In what has to be one of the most awkward moments in video gaming history last night at the Consumer Electronics Show(CES) in Las Vegas Bill Gates played a video game with Steve Balmer on the X-box 360. When the boxing announcer (who was actually going to call the video game’s fight) called out Bill Gates bill ran out onto the stage in what can be described as a mobile seizure. It was Bill Gates, the richest man on the planet (as far as monetary value is concerned), running like he had never run in his life and this was his first stab at it. He came out flailing his arms while his legs wiggled in a motion that must be described as a run since it was faster than his walk.

Steve Balmer came out screaming to get the crowd hype and then Bill Gates beat up Balmer on the screen while the announcer pretended to announce the game while instead he read some propaganda that was on the screan/teleprompter. In short it made me glad to not own an X-Box 360 and not want to buy one lest I start to look like Bill Gates or Steve Balmer.

Being rich does, however, mean that Bill Gates could pay off the International Olympics Committee to get them to change the rules for olympic running so that all athletes need to run like him, so that the next Summer Olympics have a recorded moment where two announcers actually say:
Announcer 1: “We’re seeing a lot slower running this year in the olympics.”
Annaouncer 2: “Yes, ever since the Gates rule was put in place things have really slowed down.”

Dang. That’s just wrong.