Welcome Friends to yet another installment of Loose Ends. Today we’ll be laughing with at The Sunshine State, and one of its…urmm…developers. LOL, JK. TJFA. RM.

Before we get started let us say a quick prayer:

Dear Lord, we thank you for the wonderful bounty of fantabulous excellinary games you have provided for the past year now. You are a good God, but you are also a vengeful God and we fear you. Lord I just pray that you would raze Agetec, Inc. headquarters to the ground. Send your mighty fire, oh Lord, and wipe Puzzle Guzzle, and Touch Darts from our minds. Please send a thousand waterless days to Sunnyvale, Ca.so that no developer may ever have to step near the great transgressions of this soulless company. And please Lord, forgive Itagaki for greatly disappointing us with Ninja Gaiden 2. We know he didn’t mean to do it. Amen.

New from Agetec comes the totally dated, illogically named, no rules, do anything game, LOL (hat stands for Laugh Out Loud for our Elderly leaders errr…readers.) Besides the fact that this game already technically exists in the form of Balderdash, Agetec Inc. has flown in the face of all possible logic and created a videogame that essentially doesn’t need any video at all. Really. I’m going to rewrite the rules with no mention of the DS or any electronic mechanics, Let’s see how it works, shall we?

Step 1. Once you have your friends ready to play, take out a sheet of paper and let your imagination explode. (God, the guys at Agetec need to buy a tape recorder and listen to what they’re saying.) Up to four people can enjoy LOL by using four sheets of paper.

Step 2. The leader needs to come up with a challenge (aka, write down anything on said sheet of paper.)

Step 3. If the leader is a real prick, he’ll try and control how much time you have to write down something equally asinine.

Step 4. When you think you’ve come up with your final answer, stop writing. If you didn’t finish in the time limit, now is your chance to escape this unholy gathering.

Step 5. After everyone has answered, it’s time to show the answers. The asshole leader, controls this step too.

Step 6. Everyone votes on the best or funniest answer. See: Balderdash.

Step 7. Laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh.

Of course I took some liberty with the rules, but if you checked the How To Play page on the site, you will see that, sadly, my creative license does not alter how you actually play the game. But wait, it gets better. The game’s motto is “If the game is boring, you are boring.” Hmm, interesting…if the product sucks, you suck. That’s a marketing strategy I’ve never seen before. Blaming incredibly lazy and contrived game design on people who had nothing to do with it’s production — I love it.

If the motto hasn’t already offended your sensibilities, here are three gameplay videos that will most certainly test your patience. Be warned, the videos loop eternally. I wish it was hard to find this kind rubbish each week. I really do.

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