Quasar: Angry Birds is a poor man's Worms. I will never understand the appeal.

True, but still an amusing time waster. Worms is too complex for the average moron's mind(Sheep??? Ninja Rope?????? Augh my brain!)

Quasar: Angry Birds is a poor man's Worms Crush the Castle. I will never understand the appeal.

If you're going to be a videogame hipster, do it right.

/Loves me some CtC 2
//Plays Angry Birds too
///But it's Radiant that has captured my soul, stuffed in a box, and chucked it into space

I'm still trying to master Snowball Fight.

Where's my copy of Lemmings, God damn it!

Today (tonight, actually) is really the proper day to be giving Christmas gifts anyway. It's Twelfth Night aka Three Kings' Night aka Epiphany Eve aka the Twelfth Day of Christmas (with Christmas Day itself being Day #1).

The giving of Christmas gifts is, according to Christian tradition, supposed to represent the coming of the Magi aka Wise Men and the giving of their three gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh to the infant Jesus.

Thing is, even according to tradition, the Wise Men didn't come on Christmas Day (it takes time for camels to travel from the Orient, and Matthew was quite clear that the Star of Bethlehem didn't appear until He was actually born). Tradition says twelve days, and the Bible says somewhere before two years (Herod's decree to execute the baby and toddler boys of Bethlehem based on when the Magi told him that the Star first appeared). (Yes, all those Nativity scenes showing the Magi/Wise Men at the Manger are wrong. Matthew was also quite clear that the Holy Family lived in a house in Bethlehem at the time the Wise Men came.)

So, going by tradition, since the gift-giving commemorates the gifts of the Magi, and they traditionally came on the twelfth night and not on Christmas Day, January 5^th is actually the day you're supposed to be giving Christmas gifts.

Hey, this way, you can take advantage of the After-Christmas sales! :-)

Tonight at midnight is also when you should turn off your Christmas lights, and tomorrow, on the Day of Epiphany, is when you should take down your tree and other decorations, as that is when the Christmas season is officially over.

Twelfth Night is also the start of the Mardi Gras season, which ends on Fat Tuesday. Mardi Gras Krewes all over the place will be partying big tonight or this weekend, having their Twelfth Night Parties.

COMALite J: Today (tonight, actually) is really the proper day to be giving Christmas gifts anyway. It's Twelfth Night aka Three Kings' Night aka Epiphany Eve aka the Twelfth Day of Christmas (with Christmas Day itself being Day #1).

The giving of Christmas gifts is, according to Christian tradition, supposed to represent the coming of the Magi aka Wise Men and the giving of their three gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh to the infant Jesus.

Thing is, even according to tradition, the Wise Men didn't come on Christmas Day (it takes time for camels to travel from the Orient, and Matthew was quite clear that the Star of Bethlehem didn't appear until He was actually born). Tradition says twelve days, and the Bible says somewhere before two years (Herod's decree to execute the baby and toddler boys of Bethlehem based on when the Magi told him that the Star first appeared). (Yes, all those Nativity scenes showing the Magi/Wise Men at the Manger are wrong. Matthew was also quite clear that the Holy Family lived in a house in Bethlehem at the time the Wise Men came.)

So, going by tradition, since the gift-giving commemorates the gifts of the Magi, and they traditionally came on the twelfth night and not on Christmas Day, January 5th is actually the day you're supposed to be giving Christmas gifts.

Hey, this way, you can take advantage of the After-Christmas sales! :-)

Tonight at midnight is also when you should turn off your Christmas lights, and tomorrow, on the Day of Epiphany, is when you should take down your tree and other decorations, as that is when the Christmas season is officially over.

Twelfth Night is also the start of the Mardi Gras season, which ends on Fat Tuesday. Mardi Gras Krewes all over the place will be partying big tonight or this weekend, having their Twelfth Night Parties.

Dude, I give/receive gifts on Christmas because Santa stopped doing the job.
Leave that potentially fictional Jew out of this.

COMALite J: Today (tonight, actually) is really the proper day to be giving Christmas gifts anyway. It's Twelfth Night aka Three Kings' Night aka Epiphany Eve aka the Twelfth Day of Christmas (with Christmas Day itself being Day #1).

The giving of Christmas gifts is, according to Christian tradition, supposed to represent the coming of the Magi aka Wise Men and the giving of their three gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh to the infant Jesus.

