Pushing hard into the series' fourth episode, Fox's "Mental" will be airing its fourth episode this week, featuring "an 8-year-old bipolar boy whose life is consumed by a video game he plays in his head." Oh noes!
According to the show's main character/handsome devil Chris Vance (aka Dr. Jack Gallagher), the child won't stop twitching his hands in an, erm, controllerly fashion and apparently tries killing himself due to "the game in his mind." Dr. Gallagher chooses to approach the child's problem from the most logical angle available and -- no joke -- starts playing the imaginary video game with him. Problem: Solved. To check out the episode in all its glory, tune in to Fox on June 16th. Or don't. It's really up to you, ya big chooser.
[Via GamePolitics]
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Posted: Jun 13th 2009 5:37PM (Unverified) said
The comments will probably be more mental than the show itself.
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Posted: Jun 14th 2009 5:01AM sonicspike41 said
*reads through the TheLionofAzzalle posts and replies*
*Looks back at first post*
Good call.
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*Looks back at first post*
Good call.
Posted: Jun 13th 2009 5:44PM (Unverified) said
Show's fucking stupid, couldn't make it halfway thru. Cheap House knock-off.
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Posted: Jun 13th 2009 6:16PM Smokemonsta said
What do you expect with summer TV. Something new original and engaging?
The concept was good enough for a summer show, too bad the execution/acting has been fairly poor, and this plot looks to be pretty terrible.
Oh well. At least I still have Wipeout and Conan to watch.
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The concept was good enough for a summer show, too bad the execution/acting has been fairly poor, and this plot looks to be pretty terrible.
Oh well. At least I still have Wipeout and Conan to watch.
Posted: Jun 13th 2009 6:25PM (Unverified) said
This sounds like News Corp., seeing the gaming industry as competition.
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Posted: Jun 13th 2009 7:36PM (Unverified) said
Yes, in fact it is. BOW TO THE MIGHTY NEWS CORP.!
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Posted: Jun 13th 2009 6:33PM (Unverified) said
A game played 'in his head'? Sounds very much like Ulillillia's mind game:
http://www.ulillillia.us/features/mindgame/mindgamehome.shtml
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http://www.ulillillia.us/features/mindgame/mindgamehome.shtml
Posted: Jun 14th 2009 2:57PM (Unverified) said
I spent like 4 hours reading that site last night after clicking that link. The dude is really weird (he's extremely autistic), yet friggen owns at the same time.
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Posted: Jun 15th 2009 9:35PM (Unverified) said
A game by definition has a way to win or lose, Ulillillia's has none. This freaking frustrates me. So many pages dedicated to a "game" that isn't even a game.
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Posted: Jun 13th 2009 6:57PM MystileArmor said
I play all kinds of video games in my head all the time. It's called "fucking with people". It's lots of fun and I'm good at it too.
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Posted: Jun 13th 2009 7:05PM (Unverified) said
EDIT: Sorry, friend, but this is wildly off-topic. If you're having issues with a particular user, you can email me personally and we'll work it out. (ben@joystiq.com) I won't bite!
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Posted: Jun 13th 2009 7:10PM (Unverified) said
Arguing on the internet is like being in the special Olympics. Even if you win, you're still retarded.
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Posted: Jun 13th 2009 7:39PM Da Largest said
cool story bro
lol @ azzalle calling others 'pathetic' for a myriad of stupid reasons, and then pulling stuff like this
funniest thing? i was there for this 'racist' comment chinpooh made
and it wasn't
you wanted it to be so that you could make it seem as though you had a point. ad hominem at it's worst - you couldn't actually dispute the point at hand, so you dug and dug for a character flaw that you could use in place of an intelligent rebuttal.
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lol @ azzalle calling others 'pathetic' for a myriad of stupid reasons, and then pulling stuff like this
funniest thing? i was there for this 'racist' comment chinpooh made
and it wasn't
you wanted it to be so that you could make it seem as though you had a point. ad hominem at it's worst - you couldn't actually dispute the point at hand, so you dug and dug for a character flaw that you could use in place of an intelligent rebuttal.
Posted: Jun 13th 2009 7:42PM Da Largest said
wait wait wait
i'm sorry, what he said was racist
it was also very sarcastic
considering some of the things you've said to a lot of folks, i don't think you're in a position to be calling folks out like this anyway
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i'm sorry, what he said was racist
it was also very sarcastic
considering some of the things you've said to a lot of folks, i don't think you're in a position to be calling folks out like this anyway
Posted: Jun 13th 2009 7:54PM BPMOmega XBL PSN Steam said
Buddy, let me give you this piece of advice:
It's the Internet. Don't take everything you read on it so seriously.
