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Principia Discordia => Apple Talk => Topic started by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on November 19, 2009, 06:30:36 PM

Title: SIGNS OF THE END TIMES
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on November 19, 2009, 06:30:36 PM
You have got to be fucking kidding me. I am not sure if this is the funniest or the most horrifying video game concept I have ever seen.

http://www.masswepray.com/
Title: Re: SIGNS OF THE END TIMES
Post by: themenniss on November 19, 2009, 06:32:10 PM
i'm calling bullshit...
Title: Re: SIGNS OF THE END TIMES
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on November 19, 2009, 06:33:39 PM
Quote from: The Right Reverend Nigel on November 19, 2009, 06:30:36 PM
You have got to be fucking kidding me. I am not sure if this is the funniest or the most horrifying video game concept I have ever seen.

http://www.masswepray.com/

GOOD LORD!  IT'S SO FUCKING AMAZING, I CAN'T TELL IF IT'S FAIL OR WIN!
Title: Re: SIGNS OF THE END TIMES
Post by: Richter on November 19, 2009, 06:46:57 PM
A webcomic brought up this as a gag awhile back.  Dueling Analogs or Penny Arcade I think.  It's   :horrormirth: as gag or truth.

I can't tell trolling from reality anymore.  This is going to be one hell of a decade.
Title: Re: SIGNS OF THE END TIMES
Post by: Sir Squid Diddimus on November 19, 2009, 06:49:36 PM
Uh  ........  I  ......   :aaa:
Title: Re: SIGNS OF THE END TIMES
Post by: The Wizard on November 19, 2009, 08:45:08 PM
Wow. It's a combination of  :lulz: and  :x . If that's real though, I sort of hope they have a smite the unbeliever minigame.
Title: Re: SIGNS OF THE END TIMES
Post by: Dysnomia on November 19, 2009, 09:36:06 PM
 :horrormirth:
Title: Re: SIGNS OF THE END TIMES
Post by: Elder Iptuous on November 19, 2009, 10:03:09 PM
I guess we'll find out tomorrow when preorders open up whether it's a gag....
Title: Re: SIGNS OF THE END TIMES
Post by: Dysnomia on November 19, 2009, 10:06:25 PM
Am I the only one who things this game might be amusing as hell to play?
Title: Re: SIGNS OF THE END TIMES
Post by: Dimocritus on November 19, 2009, 10:07:41 PM
This has got to be a joke (I hope it is anyway).

And  :lulz: at "rating Pending"
Title: Re: SIGNS OF THE END TIMES
Post by: Precious Moments Zalgo on November 19, 2009, 10:13:13 PM
GameFAQs (http://www.gamefaqs.com/features/company/89038.html) seems to think it's for real.
Title: Re: SIGNS OF THE END TIMES
Post by: Thurnez Isa on November 19, 2009, 10:23:33 PM
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/96208-Mass-We-Pray-A-Holy-Hoax-or-Just-a-Really-Bad-Game

either way it's kind of goofy yes, but not as bad as the left behind game, probably be much more entertaining too.
Title: Re: SIGNS OF THE END TIMES
Post by: Bu🤠ns on November 19, 2009, 10:38:30 PM
 :lulz: :lulz: :lulz:

The whole congregation are a bunch of whiteys.
Title: Re: SIGNS OF THE END TIMES
Post by: Requia ☣ on November 19, 2009, 10:43:59 PM
I need a copy of this.
Title: Re: SIGNS OF THE END TIMES
Post by: Template on November 19, 2009, 11:04:37 PM
I suspect hoax on the basis that the 'cross' controller would be called a 'rosary' in properly-researched satire or a product that has a chance of succeeding.  Especially with the fucking beads.
Title: Re: SIGNS OF THE END TIMES
Post by: Freeky on November 20, 2009, 03:58:08 AM
I had to watch the thing twice.

The first time, I thought it was the greatest thing I'd ever seen. The second, I was filled with a kind of mild horror...

1) What's fun about Ash Wednesday? That's when Jesus died, wasn't it? (Was raised methodist...) 2) Aren't concepts like transubstantiation a little complex to talk about in a video game?
Title: Re: SIGNS OF THE END TIMES
Post by: Thurnez Isa on November 20, 2009, 04:01:05 AM
Ash Wednesday is just the first day of Lent
Title: Re: SIGNS OF THE END TIMES
Post by: Freeky on November 20, 2009, 04:03:18 AM
Ah. It's been a while since I've been to... No, I take it back, it's only been a couple of years since I've been to church. My cousin made me go when I visited them, but they're baptists. Scary folk...

But again, what's fun about Ash Wednesday?
Title: Re: SIGNS OF THE END TIMES
Post by: Thurnez Isa on November 20, 2009, 04:04:58 AM
They should make a game where your a Roman soldier and you get to whip the Jesus. It would be perfect for the Wii and would give Mel Gibson a constant hard on
Title: Re: SIGNS OF THE END TIMES
Post by: Bu🤠ns on November 20, 2009, 04:06:21 AM
Same guy who does this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlZcm6kTJIA

Title: Re: SIGNS OF THE END TIMES
Post by: Thurnez Isa on November 20, 2009, 04:08:44 AM
Quote from: Mistress Freeky on November 20, 2009, 04:03:18 AM

But again, what's fun about Ash Wednesday?

