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Friday, October 23, 2009

Games One Dot Enemies: A Colossal Waste Of Time

Posted by Earnest "Nex" Cavalli on Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 10:49 PM

If you've been playing games for longer than twenty minutes, odds are pretty good that someone (probably a woman or an elderly relative) has descended from their ivory tower of age and/or ovaries to blithely comment that you're wasting your time.

Arguing the point is useless — both age and ovaries are formidable opponents — so your only recourse is to make the point so blindingly obvious that your asshole relative/girlfriend/random bystander may as well be questioning the fashion sense of children waiting to catch the bus outside of the School For The Blind.

One Dead Enemy
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ODE is a simple game. You're given a white screen populated by randomly moving black pixels that you're asked to tap. Tap one and it bursts into a colorful skull. Once you're bored tapping dots, you can upload your total kill tally to the game's servers to see how many people have likewise wasted minutes exploding black dots.

And that's it. That's the whole "game."

I don't yet know if it's an ingenious commentary on simplistic game design or how easily entertained the masses are, but since it's a free iPhone game (App Store link) that I've wasted easily an hour on over the last few days, I'd say there are far worse ways to kill the hours until school/work/your depressing life comes to an end.

 

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1
wow, cool angry sexist post
Posted by charlie on October 25, 2009 at 12:23 PM · Report
2
as a woman who plays games, screw you.
Posted by catbot on October 25, 2009 at 12:38 PM · Report
3
very strange post
Posted by truthypup on October 25, 2009 at 6:32 PM · Report
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And the stereotype is solidified that the gamer plays his games while women pass on him.
Posted by NIG GER on October 25, 2009 at 7:26 PM · Report
5
And when does that get fun? Poking colored dots? Does that even count as a game? Where's the strategy? Is it possibly to somehow get "better" at poking dots? Seems like that would barely count as an "activity."
Posted by Reymont on October 26, 2009 at 8:21 AM · Report
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It's a real world SPORE application. As you work through the game your progress is uploaded. When the cull begins they'll know who to take first. Game On
Posted by alainb1 on October 26, 2009 at 9:27 AM · Report
7
Worst review ever, Ernie.
Posted by Michelle on October 26, 2009 at 9:50 AM · Report
8
After this review, I've decided to stop receiving your daily faxes.
Posted by truthypup on October 26, 2009 at 11:13 AM · Report

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