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Hilarious anti-drug campaign aimed at gamers.
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sek929
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Mar 6, 2009, 06:54 PM
 
So Above The Influence has a new website dedicated to pointing out how getting high can affect getting your game on. Not only is this notion ridiculous, they decided to package their info in a crappy Flash page that takes forever to load.

http://www.abovetheinfluence.com/fac...id=sprig-flash (be patient, it takes forever to load)

Yes folks, from the same people who, in one of their TV ads, show teenagers not going to movies because they're getting stoned. I dunno who does their 'research' (if anyone actually does) but wouldn't getting super baked AND going to the movies make way more sense? <sigh> Also little Jessica went to a party, smoked a joint AND SOMEHOW GOT KNOCKED UP. Couldn't be because of booze, she must've been high.

I found this link through Penny Arcade, so that might explain the heavy traffic the site is getting.

So remember, even if player 'SmokeNbluntz420' is much better than you, his pot use cripples him as a player. Also this means that the many times Fatty beat your ass in Halo 3 his coordination was off, he had anxiety about the match, and he couldn't remember what game he was playing.
     
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Mar 6, 2009, 07:12 PM
 
I played Halo right after Left 4 Dead last night, and I kept forgetting what game I was playing. Or at least you'd think so from the number of times I fragged myself when I meant to melee. But I was sober, so I can only imagine that if I'd been high I would have somehow wound up pregnant.
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sek929  (op)
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Mar 6, 2009, 07:17 PM
 
Charlie Blue played Halo 3? I MUST be high...
     
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Mar 6, 2009, 08:22 PM
 
That site takes WAY too long to load, WTF.
     
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Mar 6, 2009, 08:23 PM
 
Ha, that was my first impression. Not only are they shoveling truckloads of BS at you, they have the audacity to have their site load a huge f**kin flash interface.

Could they be any more out of touch?
     
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Mar 6, 2009, 09:30 PM
 
And then once it loads, the interface is some weird crap that I guess is meant to be "computery" but isn't really unless your only experience with computers is watching bad action movies. And it's for gamers — one of the most tech-savvy groups in America.

Sometimes I think these people are actually paid by marijuana growers to make anyone who doesn't smoke pot look ridiculous.
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Mar 6, 2009, 09:31 PM
 
Flash interfaces can be very small and efficient, this is not an example.
     
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Mar 6, 2009, 09:37 PM
 
Originally Posted by boy8cookie View Post
Flash interfaces can be very small and efficient, this is not an example.
Not that we'd be able to tell — watching the Activity window, it looks like their server pushes about 500 bytes per second.
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Mar 9, 2009, 08:20 AM
 
Drug are baaad, M'kay?
     
   
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