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Filed under: Videos , Gaming , The One Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal is a great webcomic and it’s also a live-action web show (called SMBC Theater ) that occasionally displays flashes of brilliance. Recently, SMBC Theater skewered the phenomenon of massively multiplayer online roleplaying games — think World of Warcraft — in what might be the best episode yet. Even better, they’ve put their fake MMO online, so you can play it for yourself. The game is just a giant “Click Me” button that gives you a point every time you click. As one character says, “It’s like an MMO, but they stripped out all the pointless bells and whistles.” MMORPGs are a really easy target, but online gaming addiction has come back in a big way with Facebook games like Farmville, so the phenomenon is ripe for mockery once again. The funny part is that the leaderboard of the fake game has some seriously huge numbers of clicks. Whether it’s WoW , Farmville or just clicking, I guess we all just want to collect points. Share We get it — you’re busy. Only have time for one web bit a day? Here’s The One thing we think you cannot miss today. Subscribe to “The One” RSS Feed . Continue reading →