vintage arcade games

Can?t You See I?m Busy is a collection of web-based arcade games specially designed to entertain you without appearing to be a departure from the daily grind. There?s Breakout, the arcade game, framed as a word processor (dubbed ?Breakdown?), a spaceship game in the guise of graphs, and a third one that I didn?t even look at since I realized that you probably don?t care -? if you?re reading this blog, you?re not trying to look productive at work.

From the site:

Let?s face it; we all want to relax every now and then, but still want to appear professional or busy!

So, there's the rationale — it's just "a break." A cigarette I can understand. Getting a snack is a nice little departure. But playing a frustrating video game is not my idea of a break. It?s my idea of frustration.

Instead, the most entertaining part of the site, for me, is a counter that keeps track of how much money their site has sucked out of the economy based on the total hours of game play. As of this post, it's at ?72,739 — or about $6 billion US.

[via The Presurfer]

Remember the old days when your homemade, stop-motion video projects earned you a "B-" and the scorn of your peers?

The only way to "get your video out there" was to bring a crappy VHS dub to your nerdy friend's sleepover and show it off to your schoolmates in between wondering whether sleeping on the same pullout couch as another boy made you gay.

Well guess what?� The Internet is one giant nerdy sleepover where everyone is more than happy to watch all the stop motion garbage of dorky things you've ever made.

However, figuring out your sexual orientation is still up to you (…though I hear a new website to help you with that will be complete by 2010!)

[via Buzzfeed]