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# AR-15, the Pokemon ballet, and electroshock therapy may improve your game
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/links-521/
- Published: 2013-05-21T13:20:17.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-17T15:59:51.000Z
- Description: All is quiet as the internet awaits the announcement of the next Xbox.
- Author: Kill Screen Staff
- Tags: News, cheat sheet, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-26 09:39

Harper’s explains [the reason why the AR-15 will never be banned](http://harpers.org/blog/2013/05/dan-baum-argues-that-efforts-to-ban-the-ar-15-are-hopeless/?ref=killscreen.com) is their reconfigurable nature. They’re like “Lego for grown-ups.” A Rutgers law professor looks at [the legal precedence behind Nintendo claiming ad money on YouTube videos](http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/GregLastowka/20130517/192424/All%5FYour%5FNintendo%5FLets%5FPlays%5FAre%5FBelong%5FTo%5FNintendo.php?ref=killscreen.com) featuring Mario and friends. Part of the problem with their cash claim is that “video games aren’t like movies or TV. Each play-through is a unique audiovisual experience.” Forty-eight hours later,[ the world record for the longest ride on a Ferris Wheel has been broken](http://www.salon.com/2013/05/20/chicago%5Fman%5Fbreaks%5Fworld%5Frecord%5Fwith%5F48%5Fhour%5Fferris%5Fwheel%5Fride%5Fap/?ref=killscreen.com)!Polygon has the inside story on[ the *Pokemon* ballet](http://www.polygon.com/2013/5/18/4335764/pointe-shoes-and-pokeballs-pokemon-ballet-andrew-plotner?ref=killscreen.com). Just sayin’, this looks way more entertaining than the *Legend of Zelda* sympathy.

Who needs H.P.P.D.? [The videogame animated GIFs of Nicolas Boillot](http://www.fastcodesign.com/1672596/layers-of-video-game-action-captured-in-eye-exploding-gifs?ref=killscreen.com#4) are mesmorizing.

[The *Plants vs. Zombies* Facebook game](http://venturebeat.com/2013/05/20/call-in-sick-plants-vs-zombies-adventures-is-out-now/?ref=killscreen.com) is exactly what you’d expect it to be: a combination of lumbering idiots, Venus flytraps, and home-accessorizing.

Turns out [Kiev is about as an inhospitable place as the games developed there](http://penny-arcade.com/report/article/industrial-waste-and-soviet-reign-how-hardship-in-the-ukraine-bred-the-worl?ref=killscreen.com), including *Metro: Last Light*. But as they say, what’s bad for life expectancy is good for gamers.

[This headset that applies electric shocks to the prefrontal cortex make you better at *Call of Duty*](http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/05/the-gaming-headset-that-literally-shocks-your-brain-to-attention/?ref=killscreen.com). Who says torture doesn’t have its advantages?

*Salut!*