Photos
Wait, this paintball tournament in which you compete against your favorite characters from The Wire is real? What happens at the end? You get paint-nailed into an abandoned paint house on the Paint Side of town? This is literally the scariest way to donate to charity that I have ever heard of.
 |
 |
Meh, paintball mode always sucked. Call me when they get big head mode.
As long as no one plays as Oddjob, I’m in. That short bastard is impossible to hit.
My younger sister was terrible at Goldeneye. Her aim sucked. She ran in circles. Because of this, my friends and I would always let her pick Oddjob.
It was a nightmare. She would charge at you, firing wildly all over the place, and then get up right underneath you because she literally couldn’t hit you unless she was touching you. It led to very intense, panicked stand-offs with lots of maniacal giggling, as this little monster just ran around you while you fired down at your feet. She was the worst on License To Kill mode with all her karate-chopping.
The best though was when I would get some remote mines, she would charge at me, and I’d toss one at her and activate it in mid-air.
Now I want to go play Goldeneye…
Ah, college.
If I could create 1 million shell Videogum accounts, I would give you 1 million upvotes.
Yes. Charity is cool again.
After that, they’ll have a paintball tournament which is sometimes compelling, but mostly filled with unsufferable a-holes, and John Goodman will be the best part.
Spoiler alert. Fuck, I’m waiting for the fourth disc of season 4.
Not a total spoiler, because he doesn’t get shot in the face and GABE SHOULD KNOW THAT! That’s all I’ll say.
SPOILER ALERT!
Feel like listing off any other characters that DON’T get shot in the face, That One?! UGH! (seriously, though, thank you, That One)
Spoiler alert: McNulty goes back to the island and finds out it was just a purgatory before going to church heaven and smiling with all the dead cops and gang bangers.
No spoiler alert on that one, Gabe? Wowzers.
RESPECT THE INSPECTOR GADGET REFERENCE, MONSTERS! RESPECT AND LOVE IT!
Well this seems kinda tasteless, like a pool party to raise money for the families of drowning victims.
or Pauly D raising money for oil spill cleanup
-Jay Leno
i don’t think it’s tasteless. he’s trading in on his cache. as someone who has had to organize fundraisers before (barf, barf, it’s so thankless), you basically have to provide something “fun” and hopefully an open bar to get anyone to pony up any money for anything. and since he’s trying to pull rich people in, this is the best tactic. “you can go shoot fake guns at big scary tv gangsters!” i get the irony, and it’s definitely fucked up, but how else are you gonna get people who actively perpetuate the systemic inequities to pony up cash to provide basic social services? they sure as shit don’t want their taxes touched.
I want Ziggy’s duck on my side.
oh man, this makes my ridiculous crush on marlo somewhat justifiable. a charity for kids! also, i’m sure this charity event will make mad cash, which is good.
Spoiler alert! McNulty and Stringer find out they’re actually British when the INS deports them half way through season three.
Seriously, on the low low guys, I’d throw down $500 to be a fifth of a team playing with these guys. I want to shoot Slim Charles soooo bad.
What?! Slim is The Best.
You sentimental mothafucka!
Slim is the best, but he’s also a big ole’ lug just waiting to get nailed with some paint.
Just thinking about Slim Charles has me smiling. I want to watch The Wire again but I loaned seasons 1 and 2 to my sister WHO HASN’T STARTED WATCHING THEM YET. Months ago! I’m like STRING, WHERE THE FUCK IS MY DVDs? My sister’s name is String if that wasn’t clear.
He’s been on Treme a couple of times!
GABE I AM ON SEASON 2 RIGHT NOW, THAT BETTER NOT REALLY HAPPEN
Do yourself a favor and just don’t think about it. Even if you knew exactly what was going to happen or not happen to him it would still be just as good. Watch on.. it’s such a great show. Are jokes required? uhh he gets run over. Just kidding. Joke.
Dibs on being on Brother Mouzone’s team
Just make sure to bring this month’s Harper’s.
You can also sign up for the Pryzbylewski package, in which you sit at a computer and listen to everyone else play paintball.
And then when you finally get involved something has to go horribly wrong every time.
Or the Freamon, which involves sitting inside and making model furniture.
Will it still end in marrying a stripper? Because I need a spouse with a good income.
This looks like fun, but where’s Wallace at?
We’re gonna need a bigger upvote.
Hey, do you watch Friday Night Lights, and if so, are you as thrown off as me to see Wallace all (well, sort of) growed up?
Did you guys see Omar in the new Todd Solondz movie? SPOILER ALERT: he is no longer a gay gang banger.
I’ve never played before, so I’m just gonna follow around people who’ve already gotten shot and impress fake bite marks on them.
Why is this not in the towers? This event should be in the towers.
Woah, SPOILERS. The only way you can apologise for this Gabe is more pictures/video of Birdie.
This event is strictly BYOP (Bring Your Own Pandemic)
Gabe should do for The Wire what he did for 30 Something, just sayin. It’s like, I love this website and The Wire, so if Gabe combined those it would be real good.
Especially since they started it over at The Awl and never finished it, like most white people and The Wire. Stupid white people!
If I turned a corner and saw Chris Partlow and/or Snoop.. I would probably throw my paintball gun on the ground and just start saying “but what about my people?!”
“Don’t matter who did what to who at this point. Fact is, we went to war, and now there ain’t no going back. I mean, shit, it’s what war is, you know? Once you in it, you in it. If it’s a lie, then we fight on that lie. But we gotta fight.”
If I do show up to this, you know damn well I’m making this speech. And I’m also saying “That was for Joe.” afterwards.
This game is rigged, man… and we’re like the little bitches on the chessboard…
This guy knows what I’m talking about: http://tinyurl.com/2fbdetg
So does this guy
http://tinyurl.com/2evn48z
I did not look at any comments for this, because I’m in the middle of season three, but I just wanted to say that that headline made me yawl at my phone. I have to assume it’s a fake spoiler, and also that this has been said above me, but what the hell? Do you have any idea how much I love Omar right now? And how much season two hurt? Seriously, this David Simon guy is obviously bff with Joss Whedon. Anyway, i’d like to continue this discussion but instead I’m going to stick my fingers in my eyes in case I’m tempted to read anything else.
It’s nice to see that Maggieron36 found love with an older man. It’s sort of like Lester and the stripper D was dating. I see why she needed to post this, twice, in the section about The Wire paint ball game. She is clearly not a robot-troll.