Old Grandma Hardcore

On the off chance you haven't seen this yet, take a look at the Old Grandma Hardcore blog. A gent has begun chronicling the gaming habits of his elderly grandmother, who at the moment is working through Prince of Persia in between swearing and pain pills. From the site: "Grandma has long wanted to try the Prince of Persia series after reading the reviews. She was really into Devil May Cry because killing people with swords is far superior than say, coldly sniping them from afar. Also, she enjoyed audibly congratulating herself for a good combo; for example she would whisper 'Yeah, ...Stylish' in her best Issac Hayes impersonation..."

Uhhh dude,

[Klowner]

First of all, that's not your grandma, that's your dorm roommate.

And lay off the shrooms and get back to studying.

ERm

[NanoGator]

"Old Grandma Hardcore"

One tends to be very wary of headlines like this after reading a bunch of crap on bash.org.

Holy crap.

[Seumas]

"Old grandma hardcore" does not make me think "videogames"....

Re:Holy crap.

[NanoGator]

"Old grandma hardcore" does not make me think "videogames"...." ...? I don't even want to know why you left in the middle of your post.

Re:Holy crap.

[daeley]

I don't even want to know why you left in the middle of your post.

It's hard to type and vomit at the same time. ;D

Re:Holy crap.

[name773]

"I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate."

are you quoting that from bladerunner or the oakenfold track based of the same?

if it's bladerunner, how is that movie?

Re:Holy crap.

[{8_8}]

I wasn't overly impressed with it, as it was a little long and uneventful for my tastes. It does have an interesting portrayal of the future, and it's not a BAD movie. Lots of people seem to like the movie, so don't avoid it just because of me.

Re:Holy crap.

[{8_8}]

Read it. Found it to be similar to the movie, just with the usual movie/book plot differences.

Re:Holy crap.

[daeley]

Quoting from the movie, which is one of my all-time favorites.

Re:Holy crap.

[slaker]

It's a lot better than {8_8} apparently thinks it is. Philip Marlowe in a futuristic setting, basically. Lots of fun and interesting subtext. A cool as hell score ("Blue Runner Blues", especially). Art design to die for.
I think it succeeds in large degree because it's not a science fiction movie. Blade Runner could've been set in London in 1944 (Deckard hunts nazi spies), and it would've still been a good movie.

I believe it is widely considered the best science fiction movie ever made.

Re:Holy crap.

[name773]

i'll find a way to rent it

thanks to you and the other people who posted replies (i like the differing opinions; adds some intrigue to sourcing a movie)

GTA

[Red Pointy Tail]

I'll like to see the video when she starts on GTA!

Nice site BUT...

[LoRdTAW]

You can barely hear grandma except for the occasional curse she yells out. And you cant tell if she is even playing. If the dude had a little more hardware like a cheap video capture card and a better mic he would have something. Have a shot of grandma playing while cursing up a storm and a box with a feed of the video game she is playing. Then we can see what she is bitching about.

Wishful thinking

[Demona]

If it's half as funny as Old Man Murray was, I'm in:

"In a perfect world, we'd all lie blind and motionless in stacked coffins filled with pudding. It would be dark and warm and nobody would have to compete with anybody and also the government would pay for the pudding."

whatever happened to him?

[abandonment]

too bad the omm site seems to have just gone away...was pretty funny 'back in the good old days'...

damn i'm old

Wish my grandma had game...

[binaryspiral]

I don't know if I'd like my grandpa to be playing MOHAA... I mean how much more realistic can it get when he dives for cover during the cut scenes and cusses non-stop at the Germans?

Click here to watch!

[bergeron76]

Live, raunchy, 2 on 1 Old Grandma Harcore!

Re:Click here to watch!

[Meagermanx]

Your posting privileges have been revoked.

I don't wish she was my Grandma . . .

[tribentwrks]

. . . I wish she would find a fountain of youth and be my girlfriend. That would turn,

"Are you gonna play games all damn day?!?"

to

"You ARE gonna play games all damn day!"

Re:I don't wish she was my Grandma . . .

[Jackmn]

That's really creepy.

Re:I don't wish she was my Grandma . . .

[Jackmn]

Scratch that, I read that as you wanting your Grandmother to find the fountain of youth.

Re:I don't wish she was my Grandma . . .

[mbius]

No, it's still creepy.

Navy vet?

[funkify]

Was Gramma or her husband in the Navy? Cuz she sure does talk like it!

Could it be...

[the_real_tigga]

that the Grandma is on Parkinson medication [ama-assn.org], which leads to computer game addiction?

Re:Could it be...

[t_stehilaire]

Nope. Parkinson is a horrible disease, though... She's on Cumidan for blood clots, she takes pain medications on occasion, but hates doing it (she's seen what drug addiction can do) She started gaming long before she had health problems, and other than the occasional Bingo, she doesn't really gamble. Intersting paper though; it was only published in Arch Neurol? I'd imagine I'd see something like this in the other medical journals.

Tetris

[LePrince]

Not MY granny, but the mom of my mom's boyfriend (my mom has a boyfriend, the mom of that guy... got it ?)... Everyone was telling me she kicked ass at Tetris. Being quite a decent Tetris player myself, I laughed, and challenged her.

I died after making nearly 400 lines, which was over my average score. She stopped after 700 'cause she had to go prepare supper, but she was in good shape, nowhere near trouble, she probably could've continued for another 700 lines...

Talk about a humility lesson.

Re:Tetris

[some_random_person]

Don't feel too bad, my grandmother has amassed more wealth in Ultima Online in under 6 months than I did in 4 years (on and off) of playing...