The 6 Stupidest Video Game School Commercials

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If you watch TV during the middle of the day or late at night, market research has discovered that you're stoned, broke, lonely, uneducated and unemployed. For a for-profit college with a video game design program, that's like discovering your blind date is a sex addict. These colleges were so excited to tell you about your "future career in gaming" that they didn't have time to look up what any of those words meant. The confusion that followed led to these ridiculous commercials.

GAME DESIGN COMMERCIALS PROOUCED BY PEOPLE WHO HAVE NEUER PLAYED UIDEO GAMES!

Mindfire Academy Video Game Design Bootcamp

Mindfire Academy takes a unique approach to its advertising. They bring up an aspect of electronic entertainment that most of us forget about -- poontang. They hired a spokesgirl to casually invite you inside her, but only after you've created your own video game. In a mere 15 seconds, the school makes it clear that they know nothing about gaming and less about women. Here are the actual words from their actual ad, in their entirety:

KNOW WHY WE DON'T HANG OUT?

Because you're a contentious homely girl with a 14-inch TV?

YOL MAY DOMINATE BUT YOU KNOW WHAT AT EVERY FPS. REALLY LEVELS ME UP?

Wait, what are you talking about? You know that throwing in a random gaming term doesn't magically make sense out of the rest of your sentence, right? If it did, then Donkey Kong for into my ping pong banana.

CREATING YOUR OWN VIDEO GAME.

Speaking of video games, that one will probably work better if you turn the controller on.

The 6 Stupidest Video Game School Commercials

The promise of cheap sex with unpleasant bitches does seem more realistic than the promise of a career, but does Mindfire Academy actually have some kind of vagina placement program for its graduates? Because I've read that most non-accredited schools don't even qualify you for an entry-level position in a fat girl. Hell, according to one poll, 87 percent of Everest College students have to close their eyes and finger a burrito.

Collins College Game Design

Collins College knows that you have no interest in things as fleeting as sex or money. You are only watching commercials at 4 a.m. because you want to change the future. They produced an ad they called "Game Evoluation," because there is nothing more cyber than spelling everything like an idiot.

JUST VIDEO GAMES HAVE IMAGINE WHAT COME A LOOONG WAY. THE NEXT WAVE OF COOL VIDEO GAMES WILL LOOK LIKE.

Sitting jobless at home with a Collins College Interactive Design & VCR Repair Certificate and $70,000 in student loan bills is depressing, but not as depressing as finding out the next wave of cool games is going to be shitty robots in a warehouse firing rockets at nothing. That's worse than a future where those robots are the next wave of cool everyday problems.

YoU COULD BE THE AND COLLINS ONE DESIGNING THE GAMES COLLEGE CAN HELP OF THE FUTURE you GET THERE.

Before I send in my tuition, I have a quick question: Are the games of the future being sarcastic? Because that's a freaking gorilla shooting graph paper with lightning bolts. My present-day brain is having a lot of trouble figuring out if that's awesome or retarded.

THE SKILLS YOU LEARN TODAY... COULD LEAD TO THINK THE GAMES OF TOMORROW. ABOUT IT.

Holy shit, what am I looking at, Collins College? Is that ape celebrating because it lost? But ... but that means you made a game where gorillas electrocute an empty floor and the object is to fail! Fuck your dark hearts if that's what you've done! Or wait, is he the enemy and we're the floor? Because that doesn't make any sense either! Look, you had one job -- make something that looks like a game -- and you managed to pick the one possible combination of words and shapes that doesn't. I'm not saying all people with a basic understanding of video games are smart, but Collins College is dumber than every single one of them.

Minneapolis Media Institute

The strangest thing about these commercials is that each of them is targeted at completely different demographics. You've already seen Mindfire's ad for gamers too horny to make rational decisions and Collins College's ad for gamers too moronic to make rational decisions. Minneapolis Media Institute seems to be trying for an entirely different market -- senior citizens who aren't quite sure what these young people and their calculator watches are blooping and bleeping about.

