Here's something to make you feel ashamed to be a gamer!
 

This is quite possibly the worst thing I have ever witnessed.

...Man, I'm going to need to wash a shitload of bile out of my mouth. I may never play a game again lest I be associated with this douchebaggery.

Someone needs to explain to me:
1: Who the heck thought that these individuals were reasonably representative samples of the gaming community;
2: Who thought it'd be a great idea to lead off with the overweight guy going on some lengthy speech about how fuckin' smokin' hawt the ladies participating in the contest were, as if that's the collective value of their contributions;
(Also why is it always the ugliest / most overweight guy on these reality shows who turns out to be the most depraved and creepy? Is that like an editing trick, like it wouldn't be sufficiently funny if the military hunk was crushin' on them, but edit the stereotypically socially awkward guy into sounding like a perv and its comedy gold?)
3: Who thought it'd be a great idea to have a random model with no experience in the industry join two (male, of course) individuals with actual 'experience' as judges;
4: What the hell cockroaches have to do with anything;
5: Who put Egoraptor up to this bullshit.

Watching this video has made me feel ashamed to associate with all of them, to own a PS3, to have been a Sony customer since the PS1 days and uuuuugggghhhh God someone please shut off my brain.

Wouldn't it be nice if there was a 'gaming reality show' that actually intelligently approached its subject, treated its participants like real people and didn't indulge in hokey, sexist, racist, inconsequentially dumb bullshit, or deliberately cast people who simply shouldn't be there, and actually incorporate judges who should be judging them based on their actual performances? Then when someone was like "Snake, you're a gamer!" I'd be like "Yeah, check this out, we're good people!"

EDIT: "Hey loud obnoxious girl, you're Hispanic, aren't you?"
"Why yes, yes I am!"
"So that explains why you're so loud and obnoxious!"
UUUUGGGGHHHHH

If you honestly weren't angry at being associated with 'gamer culture' before this, you've been in a coma

They're just finger puppets, Snake. It's not real. Everything will be ok.

I find it hilarious because game tester is basically the worst job in the entire industry, the one that will quite possibly make you hate video games forever.

Well, at least if he wins he'll get a car to hopefully drive as far away from the actual testing job as possible.

Ahahaha she's in an interview and she gives a five minute dissertation on silent farts.
Where the hell do they find these people

Like let me be blunt, I'm at least twice as socially awkward as that girl is, and I have never acted that unprofessional in an interview
I'd like to imagine she's just an actress they hired and she was explicitly told by the producers to tell that story to the judges, because at least then I'd have the slightest bit of respect for her and everyone else involved.

actually, yes, it is an editing trick. He probably wasn't the only one making those comments, just the only one shown

But why would any of the guys make that comment in the first place
Like keep your pervy thoughts to yourself and behave like an appropriately mature human being, like everyone does in the real world every day

because if you were the kind of person to keep inappropriate comments to yourself then you wouldn't be on a reality show in the first place. They actively look for people like that

Uh, Snake, the two of us need to have a talk. You see the problem is...

You see it now?

I feel like everything egoraptor is saying should be sarcastic but it's edited out of context.

Preemptive comment: Grimpond is wrong and also mean.

Hah, I was watching this too because Egoraptor had mentioned it on his Youtube thingamajig. I like how the preview for it pretty much explicitly shows that none of the obstacle courses, tests, and feats of strength will have anything to do with gaming.

I mean Egoraptor had to do the interview while wearing an aquarium full of insects on his head.

So basically I don't know why you are taking this seriously as it seems to be a complete and utter parody of reality television. Which puts it in "so bad it's good territory".

Incidentally, this is the second least-viewed video featuring Egoraptor on youtube.

The least viewed video overall is one he put up an hour ago.

But if you want to just rant about dumb people, that seems appropriate.
 

haven't watched TV in years. This only supports my decision to retain some semblance of sanity.

What snippets I've seen only prove that the movie Idiocracy is true. Though I can't help but wonder what they did to get egoraptor on there.