Even when you have a "name" on the Internet, you are still anonymous. Noone REALLY knows who you are, nor do you know who anyone else really is.
I could say I'm Will Wright. I'm not but I could say I am, and who can really prove me wrong?
Some random person flung insults to you. Why should you care? They don't know you, nor do you know them. Why should their words have any impact on you.
Finally... noone really gives a crap about you. Or me. Or anyone on this blog. We're not so important that others' lives revolve around us. So, it's extremely pointless to make posts like this.
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It's the Internet. Don't take everything you read on it so seriously.
Even when you have a "name" on the Internet, you are still anonymous. Noone REALLY knows who you are, nor do you know who anyone else really is.
I could say I'm Will Wright. I'm not but I could say I am, and who can really prove me wrong?
Some random person flung insults to you. Why should you care? They don't know you, nor do you know them. Why should their words have any impact on you.
Finally... noone really gives a crap about you. Or me. Or anyone on this blog. We're not so important that others' lives revolve around us. So, it's extremely pointless to make posts like this.
Posted: Jun 13th 2009 7:59PM Da Largest said
"And as far as my comments go they've been reactions to the personal attacks levied at me from people like tmack, maverick saturn, johnny, el serp, and all the various sony fanboys and sdf members."
Some of 'em were personal attacks, but the majority were nothing but standard internet trollan that you twisted around so that you could have an excuse to whine and bitch about folks who would even turn around and APOLOGIZE.
Case in point? Chinpooh. Keep calling him a 'bigot' or 'scum' or what the fuck ever, not only was he being sarcastic to begin with but he apologized, several times, after he noticed it got to you. Instead of accepting that and acting as mature as you've been trying to pass yourself off as, you continued to bitch and moan about him, and it got old. not only that, but some of the posts you made did, in fact, make it seem as though you thought negatively of whites, as though they were the only ones capable of looking down on someone. That's racism, whether or not you intended it. But I'm not gonna cry about it, because I prefer making a little bit of sense with my arguments.
"Forgive me for fighting poison with venom."
An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
"At the end of the day I don't claim to be perfect. Really I'm not. However there are some things I'm not going to forgive or forget. And chinpooh being racist and what he said are one of them. Color it however you want but he's trash. The absolute scum of the Earth for being a bigot. On top of that he's a hypocrite and a liar."
Says the guy who 'believes' that no one man can be above another? come now. you've done this before - gone against beliefs you've established in previous posts. it's getting tired.
Now, again. Even I've tried to have friendly discussions with you that have derailed into you throwing a bitchfest about something small that I've said. I'm not buying your 'fighting poison with venom' crap for a second, because for a while, it was you initiating the real conflict by taking something that someone said WAY OUTTA PROPORTION to make it seem as though you had a valid point to make. Our first few discussions, I tried to be civil with you and explain why I thought some of Sony's moves were defensible. Did you say, 'oh food for thought' and intelligently rebut what I said? No, you called me a 'worthless sony fanboy' on more than one occasion (despite the fact that I own all three systems), called me holier than thou (even though I stick to my convictions, and one of those is that I'm not above any other human being on this planet), etc.
Come on, now. It's hard to take anything you say or do seriously at this point.
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Some of 'em were personal attacks, but the majority were nothing but standard internet trollan that you twisted around so that you could have an excuse to whine and bitch about folks who would even turn around and APOLOGIZE.
Case in point? Chinpooh. Keep calling him a 'bigot' or 'scum' or what the fuck ever, not only was he being sarcastic to begin with but he apologized, several times, after he noticed it got to you. Instead of accepting that and acting as mature as you've been trying to pass yourself off as, you continued to bitch and moan about him, and it got old. not only that, but some of the posts you made did, in fact, make it seem as though you thought negatively of whites, as though they were the only ones capable of looking down on someone. That's racism, whether or not you intended it. But I'm not gonna cry about it, because I prefer making a little bit of sense with my arguments.
"Forgive me for fighting poison with venom."
An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
"At the end of the day I don't claim to be perfect. Really I'm not. However there are some things I'm not going to forgive or forget. And chinpooh being racist and what he said are one of them. Color it however you want but he's trash. The absolute scum of the Earth for being a bigot. On top of that he's a hypocrite and a liar."