CHECK THIS OUT! THIS LSED TO BE A HIGH TECH VIDEO GAME! NO KIDDING! MY PARENTS LSED TO PLAY THIS GAME FOR HOURS. MINNEAPOUS MEDLA INSTITUTE

You might have noticed that most game design school ads begin by mocking Pong. That's because the people who made them haven't thought about games since the exact moment they were invented. I mean, what is the actual point here? That some industry has come a long way in 40 years? I'm not even sure how to pay attention to something that obvious and pointless. And if you want me to think you know anything about technology, maybe don't lead with the exact conversation my grandma starts whenever she sees an iPad. I'll tell you the same thing I tell her: "There's not much time -- one of your doctors isn't real! Find the imposter! Destroy him!"

WEE t NOW THIS IS MORE LIKE It! TODAY'S VIDEO GAMES ARE STATE-OF-THE-ART TECHNOLOGY! MINNEAPOLIS MEDUAINSTITUTE www.gameartist.tv

So to continue his point, yesterday's games were high-tech then, but today's games are state-of-the-art now. Sweet! That means I've been reading my calendar in the right direction!

And while I agree with him that Pong is old, at least it had a goal. It's better than say, a game where you jump around in a spaceship drifting aimlessly through an asteroid belt. I'm talking crazy, though. A game like that would only be useful in making a struggling actor look like an asshole.

MD THERE ARE CONSOLE GAMES, MUILTIPLAYER GAMES, ALFARED'S SIDE SCROLLING GAMES, > > EVEN RETRO GAMES! IUI MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE www.gameartist.tv MEDL

Holy crap, Minneapolis Media Institute just named all four types of video games. I guess the reason Pong is so reviled by today's critics is because it's only three of them. Honestly, this ad is such gibberish that I'm starting to think it was written by putting a gun in a terrified kid's mouth and shouting, "Tell our copy writer about video games or die, GO!"

AND THE INDUSTRY'S BOOMING! IT'S NOT JUST KIDS! EVERYBODY'S GETTING INTO VIDEO GAMES! ID MINNEAPOLIS MEDUAINSTITUTE www.gameartist.tv

Science can't explain why photographing a woman holding a game controller causes it to electrocute her, but it is the most documented phenomenon in all of metaphysics.

so HERE'S AN IDEA: WHY NOT TAKE SOMETHING YOU'RE PASSIONATE ABOLIT... LIKE... VIDEO GAMES! AND TLIRN IT INTO A CAREER MINNEAPOLISI MEDIA INSTITUTE Col

You know, if you're unindustrious enough to let a TV commercial plan your life, maybe an 80-hour-a-week job developing games isn't for you. What is it about video games that inspires this logic? Other industries don't make commercials like this. I've never seen an ad saying, "Hey, obese! Can you believe chicken meat used to be served on the skeletons of dead birds? Not today! Modern nuggets combine the nutrition of discarded colons with the shapes you crave! So here's an idea: Take your love of fried chicken and see if you have what it takes to hand a bucket of it to someone else! Fryer accidents, diabetes and even vengeance from the chickens themselves ensure that there are always job openings in this exciting field!"

Westwood College Online

In a flailing, confusing effort to make you into a game designer, Westwood College Online's commercial makes soup out of the English language.

AWW HURRY LP, MAN. BOSS IS COMIN' IN. DOOOD. ALMOST GOT HEY. GUYS. IT. FINISHED TESTING THAT GAME YET? I'VE GOT ANOTHER ONE f NEED DESIGNED.

It looks like this woman was hired more for her nagging ability than her knowledge of the industry. "Come on, graphics makers! There is a whole megabyte of Mario Bros. high scoring back here! I'm Burgertime!"

