XiaNaphryz
LATIN, MATRIPEDICABUS, DO YOU SPEAK IT
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NCIS writers trying to make gamers heads explode through dialogue
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Nothing was worse than the CSI Miami take on gamers.
Plot was bunch of gamers reinacting a GTA clone and giving themselves points for acting out scenes in it. First it had one of the most cold-blooded murders ever shown on the show. Then one of the gamers tried to rape a girl to get extra points. The creator of the video game & CEO was a pimply kid in a suit, who went to jail because he refused to tell officers what came next in the (already released) game because it was "proprietary information". One of the CSIs spent the whole ep trying to complete a level so he could tell the officers what would happen next. The killer was a hot girl who did it because "guys won't even look it you unless you play video games".
It was more slanted than the ep where they portrayed designer babies as abused neglected kids who were only mined for organs for their ill elder sibling.
Plot was bunch of gamers reinacting a GTA clone and giving themselves points for acting out scenes in it. First it had one of the most cold-blooded murders ever shown on the show. Then one of the gamers tried to rape a girl to get extra points. The creator of the video game & CEO was a pimply kid in a suit, who went to jail because he refused to tell officers what came next in the (already released) game because it was "proprietary information". One of the CSIs spent the whole ep trying to complete a level so he could tell the officers what would happen next. The killer was a hot girl who did it because "guys won't even look it you unless you play video games".
It was more slanted than the ep where they portrayed designer babies as abused neglected kids who were only mined for organs for their ill elder sibling.
Teknopathetic
Member
I think the same guy is writing these technological jargon parts for every crime show. There can't be that many terrible writers getting work in the same kinds of shows making the same kind of mindnumbing dialogue.
iconoclast
Member
This show is so awful. I wish USA would go back to playing reruns of anything instead of NCIS... House, Law and Order CI/SVU, Monk, Psych... ANYTHING (besides Burn Notice, that show sucks too).
radioheadrule83
Banned
Oh my god... that IRC video is hilarious. Why have I never watched this?
Some part of me suspects its sly winking satire on the part of the advisory staff and the writers or something, its so bad that its genius!
Some part of me suspects its sly winking satire on the part of the advisory staff and the writers or something, its so bad that its genius!
sixteen-bit
Member
This stuff is incredible.
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
According to Reddit, where I read this yesterday, some guy claiming to be a technical writer said this was done on purpose and the writers from other shows try to see who can troll the hardest.
Can't beat Plus Belle La Vie (an awful, awful French show) take on MMORPGs :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCBQJWCIuqE
Trust me, NCIS is on an HBO level next to that.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCBQJWCIuqE
Trust me, NCIS is on an HBO level next to that.
Jive Turkey
Unconfirmed Member
You obviously don't know the business.Teknopathetic said:
I love catching episodes of these kinds of shows every now and then because they're so terrible. Guilty pleasure and schadenfreude and all that.Amir0x said:
MisterHero
Super Member
One day I'm going to hold the highest score in every massively multiplayer online role-playing game
XiaNaphryz
LATIN, MATRIPEDICABUS, DO YOU SPEAK IT
I can believe it. There's probably a contest between them on who can get away with the most ridiculous use of techno-jargon that would still fly with their shows' audiences.WanderingWind said:
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
XiaNaphryz said:
NCIS would win. I mean, their audience sees nothing wrong with a 30+ year old Goth working at a government laboratory. "BUT SHES HAWT DERP!"
Randolph Freelander
Member
ITT gamers troll themselves
It's a TV show, people. Let's go complain about shocking a flatline next. It's fun!
It's a TV show, people. Let's go complain about shocking a flatline next. It's fun!
DurielBlack
Member
All shows do this to some extent. Here we notice the obvious bullshit about games/tech related writing, but the same mis-information is just as bad in shows like House with their medical jargon. I bet some med-school forum somewhere theres a similar topic.
Gamers in TV/Movies all act weird, dress weird, and talk weird, and have attitude problems. Theres practically no variation in their portrayal, they'd rather deliver the audience the stereotype they expect. Its like how often black men in movies are loud and make wisecracks, typically during a otherwise serious moment.
Out of all of the gamers I have known in my life, none have ever been that stereotypical of what they portray in these shows. My parents watch NCIS and while I normally don't mind watching it myself (sometimes its interesting), whenever they bring up hacker/gaming topics in the show I just bow my head and leave the room.
Gamers in TV/Movies all act weird, dress weird, and talk weird, and have attitude problems. Theres practically no variation in their portrayal, they'd rather deliver the audience the stereotype they expect. Its like how often black men in movies are loud and make wisecracks, typically during a otherwise serious moment.
Out of all of the gamers I have known in my life, none have ever been that stereotypical of what they portray in these shows. My parents watch NCIS and while I normally don't mind watching it myself (sometimes its interesting), whenever they bring up hacker/gaming topics in the show I just bow my head and leave the room.
Why would you do that?
Member
What's wrong with the "10 meg pipe" thing?
Is it the term "pipe" ...? Because T1/T3 lines are often called pipes.
Is it the term "pipe" ...? Because T1/T3 lines are often called pipes.
EmCeeGramr
Member
i caught one episode (this show is terrible but i can't help but watch it at times) where a person was playing a third-person shooter with their keyboard and increased the framerate by "optimizing the TCP/IP settings"
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
Oh jesus, I rolled my eyes as soon as they mentioned "high scores in online MMOs". Ugh, we've moved beyond just accumulating points and scores people on leaderboards, its all about the experie...
Oh.
Oh.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
Also NCIS makes me rage for other reasons. I hate it when annoying Goth girl pulls up chemicals, and is all like "based on the phosphatic xenon here" and I'm like "No, fuck you! That is a hydrocarbon, looks like its probably an alkene with an alcohol"
Shed_a_Ninja
Banned
Teknopathetic said:
Belisarius Productions does them all, I think.
Xavien said:
EmCeeGramr
Member
i remember one episode ended with some gangsters getting sent to guantanamo because of some loophole that allowed them to be classified as terrorists and The Smug Asshole was like "you don't have the right to remain silent
" like "yaaaay us citizens just lost their right to due process yaaaaay"
Why would you do that?
Member
Edit: Double post sort of...
SketchTheArtist
Member
Nothing beats that LIFE episode, I think it was called Life. The killer hid something inside Prince of Persia The Two Thrones for Xbox. You went through one of the portals in the game, when you get an extended piece of life bar, but in the TV Show, it showed all his secret documents! Hoooooooooo!
Shed_a_Ninja
Banned
Nert said:
I'm sorry, but G4 does not count.
Trumpet909
Member
Wasn't there a CSI where they were tracking down a killer by going into Second Life and looking for clues?
benjipwns
Banned
Horatio Caine can barely go five minutes without violating due process, civil rights or some other law.EmCeeGramr said:i remember one episode ended with some gangsters getting sent to guantanamo because of some loophole that allowed them to be classified as terrorists and The Smug Asshole was like "you don't have the right to remain silent" like "yaaaay us citizens just lost their right to due process yaaaaay"
DurielBlack
Member
Zeal said:
Make sure it can fully utilize the 32 threads on my 16-core processor and 10-meg.