This is it folks - you have Riz to thank for bringing this to our attention. The time has finally come, we’re in Iraq and George Bush is giving a speech. The opening we’ve been waiting for. Get those size 10 shoes ready because it’s time to attack insult.

No, that’s just a screenshot. Head over to the official website Sock and Awe (lol) to give it a go.

I know, I know - I’ve already posted about 1up’s list of things we can all learn from gaming - but now gamesradar has got in on the action with 96 more facts to entertain (because they have to be true). Some examples:

4. Medicine became obsolete in the year 2004, when doctors noticed that hiding behind a wall caused human health to regenerate to 100%.

27. When you look down, you can’t see your feet.

51. Modern tank warfare will be replaced in the future by building a very large number of tanks on the battlefield itself, then attacking the enemy’s strongest point head-on with hundreds of them at once.

Give the list a read by clicking here.

Video Gaming - it’s for entertainment, for a job (in some countries), for when there’s nothing better to do (and often times when there’s a lot of better things to do). But can they teach us a lesson? That’s a question 1up answers quite well. So what exactly can you learn from video games?

2: Aging

Are you between the ages of 12 and 20? Congratulations, you’re a prime candidate for saving the world from some stupid white haired nihilist and whatever sealed-away ultimate evil he decided to unleash for giggles. However, if you’re old enough to drink, you’re sh!t out of luck when it comes to the whole hero gig. You’ll just have to wait another ten or twenty years, when your career options will be expanded to include employment in such fields as “cranky-old-bastard who joins the party and is ignored for the rest of the game,” “cranky old bastard who is maybe the villain until he’s killed by the real villain so you know what a badass the guy is,” and “cranky old bastard mentor who dies tragically when the hero’s village burns down five minutes before the game starts.” If you’ve played pretty much any videogame ever and persist in aging you’re an idiot who deserves whatever happens.

Glad I’m safe ^_^… for now! Give the list a read over at 1up. It’s funny.

I just had to laugh at this list put together by Zeromage at Old Wizard, it’s entirely true. Check out number 2:

2. Food that completely fills your energyPicture this; you’re about to die and are gasping for your final breath. You’re rushed to the emergency room, and what does the doctor give you? A roasted chicken. You eat the chicken and walk out as if nothing happened. Could you imagine what would happen in the real world if all your physical and mental ailments could be solved by a piece of chicken? What would happen to modern medicine? All modern doctors would have to become nutritionists, or at least know how to use an oven. From Gauntlet to Castlevania, the most inane pieces of food are able to make you feel better. There’s gushing blood coming out of your arm from being attacked by a warrior or a skeleton, and somehow a piece of chicken heals it. Are we just supposed to assume they used the roasted chicken as a bandage?

Give the full list a read via Old Wizard.

They didn’t say it like that, but it’s basically what they’re trying to say. Some copies of Command and Conquer Red Alert 3 shipped with a serial number which was missing a character (19 instead of the 20 required) due to a printing error. EA’s response (and I’m not making this up):

There is currently a work around that may allow you to bypass this issue. Since you have the first 19 characters of the code already, you can basically try “guessing” the last character. To do this, simply enter your existing code, and then for the last character, try the letters A-Z, and then the numbers 0-9. You should eventually get the right combination, and be able to play the game. If this does not work, you can follow the instructions below.

Wow great work around. Click here for the official explanation at one of EA’s site, or see below for a screen shot (to preserve it forever):

Something Awful’s “Photoshop Phriday” photoshop collections of images manipulated by members of their community are always interesting to look at, especially last weeks which attempt to show the real life lessons learned by video games. Here’s a few of my favorites:

Clicky to see them all.