Its all the fun of dressing up and putting ashes on your head in somber ceremony

not all denominations celebrate it.
The mainstream ones do, but many of the freaky ones that would put out a game like this don't
Makes me believe its a joke
but I could be wrong
stranger things have happened
Title: Re: SIGNS OF THE END TIMES
Post by: Thurnez Isa on November 20, 2009, 04:11:06 AM
Besides their Christians. It's their DUTY to be weird.
Title: Re: SIGNS OF THE END TIMES
Post by: Freeky on November 20, 2009, 04:15:09 AM
Hah.
Title: Re: SIGNS OF THE END TIMES
Post by: Telarus on November 20, 2009, 04:31:07 AM
My druid friend Andrew was working cashier @ a local grocery store a few years ago when a woman and her 2 little girls came through the line. He noticed something smudged on one of the little girl's foreheads and immediately bent down, saying "Little girl, you've got something on your forehead..." He licked his thumb and came about an inch from wiping it off before the scowl on her mother's face (and the smudges on her and the other daughter's forehead) reminded him that it was Ash Wednesday.
Title: Re: SIGNS OF THE END TIMES
Post by: Elder Iptuous on November 20, 2009, 04:32:14 AM
Quote from: Thurnez Isa on November 20, 2009, 04:04:58 AM
They should make a game where your a Roman soldier and you get to whip the Jesus. It would be perfect for the Wii and would give Mel Gibson a constant hard on

hm... perhaps they could get away with that if it was one of the Lego games....
Title: Re: SIGNS OF THE END TIMES
Post by: Requia ☣ on November 20, 2009, 04:33:13 AM
Quote from: Mistress Freeky on November 20, 2009, 03:58:08 AM
I had to watch the thing twice.

The first time, I thought it was the greatest thing I'd ever seen. The second, I was filled with a kind of mild horror...

1) What's fun about Ash Wednesday? That's when Jesus died, wasn't it? (Was raised methodist...) 2) Aren't concepts like transubstantiation a little complex to talk about in a video game?

Um... no, its when he went to the desert.

Nothing is fun about Ash Wednesday.  You have a hangover from mardi gras and its an extra day of church.
Title: Re: SIGNS OF THE END TIMES
Post by: Bu🤠ns on November 20, 2009, 04:44:50 AM
Maybe it's something like:

http://www.leftbehindgames.com/
Title: Re: SIGNS OF THE END TIMES
Post by: Jasper on November 20, 2009, 04:59:31 AM
I only wish this heralded the end times.  I think it is optimistic, however.  Things will probably get worse and keep getting worse, with no discernible apocalypse in sight.

Title: Re: SIGNS OF THE END TIMES
Post by: Suu on November 20, 2009, 05:09:32 AM
i know all about catholicism. ask me anything!

-suu

catholics get drunk a lot too
Title: Re: SIGNS OF THE END TIMES
Post by: Lyris_Nymphetamine on November 20, 2009, 01:31:49 PM
lolwut
Title: Re: SIGNS OF THE END TIMES
Post by: Richter on November 20, 2009, 01:43:47 PM
Quote from: Suu on November 20, 2009, 05:09:32 AM
i know all about catholicism. ask me anything!

-suu

catholics get drunk a lot too

Sarah Silverman was right, wasn't she?
Title: Re: SIGNS OF THE END TIMES
Post by: Roaring Biscuit! on November 20, 2009, 03:24:25 PM
 :lulz:

it is thankfully a hoax, try clicking on "pre-order now"

x
Title: Re: SIGNS OF THE END TIMES
Post by: Suu on November 20, 2009, 03:34:55 PM
Quote from: Richter on November 20, 2009, 01:43:47 PM
Quote from: Suu on November 20, 2009, 05:09:32 AM
i know all about catholicism. ask me anything!

-suu

catholics get drunk a lot too

Sarah Silverman was right, wasn't she?

SHE'S A JEW AND JEWS KILLED CHRIST. MEL GIBSON SAID SO.
Title: Re: SIGNS OF THE END TIMES
Post by: Elder Iptuous on November 20, 2009, 03:58:53 PM
soooo....
mystery solved:
you go to the 'preorder page' and it has a popup that says you are damned to hell as a sinner, because holding a mass that is not ordained by official clergy is some grave sin.... and then you are sent to a preview for Dante's Inferno game....
hoax for purpose of marketing.

