LoadingReadyRun Parodies Fox News Smear of Mass Effect

January 29, 2008 -
When last mentioned on GamePolitics, Canadian comedy troupe LoadingReadyRun was busy raising money for the Child's Play charity via their Desert Bus gaming marathon.

Now the LLR crew has come up with a great send-up of last week's nuking of Mass Effect by Fox News:

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LOL! GO GAMERS GO!

Finally got to see it - perfect send-up.

And to the Brits and Canucks - I'll put anything Richard Pryor did against your best stuff, and only the Flying Circus would top it.

Just out of curiosity, if anyone knows this group, do any of the members go by the name "Hotbranch!"?

Well that was funny though
"What's your opinion on mass effect now?"
"I think the blue chick was hot, I'd hit that."

Oh and there are gods of comedy in Canda U.S. and U.K.

Canada has these guys
U.S. has Stephen Colbert, the Daily Show and George Carlin.
U.K. has Monty Python

@Father Time

Python, Fawlty Towers, Black Books, Blackadder, Only Fools and Horses and most comedy of the 70s. Though Canada gave us Colin Mochrie (Whose Line) who I am infintely thankful for

"Some of the studies show that anyone expose to this game turns into violent sodomites"

IF it wasnt so true it would be perfect :D

This is pretty funny. But there are two sex scenes in Mass Effect. Just saying.

Countdown until some idiots miss-quote this video as pure fact...

5... 4... 3...

Just watch, someone's dumb enough to do it. =P

Nice.

"My daughter played that game, and now she's six months pregnant!"

"But the game's been only out three months..."

I almost see glimpses of JT from the guy with the bow tie.

I'd hit that too, professor. I'd hit that too....

@ Luke

Nope, there are at least 3 "love options": Liara, Ashley and Kaiden. So depending on whether your male or female that’s 4 possible scenarios.

Now the LLR crew has come up with a great send-up of last week’s nuking of Mass Effect by Fox News


Huh, just noticed. Shouldn't that be LRR?

@chard

I myself have never visited England and haven't actively searched for British Humor(tm), so out of all those mentioned I've only heard of Fawlty Towers, although I've never actually seen it.

What a hypocrite! That man has THREE, PS3's.

MUDKIPS

?_?

Let's see if you can even see that.

HO SHI-

A SITE THAT LETS YOU SEE ?_?

@ConstantNeophyte

Actually, there's six.

I finally got to watch the video. I must say that I found it hilarious.

I loved all the little running news items at the bottom.

I love this. I'm a politico and a gamer, so when I see non-politicos getting pissed off this much about Faux News, it validates that I'm not just some liberal whackjob; I'm a liberal whackjob who can point out idiotic fake reporting when I see it.

[...] [Via Gamepolitics] [...]

The first half was funny until it got hammy.

@Sean

Okay...I'm gonna have to disagree with you there. I agree that it's not him now but he still sounds almost exactly like him. And I know what Gus looks like and this guy isn't incredibly far off. *sigh* Sorry, didn't mean to rant. I'm just saying I think it was an honest mistake. Whatever, no big deal.

the funniest parts are the book titles 'Stop it Put that Down' HAha

@SaltyWounds

"And I know what Gus looks like and this guy isn’t incredibly far off."

Gus isn't white

I like the intro where the reporter is talking about how you can have full on hardcore pornsex with freaky alien chicks and can change bust size firmness of ass and how it taste when you nibble on an earlobe

and how the experts daughter played five minutes and now shes six months pregnant
uh..the games only been out for three M(cut off)

Hahaha, pretty funny. Well done, kudos.

First I laughed and then I cried because this is pretty much what happens whenever we get a video game expert on a news show. Always pushed to the side not being allowed to say what is needed to be said.

[...] Source: GamePolitics [...]

I suppose technically there are 6 possible sex encounters in Mass Effect, two of which have a lesbian angle to them. But you can experience at most 2 of them in any playthrough of the game: one with the Consort, and the other one with either Liara, or with Ashley (if you are playing a male Shepard) or with Kaidan (if you are playing a female Shepard).

In all cases, the sex scenes are perhaps 30 seconds long and not particularly racy. There is no frontal nudity or anything like that, just a few seconds of side-view skin. Its much tamer than some of the stuff you see on prime-time network TV. Yahtzee said it best: "it will hardly make your Mass Erect".

I know that this comment isn't as constructive as I'd like it to be, but I still gotta say:

LoadingReadyRun FTW!
 
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