Sony Releases Stupid Piece Of Shit That Doesn't Fucking Work

The Onion · 10.1M views · 2009-02-10 · 2:31

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Overview

An Onion News Network satirical segment about a new Sony gadget that is infuriatingly bad, delivered as a profane tech-trends report.

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HN mentions it as a joke or a shared favorite Onion classic when tech frustration or The Onion comes up.

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Satire & parody Consumer devices & gadgets

What people said

ddtaylor · 2026-04 · Joke / meme
I feel bad for the guy and all the Apple users constantly sharing stories of being mistreated and abused. Stop giving these companies your money and consent. I'm basically numb to it at this point though. Every few days we read on this site small permutations of the same story. Sometimes people here get a little extra backchannel support, but that's a token prize for the jester who made a king chuckle. Then a few more days go by and everyone upvotes a new iWidget to oblivion because it has 0.1 new gigablahs or takes up a milliblah less of some bullshit nobody was asking for. All while we collectively virtue signal that people are spending too much time and relying on technology too much. Well, it's almost Monday let's see what new bullshit convinces everyone to keep getting fucked and pay for the privilege. I basically have turned into this guy: [VIDEO]
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modeless · 2024-04 · Joke / meme
They had amazingly high production values on classics like "Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard" [LINK] and "Sony Releases Stupid Piece Of Shit That Doesn't Fucking Work" [VIDEO] I wonder why they stopped.
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aplc0r · 2018-07 · Joke / meme
I still send this one around a lot: "Sony Releases Stupid Piece Of Shit That Doesn't Fucking Work" - [VIDEO]
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