Edit: two minutes in and I wanted to set the world afire for allowing this to happen.

why is the fat white guy is talking as if he was black? Actually.. he talks like a white guy pretending to be black

also, the only thing slightly possible good about this is in fact Egoraptor

Anyone have a link to just the parts with Egoraptor in them? No way am I sifting through all that.

Great news!
Episode 2 is out!

Just as an addendum, this doesn't make me feel ashamed to be a gamer. Judging by the likes/dislikes, the viewcount, and the comments, it's clear that the gaming community is reacting to this nonsense in exactly the manner they ought to.

Now if we can get Egoraptor voted off so the whole shebang can just quietly burn somewhere.

I'm pretty sure the fact that he is a fat white nerdy looking guy who suddenly bursts into street talk out of the blue was like, 95% of the reason they picked him.

It's more of a contest where they are supposedly competing to be given a QA game testing position at a major game company (I think Sony) by performing a series of tasks that have nothing to do with gaming in the least. It's also only on the internet as far as I can tell so it's not really a real TV show.

So unlike Jersey Shore it can at least be surmised that this show is about something, as opposed to nothing. Survivor, as opposed to Keeping Up With the Kardashians. Both are equally fake, but not of equal vapidness.

ya know Wizards has done something like this a couple times now... but they treated it as a Job first and a show second.

Just something I'm throwing out there

I wonder if these people know that getting a job as a game tester is actually rather easy. Mostly because people think its a dream job but as was mentioned before its pretty horrible. You aren't playing the completed game but the buggy half done version. Not to mention if its an actual job (as oppose to when they bring in random people for things like gauging difficulty curves and focus groups) there is alot of paperwork. I knew a guy that did it. Imagine saving every like five minutes and keeping track of your exact character configuration at the time.

They have pretty high turn over.

My brother was a QA tester for years at Nintendo and Microsoft, you can't work your way up (well he was originally a worker on the Nintendo hotline but the internet killed that off right quick), not just because the hierarchy doesn't work that way in those companies, but also the fact that they only ever hired him for 9 months at a stretch so they wouldn't have to provide health benefits.

He finally took a short course on game design a couple of years ago and got a decent job at a small game studio actually working on some coding/design elements, which was sort of what he always wanted to do. He's much more interested and happy now than he ever was as a QA tester, seems like.

I'll admit, if he wasn't on it, I wouldn't have even opened Snake's link.

Though there is some entertainment value in everyone's forced performances regarding the supposed "celebrity" status of the game developer judges. "OH MAH GAWD IT'S SOME DUMPY MIDDLE-AGED GUY WITH THE PERSONALITY OF A LAMP POST THAT PRODUCED A GAME I PLAYED ONCE! HAVE MY BABIES!"

http://img197.imageshack.us/img197/4825/malamp.png

Just toe fuel the flams of the facts that Egoraptor is the only positive thign AT ALL so far... check the first episode, right at the start when they are all riding in the car. He has this "Everybody is faking anxiety, so i'll look bored as shit" face, i loved it.

Who the hell are all of those people and why are they with Egoraptor? I just watched the season premier of Top Shot (good show) so watching The Tester is like eating a fresh dog shit with bits of chocolate inside of it.

i actually had to do serious leg work to figure it out just who the hell that lady Judge is supposed to be... and then... wikipedia.


ooooooooooh... now i see.

ok she is more of a gamer then I'd expect, but she does sound more like "hot nerd" a fan, not really someone in the industry

Just watched both episodes (ish, I skipped parts that lacked egoraptor and overloaded in whiny morons) and now I feel the urge to become just as internet famous as egoraptor, just so I can issue a formal "fuck you" in response to the inevitable invitation to be on that show.

None of the people on this show are doing it because they have a great dream to be a game tester. They are on this show because they want to get some tv exposure and network with some people in the videogame industry. And also jsut have a sweet paid for party for however long they filming for.

Like I barely play videogames and have no interest in working in the videogame industry but fuck I'd do it.

I wonder if whoever wins on this thing gets health care coverage.

