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That’s it. Pull back, aim, let go. Repeat a billion times.
The game’s objective is to guide a bird with anger management issues, projectile style, into a structure in the aim of killing the pigs within.
It mightn’t be much of a premise, but mobile game developers Rovio thought it sounded like a good idea. Myself and millions of fellow birdflingers around the world have been unproductive ever since it was released on the iPhone. Through careful use of trajectory, timing, and a slingshot, feathered vengeance can be mine.
Every day, a possible 50 million people worldwide spend a collective 200 million minutes trying to rain down avian justice.
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There was always something exciting about buying a guidebook for a destination I was about to visit.
Long bus rides to work and lunch hours were spent poring over the pages, highlighting the “don’t miss” destinations and circling hotels to call when I got back to the office (when no-one was looking).
The guide was a status symbol, something I would flaunt in a “Look at me, I’m going off to some exotic location while you suckers will still be working” way whenever I was out in public. But it would also freak me out, that my entire trip’s success was so dependent on it.
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I always found that a good travel book could actually give me the fundamentals of a country or place faster than Google, which pulls up all sorts of opinionated garbage that needs to be sifted through. Read more »
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marley says:
@Claire - re Istanbul, be sure to visit the underground cistern, and don’t eat in the Grand Bazaar - there’s a street behind it full of little cafes where all the workers eat - wonderful fresh grills, bread and salad - and you’ll be struggling to pay more than $5. … Read more »
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