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Cow Clicker Boils Down Facebook Games
mjn writes "Game designer and academic Ian Bogost announces Cow Clicker, a Facebook game implementing the mechanics of the Facebook-games genre stripped to their core. You get a cow, which you can click on every six hours. You earn additional clicks if your friends in your pasture also click. You can buy premium cows with 'mooney,' and also use your mooney to buy more clicks. You can buy mooney with real dollars, or earn some free bonus mooney if you spam up your feed with Cow Clicker activity. A satire of Facebook games, but actually as genuine a game as the non-satirical games are. And people actually play it, perhaps confirming Bogost's view that the genre of games is largely just 'brain hacks that exploit human psychology in order to make money,' which continue to work even when the users are openly told what's going on."
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"A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?"
I am predicting at least one defriending as I rub this piece of satire in some choice faces.
I don't think one can truly appreciate the evil addictive nature of those games until he has watched a loved one lose hours in a catatonic trance of digital fertilizing.
Wait.
Maybe there's something to her arguments about porn?
Who. Are. These. People?
And what's their contact info?
...has said its last "Moo". Dead as a... cow.
Clever signature text goes here.
Baby, come on, click my cow. You know you want to. Click it.
Fuck systemd. Fuck Redhat. Fuck Soylent, too. Wait, scratch the last one.
If you're going to make a viral app as a satire of other apps, you should prepare your site to at least stand one slashdotting.
My character Muffy in Sorority Life has special Paris clothing and hot cars.
Plus I think she's the US Ambassador to the UN or something.
Mostly I use my special powers to beat up French chix tho.
-- Tigger warning: This post may contain tiggers! --
F*ck [...] everyone I went to school with
Doesn't sound like a lonely game to me. Risky, yeah, but certainly not lonely.
Unless, of course, you were homeschooled, in which case it's just sick.
Personally I'd be at least choosy about, if nothing else, gender. But that's me.
"This post contains words, known to the State of California to cause thought. Wash brain thoroughly after reading."
Even better: Posting comments going for a "Funny" mod which doesn't mean anything for your Karma... but doing it anyway. ;)
Every time I start to have faith in humanity, I ruin it by driving to work between 7 and 8 am.
This is a virus. It works on the honor system. Please delete all the files from your hard drive and manually post a copy of this virus. Thank you for your cooperation.
"Ever felt pressured by your better half to buy a small piece of metal (jewelery) for $1000 dollars or a tiny bottle of water (perfume) for $100?"
Nope (and we've been together 13 years). Get a better better half.
This only works once, then you run out of hands. Then become jealous of octopus.
"Science flies us to the moon. Religion flies us into buildings." - Victor Stenger
Trust me, I'm a Buddhist, I don't need any more Karma!
Speaking of Jokes and Buddhists, I'm sure we've all heard this one before.
So a Buddhist monk goes up to a hot dog vendor. Vendor asks him "What'll it be?" and the monk replies, "Make me one with everything."
*Badoom psh*
So the vendor fixes him up with a dog, with all the fillings. The Monk hands him a $20 bill and the vendor puts it in the till and smiles at him. The monk, a little confused, asks him "What about my change?" and the vendor replies, "Change comes from within."
>>>RPG game?
Role Playing Genre game.
See? Wouldn't I make a great politician? I can backpeddle and bullshit with the best of 'em. ;-) Maybe I'll check-out this Cow Clicker game - see how many of my friends I can dupe into joining it.
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall
What? You don't?
Every month I get a credit to my Paypal account, it's usually $50-100 . I think I get around $1 per +5 post, and I get like $0.25 per mod point I spend on behalf of Microsoft. I get the statement that itemizes the payment in my email each month, but I never bother to read it.
Dude, if you're posting here and not getting paid, you're really wasting your time. Send me your contact info via email at slashdot_shill_127@microsoft.com, I'll sign you up for the program -- I think I get a $25 referral bonus if you maintain high karma and moderate weekly for six months.
"Trolls they were, but filled with the evil will of their master: a fell race..." -- J.R.R. Tolkien on Olog-hai
"RPG game"... really? did you use your PIN number on an ATM machine to buy that typical RPG game?
As Wikipedia's RAS syndrome article explains, the noun after abbreviation helps disambiguate the abbreviation, so that RPG clearly doesn't refer to rocket-propelled grenades, and ATM doesn't refer to the networking methods.
...At which time the Monk answered the question "What is the sound of one hand clapping?"
Who. Are. These. People?
And what's their contact info?
And why does William Shatner want to know, anyhow?
If all you have is a grenade, pretty soon every problem looks like a foxhole -- MightyYar