WE JUST FINISHED LEVEL 3 AND NEED TO TIGHTEN LP THE GRAPHICS A LITTLE BIT. TOLL FREE Train Online! (800) 914-8582

Never have 15 words said so much nothing. Even if games still had numbered levels and graphics were tightened up by testers this wouldn't qualify as communication. This is more like a cute way to announce that you're having a stroke. I'm really curious how his boss is going to respond to this ...

GREAAT. TOLL FREE Train Online! (800) 914-8582

Ha ha ha, you sarcastic bitch.

HEY. I KNOW. AND I CAN'T BELIEVE WE MY MOM SAID I GOT JOBS DOING WOULD NEVER WITH THESE THIS. GET ANYHERE GAMES! TOITTE TCamonlinet OR TirOnlinet (800

Th- that kind of came out of nowhere, Oedipus. Whoever wrote that line did so from a diaper while a stripper asked him to stop calling her mom. And it was delivered with such genuine anger that I think the actor actually expected his mother's urn to squeal in pain.

Mindfire Academy Video Game Design Bootcamp

This second ad from Mindfire Academy features career advice from a preteen cyber bully, America's most beloved genre of person. Spoiler alert: They still haven't figured out how to turn on their Xbox controllers.

WHAT UP, NOOB? YOU MAY BEAT BLACK OPs AND MADDEN...

Is this word salad supposed to mean something, kid? I get that you're trying to talk about games, but l'm going to tell you the same thing your mom's gynecologist told her: "Ma'am, it seems you have all the components of a human vagina, but the way they're arranged here doesn't make any sense."

BUT IT'S TIME TO ...CREATING YOUR SACK LP AND ACCEPT A OWN F.P.S. NEW MISSION...

Oh, what a pleasant surprise. Normally the horrible children on Xbox Live only offer me a job as a dick eater or an n-word.

OR DON'T. AND STAY A ROOK.

This little bastard is so unlikeable that I'm starting to understand why someone would want to tamper with children's aspirin.

Collins College School of Design and Technology

Collins College has the same approach to education as Nigerian Princes have to economics. They're the kind of comically inept grifters that make dishonesty fun. This amazing disaster they produced is so embarrassing that they now fight to keep their own commercial off YouTube.

so WHERE DO YOU THINK THIS GLY I'D SAY THIS WAY. SHOULD MOVE? Become a Game Designerl Become a Game Designerf TOLL FREE 888-823-0999 SOLLFREE 888-823-

There's really no reference point to our reality in this clip. Obviously, games aren't designed with Xbox controllers, and cut scenes aren't animated by way of vague verbal commands. Those things you can chalk up to ignorance, artistic license or any number of birth defects. No, the truly incredible thing is that a copy writer sat down and imagined what all the artists and programmers and testers must do to create these complicated products, and the most notable thought they had was, "Gosh, I bet there's a whole team of people who have to decide which direction the robots go!" If you asked a million different people from a million different universes to say anything they wanted about video games, this would still be by far the most uniquely stupid thing anyone has ever had to say on the subject.

AND LET'S MAKE SURE THAT SOUND EFFECT YEAH! WE USED IN THE LAST LEVEL FITS IN HERE TOO. THIS ONE? WOOP Become a Game Designer! Become a Game Designerl

I feel bad making fun of this because right now there's a doctor watching this commercial and thinking, "Ha ha, I really screwed those two abortions up."

IT'S COOL TO BE ABLE TO CREATE THE KIND OF GAMES THAT T KNOW WHAT you MEAN! WE PLAY. AND THE TRAINING AT COLLINS CAN YOu COLLEGE TAKES LESS TIME THAN

The only thing I can't believe is that anyone managed to sue these for-profit colleges. If I was a lawyer, I'd present this commercial as evidence that anyone who enrolled in Collins College deserves all the pain and suffering the world has available.

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Seanbaby invented being funny on the Internet at Seanbaby.com. Follow him on Twitter.For more of him on Cracked, see Seanbaby's Brockway's Choose Your Own Drug-Fueled Misadventure and The 10 Worst MMA Fights of All Time.

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