10 WEIRD Gaming Stories of JULY 2019

though it's pretty awesome and normal to play video games the gaming world can be weird hi folks its Falcon into down game ranks the weird gaming stories of july 2019 coming in at number 10 a dad in japan done went and sold his kids Nintendo switch to buy a golf club a Golf Club this got me heated cuz no that ain't cool I mean I'm sure that this would have been a different situation if like he sold it for food so the family could eat or something but a golf club no anyway his kids had actually invited friends over to play the Nintendo switch that day so when they woke up and found it was gone they were extra crushed which is just the icing on the this is a bad story and it's unfortunate it happened cake and here's the thing this dad had done this before according to the cousin which is who actually posted about this on the internet he'd also previously stolen their PlayStation Vita PSP go in place Asian for pro the cousin temporarily gave these kids his switch so that they'd have something to play in the mean time but I mean this does not sound like a problem that is easily solved with simply giving them a piece of hardware coming in at number nine an AMD exec appeared on a podcast to brag about baiting Nvidia into a price they could beat I guess in what has come off as a bit of a sega does what nintendo moment for man scott herkiman tweeted jebaited on to twitter which is a silly word and i'm not gonna get into it you know what baited means it means that plus some cultural references now AMD debuted their new line of cards at a price that was considered to be very competitive it was reviewed well as a good price for the dollar more performance for the dollar etc etc by more than a few outlets now keep in mind they could have debuted at a lower price and this is part of the sort of little game that he had gone and Vidya adjusted their price to compete with the price that they debuted the cards at this is apparently them taking the bait as they again adjusted the AMD prices putting even more competitive with even the new price and although this is kind of clever actually that they would even talk about it in public it definitely does sound like hey look we're trolling the other company haha we do have to keep in mind these are companies and in all likelihood this could have been a strategy or it could have just been them saying you know let's not let them beat us on our price and let's also make a thing about it I tend to err on at least you know kind of listening to the braggarts brag they tend to reveal more about what they're actually doing when they're bragging but it's worth noting that it's very strange for executives to be like haha we baited you coming in at number eight Nintendo's joy Khan problem got so bad they finally caved and started repairing it for free and it's not like they made some big announcement or anything that kind of is a quiet admission I'd wager it probably comes along with some changes in the hardware given they are working on a new version of the Nintendo switch with better battery life I have to imagine that the joy Khan's will be at least kind of better if they're actually recognizing the problem but that's speculation on my part the thing that they are actually doing now is after walking customers through a step-by-step troubleshooting they're just repairing them for free and the reason why most likely is how much negative attention it's gotten lately gamers and outlets alike have been really talking about this a lot because in a lot of cases the problem manifests itself after a couple months it actually did happen in one of my sets of joy Khan's so it's not as if this is an entirely foreign issue to anyone here at game ranks and although I tend to use the pro controller I mean a lot of people get this problem and given Nintendo is what has generally looked at as a good company it's good of them to do this although it's a bit weird he took this long number seven gamer girl bathwater oh yeah that's a that's a thing that everybody got involved with talking about for at least a week I want to say a little bit longer but wow I heard everyone talk about it it's almost like it was built as kind of a prank that would get attention of kind I don't know it's kind of weird isn't it it was a very large amount of wild rumors regarding this - a lot of people talked about how that there was herpes in the water someone else decided that they were going to sell her pee like a website claimed to be her and selling her Pete and a lot of people either fell for that or used it to say that she's also selling her pee and that story really reached proportions that probably aren't warranted and I'm not talking about like how mean people were I'm talking about how much people were talking about it like wow I mean we're talking about it now not because it was weird she was selling bathwater that's something that various online people have done for a very long time actually and I feel like this just got blown out of proportion quick is it weird sure like it's definitely not important coming in at number six some executives from epic had to answer questions to a UK Commons committee that inquired over things like data protection rules and addictive gaming mechanics as an intentionally addictive gaming mechanics the company admitted to ignoring regulations about data protection and especially about age restrictions which is of strange thing to admit that opens you up for some interesting investigation and they claimed ignorance about knowing how long people play their games which is easily recordable in fact it's probably the most easily recordable things um how long somebody is logged in and I promise you that epic is paying attention to that every gaming company is paying attention to that I mean we've had EA doofuses bragging about how many hours and game people are playing even maligned titles of theirs specifically because they want people to understand there's an active community to play there live services what was far more I think shocking to anybody involved in this hearing was when an executive said I don't think it's accurate to define epic as making money from people playing the game that's the most dishonest thing I've ever heard somebody from epic really said that now I'm sure they were trying to finesse the technicality of the statement itself by implying that they don't make money from people playing but make money instead from people buying battle passes and skins and stuff like that but cut just what this is a live service am I wrong you're providing the service people are playing the game the game is the service so you're making money from people playing the game like no that's nonsense and people shouldn't take this kind of nonsense credulous li-like don't just believe it no you should be the opposite of