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Aesquire
| Posted on Monday, December 02, 2019 - 01:08 am: |
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I've been trying out different games for phone and tablet on my Kindle Fire. There's a lot of anger on the web about misleading ads for these games. Mostly when they advertise great graphics that just aren't there. I'm used to that from computer games in the past. What gets me going is an ad that promises a "pick the right tool" game, where for example, the bathroom is flooding, and you choose between a hammer, a wrench, and a towel. But I've yet to see a game like that. I keep getting match 3 games, like Candy Crush. Matchington Mansion, Clockmaker, etc. all have misleading ads. I even pushed through to level 112 on MM to see if you unlock the different types of play. I don't hate match 3 games, and can tolerate watching ads to get more lives, depending on mood & schedule. But I don't WANT to play them. Rather play solitaire. Does a "pick the tool" game actually exist? |
Ourdee
| Posted on Monday, December 02, 2019 - 01:47 am: |
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I like playing "Reversi Free". |
Etennuly
| Posted on Monday, December 02, 2019 - 02:27 am: |
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I frequently get pick the tool game advertisements popping up between games of solitary. Someone actually wants to play that stuff? |
Ratbuell
| Posted on Monday, December 02, 2019 - 09:55 am: |
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I've got techs here who are addicted to that damned Candy Crush crap.
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86129squids
| Posted on Monday, December 02, 2019 - 11:48 am: |
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Ever try Rummikub? Nothing digital about it, totally addicting, but you'll need 1-3 opponents, flesh and blood next to you, around a table. Ideally with refreshments, you'll spend hours playing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rummikub |
Pwnzor
| Posted on Monday, December 02, 2019 - 12:03 pm: |
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Yeah, my Rummikub tiles are worn and battle scarred. |
86129squids
| Posted on Monday, December 02, 2019 - 12:14 pm: |
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Maybe we could bring a game with us to TWoS next time we all get together. That would be a LATE nite in the TWoS great room though, probably shouldn't play it before a long day's riding. Might be ideal the night before everyone departs. |
Ourdee
| Posted on Monday, December 02, 2019 - 12:57 pm: |
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I brought a game last time. |
Aesquire
| Posted on Monday, December 02, 2019 - 03:28 pm: |
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Fizbin! I actually expected to get a bunch of game suggestions. Cool, keep 'am coming. ( apostrophe abuse! ) But no answer to the question. Is there actually a "pick a tool" game? As to WHY I want it. I want to try it. The match 3 games are pure time sucks, and moderately interesting, yet massively successful. Tried it, got bored, want different. I've been eaten by a Grue and died of dysentery. I was ranked 12th on this planet in Mechwarrior 4, then realized how much sleep I lost playing the great teams from Kedena & Wiesbaden. & went cold Turkey on online multiplayer games. I've got an Xbox, but only use it when a fellow addict comes over, as part of my socialization efforts to not be a hermit. Halo & Borderlands. I enjoy the find the object games, but only so much, and tend to uninstall them when I get bored. Usually takes a few days. So I keep getting ads for what seems to be an imaginary game, is fraud, and simply because I apparently cannot have it, I want it! I seriously doubt it will take a week to get bored, but that's fine. I just want something to play in waiting rooms and keep me from writing rants on my book reader. |
Aesquire
| Posted on Monday, December 02, 2019 - 03:28 pm: |
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Like that one. |
86129squids
| Posted on Monday, December 02, 2019 - 05:08 pm: |
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" Cool, keep 'am coming. ( apostrophe abuse! ) " A or E there? Methinks E, in which case you're basickally correctum. |
Aesquire
| Posted on Monday, December 02, 2019 - 05:46 pm: |
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How the $%^# did autocorrect change 'em to 'am? What contraction IS that? My fault for not proof reading, but dang. My intent was to mock apostrophe abuse by not actually doing so and claiming I had. Fail.
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86129squids
| Posted on Monday, December 02, 2019 - 11:09 pm: |
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I really hate and distrust my phhonne. You'd like to think. That by now. This superior entity wood know, mebbe grok, where I'm going. In all reality, we've come to realize that it doesn't get my accent. And, my honey's Dominican. |
Glitch
| Posted on Tuesday, December 03, 2019 - 06:21 am: |
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( apostrophe abuse! ) The Crux of the Biscuit is the Apostrophe |
86129squids
| Posted on Tuesday, December 03, 2019 - 11:44 am: |
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You can tune a piano, but you can't tuna fish. |
Aesquire
| Posted on Wednesday, December 04, 2019 - 12:53 am: |
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Has anyone actually played a stupid pick the tool game? I'm getting my butt kicked in tower defense games while I await an answer. Oh. Crud. Fast tanks! |
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