December 9, 2010

Smurf's Village

Scary:
  
"It's quite likely that most of the money pulled in by these [smartphone] games comes from addicted adults who want to quickly build their Smurf villages, bakeries, zoos and zombie farms. But there's a loophole in the in-app purchase process that children stick their fingers through." via

"...addicted adults who want to quickly build their Smurf villages, bakeries, zoos and zombie farms.." 

WTF.  And we say our 'age' is the sum of passing years, and disparage as less those who have less years:

How would a government composed of only toddlers function?  Probably crappily. A government of kids?  "I have the conch, hear me, hear me -- crushed by the unconscionable boulder. And young adults?  Emphatically, so the street will quickly fill with Robespierres.

Adults? Filled with adults addicted to digital Smurf Viallge's, Digital bakeries, Zoos, and Zombies Farms.


We?  Are we not also caught within our own eddies?

4 comments:

  1. Obviously you don't have an iPhone. You're just jealous, Geoff.

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  2. If that's what you want to call it...

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  3. the most fucked thing about this... Is that I have seen people complain about how they have absolutely no time for anything, that their life is in a constant rush...and I find them playing these games on facebook... for hours- it is like the old pincipal of how we spend money, all the small sums add up to being the whole sum. And it is hard to grasp the consequences of the small in relation to the large.

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  4. It's a dissonance for sure. They Govern.

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