This is just great. I love stuff like this. Craig Pearson of PC Gamer was curious as to why, when looking through a server list, there’s always a ton of servers with just one person playing. So, he took the bold step of joining those servers and asking the lone player, like, what are you doing here all alone? Chat transcripts and screenshots here.
Via RPS, like pretty much everything I post here. In fact, this blog should just be called “Via RPS.” Or, maybe I should just redirect.
EDIT: By the way, I just went back to re-read the article, because I thought it was funny. As I was there, a terminator robot broke a hole in the screen and peered through at me.
That’s awesome. If anyone at the PC Gamer site could please let me know how I could get this kind of advertising on my site, please let me know. The kind of advertising that stops you from reading the thing that you want to read. That totally obliterates the content you’re there to view. That’d be great.
You know, TV advertising is pretty bad, and there’s tons of commercials and product placement, but even it hasn’t reached the point where I’m watching, for instance, The Shield, and while Vic Mackey is talking, a giant bag of Cool Ranch Doritos stands in front of him, waving, and completely obscuring him from view.
Yet.
9 responses so far ↓
1 PlayStar // Feb 14, 2008 at 10:18 am
If you use Firefox, try NoScript, it will stop most of the annoying ads. I can’t live without it anymore. ;-)
https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/722
2 Joerdgs // Feb 14, 2008 at 10:38 am
That article was very interesting. And funny. He found all sorts of players, from admins to noobs. :-)
I’m an admin myself on a Zombie Survival server in Garry’s Mod. It’s pretty to be an admin of a popular server, people learn to know you.
3 Tom // Feb 14, 2008 at 11:21 am
You wish you could get cool ads like that. I bet you couldn’t even snag a 2.5 million pixel large UT3 ad to replace your site background. We’re pros at this, you know. That level of reader-irritation doesn’t come easy.
4 Christopher // Feb 14, 2008 at 11:47 am
This reminds me, as do all things, of something I did once: an ad-heavy version of Concerned.
5 SteveCentra // Feb 14, 2008 at 12:24 pm
AdBlock Plus is also a great Firefox ad blocker that doesn’t block the objects that are intended to be seen.
6 Blaze // Feb 15, 2008 at 1:29 am
What TV do you watch? Those damn ads that appear in the corners by the logo are getting frustratingly big - sometimes with animation AND sound.
I’ve seen ones that take up 25% of the screen and completely obscure stuff like subtitles. Even worse, flipping channels, I notice that MTV2 used to have ones that appeared directly in the center of the screen before and after every commercial break.
I hate those things SO MUCH.
7 The Prick of Destiny // Feb 15, 2008 at 2:11 pm
Chris, I think that ad anecdote inspired me. Also, the whole comparison with The Shield made me laugh my arse off!
8 Craigp // Feb 19, 2008 at 9:25 am
Thanks for the kinds words on my article. I actually run AdBlock on Firefox, which handily blocks any of the ads that we serve to the readers of the site. It’s about the only control I have over it, I fear.
Still, given that I spent about a year of my life demanding people read “Concerned”, it’s warming to the heart to see you liked my silly idea.
9 Bryce // Apr 18, 2008 at 6:31 am
This reminds me a lot of Temp Chat.
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