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2048 To Be Next Flappy Bird
Almost everybody with a smartphone has encountered the game Flappy Bird at one time or another. For those of you who somehow managed to avoid to avoid the massive craze, Flappy Bird was a game in which the user controlled a cartoon bird who flew between pipes that appeared at different heights. Tapping the screen would cause the bird to flap its wings and go higher while not tapping would cause it to fall. The game was made famous by its ability to cause even the most level-headed person to fly (or flap) into a state of fury. Numerous cell phones were destroyed, holes were punched in walls, fights broke out, and one boy even murdered his brother because his brother got a higher score than him. This game was basically a digital version of crystal meth or cocaine. Sadly, the game was removed from the app store a couple of months ago. Now, in its place, there is a new game known as 2048. This game is played by sliding numbered tiles around a 4x4 board. The smallest tile value is 2 and when two 2 tiles are slide into each other, they combine to make a 4; two 4s make an 8, two 8s make a 16, etc. The ultimate goal of the game is to get one tile that equals 2048 and it's pretty much freaking impossible. The frustration when you get a high-valued tile just to have it blocked in by lesser tiles is paralleled only by being stuck behind a school bus that has stops at every single house on a ten-mile long road with a double yellow line down the middle. The sheer rage that boils inside the user as they continually fail to even reach 512 provides enough energy to keep a small village in Antarctica warm for weeks. Even though it infuriates its users, it is a wildly popular game across the country. It is even educational as it teaches you about exponents and how they work to make you stare at your phone's screen for hours attempting to reach the golden number: 2048. If you play 2048 and have actually beaten it, leave a comment below stating your name and what your other super powers are.
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PETA Angered By Nintendo
Everyone knows PETA as the radical animal rights group that lacks the common sense necessary to deter them from dumping red paint on people wearing animal fur. They have recently been in the news for submitting angry letters to Nintendo about Nintendo's wildly popular game, Pokèmon. Pokèmon, if somehow you've managed to avoid civilization for the last fifteen years, is a game centered around the capture and training of fantastical creatures for use in battles against other fantastical creatures. PETA claims that the game teaches children that animals are put on this earth for the sole purpose of serving people. They went on to say that anybody that plays Pokèmon deserves to be crammed into a small red and white ball and forced to fight, just like the animals in the game. A Nintendo spokesperson responded by saying, "It's just a game. There has never been a case of anyone playing Pokèmon and then running outside to attempt to squish a deer into ball. People aren't as stupid as PETA chooses to believe." After consulting their leader, an overgrown goat with psychic powers, PETA members mailed Nintendo the severed head of a lizard inside of a halved ping pong ball with a note saying "Look what you've done!" Nintendo did not respond because the irony of PETA's actions was too great for them to handle. Instead, they decided to take the high road and help PETA. They developed a Pokèmon game that involves using Pokèmon to fight animal abusers. The game is currently available to play for free on PETA's website and is just as hilariously cheesy as it sounds.Photo Source: http://wallpaperwonder.com/hd-pokemon-monster-wallpaper.html read more
Words Without Friends
Everyone is familiar with the popular smartphone word game, Words With Friends. If you're not, come out from your cave and educate yourself. For you cave dwellers, Words With Friends is basically Scrabble that you play on your phone with your friends online. This game is pretty entertaining for people with a vocabulary, fingers, and friends, but what about the social outcasts? This is where a new app, Words Without Friends, comes into play. Words Without Friends is basically the same game as Words With Friends except it doesn't require you to have socialized with anyone ever. Users log into the game, while sitting on a bean bag chair in their mother's basement eating Cheetos, and click "Start" to get the ball rolling. At first, most of the game's users are nervous about having to interact with someone with a pulse, but they are soon reassured when automated text scrolls across the screen to greet them. The user then plays a word, just as they would in Words With Friends, and then the computer uses complex algorithms to play the absolute best word possible. Obviously this leads to the user ultimately getting beaten like a blind quadriplegic UFC fighter with Care Bears for gloves. After totally dominating the game, the computer then reminds the player that the world is a cold and scary place by demeaning them with hurtful phrases and racial slurs. This further deters the user from venturing beyond the embroidered pillows and overflowing litter boxes in their mother's homes to try to meet a real human being. This sounds like a perfect plan: making a game only for people without friends and then scaring them away from ever making any friends. However, there has only been a couple dozen downloads since the release of the game. "No one without friends has any need for a phone in the first place. Who are they going to call? The market just isn't there," says mobile game analyst, Charles Brighton. Aside from the fact that the friendless don't have phones to begin with, there is also no word-of-mouth advertising of the game. This is due to the fact that, no matter how loud one of the game's users screams that they love the game, the only things that will hear them are the walls of the basement and the stacks of uncompleted home schooling courses. The game's developer is currently at a loss for ways to help the game stay afloat and is sending emails to the game's players asking for suggestions. None of the emails have received a response yet, due to the users' intense fear of social interaction whether in person or through a screen. To try to offset the losses taken from making Words Without Friends, the developer has announced an idea for a game called Words With Acquaintances. This app will be for people to play a word game with someone who they don't want getting the wrong idea about what level their relationship has reached. If you have anyone that you want to play games with, but who you don't want getting too chummy, then be on the lookout for Words With Acquaintances, coming to a coworker's phone near you.
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