Google Maps Adds 'Ms. Pac-Man' Feature (blog.google)

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Google Maps Adds 'Ms. Pac-Man' Feature (blog.google)

Posted by EditorDavid on Saturday April 1, 2017 @07:34AM from the wakka-wakka-wakka-wakka dept.

An anonymous reader quotes a blog post by Google Maps: Starting now until April 4, you can chomp fruit, avoid ghosts, and collect PAC-Dots along city streets in Google Maps worldwide -- all as Ms. PAC-Maps. Just tap on the Ms. PAC-Maps icon on iOS and Android, or click the Ms. PAC-Maps button at the bottom left on desktop, to enter the maze and start chompin'. Sign in to save your top score on the leaderboard and share with friends.
A playable Google doodle commemorated Pac-Man's 30th anniversary in 2010 -- and was estimated to have cost the IT sector (and other workplaces) 4.8 million hours in lost productivity.

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Redesign by Anonymous Coward · 2017-04-01 07:59 · Score: -1

This is OT, but is the Slashdot redesign an April Fool's joke? It used to be grey but now all of the sudden everything is orange. Is this a new design after so many years or a prank?
1. Re:Redesign by colin_faber · 2017-04-01 08:28 · Score: 1
  
  I sure hope so, the new UI barely functions for me on the latest FF and if the goal is to be more like fark, well, fark is a fail onto itself. This UI (color schema and design) makes the horrible mobile interface look half way usable.
2. Re:Redesign by antdude · 2017-04-01 11:21 · Score: 1
  
  Whoosh!
  
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3. Re: Redesign by Anonymous Coward · 2017-04-01 13:41 · Score: 0
  
  Also off topic but I saw this Friday. Many articles I've noticed recently have been a day or three old. Our community's small newspaper has a better chance of containing timely stories vs Slashdot.
  Also Ms PacMan was awesome
4. Re:Redesign by Carewolf · 2017-04-01 20:37 · Score: 2
  
  This is OT, but is the Slashdot redesign an April Fool's joke? It used to be grey but now all of the sudden everything is orange. Is this a new design after so many years or a prank?
  Slacker News? Yes it is a joke.
Not good. Maps is a tool not a toy by Anonymous Coward · 2017-04-01 08:10 · Score: -1

Perhaps I'm just an old kermugin but it seems to me that certain things shouldn't be messed with as a practice joke. Maps is a tool that has basically become britical infrastructure. Having the damn thing change into a pack man game while I'm trying to get directions is absolutely unacceptable.
1. Re: Not good. Maps is a tool not a toy by Anonymous Coward · 2017-04-01 08:12 · Score: 0
  
  I'm sure that you are fun at parties.
2. Re: Not good. Maps is a tool not a toy by Anonymous Coward · 2017-04-01 08:19 · Score: 0
  
  I wouldn't know. I can't find the party because my gps app is stuck in PAC MAN mode.
3. Re: Not good. Maps is a tool not a toy by Anonymous Coward · 2017-04-01 08:43 · Score: 0
  
  Just follow the dots to get to the party.
4. Re:Not good. Maps is a tool not a toy by Cramit · 2017-04-01 11:42 · Score: 2
  
  You have to click a button to trigger it. It doesn't randomly turn into Pacman.
5. Re: Not good. Maps is a tool not a toy by pollarda · 2017-04-01 12:52 · Score: 1
  
  I should point out that as funny as it may be Ms Pac-Man on Google Maps is real and not a April Fools Joke....
6. Re: Not good. Maps is a tool not a toy by Zero__Kelvin · 2017-04-01 15:33 · Score: 1
  
  I know what you mean. I haven't figured out how they forced us to click on the Ms. Pac-Map icon to start the game, but it sure was insidious and I don't know it's I'll ever recover from being forced to play it by Google!
  
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  Guns don't kill people; Physics kills people! - John Lithgow as Dick Solomon on Third Rock From The Sun
7. Re: Not good. Maps is a tool not a toy by Zero__Kelvin · 2017-04-01 15:35 · Score: 2
  
  Well ... That's half right. It is both real and an AF joke actually.
  
