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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."
Do you know how I know that you are gay?
WTF am I doing replying to an AC at 5 A.M on a Friday night?
You like to play games where you look at almost-nude males
No I don't. I just don't play games.
Anyway, the games you play are not the way I know that you are gay. I know that you are gay because you have a facebook account.
WTF am I doing replying to an AC at 5 A.M on a Friday night?
Do you know how I know that you are gay?
LOL. I'll tell the 40 or so women I've slept with and my two ex-wives what you said.
You're just uptight. You like to play games where you look at almost-nude males - I like to play games where ...
Sounds like a pretty typical beard to me dude.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beard_(companion)
"Who is the Journal of Quantum Physics going to believe?" --Stephen Hawking
And the two only funny lines from that shit show Futurama are used by nerds again. Futurama sucks shit.