Wow! Way to show the world how you can stick it to "The Man"!!! And it only cost you $400!!

wasn't his money....

And I bet all those farking nerds that watched him do it were bawling their eyes out.

1. The people how donated the money, knew what it was for.

2. That's fricking' hilarious to do on launch day in front of the crowds. Those little kids that don't get one knowing that the bad man smashed one that COULD have been theirs.

I like the cut of that guy's jib.

I'm not sure if the dozens of baleful stares and looks of stunned disbelief would qualify as $400 worth of entertainment, but I'd by lying if I said that wasn't the funniest thing I've seen all day.

I'm blocked by Websense. Could someone copy/paste the good parts?

Microsoft still makes money off it.

I like it.

MoriyaMug:

I'm not sure if the dozens of baleful stares and looks of stunned disbelief would qualify as $400 worth of entertainment, but I'd by lying if I said that wasn't the funniest thing I've seen all day.


If it was videotaped and posted on the site, I'm sure it was worth $2 to 200 people, or some similar combination.

Foaming: Microsoft still makes money off it.

It's not about denying MS their money. It's about demonstrating to the throngs of idiots waiting in line for a new toy what you think of them and their toy.

so funny. i saw the smash my ipod video from the same dude. so funny.

so...douchebag with nothing better to do prevents someone who couldn've gotten enjoyment from it from doing so. he totally wins!

Foaming:

Microsoft still makes loses money off it.

/fixed
//about $75 per console was the prediction

I'm sure he had to buy a bundle with $20 worth of stuff for $150 to get it.

That.

Is.

Farking.

HILARIOUS.

Didn't bother trying to load the video, but unless I missed something earth-shattering and deeply philosophical, what a complete waste of time. What's the point, that MS is evil? That people who wait in line are total nerds who should be mocked? Let it go, dude, if others want to have their fun with something you think is stupid, BFD. Whatever point the dude was trying to make is completely lost in the fact that he's an idiot, and all he proved is he's even more obsessed than they are. This would only be funny if he caught a cold and died.

They make hardly a profit off of hardware - the software is the money maker.

Also, this is some funny shiat.

thats a paddlin'

Iconoclastic beauty.

Seems like that would really upset some kids who really wanted one. Guess he showed them.

munkyv22: 1. The people how donated the money, knew what it was for.

Then they're jerks too. $400 well spent this holiday season. I'm sure some orphans or sick kids (pops) wouldn't have wanted it.

So the way to make Microsoft take a bigger loss is to buy a bunch of Xboxen, and don't buy any games? That'll show them!

/yes, I know, you'd lose even more money than Microsoft
//unless you converted them all to mobile pr0n terminals

Hopefully it was cold enough out to keep him from reproducing.

Why didn't that get the Hero tag?

I love culture jamming stuff like this.

Anything that makes people go "WTF?" and briefly dislodge
from their normal reality tunnels is a good thing, IMHO.

It's not as good as Evel Knievel lighting his cigars with $100 bills, but oh well.

OK NOW EVERYBODY DESTROY YOUR COMPUTERS IN SOLIDARITY!!!

Hero Tag plz

I couldn't care less about Microsoft or the Xbox 360, but this guy is seriously pathetic.

There are a lot of people who wish they could afford to waste money like that. Myself included.

Better plan:
Step 1 - Ask people to donate money to destroy new xbox in front of fan boys in line.

Step 2 - Hookers and blow.

farked.

i don't get it, how can you folks have any emotion from this? i got absolutely no reaction from reading the article. it wasn't funny, it didn't piss me off. it just seemed boring.

Agreed. or at least Amusing.

Of course, Microsoft still got their money.
And all those people in line are still going to get Xbox 360s.
And they guy still had to wait around for 55 hours to do it.
Yeah, he sure showed them.

At first I thought the guy was a crazy nut for doing this. Then I found out the whole thing was staged.

Pure hilarity!!!

The link seems farked so I can't RTFA but the idea of it stinks of something like a radio stunt.

Boobies: I love culture jamming stuff like this.

This isn't culture jamming. Culture jamming, ideally, makes people think. This just makes people think he's stupid.

Culture Jamming would've been setting up a Salvation Army or some other charity booth next to the line, walking up, and loudly proclaiming you're taking your $400 and giving it to them instead.

Despite his "statement", the store made money on that sale and the sales figures went up by 1.

I like how the site called him a "retard." Who's more 'tarded, the 'tard who does something 'tarded, or the 'tard who has to point out that the first 'tard is a 'tard?

You boys are really dying for a hero.

Ain'tcha??

Some funny stuff that relates:

Snape does something to someone that everyone already knows. (I just don't feel like getting yelled at by that ONE slow reader) Regardless of the "NOoooooo" it is NOT a vader thing.
NOOOOOOOOOO

And....

Gamer's Manifesto

Some off points but overall a good reason why I won't be buying a console for a while.

Except that he shoulda got on his knees and set that mother on fire.

Like Hendrix, at Monterey.

After listening to all the losers on the radio this morning complaining how long they waited in line, only to find the store was sold out of xboxes, I say:

BRAVO!!

lordargent

I prefer the other attention whore chick.

Hero

hahah, nice work.
Didn't tom green start that bit of buying something in a store then promptly smashing it.

"Mom! Dad! Come quick! Kevin's pissing on all his presents!"

Looks like lordargent got it right.

I mean, I don't care one way or the other, because if he's dumb enough to spend more than 2 days waiting to destroy something,on someone else's dime, he's obviously got less going for him than those that waited to buy something they can get value out of.

Especially, since I would have switched boxes somehow, and sold the real one on ebay for profit.

Ahh, what would have been more entertaining would have been if said crowd then executed him for sheer stupidity.

It will be worth it to see the Xbox fanboys light up the various forums with outrage. Much like the faux "Apple G5 coverted to a Dell" hilarity.

This is, in my opinion, a slant at people who drool for months and wait for days in line on launch day for a product that will be old news just after Christmas. Not a "Microsoft is Evil" slant. I personally think it is funny and hope anyone who was severely distressed by it stops and thinks about how insignificant one little XBox 360 really is. Well worth the money, I think, for a priceless piece of performance art.