Like I'm pretty sure that's why everyone goes on American Idol.

See? That is exactly the problem. It's all of this bullshit that can't decide if it's about gaming or about game development or about complete insanity/luddism.

Yeah, I think Egoraptor probably just wants to keep trying to get his name out there so he can get some major work in the animation/games/humor industry, probably. He's trying to escape the Youtube/New Grounds ghetto of quasi-internet celebritydom.

Of course, he should have just been an attractive bisexual model who played some World of Warcraft. If only he had pursued that career path, he could be hosting The Tester 3 instead of just competing in it.

Snake, don't take this seriously. Remember: 'Reality TV', isn't.

None of these people are as big of douches as they make them out to be. Or they are bigger douches than the show makes them out to be. In any case, the show is edited to show only exactly the right amount of douchiness.

I noticed this when reading some of the background on Top Shot--which unlike so many "reality shows" is more of a gameshow with actual valid tests of ability (you can only be eliminated completely via an actual competiton, for instance). If you ever watch this show, you will see in especially season 2 some of the interview segments make people look like complete assholes who are purposefully stabbing each other in the back, etc. However in reading about the show I have read that contestants have given interviews since the show aired that many of the comments they make are either taken out of context, shown in a different context (such as actually talking about someone else or something else or what have you), or even vastly moved about in time (for instance a comment made about another contestant after the first episode being shown in the tenth episode, or vice versa, that drastically alters your perception of the contestant).

I was really quite annoyed by this, since Top Shot so attempts to be an actual competition and not a "reality show", that the editors/creators insist on creating falsely constructed "reality television aspects" for the show.

Which is not to say that crazy guy in Season 3 was not super crazy, because he really was apparently batshit insane. I think they knew it and let him into the competition on purpose just to see how batshit insane he could be, I guess.

So yeah this Tester show is probably heavily edited, with many scripted parts, etc. If they cannot get actual drama they will create it either through scripted things or "creative editing".

Yeah, a number of the cast members for the Tester have already noted how creatively edited everything is. Like, a lot of the "drama" surrounding Egoraptor wasn't really there. For instance, one scene cut had a number of the other cast members reenacting Awesome Gaiden from memory, or how the judges were the ones to bring up his internet notoriety but the interview was edited to look as if it had been him to first mention it. That sort of thing.

The curious thing that I pick up on:

This is The Tester... 3.

What happened to The Tester 1 and 2? If they're on their third iteration, it's not likely to die just because people aren't paying attention to it, or because it is bad in the same way all reality shows are bad.

I'd say a bottom-of-the-barrel budget and the fact that it's not actually broadcast on television (as far as I can tell) helped them save a bundle of money on this thing. Or Sony funds it as a means of advertizing for their games/company, etc.

you know, we think this is horrid because it relates to gamers, but this is probably how others feel whenever a reality show comes up about their interest or profession.

1 never made it out of the alpha build and 2 was only released in PAL regions.

Oh hey, they kicked out Egoraptor on episode 3, ignore the show while it quietly dies in the corner.

What did Egoraptor do to merit his elimination? Aside from, y'know, actually being a gamer and refusing to make a fool out of himself.

He hit a target with a giant cantaloupe slingshot (this relates to video games somehow, apparently) first with little difficulty and then ran back through the obstacle course to get more cantaloupes in case his team needed them, assuming that they weren't all a gaggle of uncoordinated fuckwits and could do it just as easily.

Turns out that they were a gaggle of uncoordinated fuckwits and ended up taking forever to shoot the other targets, losing to the other team, and the dude that made Uncharted decided that was Egoraptor's fault for not holding their hands and showing them all how to do it right.

And it was at that point that I was happy to finally be free of having to watch this horseshit ever again, and then they revealed that next week's episode would feature Street Fighter x Tekken and oh my god they've got me by the balls here.

Like you have no idea how vitally important it is that I watch that minute and a half of SFxT gameplay.

One of them might even pick Juri and then I can get mad at them for not knowing how to fucking play her!

It's just quarter circle motions and kick buttons goddammit come on!