Says the guy who 'believes' that no one man can be above another? come now. you've done this before - gone against beliefs you've established in previous posts. it's getting tired.
Now, again. Even I've tried to have friendly discussions with you that have derailed into you throwing a bitchfest about something small that I've said. I'm not buying your 'fighting poison with venom' crap for a second, because for a while, it was you initiating the real conflict by taking something that someone said WAY OUTTA PROPORTION to make it seem as though you had a valid point to make. Our first few discussions, I tried to be civil with you and explain why I thought some of Sony's moves were defensible. Did you say, 'oh food for thought' and intelligently rebut what I said? No, you called me a 'worthless sony fanboy' on more than one occasion (despite the fact that I own all three systems), called me holier than thou (even though I stick to my convictions, and one of those is that I'm not above any other human being on this planet), etc.
Come on, now. It's hard to take anything you say or do seriously at this point.
Posted: Jun 13th 2009 8:00PM (Unverified) said
also i've been here for 3 days and already can tell how big of a douchebag u are
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Posted: Jun 13th 2009 8:01PM (Unverified) said
also I've been here for 3 days and can already see how big of a douche bag u are
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Posted: Jun 13th 2009 8:03PM Da Largest said
This is the first time I've ever seen you post, ohyeahcola, and I can already tell that odds are you're not planning to add anything constructive to this discussion, or any other on this site
just my best guess
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just my best guess
Posted: Jun 13th 2009 8:28PM Da Largest said
"This website and the majority of people on it are incapable of that."
You've shown me that, time and time again.
Anywhos, my name hasn't always been Fun DMC. I'd let you know my previous identity, but you've shown that you like to twist post histories, so no doubt you'd just go 'derp well u are a holier than thou fanboy' or some shit simply because I disagreed with what you said.
'bro'
is that ringing any bells?
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You've shown me that, time and time again.
Anywhos, my name hasn't always been Fun DMC. I'd let you know my previous identity, but you've shown that you like to twist post histories, so no doubt you'd just go 'derp well u are a holier than thou fanboy' or some shit simply because I disagreed with what you said.
'bro'
is that ringing any bells?
Posted: Jun 13th 2009 9:00PM RKN said
Wow, what did I miss? Too bad I didn't get to read Sprinkle's comment before it was removed. I made that comment back in August, 10 months ago, get over it. I apologized at least three times and you didn't accept it, too bad, not much more I can do. You had assumed because I said something offensive against African-Americans, that you said you thought I was white. So you assume that only whites can be racist against African-Americans, which makes YOU a racist.
I know by now your extremely stubborn and hard-headed and I'm just posting a comment to a wall literally. You can see others here like Fun DMC knew that I am not a bad person, I am not malicious, I said something bad and I apologized like a man. But you are not a man to accept that apology.
I am South Asian and went through racism after 9/11, people assumed I was a terrorist because I had a brown skin and beard. But I didn't let them get to me, when they later apologized, I accepted it, and this was back when I was 15. If you can't do the same now that your 23, then that is just sad.
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I know by now your extremely stubborn and hard-headed and I'm just posting a comment to a wall literally. You can see others here like Fun DMC knew that I am not a bad person, I am not malicious, I said something bad and I apologized like a man. But you are not a man to accept that apology.
I am South Asian and went through racism after 9/11, people assumed I was a terrorist because I had a brown skin and beard. But I didn't let them get to me, when they later apologized, I accepted it, and this was back when I was 15. If you can't do the same now that your 23, then that is just sad.
Posted: Jun 13th 2009 10:46PM RKN said
Absolutely amazing, your a real piece of work yourself Sprinkles. Fun DMC saw that I apologized and I'm not a bad guy, why can't you? Nobody else is holding that comment I made against me, only you. You, my very mentally ill friend who wastes too much time trolling for a guy that has family, friends and a boyfriend. I would have thought you had none of those, I hope you don't neglect them for all the time you waste posting inflammatory remarks.
If what I said was so bad and scarred you for life, why have I not been banned but you keep getting banned time and time again? Why have I not been banned from the site? Why don't you go and waste your time trying to get me banned here if it will let you sleep at night in peace?
As Fun DMC pointed out, your racist against whites my friend, you assumed I was white before I told you my ethnicity. You are racist, your holier than thou, your everything you claim others here to be. You are the hypocrite and you just blow my mind with your level of mental sickness. Ugh.