ETA: i notice in the wiki page on the game, that in the first circle of hell you get to battle (among other things) unbaptized babies!
it's a good thing.
Title: Re: SIGNS OF THE END TIMES
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on November 20, 2009, 06:42:45 PM
It was a beautiful hoax.
Title: Re: SIGNS OF THE END TIMES
Post by: Shit on November 20, 2009, 07:01:29 PM
Yeah, but Dante's Inferno looks real.  That could make a kick-ass game.
Title: Re: SIGNS OF THE END TIMES
Post by: Iason Ouabache on November 20, 2009, 09:12:49 PM
Quote from: Iptuous on November 20, 2009, 03:58:53 PM
ETA: i notice in the wiki page on the game, that in the first circle of hell you get to battle (among other things) unbaptized babies!
it's a good thing.
:horrormirth:
Title: Re: SIGNS OF THE END TIMES
Post by: Shit on November 20, 2009, 10:07:37 PM
Quote from: Iason Ouabache on November 20, 2009, 09:12:49 PM
Quote from: Iptuous on November 20, 2009, 03:58:53 PM
ETA: i notice in the wiki page on the game, that in the first circle of hell you get to battle (among other things) unbaptized babies!
it's a good thing.
:horrormirth:
Yeah they get shot out of Cleopatra's giant nipples.  Really.
Title: Re: SIGNS OF THE END TIMES
Post by: Chief Uwachiquen on November 20, 2009, 11:04:09 PM
Quote from: Iptuous on November 20, 2009, 03:58:53 PM
soooo....
mystery solved:
you go to the 'preorder page' and it has a popup that says you are damned to hell as a sinner, because holding a mass that is not ordained by official clergy is some grave sin.... and then you are sent to a preview for Dante's Inferno game....
hoax for purpose of marketing.

ETA: i notice in the wiki page on the game, that in the first circle of hell you get to battle (among other things) unbaptized babies!
it's a good thing.

Apparently there's an achievement for killing a certain number of the babies. I can't remember what it's called, Penny Arcade commented on it.
Title: Re: SIGNS OF THE END TIMES
Post by: Verbal Mike on November 20, 2009, 11:19:53 PM
Absolutely genious viral marketing. Someone out there figured out that this site would attract attention from the kind of people who would play a game set in hell. $$$
Title: Re: SIGNS OF THE END TIMES
Post by: Thurnez Isa on November 20, 2009, 11:35:21 PM
unfortunately all it did was make me wanna play the christian game
:sad:

hey at least it would be a video game I may actually be good at
though I'd probably end up fucking that up too
Title: Re: SIGNS OF THE END TIMES
Post by: Shit on November 21, 2009, 12:20:52 AM
The crucifix controllers only have one button.  It can't be that complicated.  You either believe it or your don't.
Title: Re: SIGNS OF THE END TIMES
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on November 21, 2009, 08:14:54 AM
I've played this. It sucks. Theres no fucking way to kill the boss character :|
Title: Re: SIGNS OF THE END TIMES
Post by: Rumckle on November 21, 2009, 05:43:25 PM
You're not supposed to kill him, you're supposed to write an essay reasoning him out of existence.
Title: Re: SIGNS OF THE END TIMES
Post by: -Kel- on November 21, 2009, 10:21:28 PM
Quote from: Pope Benny on November 20, 2009, 07:01:29 PM
Yeah, but Dante's Inferno looks real.  That could make a kick-ass game.

It will make a kick ass game!! hopefully!

http://xbox360.ign.com/dor/objects/14296029/dantes-inferno/videos/dantesinferno_trl_story_111709.html (http://xbox360.ign.com/dor/objects/14296029/dantes-inferno/videos/dantesinferno_trl_story_111709.html)
Title: Re: SIGNS OF THE END TIMES
Post by: Shit on November 22, 2009, 03:07:43 AM
Quote from: -Kel- on November 21, 2009, 10:21:28 PM
Quote from: Pope Benny on November 20, 2009, 07:01:29 PM
Yeah, but Dante's Inferno looks real.  That could make a kick-ass game.

It will make a kick ass game!! hopefully!

http://xbox360.ign.com/dor/objects/14296029/dantes-inferno/videos/dantesinferno_trl_story_111709.html (http://xbox360.ign.com/dor/objects/14296029/dantes-inferno/videos/dantesinferno_trl_story_111709.html)

Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73rk2PeHyXM
Title: Re: SIGNS OF THE END TIMES
Post by: Jasper on November 22, 2009, 03:15:26 AM
Now I kinda want that game, in full perspective of its' shortcomings.
Title: Re: SIGNS OF THE END TIMES
Post by: Rococo Modem Basilisk on November 22, 2009, 05:16:10 PM
Quote from: Mistress Freeky on November 20, 2009, 03:58:08 AM
Aren't concepts like transubstantiation a little complex to talk about in a video game?

Transubstantiation doesn't seem all that complex to me. "The cracker both is and is not Jesus."
Title: Re: SIGNS OF THE END TIMES
Post by: Triple Zero on November 22, 2009, 06:12:37 PM
especially in a videogame, you can just make it flash back and forth at 70fps.
Title: Re: SIGNS OF THE END TIMES
Post by: -Kel- on November 22, 2009, 10:39:36 PM


Quote from: Pope Benny on November 20, 2009, 07:01:29 PM

Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73rk2PeHyXM

I've never seen the Review With Extreme Prejudice videos. Thank you!!  :lulz: