Pictured above is a hilarious jab at the gaming industry for creating powerful technology for near useless reasons. And that was pretty much true. Until now!

Its looks like the tables may have turned in an oh-so-ironically-pleasing way!

We gamers may have just won ourselves some moral high ground, at least by proxy. Some cardiologists have discovered that a chip inside an X-box 360 can do for them what a rather expensive computer does, and for much less money. I’ll just let CNN explain the details on this one:

Well, what’s this mean to you? Plenty. Video game technology may now have a wider impact on global medicine, science, and society. At last, you can say that video games are helping the world in a positive way. When your mom/dad/girlfriend start nagging you about that “horrible” game machine being a useless waste of time, you can just turn to them and say, “Could you come back later? I’m busy saving the world.”

Oh man, in their FACE!

(Source: CNN)