Yes, I got that. It had a good premise and good potential and high production values but totally weak writing. The joke at the end was feeble, the tech-wise brainiac kid from 1998 wouldn't know about Apple Computer? Like many videos I see these days it skates by on HD and rapid pop-culture dialog and not much else. >> ^Sarzy:

>> ^ulysses1904:
I don't get it. This video had a premise and lots of pop culture but nothing else.
I blame Tarantino.

It's FreddieW's critique of the current state of mainstream gaming. The End (you can't do that much in a two minute video).

Brainiac!

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I think lots of people believe "high level science" consists of 3 or 4 ideas:

1. In Schrodinger's thought experiment, a cat in a box could be seen as both alive and dead until an observer collapses the waveform
2. Heisenberg's uncertainty principle says you can't know both the exact position and momentum of a particle
3. General relativity states time slows and mass increases for objects at relative high velocity
4. Light's behavior exhibits a wave/particle duality, as demonstrated by interference experiments

Know those 4 things? Have you watched Star Wars once? Good, you're now equipped to understand pretty much all "oh wow that guy's a crazy brainiac nerd" humor. Somehow if you reference things like that, you get a pass to do a comedy routine without any jokes. You're stroking people's ego enough that they don't care you're not funny.

I think people would just get pissed off if he left the "nerd humor" script, though. People don't want to be challenged, or hear pop culture references they don't know. Anyone who's the tiniest, tiniest bit interested in Greek mythology knows Pandora opened a jar, not a box - but nobody wants to hear a joke involving Pandora's jar. They want the same reference that 1000 previous pop cultural references have prepared them for. They want affirmation that they're part of the special club that knows about stuff.

So, to do "nerd" humor the plan is to avoid anything actually nerdy. Stick to the most often recycled bits of pop culture and pop science, mix in some clumsy, senseless double entendres so that people know when to laugh, and you're good to go.

>> ^mentality:

>> ^Clumsy:
Agree and disagree - as a PC MMO player, ya, WoW - big game that's awesome and amazing and and ... but DC Universe plays and is obviously catering to a PS3 audience, so that is actually something to take into consideration when you do a review. What other games are there, how are they different, and junk.
Enjoy these reviews nonetheless, just wish it wasn't such a cheapshot all the time.

So catering to a PS3 audience means designing a shitty MMO? There's great qualities in console games that you can emulate, instead of just taking the PC MMO model and dumbing it down.


Out of curiosity, have you even played the game? The game play itself is significantly harder to master than WoW, requiring that you use combos, dodge incoming attacks and decide power roles. Additionally, having only six powers to choose from means you must use actual strategy in choosing which ones you will be using.

On top of that, they are going to a completely unique MMO game experience. It's plays much more like Arkham Asylum than WoW with fun dialogue, several actual story lines, and the ability to play the game for a short period of time and still manage to accomplish something (about friggin time MMOs), and you can go through the entire game solo without any issues.

Obviously it has some issues...the chat system is horrid and for the most part people rarely use it. Some of the powers are a little buggy, there are a couple of known sound issues, etc. Fairly minor stuff considering its recent release date.

Oh, and there's just something awesome about chasing Lex Luther to the Hall of Doom because he has kidnapped Superman (while they supposedly teamed up to take on Brainiac), confronting him, then challenging him in said Hall of Doom in order to save the Man of Steel.

So you ARE completely full of shit then. It's not about whether or not she's funny, of course that's a matter of opinion. (sigh) I'm so lonely.

Aniatario: You're right in that being smarter than most Americans does not make me a brainiac.

"The intelligent few that do" Oh Please..

You like a different comedian, doesn't make you a brainiac.

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The rest of the videos they do are pretty interesting as well. Good science along with NurdRage vs. the dramatized science of Brainiac or non-existent science of KipKay videos.

The professor (not in this video) should be called Epic Hair Professor. Seriously. I wish that dude taught my chemistry class.

It is from a "Brainiac" level broadcast, so I am happy it is as good as it was!

Don't think they're using the term Brainiac in the proper context here.

If you eat lots of asparagus, your urine will acquire super-powers and will be known throughout the world.

>> ^demon_ix:
A bit over-excited with themselves... Can't really say the amount they used makes this clip better than any of the Brainiac thermite segments.
Nice carbon footprint, also.

I agree that it wasn't that exciting. But what carbon footprint are you talking about? No CO2 is released in this reaction. Only a bit from the burning plastic in the car probably.

A bit over-excited with themselves... Can't really say the amount they used makes this clip better than any of the Brainiac thermite segments.

Nice carbon footprint, also.

Conservatives just aren't funny.

Guess it never occurs to those right-wing brainiacs that these terror plots were not discovered or averted by our presence in Iraq or Afghanistan.

I can't grasp the logic. They're still making a video of the same copyright-protected-content on the DVD... If this is acceptable, they have no legal case vs. Cam versions of pirated films, do they?

All this does is let people make a funky reach-around to create an inferior-quality version of the original, when they have the original available. Basically, they're simply labeling teachers as film pirates now. Good Job legal corporate brainiac.