliff racers.

In only a few decades, video games went from being a weird sideshow of bleeps and bloops to a billion dollar industry and pastime for millions, complete with its own competitive leagues. Anyone who grew up through this time has witnessed the growth of beautiful artform only to have its wings clipped by constant microtransactions and identical sequels. Those 12-year-olds who were beating us at Halo and describing exactly what they did to our moms last night are now 26 year olds, still beating us…

A while back, an editing genius by the name of eli_handle_b․wav made a very fine send up of Austin Powers In Mass Effect. It made us feel good to watch in more ways than one. Maybe it's our age. Maybe it's the quality. Whatever it is there's more of it now and it makes us want to do horrible things with a tennis racket in a tent while a disgusted henchman watches our shadows.

We could have spent our childhoods outside or doing things, but when “talking to girls” is competing with “converting an entire army of Persian war elephants to blue” those ladies stood as much of a chance as a men-at-arms has against a Cobra with a machine gun. Here's to all the time we spent trying to get out of the dark ages as quickly as possible. And here are some more video game memes.

Game is life

So that's how you put a clip in a vacuum.

From that moment on we were 'gamers', beholden to worlds that extended digitally beyond the scope of our wildest imaginations.

So that's what it would be like.

Well, it's been done.

Mmmm doggo think xbox tastes better

Everybody may like their own brand, but these two together are magic.