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If what I said was so bad and scarred you for life, why have I not been banned but you keep getting banned time and time again? Why have I not been banned from the site? Why don't you go and waste your time trying to get me banned here if it will let you sleep at night in peace?
As Fun DMC pointed out, your racist against whites my friend, you assumed I was white before I told you my ethnicity. You are racist, your holier than thou, your everything you claim others here to be. You are the hypocrite and you just blow my mind with your level of mental sickness. Ugh.
Posted: Jun 14th 2009 12:07AM Sly C said
god damn, i left to go watch a movie (the hangover is HILARIOUS!!!) for a couple hours, and i come back to this trainwreck. sprinkles, just leave cosmo alone. you're being way too stubborn. he said sorry and wanted to end the fight a bunch of times, you refused and kept it going. just calm down and let him be, okay? if you're "more of a man than he is" than you can let it go, right?
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Posted: Jun 14th 2009 12:19AM Da Largest said
"Unlike you I am not pretending to be anything else."
Uh, how am I pretending to be anyone else? It's not like my identity is a secret - I've stated it innumerable times before.
"And I'm sorry if it's a crime to point out the obvious favoritism shown certain games that don't deserve it at all."
Says you. Man, you can be supa opinionated sometimes, you know that? That doesn't really set you apart from most Joystiqqers, though, haha
I'm XtaLarge, or MF Doom, or The Fatass Of Kickassness, or whatever you wanna call me. I've changed my name several times before for the hell of it. You know, the dude who's a Sony fanboy, not because he's actually a Sony fanboy, but because he's disagreed with you and therefore he MUST BE A SONY FANBOY HURRRRR
I've noticed you've been a lot more civil in your recent posts. Maaaaaan I hope you keep it that way
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Uh, how am I pretending to be anyone else? It's not like my identity is a secret - I've stated it innumerable times before.
"And I'm sorry if it's a crime to point out the obvious favoritism shown certain games that don't deserve it at all."
Says you. Man, you can be supa opinionated sometimes, you know that? That doesn't really set you apart from most Joystiqqers, though, haha
I'm XtaLarge, or MF Doom, or The Fatass Of Kickassness, or whatever you wanna call me. I've changed my name several times before for the hell of it. You know, the dude who's a Sony fanboy, not because he's actually a Sony fanboy, but because he's disagreed with you and therefore he MUST BE A SONY FANBOY HURRRRR
I've noticed you've been a lot more civil in your recent posts. Maaaaaan I hope you keep it that way
Posted: Jun 14th 2009 5:16AM Bowser Rogozhin said
I don't think this is the genuine Gundam Wing who plagued Joystiq. His sentence structure seems a tad more solid, for lack of a better word. Less erratic, that's for sure. There are some other niggles but I don't have the time, or the will, to Google past accounts for proper verification. And anyway, he doesn't even have his profile set to private. That should be the dealbreaker. Consider this some sort of joke account.
The edited post makes me want to read all the more. But, regardless of that, it was probably nonsensical. Both the original poster and Cosmo are awful, awful people for very different reasons. In a perfect world your bickering would create some sort of electric current and you'd both be struck by lightening. What bad people.
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The edited post makes me want to read all the more. But, regardless of that, it was probably nonsensical. Both the original poster and Cosmo are awful, awful people for very different reasons. In a perfect world your bickering would create some sort of electric current and you'd both be struck by lightening. What bad people.
Posted: Jun 14th 2009 12:18PM Da Largest said
"Both the original poster and Cosmo are awful, awful people for very different reasons. In a perfect world your bickering would create some sort of electric current and you'd both be struck by lightening. What bad people."
Hahahaha, the only guy here who's more stuck up than Vesper or some of the fanboys. No offense, of course.
At least you have the brains to back up your attitude, that sets you apart from folks like these.
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Hahahaha, the only guy here who's more stuck up than Vesper or some of the fanboys. No offense, of course.
At least you have the brains to back up your attitude, that sets you apart from folks like these.
Posted: Jun 13th 2009 7:09PM (Unverified) said
A game...playing in your head...that reminds me of something else...I just lost...
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Posted: Jun 13th 2009 7:33PM (Unverified) said
I just find myself sometimes daydream I'm playing NMH, of course as soon as I snap out of it I find myself hearing people scream about their spleens and trying not get in trouble at local video store for not returning the right video.
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Posted: Jun 13th 2009 7:59PM (Unverified) said
this was meant to be a reply to TheLionOfAzzalle
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