Tag Archives: Video Games

Crossover Opportunity?

Have you ever had a character

In your favorite game or show

That you either would like to be

Or wish would forever go?

Well now you can fulfill your dream

Thanks to Fortnite! It’s a game

Where every IP of all time

Gets shot in the face the same.

Sign on and join a universe

Of people 13+

Who unironically use terms

Like “Sigma”, “Bussin”, and “Sus”.

There you can play any game

While dressed as anyone

And after your kid tells you how to play

You might even have fun!

Only one can win each round

Out of a hundred players

But if you’re bad, don’t be so sad!

Play again and avoid your slayers.

Claim victory or somehow blow it

Until you see someone

Dressed as a certain terrible poet

Chasing you with a gun.

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A 30-Something’s Review of Fortnite

In my day, our violent games

Were about shooting guys and taking names.

Now you skydive, camp, and swim

And randomly change from her to him,

Running from a big pink cloud

And avoiding things that are scary or loud.

When I was young, you daren’t mess up

But now I guess we get to dress up?

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Good… You’re Finally Awake!

There once was a dragonborn chap

Who fell into an Imperial trap.

But in an odd twist

He was not on the list

And then down a dragon did flap…

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They’re Selling My Childhood, And I’m All For It

I used to be excited

When new video games released

So I could see new features

And how the quality increased.

Now I watch the new releases

And I’m on the lookout for

The rereleases of the games

Made in 2004.

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This Is How Video Games Ask “WTF?”

You’d not saved your game in a while

So I made you an autosaved file

Yet as hard as I slaved

You still manually saved

As if I harbored some sort of guile?

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See Also: Halo

If your Catholic parents are angry

That you play video games

Just tell them you’re playing “Mass Effect”

Then you can be the one who blames.

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The Great Reset

Sometime in 1988

We finished the political game

And now we’re playing as the final boss

And discovering the devs made him lame.

I move we return to the menu

And delete our saved data, restarting

At the level where we’re naked cave people

And we elect leaders by farting.

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Just Like Being A Real General, But Without The Pay

All of those violent video games…

The ones with the Nazis and guns…

Are thought by most people as harmless,

Just mindless and gory and fun.

They think they’re just one simulation

Of engaging in conquest and war

Where a kid can sit down for an evening

And proceed to, the whole world, ignore.

But when you grow up you realize

And begin to see children who stare

At a screen sending soldiers to slaughter

With less than a whiff of a care

And you realize with eyes open wider

And a hint of an older man’s sorrow:

They’re not corrupting the youth after all:

They’re training the kings of tomorrow.

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We Don’t Play To Use Effort… That’s Just Work

I found a fun video game

That simulates many ways to die.

The designers overlooked the simple fact

That survival means I’d have to try.

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There May Also Be Breeding Involved…

There once was a digital horse

Who ran with electrical force.

It’s in my girlfriend’s phone

And now I’m alone

‘Cause she’s busy racing, of course!

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