New Fun Game: "Obammenting"

[captain_slinky]

So here's a fun game I've been playing this morning, which I am calling "Obammenting". You choose a website with open comment forums such as YouTube, Huffington Post, Fox News, CNN, etc, and you pick an article or video to make the center of this round.

Got one? Good.

Now read/watch the content and make a guess as to how many comments you will be able to read before finding one that off-topically "blames" the "problem" on Obama, Gays, Gun Control or anything else that has nothing to do with the topic at hand. Trust me, there's going to be one. You get "Points" for however many comments there are that stay on topic, up to and including the number you chose. HOWEVER, if you hit an "Obamment" before your number is up, you get *no points*

EXAMPLE: Video of two sleepy kittens cuddling. Over 300 comments. I choose 7 as my Obamment number. All the comments are "Awwwwww" and "So sweet" all the way up till the 14th comment, which is n all-caps "THIS IS Y OBUMMER NEED TO IMPEECH GAY CATS R SIN JESUS". For this round, I get 7 points.

EXAMPLE: Article about Kevin Costner returning to the big screen. I choose 7 as my Obamment number. The third comment is a spam ad with a link to Vapor Cigarettes. For this round, I get zero.

EXAMPLE: Article about outbreak of deadly new virus. I choose 7 as my Obamment number. Comment #5 is about how this is a secret Obamacare conspiracy, THAT is okay and it slides. However, the reply to that comment, which is "OBAMA SUX DIX", is comment #6 and though it is related to the comment, it is not related to the article itself. For this round, I get 6 points.

Comments

[hannah easterson (from livejournal.com)]

IMPEACH THE ANTICHRIST. Obama is the reason we all aint got no jesus in our homes.

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

You almost had me going, but you used too many correctly-spelled words. Might I suggest "EMPEECH THE ANNIECHRIST! OBUMMER 4 NO JESUS IN R HOMS!"

[hannah easterson (from livejournal.com)]

Damn, I'll never make it in the world of crazy rage-commenting.

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

U CA'NT HACK IT 4 CRAYZY RAG GO HOM U STINK

[aurora77]

For the sake of my sanity, I can't bring myself to read the comments on almost any website anymore.

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

This makes it more fun; now you can treat them all as NPCs in some game! "I was once an Obama supporter like you, but then I took an arrow to the knee..."

[aurora77]

I tried it on a site today. Can't do it. My blood pressure starts to rise and I want to throttle someone.

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

Don't read them, just skim! Don't descend in to the darkness!!!

Crystal and I have been playing all day :)

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

It's a lot easier if somebody else is reading/looking, so here.

The headline reads "From convicted sex offender to millionaire, man gets new life", source is CNN.com, there are 615 comments total. So what we're looking for is the first person who tries to hijack the conversation away from discussing this story. How many do you think?

[con-grazia.livejournal.com]

For the love of god, I don't know why someone doesn't hire you as their idea man and give you zillions of dollars. Not sarcasm - I'm serious!

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

I wish I knew! The one idea I can't come up with is how to make money off all my brilliant ideas :(

Try Obammenting news articles on your local television news station's website... then you get the added bonus of seeing what types of loonies are livng in the same city as you :)