10 WEIRD Gaming Stories of May 2020

Gaming is a weird world and every month we put together the weirdest stories that come out of it for your enjoyment and for ours hi folks it's talking today on game ranks the weird gaming stories that happened in May starting off at number 10 a 17-year old in Japan wants to sue the local government because it put out guidelines on the amount of time that a minor should be allowed spent playing video games now the obvious weird part of the story is that a person would have to do that various media has framed it as Japanese teen is suing over an opinion over gaming advice but here's the thing I'm completely with the teenager there's no reason for the administrative bodies the local government or really any authority in a municipality or state to put out Gaming guidelines yes it is possible to get addicted to gaming that's not something that I want to deny however isn't it a little wrong tab the state tell you you can't do something that's harmless by all counts for more than X number of hours a day that's weird at number nine this is a Twitter account called no buttons this is an account where the buttons on controller is on video game consoles basically anything that has buttons primarily those things are erased it is one of the weirdest looking things I don't I don't know how to express how strangely disturbing a lot of these photo shops are but they are now some of them are just pictures of devices that have had buttons yanked out of them and those aren't quite as disturbing I'm primarily talking about the photo shops and they're not quite as disturbing as like those pictures where they remove people's facial features and give the human figure and eerie sort of presence about it in that way but it's kind of weird in the same way definitely not to that extent but yeah it's eery for something that frankly shouldn't really bother you on the other hand there's one other way to think about it imagine if all these controllers were just touch surfaces and registered everything that way that would kind of be cool in some of these instances at least the arcade machines with everything removed from them I don't know that feels a little bit too weird at number eight Square Enix decided to give away face masks with their logos on it which cool that sounds not weird however you get a free Square Enix face mask for the you know stuff that's going on with the spreading disease if you spend $100 on any physical order that's right you have to physically purchase something for $100 to get a free face mask a free piece of cloth now I'm not gonna sit here and really get into how greedy this is I just want to point out the ad for it notes that by doing this by spending over a hundred dollars on a physical order and getting your free square enix face mask you boost your vitality plus one now I know nobody actually believes their vitality stat improves I'm not saying that I am saying that's just look don't do that don't use your niche stuff when there's a global pandemic going on don't use it to make money or you know don't do it $400 orders just do it with every order when somebody orders something that has to be physically shipped just send them a face mask these things don't cost a lot to produce it's like stickers have you ordered anything recently without getting free stickers I haven't just do that with face masks don't make them into some kind of incentive to spend more it's greedy and frankly it's weird at number seven a 90 year old Japanese grandma who is also a gamer and a streamer was recognized as the Guinness world record holder for oldest video game youtuber in the now this is something that you could probably try to contest but this is a consistent channel that she's constantly worked on for a long time now and for a record like this there's probably some pretty specific criteria now to call this weird isn't like oh that's weird but rather it's unfortunate that it's weird that older folks don't actually have an end to this kind of community or even just hobby and number six everybody's favorite animal rights organization PETA that's of course sarcasm nobody really likes them including most animal rights activists protested against a fake fish museum in Animal Crossing it wasn't just that they protested the game they actually process it inside the game they put up signs that said fish belong in the ocean they repeatedly said empty the tanks they donned PETA shirts and they surrounded blathers the owl while trying to I guess stop him blathers is of course an npc and didn't care PETA also provided a guide for going vegan in Animal Crossing which it tells you that you shouldn't do fishing in the game because it's quote/unquote not cool they also tried to get blathers as over party trending on Twitter I don't know if it worked I hope not because again blather is as an NPC I'm gonna go ahead and chalk this the whole thing up is really useless and not helpful at number five a gamer was electrocuted by playing his phone now this is a sad one cuz he actually did die so I want to go ahead and say like so let's be sure to be respectful obviously he didn't do anything weird he was just playing his phone he was found laying on a mattress though and when people came in and saw him they tried to wake him and he wasn't responsive and after some preliminary investigation they think he had been dead for two days he had burn wounds on his hands so likely what happened was somehow his phone was shorting out his hands I don't know exactly what to say because obviously I wasn't there and this is of course not a normal occurrence by any stretch nobody gets electrocuted in this way especially to death but it's happened it's a freak accident it really sucks whoever made the charger is probably at fault to at least some extent because I've obviously never had a charger electrocute me to death in bed something was wrong here at number four and Vidya created an AI that recreated pac-man simply by watching pac-man they did not give any code to the artificial intelligence in order to give any images to work with it just watched pac-man play the game now it's not perfect the AI created pac-man does look kind of crappy like a pacman you were playing on a phone with a very low resolution around 2002 but it's packed me like it's actually pac-man and that's creepy I'm not so certain I really want artificial intelligence to be that good NVIDIA has a pretty cool idea with it though you could use this kind of AI to mash two different games together but then they went ahead and say eventually we'd like it to learn the rules of the real world no Nvidia no we don't that's enough pac-man is enough at number three we just got the new version of the original mafia game and in the four years since mafia 3 got its definitive ition they still haven't fixed the mirrors which are apparently a portal to a demonic world in which a warped freakish version of what is actually going on outside of the mirror is displayed for all to gaze in horror upon like I can't imagine it would be that hard to fix but they haven't done it so I don't know it's just a weird occurrence that I've seen complained about a lot in the four years since its release so maybe they could have but then maybe they won't and number two somebody made a mod to be able to ride giant versions of various animals in the game including a pig and I don't know why they did it with the other animals it's much more fun to just simply ride a pig around it's hilarious to see somebody riding around on a very big Pig the mod is called pig rider so it absolutely knows where the money is the Creator has a patreon page for the ongoing development his name is Julio nib and he should be commended for his beautiful work finally at number one I'm not a hundred percent sure why this person did this but the unofficial Elder Scrolls pages person I'm assuming the one that runs their Twitter developed a new hobby of spending a very long time in jail in Oblivion the character spent six hundred and sixteen years in jail with pretty much all of his skills atrophy going away and I mean if you think about it stayed in jail the entire time Skyrim happened and another several hundred years I don't know why you would do this it's like the worst version of an idle clicker you don't even do the clicking and a quick bonus for you a video demonstrating just how far Resident Evil has come if you remember the original tank controls and static camera angles in Resident Evil it's a far cry from where the game is today this guy does such a good job recreating at them I mean it's hilarious that's what yeah I mean you could easily have this happen in the game you could do it intentionally you could on unintentionally he has it just completely perfectly imitated and adding in the game's music and sound affects just bring it to a perfect point seriously look at some resident evil footage and then look at this that's it that's the game and that's also all the weird stories we have for the month what do you think anything weird happen to you you feel like sharing leave us a comment let us know if you enjoyed this video please click like if you're not subscribed now's a good time to do so click subscribe don't forget to enable all notifications and we thank you very much for watching this video I'm Falcon you can follow me on Twitter to Falcon hero we'll see you next time right here on game Winx

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Length: 10min 37sec (637 seconds)

Published: Sun May 31 2020