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  Guns don't kill people; Physics kills people! - John Lithgow as Dick Solomon on Third Rock From The Sun
8. Re: Not good. Maps is a tool not a toy by Nyckname · 2017-04-02 00:58 · Score: 2
  
  You would have abhorred the video game I wrote in Lotus 1-2-3 back in the day.
Gobble this by markdavis · 2017-04-01 10:44 · Score: 2

Google, instead of wasting tons of hours programming a silly temporary game in a MAP program, how about using those resources to have freaking reminders on the Google Calendar for birthdays? People have only been asking for this for what, 5 years now?? Yeah, really, it is still impossible for the calendar to send notifications so users don't miss peoples' birthdays!
I could go down the list of dozens of important things that people have been waiting for in Android, Maps, Chrome, ChromeOS, etc. But this is a great example.
1. Re:Gobble this by ptaff · 2017-04-02 15:25 · Score: 1
  
  Feeling entitled because...?
2. Re:Gobble this by markdavis · 2017-04-03 12:26 · Score: 1
  
  I wouldn't say "entitled", just frustrated. And I am certainly not alone in that regard.
Why not regular Pac Man?? by Anonymous Coward · 2017-04-01 10:52 · Score: -1

Why is it always Ms. Pacman and never just Pacman?? Reverse sexism?
1. Re: Why not regular Pac Man?? by Anonymous Coward · 2017-04-01 11:22 · Score: 0
  
  Agreed. Why not go full retard and make it lesbian, transexual, black, Muslim Mx Pac-Person?
2. Re:Why not regular Pac Man?? by 93+Escort+Wagon · 2017-04-01 12:44 · Score: 2
  
  "Why is it always Ms. Pac-Man?" Because it's not always Ms. Pac-Man. Google already did regular Pac-Man seven years ago as a Google Doodle in celebration of Pac-Man's 30th anniversary.
  
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  #DeleteChrome
3. Re:Why not regular Pac Man?? by Anonymous Coward · 2017-04-01 12:47 · Score: 0
  
  Why can't they make it Blackman for once?
4. Re: Why not regular Pac Man?? by Anonymous Coward · 2017-04-01 13:23 · Score: 1
  
  Well he IS running down the middle of a public street, being chased by ghosts... so there's that.
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2. Abodah Zara 26b: "Even the best of the Gentiles should be killed."
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4. Yebhamoth 11b: "Sexual intercourse with a little girl is permitted if she is three years of age."
5. Schabouth Hag. 6d: "Jews may swear falsely by use of subterfuge wording."
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7. Hilkkoth Akum X1: "Show no mercy to the Goyim."
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9. Choschen Hamm 266,1: "A Jew may keep anything he finds which belongs to the Akum (Gentile). For he who returns lost property (to Gentiles) sins against the Law by increasing the power of the transgressors of the Law. It is praiseworthy, however, to return lost property if it is done to honor the name of God, namely, if by so doing, Christians will praise the Jews and look upon them as honorable people."
10. Szaaloth-Utszabot, The Book of Jore Dia 17: "A Jew should and must make a false oath when the Goyim asks if our books contain anything against them."
11. Baba Necia 114, 6: "The Jews are human beings, but the nations of the world are not human beings but beasts."
12. Simeon Haddarsen, fol. 56-D: "When the Messiah comes every Jew will have 2800 slaves."
13. Nidrasch Talpioth, p. 225-L: "Jehovah created the non-Jew in human form so that the Jew would not have to be served by beasts. The non-Jew is consequently an animal in human form, and condemned to serve the Jew day and night."
14. Aboda Sarah 37a: "A Gentile girl who is three years old can be violated."
15. Gad. Shas. 2:2: "A Jew may violate but not marry a non-Jewish girl."
16. Tosefta. Aboda Zara B, 5: "If a goy kills a goy or a Jew, he is responsible; but if a Jew kills a goy, he is NOT responsible."
17. Schulchan Aruch, Choszen Hamiszpat 388: "It is permitted to kill a Jewish denunciator everywhere. It is permitted to kill him even before he denounces."
18. Schulchan Aruch, Choszen Hamiszpat 348: "All property of other nations belongs to the Jewish nation, which, consequently, is entitled to seize upon it without any scruples."
19. Tosefta, Abda Zara VIII, 5: "How to interpret the word 'robbery.' A goy is forbidden to steal, rob, or take women slaves, etc., from a goy or from a Jew. But a Jew is NOT forbidden to do all this to a goy."
20. Seph. Jp., 92, 1: "God has given the Jews power over the possessions and blood of all nations."
21. Schulchan Aruch, Choszen Hamiszpat 156: "When a Jew has a Gentile in his clutches, another Jew may go to the same Gentile, lend him money and in turn deceive him, so that the Gentile shall be ruined. For the property of a Gentile, according to our law, belongs to no one, and the first Jew that passes has full right to seize it."
22. Schulchan Aruch, Johre Deah, 122: "A Jew is forbidden to drink from a glass of wine which a Gentile has touched, because the touch has made the wine unclean."
23. Nedarim 23b: "He who desires that none of his vows made during the year be valid, let him stand at the beginning of the year and declare, 'Every vow which I may make in the future shall be null'. His vows are then invalid."
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Ms. Pac-Man can suck my woman hating balls by Anonymous Coward · 2017-04-02 05:48 · Score: 0

Ms. Pac-Man is the perfect example of how women are meant to put as many balls in their mouth as possible.
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