The mobile game ads seem to be getting odder and odder. I get that they’re pushing AI companions so lonely people can date HER. Or one version of her… Though I’m not sure how “elegant” the one on the left is, if the caption isn’t quite good English. And there’s this: Besides the fact thatContinue reading “Odder and Odder”
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I Like Your Ensemble!
These ads for mobile games (that appear while I play other mobile games) continue to march across my screen. Most of them are lame or unwatchable, a few are utterly fascinating and confounding (how do I get an AI GF to be an effective dominatrix? I’m not making an in-app purchase to find out!), andContinue reading “I Like Your Ensemble!”
“Fake Games” Inside Fake Game
The world of mobile app game seems to me like the Wild West. There’s a whole lot of ads for them promising all sorts of things and very little of it (I’m being nice and not all-inclusive) seems to be true. We start by seeing an ad that possibly features some typo describing the mostContinue reading ““Fake Games” Inside Fake Game”
A Fatwa on the Patois
I had a dream last night in which I was flipping through a number of documents. Each seemed to have at least one typo or misspelled word. One of these was “agressive” and I found this particularly annoying. While it didn’t occur in this dream, I’ve been seeing too many badly worded instructions from ChineseContinue reading “A Fatwa on the Patois”
Wasting Time
How do you waste the most time every day? My rule for time-wasting is: It’s ok if I waste my time, but I don’t want other people doing it. In a long line at the Post Office a couple of years ago, I came up with the idea for a great app. When I amContinue reading “Wasting Time”
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