Onion on gamer memories

"Approximately 47 percent of Jenkins' hippocampus is dedicated to storing notable video-game victories and frustrating last-minute defeats, while 32 percent of his amygdala contains embedded neurological scripts pertaining to game strategies, character back stories, theme songs, and cheat codes."

• [Blaine]

  … AND?!

  pssh.. talk about dog bites man.

  • [Frescard]

    pssh… talk about whoosh… (re. over head)

• [Anonymous]

  I love the Onion :D

• [Xeno]

  … and let me just respond with the obligatory…

  LEEEEEEEROOOOOY JEEEEENKIIIINS!!!!!!

• [Boondocker]

  This is over two years old. (Obviously there’s too much of my memory taken up by Onion articles.)

• [marco antonio]

  Not being aware of what a hippocampus usually stores, I actually believed the whole thing. Until, just before leaving the page, I bothered to look where the article was actually hosted.

  It was one of those ‘heh, how about that’ moments followed by another ‘heh, how about that then’ moment.

  • [murray]

    I read most of it and then thought “you know, this reads like an Onion article” before realizing it actually is. That means that I, too, believed it, which is troubling. I think I need to spend less time reading boingboing and the like.

• [cymk]

  Isn’t everyone’s basal ganglia embedded with the konami code?

• [Grey Devil]

  So you’re linking to Onion articles now? :P hmkay then.

  • [Rob Beschizza]

    Yeah, we’ve only done it hundreds of times.

• [Anonymous]

  All I have to say to that is IDSPISPOPD.

• [G144]

  My first reaction to reading this was the same as Xeno. Then I read the full article, and I had the same thought as marco antonio (“This reads a lot like an Onion article”). This was very funny, but only because I did not expect a link from Boing Boing to the Onion, (and because of the automatic association with Leroy). Well done, but to keep it funny, please apply sparingly!

• [bcsizemo]

  Even though this is an Onion article I totally agree with the general theme of it.

  A great deal of my favorite memories up until the time I left for college were about playing video games with my friends…

  And then there was that semester in college when Half-Life came out…