From Arrested Development:

Narrator: "Before firing his employees, George Sr. would be sure to clear the office of its valuables. [...] The employees never saw it coming, although their first task was to unload their equipment from a truck."

It sees you when you're sleeping, it knows when you're awake, it knows if you've been bad or good, so be good for goodness sake.

The study also found that the artificial fans of the losing team started to riot on their own.

The game doesn't let you skip through the budget hearings. And, when they're finally over, your mission gets cancelled.

From the article: "[...] the Russian module of the system could take control for a period of time until repairs could be made."

Take control?... Open the pod bay doors!!!

Mr. Burns: I can't believe we've overlooked this week's winner for so very, very long. We simply could not function without his tireless efforts. So, a round of applause for...this inanimate carbon rod!

Games have always had serious real world applications. Pitfall! for the Atari 2600 was used by the Boy Scouts of America to demonstrate survival tactics in the wild. Throughout the United States, Super Mario Bros. is still considered essential training for elite plumbers. In recent years, Call of Duty has saved the military millions of dollars in automated weapons costs by relying solely on long range knife throws.

Next thing you know, they'll start making movies out of these books. Gasp!

... it seems like a more suitable source of gas would be Uranus.

These robot doctors are very professional, except for their entrance into the operating room:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqlawTD_9B0

No, by shooting someone in real life you get to be in a video game!

The wallpaper doesn't let my video projector display Battlefield Earth.

I could have been cleared, but I posted as an Anonymous Coward.

What are the odds the explicit site is mirrored on Steve Ballmer's personal computer?

They could incorporate the phone feature into the game and make it so you have to talk to other people and build relationships. As you advance further along in the game, you must choose a career path. You will randomly get calls from your boss asking you to come in early or on your day off. If you choose not to follow the path, you end up 30 years old living in your mom's basement and have to put up with her constant nagging about how you never help out around the house or pay for your share of the phone bill.
 
That's crazy. I totally help out around the house. Who do you think set up the home network?