GamesRadar has put together an article comparing the length of the Wikipedia pages for certain games in comparison to the similar topics and world events.
You know there's something wrong with people when the Call of Duty Wikipedia page is longer than the World War II page, or when the Final Fantasy albums' page is longer than the Rock and Roll page, or when the Minor Star Wars characters page is longer than the Founding Fathers page ...
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You. Your friends and family. Your classmates and coworkers. In the brave new world of the internet, everybody has power. Information is interactive, knowledge is collaborative and history is open source. The nerdy kid next door has just as much influence as a high school teacher; the dorky dude at the comic book shop has just as much voice as a college professor.
Problem is, the nerds and dorks tend to have a lot more free time - and passion - than the teachers and professors. The end result? A hilariously skewed, terrifyingly twisted view of the world in which all the wrong things are deemed "important" and worthy of serious academic discussion.
Here are 15 mind-boggling examples.
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Call of Duty: 13,069 words > World War II: 11,884 words
See what we mean? When the deadliest, costliest war in the history of mankind has been trumped by a videogame franchise about that war, you know something's off. One involved over 50 countries and took over 70 million lives; the other involves button mashing and tea bagging.
On an encouraging note, we did have to add all the Call of Duty games' individual pages together to reach the crazy number above. On a discouraging note, we didn't have to add Call of Duty 4 and its non-WWII setting, which would have brought the total word count to an even crazier 18,927.
Oh, and on a simply ridiculous note? Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare beats "modern warfare"... 5,858 to 2,873.
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Some of these are sad.
edit: lol @ getting thumbed down for stating a fact
But yeah, still a bit messed up >_>
Well, to be fair about the Master Chief thing....The presidents he DID beat, are generally the lesser known ones....
About MGS4 beating out War and Peace....Well, these days not so many people want to read such a thick book....And it has no pictures, which is a problem for some people >_> Never read the book myself though, but I would prefer a good fantasy-adventure story myself, I'd think....But Romeo & Juliet at less than 1000 words? That is just sad >_>
The Minor Star Wars Characters (among other articles) beating out the Founding Fathers, is just 0_o
Well, Superman and Batman are better than normal mortals, neh?
And well, both 'God' and 'Knuckles' are fictional beings (so far as I know), so yeah.....At least Knuckles is interactive....
However only historians and students will know good facts to add to WW2.
Especially at people going "Knuckles > MY GOD?
Knuckles created Earth in seven days, and Mario is his son, and that's a fact, I don't care what anyone says.
God > Knuckles
And besides, nerds edit Wikipedia, you know what that means.