10 WEIRD Gaming Stories of December 2020

december has been a weird month concluding a weird year hi folks it's falcon and today on game ranks the 10 weirdest gaming stories of december 2020. at number 10 a nintendo fan sent in his wii u to nintendo to get it fixed only to have them send it back with a bag full of a wedding ring he couldn't quite figure out exactly why they sent him a wedding ring until he realized that his daughter had shoved it into his wii u and that is why it no longer worked he posted it to twitter and they were actually not angry i mean they shouldn't be angry but they are often on twitter instead actually complimenting nintendo for saving this man's marriage although maybe the situation wasn't quite that dire at number nine a man in taiwan lied to his wife about a ps5 being an air purifier and i think that's a great sentence and like that that's enough right there that's for me hilarious like duh it's not an air purifier any normal person is gonna figure that one out quickly but our man figured he would take the risk i don't know whether he thought his wife was dumb or that it looked like an air purifier which i'm not gonna lie not the worst thing to claim that the playstation 5 looks like i've seen air purifiers that look kind of like that hell i've seen air purifiers that look more like a video game system than the playstation 5. but we only even know about this story because of the guy who bought it who after a little bit of rigmarole met up to purchase it from the guy and the guy looked very sad he was also selling the playstation 5 for an absurdly cheap price at a time when people are scalping the thing for like extreme prices and he eventually just asked and the man said well it turns out that women can tell the difference between a playstation 5 and an air filter which i mean duh of course women can at number eight you know there has been quite a scalping problem with the new generation of consoles the xbox series x and the playstation 5 have been sold for extreme amounts of money while the inventory has been limited by people who want to do so but buyers are getting fed up so much so that they're doing this incredible prank where they are scamming scalpers so what they do is they decide to say hey i'm gonna buy one of these games and making the scalper drive sometimes hours away from where they are with the intent to sell the console for like thirteen hundred fourteen hundred dollars a sweet payday no doubt but when there's no customer there you just wasted a bunch of time and potentially gas money it's obviously a dick move but i mean it's a dick move to scalp a gam console the things are worth 500 and you're selling them for nearly a thousand dollars more than that i mean it sucks i get that it's putting food on the table for a lot of people and i don't blame them for that however i'm gonna say this seems like something they should have to account for and number seven hey you know how some gamers invert the y-axis on their controls me included yes i am one of those freaks yes everyone i talk to is like why do you do that no asking me is not gonna make me stop and no i don't have a good reason for it other than like i guess i've played like flight simulators before i don't know anyway researchers started studying this phenomenon not that they have a good explanation for it yet but they are actually looking into it a lot of research lab stuff has slowed down due to covid and that kind of got a lot of these types of questions being asked where researchers don't have as much to do are actually thinking about these questions the researchers in charge of this study say it might even actually help them optimize real flight consoles they even say it may assist in finding tumors and x-rays based on what neurocognitive data they're able to gather from it they really quickly filled up the study with people because i think everybody kind of wants to know why at number six the entire cyberpunk thing like it's it's gotten weird let's just say obviously sony delisted the game from their stores it's just not viable that's it until they fix the issues with it on the playstation 4 you can't buy it on any platforms that sony owns this did not make adam badowski the cd projekt red head too happy and he also probably doesn't know how twitter works because he liked a bunch of tweets criticizing sony for doing this and people realized it screenshotted it and wrote articles about it he quickly unliked all of those tweets but clearly he does not find it fair that sony well refuses to sell what is essentially a faulty product on one of their platforms that he is ultimately responsible for which i get why he doesn't like it but sony i mean they're not a marketing partner like microsoft is and even they're like putting a warning on their page about how the game works on the xbox one which is also bad it really hasn't been a good time for the cd projekt red management and ownership before any of this happened they took a bunch of questions internally and people were just like yeah how do you make a game about corporations being exploitative while doing crunch according to bloomberg news their answers were quote vague and non-committal i mean come on that's funny and number five japan has created gaming chiropractic practice you know