Hands on With Gunshine: Facebook's Quest for More Money
Besides clicking on some pictures of some Mafiosos, a cow, or something or another and then being rewarded with pictures of money.There’s no story or immersion of any sort. The monotony of the grinding in these games is worse than any Nexon free-to-play game, but at least I would give money to Nexon for at least showing some artistic talent behind their games. Zynga’s development team looks like it’s comprised of individuals pulled off of Wall Street who’ve learned a few lines of HTML and are out to exploit social gamers for all that they’re worth. Their games sound like simple games to win, considering you can just spam click and play missions until your index finger and forearm are swollen to the point where the ladies are giving you a lot of attention for having so much experience in that department, if you catch my drift.
It’s not quite that easy. Zynga puts a cap on the amount of “energy” you have and not because they wanted to add a degree of realism into the game. Good God. If Mafia Wars in any way reflected the real world, then every made man would constantly be pounding Monsters and have an IV-drip funneling caffeine directly into their bloodstream in order to pull off ten bank heists in one night. No, Zynga wants to exploit your pocketbooks. As with all social game business models, they’ve made it so that you have to spend cash in order to quickly refuel your energy meter (or the equivalent) to keep playing the game.
“Money for energy? Why would I ever spend money on such a shoddy game as this?” You scoff, before laughing jauntily, donning your monocle, and merrily go on about your day.
After days of logging in and clicking for a few minutes, you find yourself at level 200. Suddenly, you’re attached to the game because you’ve invested over a thousand clicks accumulated over a week into the game. You have to get yourself into the top 100 families now, damn it! Too bad that in order to do so, you need to have a bigger family and more energy. Then, you decide that paying that $4.99 for that 50 energy is no biggie and you become “that douche” on Facebook.
How do I explain “that douche” syndrome? Well, remember that time you popped open Facebook and your news feed was flooded with “Jonah wants you to join his crew! Play Mafiaville today!” or “Jonah gifted you five cattle and an AK-47! Play Farm Wars today!” Really, you can do without seeing all of Jonah’s requests and being the Facebook savant you are, you block him from your news feed.
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In fact, I don't see very much “exploitation” in any case as THOR is attacked by virtually everything as soon as he steps foot on the island: Labycore armored security, a construction gang called the Mad Dogs, prostitutes, chain gang guys,
The School Board last week approved a $124000 contract for armored vehicle services, which includes the cost of deposit bags. The district is piggy-backing off a bid from the Hillsborough School District with Mid-Florida Armored & ATM Services Inc. The
Racing events will give you access to guns, armor, and other upgrades. Also, crashing ATVs is hilariously fun. If you're riding an ATV and crash full force into a low barrier, you'll flip over the handlebars and shoot into the sky like a ragdoll.
BADLY DAMAGED: The condition of the van after the accident. — Photo by Lai Kui Fong KUCHING: A 43-year-old armoured van security guard died on the spot when the van, which was ferrying him home after the last collection of the day, crashed into a tree
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Dartz Plans Nine Models for 2012
Latvian car builder Dartz is planning a total of nine new models for next year. 2012 is a special year for the armored truck builder. Dartz is celebrating the 100th anniversary of the RussoBaltique C55 success at the 1912 Monte Carlo Rally. In January of 1912 two brave Russian drivers won nine awards at the second Monte Carlo rally.
Following the succes, in the same year Russian Tzar Nikolai choose the RussoBalt car for the national Russian army. The first cars were not armored, this happened in 1914 during World War I when RussoBalt got their special diploma “Russian Army Supplier” and started to supply the Russian Empire Army with cars for their commanders.
Anniversary number three is the fact that 90 years ago RussoBalt was renamed to Prombron. The name Prombron stands for armor manufacturing.
Following these celebrations a total of nine models are planned for 2012; six anniversary models and three non-anniversary models to be released later on. The first model is the Dartz Prombron Trozky edition, named after Leon Trozky a Soviet army founder, who ran away from Stalin and drove a Prombron vehicle made in 1922. The vehicle will be available in two colors Matte Khaki and Kash.Kamo. Some fake gadgets will add a more military look to the armored truck.
The second model is called the Dartz Prombron Nagel Edition , which was released earlier this year together with Gray Design. The unique vehicle planned to be launched at the end of 2012. The third model is also known to us all and was introduced at the Top Marques Monaco 2011 in April.
Model number four is a duo; the Dartz Prombron Black.Russian China Edition and the Dartz Gold.Russian China Edition. Except inside luxury and gadgets the SUV has different front grille, longer base setup and some other specific features, which make taste-impaired coal bosses from China happy, according to the car maker. On the Black.Russian a giant star is added to the front grille, the Gold.Russian has a diamond encrusted gold badge. The models are only available on the Chinese market.
The Dartz Prombon Black.Diamond is colored in Matte Black with shiny Black accents. It is 600mm longer than the Iron.Diamond and 300mm longer than Red.Diamond. The SUV is equipped with 28 inch black’n'gold Bullet.Wheels with run flat tires. The car has a drink cabinet with fridge and two bottles of RussoBaltique Vodka. The driver’s seat is equipped with the most advanced car computer named Leibowiz, while the passengers can enjoy the latest Apple iPad. The ubersoft multi-position car seats are equipped with ventilation and massage. The car is available in three and four-door versions.
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