Thing is, even according to tradition, the Wise Men didn't come on Christmas Day (it takes time for camels to travel from the Orient, and Matthew was quite clear that the Star of Bethlehem didn't appear until He was actually born). Tradition says twelve days, and the Bible says somewhere before two years (Herod's decree to execute the baby and toddler boys of Bethlehem based on when the Magi told him that the Star first appeared). (Yes, all those Nativity scenes showing the Magi/Wise Men at the Manger are wrong. Matthew was also quite clear that the Holy Family lived in a house in Bethlehem at the time the Wise Men came.)

So, going by tradition, since the gift-giving commemorates the gifts of the Magi, and they traditionally came on the twelfth night and not on Christmas Day, January 5th is actually the day you're supposed to be giving Christmas gifts.

Hey, this way, you can take advantage of the After-Christmas sales! :-)

Tonight at midnight is also when you should turn off your Christmas lights, and tomorrow, on the Day of Epiphany, is when you should take down your tree and other decorations, as that is when the Christmas season is officially over.

Twelfth Night is also the start of the Mardi Gras season, which ends on Fat Tuesday. Mardi Gras Krewes all over the place will be partying big tonight or this weekend, having their Twelfth Night Parties.

Which night of Christmas is when the fertility goddess brought eggs for everyone? I always get my Judeo-pagan rituals mixed up.

Mike_LowELL: In related news, people continue to have poor taste.

Perhaps, but Angry Birds is a great game for smartphones. I keep downloading trials of games all the time, and haven't found a better phone game than AB. Solitaire and Bejeweled are up there, too.

If you have some great phone game alternatives, please share. I'm out of levels on AB, and would love a great new game.

stewbert: If you have some great phone game alternatives, please share. I'm out of levels on AB, and would love a great new game.

"Where's My Water?" has been fun. I've only played the free trial, but I'm considering dropping a buck on the full version.

stewbert: Perhaps, but Angry Birds is a great game for smartphones. I keep downloading trials of games all the time, and haven't found a better phone game than AB. Solitaire and Bejeweled are up there, too.

Doodle Jump is a good phone game. Very quick games to fill in time.

Personally, I like Angry Birds Seasons over the original. I've had it since it came out and it's fun to get holiday themes as extra levels.

For a free game (on Android at least) it's pretty damned good. Not everyone has the self-loathing required for Nethack.

Angry Birds sucks and you suck if you like it. It is a rip-off of many other physics games. Plus, I have superior taste and much prefer many other games.

/game snobbery
//beer snobbery
///donut snobbery
////pizza snobbery

stewbert: Mike_LowELL: In related news, people continue to have poor taste.

Perhaps, but Angry Birds is a great game for smartphones. I keep downloading trials of games all the time, and haven't found a better phone game than AB. Solitaire and Bejeweled are up there, too.

If you have some great phone game alternatives, please share. I'm out of levels on AB, and would love a great new game.

Plants vs Zombies plays really well on a smartphone

People who don't like things that are popular are cool. The coolest of the cool though - are the ones who need to tell you how they don't like that popular thing.

Mike_LowELL: In related news, people continue to have poor taste.



Hoboclown: stewbert: If you have some great phone game alternatives, please share. I'm out of levels on AB, and would love a great new game.

"Where's My Water?" has been fun. I've only played the free trial, but I'm considering dropping a buck on the full version.

Seconded. Well worth the buck.

Fark You Buddy: Mike_LowELL: In related news, people continue to have poor taste.

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Hoboclown: stewbert: If you have some great phone game alternatives, please share. I'm out of levels on AB, and would love a great new game.

"Where's My Water?" has been fun. I've only played the free trial, but I'm considering dropping a buck on the full version.

Seconded. Well worth the buck.

Thanks, I'll try it. Think it was the free app on Amazon awhile back, but I skipped it as it looked like a kids game, or because it was Disney.

I like both crappy iphone games and expensive as shiat xbox games. They have different appeals, besides biatches go crazy for Bejeweled.

/and Peggle
//and Zuma
///I've given Popcap a lot of money

Precious Roy's Horse Dividers: I have been playing Super Stickman Golf on my smartphone. Fun Rage inducing and deceptively difficult.

FTFY. No other game makes me want to start smashing things like SSG does.

Hoboclown: "Where's My Water?" has been fun. I've only played the free trial, but I'm considering dropping a buck on the full version.

My favorite game for the Kindle Fire so far. I got the game for free as a daily appstore deal and just finished it.

