Forget Putin: Gaming icons Photoshopped as Persons of the Year

by Christopher Grant { Dec 27th 2007 at 6:58PM }

As upset as we were by Time's flubbing of us this year – a blogger can get used to seeing a horribly disfigured reflection of his own face in the cover of one of the nation's most prestigous newsweeklies y'know – the selection of Russian president Vladimir Putin as the magazine's Person of the Year (POTY) left us a little underwhelmed.

Lucky for us, the folks at Something Awful remedied our apathy with a tall serving of Photoshop phakery, planting all sorts of video game icons on the magazine's cover. Mario and Master Chief are great and all, but our favorite is BioShock's Andrew Ryan. It was not impossible to choose a video game character as Time's Person of the Year ... it was impossible to choose anyone else.

Tags: Andrew-Ryan, BioShock, funny, Photoshop-Phriday, Something-Awful, TIME

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Neebs @ Dec 27th 2007 7:07PM

I liked Time better when I was Person of the Year.

jackbauer @ Dec 27th 2007 7:36PM

I remember that year. Good times. I was so innovative.

flYY @ Dec 27th 2007 10:36PM

I'm pretty sure Putin got Person of the Year LAST year too..no fair..

Van Faulk @ Dec 27th 2007 7:53PM

You guys are crazy. You weren't person of the year. I clearly remember time labeling ME as person of the year.

I was so awesome.

Patrick @ Dec 27th 2007 8:09PM

Now, as I recall I was MAN of the year. ok no woman, MAN because we rule with our iron genitalia

LaughingTarget @ Dec 28th 2007 11:57PM

Wow, iron genitalia, how do you keep it from hurting when it yanks on the sack from all the weight?

Moorio @ Dec 27th 2007 8:12PM

What are you guys dense or something? Or you retarded? I was Time's goddamn Person of the Year.

roxxxo @ Dec 27th 2007 8:18PM

Would you kindly stop beating bioshock jokes into the ground?

Hashbrown_Hunter @ Dec 27th 2007 8:21PM

Dude take a chill pill.

ScottyGEE32 @ Dec 27th 2007 8:26PM

hypocrite ;p

Rob Accomando @ Dec 27th 2007 8:21PM

I remember when PacMan was "man" of the year. What's the "person" crap? Oh yeah.... it's 2007

Nigeria @ Dec 27th 2007 9:08PM

Hey Yoshi Likes Boys, ''Yoshi Likes Boys.''

zendar @ Dec 27th 2007 9:21PM

Andrew Ryan or Vladimir Putin....
I wonder how Putin will run Rapture...

Diskoboy @ Dec 27th 2007 9:33PM

You're all wrong. I was man of the year, last year.

And second off, not being sarcastic - I still think a fictitious video game character is a better choice than Pootin'.

Sorry.... Putin.

Worst Review Ever @ Dec 27th 2007 9:40PM

Sweet! Time named the guy that's gonna put the "Union of Soviet Socialists Republic" back into "Russia" person of the year! This world is so fucked...

Neebs @ Dec 27th 2007 11:37PM

Last I checked, Time POTY wasn't about what good a person has done, it's about changing the world. Hitler won 1939.

Worst Review Ever @ Dec 28th 2007 1:58AM

Dude, that's hysterical. They should call it Time's Future Despot of the Year.

roxxxo @ Dec 27th 2007 10:42PM

The royal we...you know, the editorial; I gave them the money.

Kendrick @ Dec 27th 2007 10:44PM

We meant to say 'snubbing' there in place of 'flubbing,' right? Assuming that the meaning is exclusion or omission, as opposed to typographical error or misspoken verbal communication.

Antonio @ Dec 28th 2007 9:26AM

2 girls 1 cup wins

Neebs @ Dec 28th 2007 12:26PM

That's why we didn't win POTY this year.

NATO_Duke @ Dec 28th 2007 10:09AM

I like somethingawful.com as much as the next guy, and have had a forum membership for years - but why is Joystiq becoming their clearing house. How about Joytiq coming up with some of its own content?

Why go to somethingawful and then come here to see articles about what I just read at their site - that appears to be a waste.