The Video Game Critic

Remember the 20-something Canadian guys who smashed a Wii and PS3 in front of a line?

Well, here are some 16-year old kids who coopted them, and are trying to beat them at their own game: apparantly they're trying to destroy every video game system ever made in some very creative ways!  I especially loved their destruction of a perfectly good 2600 and NES, along with a mint copy of Zelda II.  Visit www.smashsomestuff.com and bask in the nihilism..

Wow... I love talentless people making 'entertainment'. Don't you?

Come on, they're just being adolescent boys.  I think the main amusement of it arises from the amount of ingenuity they put into editing their videos/website and actually destroying the game systems, which is contrasted with pure nihilism and destruction.  Doesn't anyone else find the absurdity of that funny?  I mean, look at how much effort they put into destroying their PSP.

With millions of people in the world suffering and dying, there's better things to be sad about than a few kids destroying their own property.

You are right that there is plenty to be sad about in the world now - and I am sad about that. The reason this ALSO makes me sad is that this is our future.
I was a teenager just like everyone else here was or is now. I appreciated the money my mom spent on videogames making me happy. I could be the "typical" teenage boy when I was with my friends but that did not result in the destruction of property whether it is mine or not.

I grew up poor, and learned to love the things I had (unfortunately I lost most of my childhood stff twice, first in a fire, and second time after my mother died when I was 16 , I had to move to a motel room and leave most behind...); but the values stayed with me. I have kept all the boxes and instructions that came with every system and cart I bought (that CAME with them- some of course, I got loose). I could never understand why someone would want to destroy a personal item. If yu are angry, bang your head, stomp your feet and swear and scream but dont SMASH stuff-and doing it for "entertainment" is even dumber! I think very few peole will find it funny, most will think its a shame. Geeze, I'd work very hard to get a PSP and they just DESTROY theirs?! (unless the stuff was already broke beyond repair, but even then the statement is "destruction is good" which I just don't get...)

I think this is a reflection of overfed western society. It's one thing to live in the burbs with a mucho dinero sports car, an expensive house, and a plasma TV so huge it has its own gravity field and atmosphere - if you worked for it, then go-go capitalism. But to see people make a website based entirely around DESTROYING advanced and expensive toys is borderline depraved.

[QUOTE=Anayo]I think this is a reflection of overfed western society. It's one thing to live in the burbs with a mucho dinero sports car, an expensive house, and a plasma TV so huge it has its own gravity field and atmosphere - if you worked for it, then go-go capitalism. But to see people make a website based entirely around DESTROYING advanced and expensive toys is borderline depraved.
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I think it's more of a reflection of a society that considers idiotic home videos on YouTube as a source of entertainment.  People need to do more constructive things with their time - like play video games!