Conan wants to double-tap that A in Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare

By Will Fulton November 4, 2014

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Conan O’Brien’s latest Clueless Gamer segment takes on one of fall 2014’s biggest releases, Activision and Sledgehammer Games’ Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare. The long-running bit involves Conan, the eponymous clueless gamer, playing big new releases with staff nerd Aaron Bleyaert. Hilarity generally ensues.

Related: Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare review

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As always, Conan is a sharp-tongued outsider whose acerbic wit punches holes in the silly gaming conventions that we take for granted. The video starts with asking where he can find the “go back home and go to law school” button and ends with him caught in an existentially horrifying Frogger loop of trying and failing to cross a busy street.

Check out the other Clueless Gamer videos over on Team Coco’s website if you need a reminder of how silly your hobby is.

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Will Fulton is a New York-based writer and theater-maker. In 2011 he co-founded mythic theater company AntiMatter Collective…

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