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Mogi Location-Based Mobile Gaming Hits Japan
Thanks to TheFeature for its article discussing the popular Japanese mobile phone game Mogi, a title which "uses both the position of players in the landscape, and the landscape itself to generate play." The French developers of Mogi at Newt Games explain: "We used the map to give [virtual] creatures some interesting behavior. Some creatures only hunt at night. Some hang around close to parks", thus: "If a player wants to find that [in-game] creature, they'll have to travel near a park [playing Mogi on their mobile phone] in the evening hours." A keen Tokyo-based player of the game also explains why he enjoys it: "All the trips I make in the city are now randomized, as I will often divert a few hundred meters to go and collect an object around me."
Dude its the second already. Get of the crack and send it to me. This is the dumbest idea I have ever heard. It actually brought back memories of tamagotchi. Tamagotchi, I am not kidding; Its that bad an idea.
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This won't be a problem in real life. In real life -- no offense to your friend, who I'm sure is quite pulchritudinous -- the vast majority of "girls" who "spend much of [their] time doing online fantasy RPing", and as elf-maidens, no less, are, in fact boys.
That minority of online RPing elf-maidens who are actual women -- as in "born with female genitals" women --, have, trust me -- er, I mean, that is, trust my friend, who told me -- have sat in front on their PCs playing elf-maidens and eating bon-bons and Doritos long enough that -- well, let's just say that traipsing through the Mordor woods in real life would be something of a ponderous challenge for them, with their slab-sided tree-stump-like legs propelling their rotundly jiggling torsos while their bloated red faces were a-huffing and a-puffing.
And I think we can fairly say that that small minority of a minority of online "elf-maidens" who are real women and themselves mobile enough to get into location based mobile gaming will quite literally wear on their faces the reasons they decided to spend their best years of their lives for social interaction, not even going to a Renaissance Fest (the portly girl's best friend) but instead interacting from behind a computer screen; and consequently they will have to endure propositions from only those most desperate of geeks.
By the most desperate geek boys, reeking of tstosterone and despair, I of course mean the men of Slashdot.
But to take any sting out of my comment, and to show that I have only the best wishes at heart for both these rather plain "cyber elf-maidens" and the men of Slashdot who (want to) love them, let me close with a few verses from William S. Gilbert, as set to music by Sir Arthur S.Sullivan:
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While I'm sure it's difficult for you to conceive that there are attractive women out there who have little social confidence, they do exist.
Conceive? Hell, if it weren't for the "attractive women out there who have little social confidence", I wouldn't be getting any.
I kid, I kid.
But please, let's not use the word "conceive" -- that word always scares a bachelor.
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