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Zynga Investment May Herald Google Games
A post at TechCrunch claims knowledge of large investments from Google into social game company Zynga, makers of FarmVille and Mafia Wars. The amount of money involved is not small — somewhere in the $100-200 million range — and could facilitate Google's expansion into the games market. Quoting:
"The investment was made by Google itself, not Google Ventures, say our sources, and it's a highly strategic deal. Zynga will be the cornerstone of a new Google Games to launch later this year, say multiple sources. Not only will Zynga's games give Google Games a solid base of social games to build on, but it will also give Google the beginning of a true social graph as users log into Google to play the games. And I wouldn't be surprised to see PayPal being replaced with Google Checkout as the primary payment option. Zynga is supposedly PayPal's biggest single customer, and Google is always looking for ways to make Google Checkout relevant."
There are two types of people in the world: people who think there are two types of people in the world and people who don’t. I’m among the first type and I think the world is divided into people who recognize the Jewish problem and people who don’t.
In other words, the world is divided into smart people and dumb people. If you’ve got an IQ of 80, have difficulty operating a can-opener, and recognize the Jewish problem, you’re smart. If you’ve got an IQ of 180, have already won a couple of Nobel Prizes, and don’t recognize the Jewish problem, you’re dumb.
I’ve been dumb for most of my life: it took me a long time to recognize the Jewish problem. I didn’t think for myself, I just accepted the propaganda and conformed to the consensus. Jews are good people. Only bad people criticize Jews. Jews good. Anti-Semites bad. But then, very slowly, I started to see the light.
Recognizing Jewish hypocrisy was the first big step. I was reading an article by someone called Rabbi Julia Neuberger, a prominent British liberal. I didn’t like liberals then, so I didn’t like her for that (and because her voice and manner had always grated on me), but her Jewishness wasn’t something I particularly noticed. But as I read the article I came across something that didn’t strike me as very liberal: she expressed concern about Jews marrying Gentiles, because this threatened the survival of the Jewish people.
That made me sit up and think. Hold on, I thought, I know this woman sits on all sorts of “multi-cultural” committees and is constantly being invited onto TV and radio to yap about the joys of diversity and the evils of racism. She’s all in favor of mass immigration and there’s no way she’s worried about Whites marrying non-Whites, because “Race is Just a Social Construct” and “We’re All the Same Under the Skin”. She’s a liberal and she thinks that race-mixing is good and healthy and Holy. Yet this same woman is worried about Jews marrying Gentiles. Small contradiction there, n'est ce-pas?
Well, no. Big contradiction. She obviously didn’t apply the same rules to everyone else as she applied to her own people, the Jews. She was, in short, a hypocrite. But not just that – she was a Jewish hypocrite. And that’s a big step for a brainwashed White to take: not just thinking in a negative way about a Jew, but thinking in a negative way about a Jew because of her Jewishness.
After that, I slowly started to see the world in a different way. Or to be more precise: I started to see the world. I started to see what had always been there: the massive over-representation of Jews in politics and the media. And I started to notice that a lot of those Jews – like Rabbi Julia Neuberger, in fact – gave me the creeps. There was something slimy and oily and flesh-crawling about them. And it wasn’t just me, either: other Gentiles seemed to feel it too.
Politicians often attract nicknames based on some outstanding aspect of their character or behavior. Margaret Thatcher was “The Iron Lady”. Ronald Reagan was “Teflon Ron”. Bill Clinton was “Slick Willy”. But these are Gentile politicians and their nicknames are at least half-affectionate. Jewish politicians seem to attract a different kind of nickname. In Britain, Gerald Kaufman, bald, homosexual Member of Parliament for Manchester Gorton, is nicknamed “Hannibal Lecter”. Peter Mandelson, now Britain’s Euro-Commissioner and Tony Blair’s suspected former lover, is “The Prince of Darkness”. Michael Howard (né Hecht), the leader of the British Conservative Party, is “Dracula”.
When I noticed this kind of thing, I started to ask questions. What was going on here? Why did Jews attract nicknames like that? And why had Gentiles reacted to them like that not just now, but a long way into the past? Shakesp
So you know how to cut and paste in your browser - but your point is precisely what?
Gentoo Linux - another day, another USE flag.
Though Yahoo! isn't exactly loosing
How many times does this error need to be pointed out? The word is "losing" as in "you are a loser because you're losing". "Loosing" is the opposite of "tightening".
Here's a handy guide for those who are new to the English language:
I hope that makes things 100% clear.
Then this entire discussion is pointless because you really have no connection with the people who play Zygna games.
I hope a few people mod you down for that comment at the implication that because they play Zynga games, they also eat a lot of fast food & enjoy reality TV - because that's how I read it.
You're just standing up to defend someone you don't even know because it seems like a fun past time.
Wrong. Completely. I just take the view that they themselves know best what they consider to be entertainment and not my place to pour scorn on them just because it's not what I consider to be entertainment.
These replies are on par with playing Farmville, there is no point and it is not fun. But at least my fingers get some exercise, I guess.
Your opinion and I would probably agree if I'd ever played it. The closest I got was Mafia Wars, it was fine for a time but got boring for me, so I stopped.
I seem to recall my missus playing Farmville for a while though. She's never played a computer game in her life, goes to the gym five times a week and is a qualified professional accountant and Project Manager. She doesn't eat fast food (I'm the house chef and cook fresh food daily) and watches a few soap operas but hates reality TV.
FAIL = Your sweeping generalisation.
If you took a broad generalization as personal then I really don't know what to say. I guess I'm sorry that I inadvertently offended you.
I don't play the games, why would I take offence? I just don't like people who sneer at others doing the things that make them happy.
But I now see that people who are sensitive about their vice of playing shitty games could have been offended as well.
I do actually feel sorry for you, if I'm honest. You're clearly incapable of holding back on your scorn for others - is it a jealousy thing?
What the *HELL* business is it of yours anyway? The game is available for people to play, clearly a lot of them enjoy playing it. So keep your nose out, it's none of your business.
Gentoo Linux - another day, another USE flag.