# Another reason to avoid THQ videogames (and the x-box)

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [December 21, 2005, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-reason-to-avoid-thq-videogames-and-the-x-box/336633 "2005-12-21T16:02:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2005, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-reason-to-avoid-thq-videogames-and-the-x-box/336633/1 "2005-12-21T16:02:35Z")

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Apparently, THQ games and micro$oft have agreed to allow THQ to _advertise_ to customers playing THQ branded x-box live games, stupid friggin’ advertisers, not _everything_ is an advertising venue…

Fry’s quote in Futurama is getting more and more plausable all the time…

"Leela: “Didn’t you have ads in the 20th century?”  
Fry: “Well sure, but not in our dreams! Only on tv and radio…and in magazines…and movies. And at ball games, on buses, and milk cartons, and t-shirts, and bananas, and written on the sky. But not in dreams! No sirree.”

screw you, advertisers, i’m not some mindless consuming drone…oh look, there’s a new \<consumer device\> out…

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**Author:** ![pizzabrat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e9c0ed/32.png) [@pizzabrat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pizzabrat)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2005, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-reason-to-avoid-thq-videogames-and-the-x-box/336633/2 "2005-12-21T17:09:08Z")

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Avoid? That implies there’s something to attract in the first place. THQ’s business model seems to be snapping up popular kids related liscenses and using them to distract players from their clumsy, tedious, and derivative game design. Those folks got me once - used my Ren & Stimpy fandom to trick me into renting one of their games as a child. Never again. I read an article recently that THQ is upset with Nintendo and is threatening not develop games for the Revolution. Who the eff cares?!

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**Author:** ![FlyingRamenMonster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@FlyingRamenMonster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyingRamenMonster)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2005, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-reason-to-avoid-thq-videogames-and-the-x-box/336633/3 "2005-12-21T17:19:04Z")

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Mmm. Man, I’m hunkering for some Lightspeed underpants, aren’t you?

That episode was just on tonight. How strange.