Oh Cpt. Winters! How have you fallen from an awesome WWII hero to a cheesy crime solver.

YES! She beat Prince of Persia and now she can access all the files on the computer... MAN thats awesome security!

Painful to watch, and not just because of the wrong facts and the stupidity of the whole scenario, playing trough a game every time you want to access some files..

Brings back memories of the last Die Hard movie.

wow, what an easter egg!
you beat level 10, and you can manage your finances in excel!

Is this from a real TV show?

That was pretty terrible...

@Soupskin yea its from a show called "Life"
I am also sad that Cpt. Winters sux0rz
But maybe this is some in-show advertising. it's a full 1 minute spot of PoP gameplay.. I wonder how much the game makers had to pay!!

is this what we have to put up with when hollywood writers strike?

This angries up my blood! Hulk smash crappy TV-show. Why did I never get spreadsheets when playing prince of persia 2, seems like a logical upgrade. More fun, anyway.

This is one of the mnost shit-tastic clips I've ever watched. Worst part is the crazy mashing way they manipulate the controller, like we're seeing an early 80s Atari 2600 commercial.

There's so much wrong with this clip it boggles the mind.

Speaking as a game developer myself,
I can say this is EXACTLY how videogames work - we stuff a bunch of files onto a hard drive and if you beat the game then you can see the other files on the hard drive as well. Also upvote for use of papyrus font circa 1989

Nooooo, Captain Winters! I can't watch.

God that was lame!

Well this is officially the worst contribution to the *femme channel ever.

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Dudes, that's Sand of Times!!

That was a stupid clip.

But, an xbox is a computer and you can manipulate what happens when you play a game. You can store files onto it, and program it to do what ever you want. You can modify it so that your car will fly on a racing game or the console will display a passcode when you get passed a certain level.

deedub: Yes, but you can also, well take the drive out, use dd to make a full digital copy of the whole thing to your desktop box, then grep/decrypt whatever the hell you want, linux even has FATX drivers for just such an occasion.

I suppose the real way does not look sexy on TV, but it's way sexier then this.

Jumpin' Jesus on a Pogo Stick.

That is the most awful load of crap I have ever seen. Thank you, Zeph for reaffirming why I don't have television in my house. You have successfully identified the additional 20 IQ points that I retain for not watching this crap on a daily basis.

First, I'm proud to say that I don't know who Cpt. Winters is.

Second, a hot chick who loves video games...that confirms it-there is a God.

Third, do you really think the masses care or know whether this scenario is realistic?

Fourth, speaking of the writing strikers, just whisper "reality tv" in their ears and maybe they'll reconsider their position.

The Two Thrones doesn't even have levels. This is sloppy, badly done, completely unrealistic, and nonsensical.

Exactly what dgandhi said... SURELY it would have been easier to just take the drive out and get the info off.

Ri-f*cken-diculous

Argh.


So very wrong. Don't they even ASK someone who has a clue before they spend all that time making such an episode. ARGH

How did they know getting to level 10 would give them access to the hidden files anyway?

This is just standard fare for television. If any of you know anything about handling guns, you'd be just as appalled at every movie or TV show with guns. Last night I saw "No Country For Old Men" in the theatre, and I was really excited because they started off using guns correctly, showing actual intelligence and knowledge of how they work. I was really impressed because it never, ever happens. Then the guy went swimming with a pistol without a chambered round, and it fired as soon as he got out of the water.

Wow... Hold the 'placement marketing' comment,

This is just so terrible it boggles my mind and fills me with wonderful ecstasy of 'so bad it's good'-ness

dgandhi: You're right. I said it was stupid, didn't I?

The music, the closeup head shots, and wailing guitar. This is awesomely terrible.

They could have saved themselves a whole lot of trouble by just loading the dude's last save point and accessing the file from there.

"...and I have a captain kirk costume in my closet"

Wouldn't a Geordi La Forge costume make more sense?

I like the show Life, but this was total crap. But that's OK, "The Net" still trumps all for total crap of computer use.

don't know what this series is about, but at least I took it as a parody clip and thus it was somewhat amusing

OK, the writers for these shows have to start getting to the point where they actually played video games growing up, right? Only about five more years?

OH noes@!!!!1! they are st34ling the intanets! kwik turn up t3h firwall to max overdrivs!

... sorry guys for my absence from videoSift yesterday. I just couldn't beat the helicopter level in Crysis. Fortunately the moment I finished the game I was allowed back on... woooot!

Hahaha. This is the best contribution to terrible in a while. I want to personally bitchslap the entire writing staff.

she was HOT. And she can use her hands.
i could watch this all day. but i hav 2 go do sumfink in RL.

Oh Capt. Winters... you've fallen so far, no longer can you be a sexy Steve McQueen substitute... we mourn your loss.

I guess that guy needs to take back what he said. He can't beat the game because he's 30 years old, lives in his mother's basement, and has a Cpt. Kirk costume in his closet. He needs a girl to do his job.

ugh... you guys mean I don't need to keep playing dungeons and dragons to level 8 in order to use my web browser anymore? wish i knew this sooner.

Captain Winters NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!

An unrealistic TV show? Outrageous!