Quasar: hamdingers: People who don't like things that are popular are cool. The coolest of the cool though - are the ones who need to tell you how they don't like that popular thing.

People who assume the reason someone dislikes a popular thing is that it's popular are bloody retarded.

Twilight sucks. There. Please defend it.

I don't know if Twilight sucks - I've never read it. What's more interesting to me is why you need to tell me you think it sucks.

stewbert: Solitaire and Bejeweled are up there, too.

Really? A $600 piece of technology with ridiculous monthly costs, and solitaire is "up there"?

Awesome.

stewbert: Mike_LowELL: In related news, people continue to have poor taste.

Perhaps, but Angry Birds is a great game for smartphones. I keep downloading trials of games all the time, and haven't found a better phone game than AB. Solitaire and Bejeweled are up there, too.

If you have some great phone game alternatives, please share. I'm out of levels on AB, and would love a great new game.

Cut the Rope is delightful.

Deece: stewbert: Solitaire and Bejeweled are up there, too.

Really? A $600 piece of technology with ridiculous monthly costs, and solitaire is "up there"?

Awesome.

My phone wasn't $600.

Let me know what's better. Angry Birds, Solitaire, and Bejeweled. That's about all I play on my phone.

I've only seen the thing playe donce, when my roomie and his friend played it on our Roku. I don't know, I guess I'm a freak as I failed to see the appeal.

Of course, as temptign a sit is, I'm not going to criticize people who are addicted. I can sit down and play Minecraft, or PvZ for hours.

Stop giving money to Angry Birds, give it something more deserving at least, "Cut the Rope" or anything Kairosoft. Hey look, there's a Phoenix Wright for ios. You like Puzzle, there's also Puzzle Quest. Get that. I hate humanity sometime.

Masso: Stop giving money to Angry Birds, give it something more deserving at least, "Cut the Rope" or anything Kairosoft.

I have all three Angry Birds games as well as Cut the Rope and haven't paid for any of them. Then again, I have android and not an iphone.

hamdingers: People who don't like things that are popular are cool. The coolest of the cool though - are the ones who need to tell you how they don't like that popular thing.

So how was the Nickelback concert?

/AB sucks

verbaltoxin: Quasar: Angry Birds is a poor man's Worms Crush the Castle. I will never understand the appeal.

If you're going to be a videogame hipster, do it right.

/Loves me some CtC 2
//Plays Angry Birds too
///But it's Radiant that has captured my soul, stuffed in a box, and chucked it into space

Crush the castle, 1 and two are indeed fine games, but they haven't been updated in years. and after devestating both of them in the course of a day, I found little replay value. At least angry birds keeps feeding new levels every few months.

I'll have to take a look at this radiant you speak of.

As for what is getting a lot of time on my phone?



It's free, but full of Micro transactions to fill out with the extra characters and levels, but I just can't help myself. Pretty much the only game App I've ever paid for.

Whenever I play the angry birds, I put the phone into Airplane mode to kill the Banner ads.

kab: hamdingers: People who don't like things that are popular are cool. The coolest of the cool though - are the ones who need to tell you how they don't like that popular thing.

So how was the Nickelback concert?

/AB sucks

I couldn't go - there was a new Big Bang Theory on the same night.

Masso: Stop giving money to Angry Birds, give it something more deserving at least, "Cut the Rope" or anything Kairosoft. Hey look, there's a Phoenix Wright for ios. You like Puzzle, there's also Puzzle Quest. Get that. I hate humanity sometime.



Personally - I love Puzzle Quest and didn't like AB that much. But what do I care what someone else likes/plays?

Mike_LowELL: stewbert: Perhaps, but Angry Birds is a great game for smartphones. I keep downloading trials of games all the time, and haven't found a better phone game than AB. Solitaire and Bejeweled are up there, too.

I'm still the only person over the age of 25 who is willing to carry around a dedicated portable gaming device and my phone isn't good enough to play most of the games. Most of mobile games I've seen and played have been through the iPad. Until I'm proven elsewise, it's just more convenient for me to ignore that market entirely. I'm sure there are some decent games, but there's way too much nonsense to filter through.

Ok, then. My kids all have a DS, but I never enjoyed their games. But, when the train goes through the tunnel, and my Netflix cuts out, I enjoy some Angry Birds. When my wife is watching some shiat on tv, but wants me by her on the couch, I enjoy flinging some birds.

I don't play AB when I have the chance to fire up the xbox.

I sort of agree with you: most games on Android seem to be garbage.