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Sugar-Coated Drug-Dealing Game Approved For iPhone

Posted by timothy on from the just-try-calling-your-suitcase-a-bomb-at-the-airport dept.

Pocket Gamer writes "Of course, Apple wouldn't allow such a salacious games as Dope Wars on the hallowed corridors of the App Store. What Catamount's done is sugarcoat its game (quite literally) and turned it into Prohibition 3: Candy Wars — a reskinned version of the exact same game."

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  1. Somehow... by samriel · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I think that inhaling any of the ingredients in the screenshot from TFA would be bad for you. Especially whole candy.

    Kidding aside, I don't think Apple had much choice. All it takes is five or ten idiots who can't see through their guise, and all of a sudden people are e-mailing them about keeping kid-safe apps off of the App Store.

    In conclusion, blame the shallow, gullible masses.

    1. Re:Somehow... by samriel · · Score: 3, Funny

      Apple coule make a stand or put in an adults-only section of the store.

      There's the catch.
      If Apple were to make a stand, those same gullible people would cry foul, and before long, the iPhone is 'full of devil-music and Christ-defying smut', and there goes a good portion of conservative buyers.
      On the other hand, if Apple put in an adults-only part of the store, we could skip people crying foul and jump straight to the devil-smut.

      DISCLAIMER: I have no idea what I'm talking about.

    2. Re:Somehow... by hobbit · · Score: 3, Funny

      Yeah, well, some kids have to deal drugs for a living, you insensitive clod!

      --
      "Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something" - Plato
    3. Re:Somehow... by jack2000 · · Score: 3, Funny

      The type-o here is correct.
      I HATE "kid-safe" apps and games, they drive me nuts!

  2. Dope Wars by Smidge207 · · Score: 3, Funny

    I remember playing this in real life during high school... (Disclaimer: I attended HS in the mid-80s in So. Cali.)

    =Smidge=

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    Is it just my observation, or is eldavojohn an idiot?
  3. Re: !literally tag by Duradin · · Score: 3, Funny

    So is figuratively the new old literally?

    "His head literally exploded."
    "I bet, he must have been really mad."
    "No, his head exploded. You can pack a surprising amount of C4 in someone's mouth."
    "Why'd you say literally then? You meant his head figuratively exploded."
    "There's never enough C4..."

  4. Re: !literally tag by nog_lorp · · Score: 4, Informative

    Incorrect.
    To literally sugarcoat means to coat with sugar.
    The alternative, to figuratively sugarcoat (i.e. the figure of speech) is to make appear more pleasant or acceptable.