this you should be incredulous it's a little grammar lesson for you and you're astounding weirdness of how blatantly full of crap executives can be coming in at number five the Borderlands box art apparently almost had a foot the art that they almost used had somebody motioning pretend guns at their head with their hands and a foot which is very silly and very very in line in my opinion with the borderlines ethos but I am gonna say I think their decision not to have somebody motioning a pretend gun at their head probably had something to do with getting it into stores and on to digital storefronts and the compromise that they did the pretend Jesus with the Hand Grenade and all that in truth also I think is very much in line with their ethos still would have been pretty funny to see a foot as a pretend gun on a game cover coming in at number four a youtuber by the name of UI gamer who makes a lot of airplane crash emergency landing in gta5 type videos on YouTube posted a video of them avoiding a gas tank that I mean it's actually a pretty cool video but it is just a video game and several people fell for it as being real and a pilot avoiding a terrorist attack you see an oil tanker drives out onto an airfield and a plane nearly lands but then takes off a Pakistani politician by the name of Karim Nawaz Gandhi poor shared the footage with the following caption narrow escape of an aircraft which could have ended in a great disaster miraculous saved by the pilots presence of mind which is something you say when you think that the game footage is actually real footage another account which is not an actual politician it's just a kind of a physics thing which I mean this is a severe blow to the credibility of this organization but physics astronomy dot-org shared the video saying terrorist attack in Algeria which fails to work because of the pilots immense skilled yes someplace that's actually constantly talking about physics and astronomy mistook of GTA 5 video for real life okay coming in at number three respawn the developers and maintainer zuv apex legends the surprise hit battle royale game that's pretty damn good actually um suffers from the same problem is basically every other game that there is online interaction and cheaters play the games too in fact there's economies that spring up around cheating software used for not just apex legends but a lot of games and respawn is handling it by forcing the cheaters to play with each other rather than with the general public when they detect cheaters they ban them to a sort of cheaters only battle royale which actually sounds completely awesome so awesome that it is actually a common request to watch the cheaters only matches with the names blurred out and it may be because the actual skill of using cheats is what's on display here it may involve a lot of utterly impossible gaming moves you'd never see anywhere else or it may just be to see them get a taste of their own medicine I don't know but either way I do think it probably would be fun to see and I would watch coming in at number two neogaf users translated a polish interview to say that the cyberpunk 2077 developers are including religion in the game even if it may offend the sensitivity of some now this was an incorrect translation however it gained a lot of traction and a lot of people talked about it the actual thing CD Projekt RED said about religion was well players are free to explore religion in the game as they choose quests that involve religion will be designed to avoid any disrespect I'm gonna go ahead and say I think that this was maybe a case of the overzealous got the PC police good people here a faction that seems to be as overzealous as the PC police themselves and the argument that came from this involve those two factions weirdly enough and finally coming in at number one a glitch on a stream unveiled a very popular streamer in China by the name of your highness Kia balule apologies if not pronounced correctly as a 58 year old woman she racked up quite a few followers on a streaming platform called it doe u and she had her face covered by a cartoon image for the most part forever a glitch caused the image that was covering her face to disappear and she continued streaming talking with the other person who was on the stream and people started to leave she actually didn't notice that this had happened until well some fans started calling foul and disappearing however where this sounds like it could be going to the point of the internet destroying this woman it went the opposite direction instead fans started calling your highness kia b leo granny and started following in much bigger numbers she grew from 130,000 to over a half a million followers very quickly and somehow overcame the vindictive nature of the internet to come back to streaming a week later too many more fans and having lots more fun even saying she's going to become a rapper which I don't I don't know that she should couple of bonus points for you there's a Pokemon engagement ring it's a peek 2 themed it's actually not the worst thing I've ever seen but it is weird it does - Pikachu tails they hold the diamonds or whatever rock you put in it and it comes in a pokeball case which I'm gonna go ahead and say if you see somebody do this pop the question this way I know you're gonna have the urge to talk to them probably don't I don't think you're gonna see somebody do that though the jeweler that does it is in Tokyo so I mean maybe they'll have to export a bunch of it I don't know I'm not even gonna speculate to be honest I mean we're talking about some people's special moment you know leave them alone and a new Microsoft studio called the initiative has picked up some developers from the God of War level design team it's almost as if it was created explicitly to siphon people off of Sony's Santa Monica studios like Santa Monica studio because the energy is in Santa Monica have to imagine the pay is just a little bit better or something because you they don't have to move I'm guessing I don't know a video scene of a parrot pretty much perfectly emulating Nintendo switch sounds got passed around the internet and it is impressive I mean it sounds exactly like the Nintendo switch I don't have a lot of commentary to add to that you need to see and hear it it's amazing what did you think leave us a comment let us know if you like this video click like if you're not subscribed now's 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 the subscription so click subscribe and don't forget to click the notification bell as always thank you very much for watching this video on falcon you can follow me on twitter ad fell from the hero and will see you next time right here on game ranks

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Length: 13min 49sec (829 seconds)

Published: Wed Jul 31 2019