8 Creepy Video Game Urban Legends (That Happen to Be True) The urban legends of every era always seem to reflect whatever teenagers are doing at the time: Forty years ago, they told stories about serial killers attacking kids making out in cars and escaped criminals hiding in someone's backseat, because they didn't have jetpacks yet. Today, most young people seem to spend their time sitting or standing in front of video game screens, so it makes sense that we should get legends like ... Super Mario Galaxy 2 -- The Shadow People of Hell Valley In a game like Mario, you're usually too focused on not falling off the crumbling catwalk into the lava below to ever really stop and look around. GettyFor the same effect, we recommend huffing spray paint. But if you ever do get the chance to stop and stare into the distance, you'll find some extremely creepy shit. Anywhere you go on that level, if you look up and to the left, they'll always be there. Via gonintendo.comThey're just THERE. But couldn't they just be, we don't know, trees or something? Getty
6 Beloved TV Shows (That Traumatized Cast Members For Life) Anyone who's worked shoveling shit at a circus can tell you that making entertainment isn't as much fun as watching it. The same goes for TV shows, and in some cases, it's even worse than the elephant shit thing. There are shows you loved and grew up with that, behind the scenes, were a constant, dark carnival of torment. The Show: An extraterrestrial puppet confounds his adopted Earth family with his cat-eating ways. But Behind The Scenes... A dictatorial puppeteer confounds his cast with a deathtrap set. In his Inferno, Dante never described a torture with which to punish 80s sitcom stars. ALF creator and head puppeteer Paul Fusco epitomized eccentricity. Keep in mind, the set was living-room sized. Resetting the trap doors was an arduous process, as the only alternative was to let actors randomly fall to their deaths. #5. A geriatric man tries not to fuck up stating the price of a projection TV in a legally-binding way. But at least he gave her dignity. Congrats! #4. "Want to hear a joke?
Social Spew & 12 Awesome Displays of 'Rage Comics' In Real Life It’s no big secret that I love me some Rage Comics and while the comic itself is awesome; it gets even better when someone takes it to the next level. Here are 12 displays of people getting some RAGE in real life. 8 Creepy Video Game Urban Legends (That Happen to Be True) EarthBound -- All About Abortion For most people, their only experience with EarthBound (also known as Mother 2 in Japan) is the characters and levels that also appear in the Super Smash Bros. games: little kids with bats and yo-yos in bright, colorful environments. And that's a pretty accurate representation of about 95 percent of the game, where you run around with four little kids who are trying to save the world by fighting things like bugs and robots and taxicabs. Via WikipediaIt's like Pokemon, but less flashy. But the last hour of the game is something really different from everything that comes before it. First the kids have their souls ripped from their bodies and put into robots. Via screwattack.comTake a look at Giygas' lair, The Devil Machine. The middle part looks remarkably like an endoscopic image of a woman's cervix. Via earthbound.wikia.com And ends up looking like this: First a cervix and now something that looks like an Andy Warhol painting of a fetus. What the hell?
The 5 Ballsiest Easter Eggs Hidden in Video Games #2. Overworked Programmer Turns Helicopter Game into Gay Celebration Before the wildly popular SimCity game series transitioned into the even more wildly popular The Sims , their creators at Maxis tried out about a dozen other "Sim + some other word" combinations to see if they caught on. SimFarm failed because it lacked the option to annoy your family and friends with invitations. The best known of that bunch is SimCopter , but not for the reasons Maxis intended. We're not sure who that dude in the gray hoodie is, but we'd bet money he's taken a human life. This last part wasn't fully intentional, it turns out. Which explains the mysterious bulge in the girl on the right. Servin programmed the characters to come out only on certain dates, but an error in the code made them show up more often and in greater numbers, causing spontaneous gay pride parades to form around the helicopter. Looks pretty consensual to us. #1. It's the most entertaining 5 percent. That's actually Level 3.