because this year has been a year where you're playing way more video games there's no other way to look at it if you played video games before you're playing more video games and if you didn't play video games maybe you're playing video games so the way this type of chiropractic practice works they start gamers off sitting at a desk or a chair to find how their posture and other biometrics are working as they're playing games and they actually customize what they do to that now it's not necessarily going to make you better at gaming but it is going to make you better at sitting up straight which is not the worst thing in the world and it probably feels pretty good is this going to be a thing that comes to america i don't know it seems like it might not be the worst idea though because after a lot of gaming sometimes i feel like well not great in terms of my back at number four one of the island shrine gates on tsuchima island yes the real tsushima island off of the nagasaki prefecture was destroyed in a typhoon which really sucks i mean we're talking about like stuff that's hundreds of years old has stood up for a long time and these water gates are truly beautiful by the way this particular one that was knocked over was dedicated to toyotamahime a shinto sea goddess and they launched crowdfunding to repair it they asked for about forty seven thousand dollars in yen equivalent and have raised about triple that due to the game being a big thing yes this island actually did serve as inspiration for ghost of tsushima which is a distinct advantage for that kind of crowdfunding because the town of tsushima is pretty small and not particularly wealthy at number three the playstation 5 beat toilet paper in google's top searches for 2020 which is pretty impressive given we're in a pandemic where a large part of the early reaction was how to find toilet paper because there was a huge toilet paper shortage remember yes it feels like it was about six years ago but that's where we were however through the course of the year more people searched where to buy ps5 than they did with where to buy toilet paper which i guess kind of makes sense because nobody had to pay thirteen hundred dollars for toilet paper that i'm aware of and there was entire cottage industry set up around making lots of money off of making the playstation 5 more scarce but still it's almost kind of shocking like toilet paper is a fact of life playstation 5 is it's video games not that we don't make video games a big part of our life here it's not the same part of our life that toilet paper is let's just say and you know maybe that's a good thing at number two i don't know if i want to call this weird or just great but you know how parents will sometimes be like you can't keep wasting your time with video games you'll never make a living with that this parent just did the opposite they're like you know what i'm gonna pay for a private tutor you get good at video games her son benji fish who is 16 years old plays fortnite for around 12 hours a day and he's made over half a million pounds doing it which is the equivalent of about 668 thousand dollars which is nuts if i had that kind of money sitting around i'd be feeling pretty good but for just playing video games apparently he got about a hundred grand just for qualifying in the fortnite world cup the mom apparently works as a gaming mentor for esports parents to try to remove the stigma of it esports is actually something benji took up after a knee condition stopped him from participating in physical sports and now he's gonna buy his family a house and finally at number one the co-founder of company deepmind an artificial intelligence company and clearly biological research company was trying to figure out how protein folds on a large scale but in this instance related to the coronavirus you see the way proteins interact with the rest of material in the body is it sort of folds into various shapes and the way they were figuring this out they were actually doing this for a number of years and they created a puzzle game where gamers would play it and attempt to fold protein into shapes that they had observed protein had folded into now i can't personally tell you exactly how that applies i am not a researcher of protein dna and all of that but i can tell you that gamma is simply doing this help lead them to an artificial intelligence paradigm that has led to scientific breakthroughs which help predict the way protein folds into unique three-dimensional shapes apparently something that nobody has been able to solve for like half a century gamers playing around with a puzzle game fixed that's pretty damn cool that's all the weirdness for this month though what do you think leave us a comment let us know if you like this video please click like if you're not subscribed now is a great time to do so we upload brand new videos every day of the week and the best way to see them first is of course a subscription so click subscribe do not forget to click the notification bell subscribe to all notifications and as always thank you very much for watching this video i'm falcon you can follow me on twitter falcon the hero and we'll see you next time right here on game ranks

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Published: Wed Dec 30 2020