OUCH! This was so horribly painful to watch I feel like gouging my own eyes out. I'm not even sure where to begin, but just from this clip I will make sure I never watch the show, I'll try to avoid any networks it's on, and I'll ensure my kids and hopefully their kids never watch it as well. Maybe if I happen to click past it at some point I'll even have to throw away my TV.

"You Win Advance to Level 2" because that is how that game is setup! BLARGH!

We must find a video which compile all the f**king time a so-called IT expert enter a crappy IP address ...

"Let's find this bloody hacker ! I'll backtrack him using it's own IP ! Here it is : 300.789.1.-8"

I hurt myself by stabbing my eyes with pencil each time I see that sort of cr*p in series ...

lol! just rewatched it and I only now noticed he's grabbing an XBOX to play on... true its in the tags, but its even worse than I thought. Its not even a standard pc on which they play to get to the files... its an XBOX. They hacked an XBOX...

<calls to Microsoft>
L: "Hallo Mickysoft?"
M: "Good day to you sir"
L: "I'm dutch, calling a Dutch phone number, why the English?"
M: "Excuse me?"
L: "Nevermind. ok I have a report to make, Cpt. Winters just hacked an XBOX and he let some girl play Prince of Persia until she reached level 10 which allowed her to access lowlevel Excel files and break the code. It's even said he has root-access now"
M: "Yeah, he does that..."
L: "He does that?"
M: "He's not called Major Dick Winters for nothing sir (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_D._Winters)"
<click>

Isn't this the same crappy premise from the 1984 film Cloak and Dagger starring Dabney Coleman? Am I the only one who loved that film when I was 10?

TV is a visual medium.. someone typing into a DOS window is not sexy/visual/interesting. All TV/movies share this..

Anyone else rocking XBMC on their modded XBox?

Wasn't it Major Winters?

I had that homebrew app on my Xbox.

Saddest part was the first few episodes of "Life" were pretty good. Guess they changed writers.

My reference for this kind of nonsense is the film called "Swordfish", with John Travolta and Hugh Jackman (and optionally Hale Berry). I've not resisted to sift some scene of this jewel of nerd-fest ( http://www.videosift.com/video/Now-Thats-How-to-do-Computer-Programming ).

It's huge

(Note : Is putting a link to one of my own sift is considered as self-linking ? BTW, I've removed the URL leading to my sift, even if i'm not the one who posted it on youtube ... Oh man ... I get confused. It's time to go to bed ...)

(Note about the note : Well, it seems that it is allowed linking to one of my own sift, so I put back the link)

I rate this entire comment thread . . . there really is no doubt . . . *geek.

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I find this nearly as disturbing as "2 Girls 1 Cup".

At least it wasn't Winters himself playing the viddy game. Or did he take a turn? It's not like I'm going to watch again to make sure.

"First, I'm proud to say that I don't know who Cpt. Winters is."

Well, you may be proud if you like, but you happen to have missed out on what might be the best television series ever made, namely "Band Of Brothers". Please try to erase from memory any faces you saw in this clip, and pick up the DVD-set. Its awesome.

Much like that girl, I have learned to play every video game I've ever encountered by watching the screen and praacticing my hand & finger movements accordingly.

None of you have ever done this?

And, good question, how the fuck DID they know to get to level 10? The Google must have told them.

I also really like how he just walks into the bedroom and grabs the totally disconnected stand-alone XBox that has no wiring or even power cable. He's goood!

The sad thing is that the people who made this probably know what kind of BS it is.

Appearently he:
A) Managed to bitpatch PoP to launch other software, or even more ridiculous, make it read documents.
B) Can launch unsigned code on his box, which in itself though, isn't that unimaginable, but he obviously has access to an K.
Anyways, good stuff.

-0:28
Cpt. Winters is about to splunk all over the woman playing the game.

Okay. Someone HAS to post clips from CSI:NY where the whole episode was them hunting down a killer inside Second Life. At one point they even played the game on an 8-foot-tall computer screen.

Fascinatingly craptastic.

lucky760: I think I found it? Indeed, fascinatingly craptastic http://www.videosift.com/video/TV-has-no-idea-about-games-2-CSINY-Second-Life-battle

this clip so totally suck I couldn't belive it.

I kept watching it till the end assuming it would've started making sense sooner or later.

Television:The Drug of the Nation, breeding ignorance and feeding radiation.

Same goes for puter games.....one day, you will have developed such acute motor skills with the thumbs, and unsurpassed hand-eye coordination, that you will be a valuable addition to the Matrix....and have something of unparalleled value, to share with your children, as you sit on the sweat-soaked, ass-shaped, couch, and create a lasting and meaningful relationship.......where's the unabomber when ya need him????

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Someone please find a working embed for this. One of the funniest clips on tv ever.

There's a copy of this clip here

I'd fix it myself but don't yet have a bronze star.

Awarding lucky760 with one star point for fixing this video's dead embed code.

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Just like zoolander!

The files are IN the computer!!

....is this dead?

^Nope. Working for me.

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Wow. Mind. Blown. http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/f2i7t/ive_written_for_tv_shows_like_csi_and_numbers/

It's so meta. I think I'm in love.

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Doesn't play anymore!!

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