7 Mind-Blowing Easter Eggs Hidden in Famous Works of Art Sure, if you look hard enough you're going to see bestiality, orgies and freakishly small penises in EVERYTHING. But in the case of classic works of art, you're often right. Yes, as much as we mock Dan Brown around here, the one thing he's right about is that old-school artists like Michelangelo and Da Vinci loved to plant little "Easter Eggs" in their work, often things that would never have made it past the censors. The Floating Brain God Michelangelo's ode to the Book of Genesis, The Creation of Adam, has endured not only as the most famous of the Sistine Chapel panels, but also one of the single most iconic images of humanity. Note how Adam's pose mimics God's, how mankind is framed off from the Heavens by earth and mountains, and how God and his entourage are rolling around in a gigantic, floating brain. Wait, What the Hell? Look closely. While some might dismiss this as a coincidence, experts suggest that it would be harder to explain that this was not Michelangelo's intention. ...is?
High-Profile Hackers Map -- the Disruptors NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Hacker groups continue to launch cyberattacks as a means of political protest, with the city of San Francisco as the latest target. Hackers from the organization Anonymous leaked personal information Sunday, including e-mail addresses and phone numbers from more than 2,000 riders of the city's public transportation service, Bay Area Rapid Transit. The attack was in retaliation against BART's decision to shut down cell phone service to disrupt a potential protest related to a July shooting of a man by police on the BART system. "Anonymous will attempt to show those engaging in the censorship what it feels like to be silenced," the group said. This incident is just the latest in a string of high-profile attacks on governmental agencies and corporations, including AT&T (T_) and Sony (SNE), where hackers have shut down servers and exposed sensitive data affecting millions of customers. So who are these Web pirates? --Written by Olivia Oran in New York.
6 MORE Creepy Urban Legends (That Happen to be True) The Legend: A pregnant woman tells her spouse the baby's not his and, in a rational and well-considered move, the husband chops off her lover's head and brings it to her in the maternity ward. It comes in many forms but the moral of the story is always clear; stay the hell away from that Brazilian pool boy, ladies. The Truth: Sgt. On a cold December day the pregnant Diane lay in a hospital bed talking on the phone to Gregory when the line, and for that matter Gregory himself, suddenly went dead. "Look, Diane - Glover's here! The Not-So-Death Defying Escapist Demonstrating why guidance counselors rarely recommend this line of work, an escape artist fails to follow through on his name and dies in front of a live audience. Despite the illusion of danger, escape artists rarely die or even get injured performing a stunt. Ironically, given what would take place, Burrus' stunt was to involve him escaping from his own grave. The Living Severed Head
7 Creepy Video Game Easter Eggs You'll Wish Were Never Found Video game Easter eggs can be a fun way to motivate players to continue exploring a game they've completed ... or they can be terrifying experiences that make sure the players never go near that game again. We've told you about those Easter eggs that took years to be found; here are some more that we wish had remained undiscovered. #7. Portal 2 brought us everything we loved about the first game (portals) and left out everything we hated (cake-related meme horseshit). Who knew a game about ripping holes in reality could get creepy? For instance, in one of the earlier test chambers of the game, you can find an abandoned room hidden off to the side of the level, much like the abandoned rooms found in the original game. Above: Either a screen grab from Portal, or literally any alley in Philadelphia. If video games could smell, we're pretty sure Portal would stink of this guy's poo. Rat Man's DenUm, spoilers? But the creepiest thing of all isn't even in the game. #6. Looking at you. #5. #4.
Health | Virtual game is a 'disease model' An outbreak of a deadly disease in a virtual world can offer insights into real life epidemics, scientists suggest. The "corrupted blood" disease spread rapidly within the popular online World of Warcraft game, killing off thousands of players in an uncontrolled plague. The infection raged, wreaking social chaos, despite quarantine measures. The experience provides essential clues to how people behave in such crises, Lancet Infectious Diseases reports. In the game, there was a real diversity of response from the players to the threat of infection, similar to those seen in real life. Some acted selflessly, rushing to the aid of other characters even though that meant they risked infection themselves. Others fled infected cities in an attempt to save themselves. And some who were sick made it their mission to deliberately infect others. Researcher Professor Nina Fefferman, from Tufts University School of Medicine, said: "Human behaviour has a big impact on disease spread. Constraint