http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=30083 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Wed, 22 May 2013 14:17:54 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=30083#post-126170 Fri, 15 Jun 2012 06:45:21 +0000 arthurminnit 126170@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>or the super model version;</p> <p>hungry birds </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=30083#post-126149 Thu, 14 Jun 2012 18:28:25 +0000 dvo4fun 126149@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Or grumpy French "Angry Merdes" </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=30083#post-126147 Thu, 14 Jun 2012 18:00:37 +0000 The All New Jeni B 126147@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>What about the news that Dame Thora's restless spirit has been disturbed - Angry Hurds. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=30083#post-126070 Thu, 14 Jun 2012 08:25:07 +0000 cinquecento 126070@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>it's Shakespeare year isn' it? - Angry bards! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=30083#post-126068 Thu, 14 Jun 2012 07:42:58 +0000 arthurminnit 126068@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>and one about students , displeased at their low grade degrees;</p> <p>Angry Thirds! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=30083#post-126067 Thu, 14 Jun 2012 07:35:44 +0000 arthurminnit 126067@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>there is a new game coming soon about cameron and the current cabinet losing their tempers;</p> <p>Angry Turds! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=30083#post-84653 Wed, 07 Sep 2011 20:52:02 +0000 Qoxiivi 84653@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Adam Smith is kind of the father of free-market capitalism who Chomsky constantly references as someone who people quote as some kind of philisophical justification for any kind of capitalist doctrine even though he'd baulk at the way the system has developed.</p> <p>Also, sorry about your buffalo yoghurt line - I really did try to find a way to keep it but I'm afraid that given I changed the game's attack method, I couldn't find room for it. Please believe me though, I tried as hard as I could to keep as much of your original content in there (and spent, collectively, about half and hour re-working it all, solely with this end in mind) as so much of it was so good to begin with. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=30083#post-84644 Wed, 07 Sep 2011 20:27:13 +0000 Textbook 84644@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>No, it's better. I'm juset grumpy because I didn't know who Adam Smith was. Also, I am very bitter about losing the reference to buffalo yoghurt. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=30083#post-84632 Wed, 07 Sep 2011 18:59:01 +0000 Qoxiivi 84632@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Thanks for the positive comments people, even if I am a little concerned by Textbook's lack of response; hope it doesn't indicate his disapproval at me running with his idea. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=30083#post-84538 Wed, 07 Sep 2011 11:52:12 +0000 Midfield Diamond 84538@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Spot on. Guaranteed FP. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=30083#post-84505 Wed, 07 Sep 2011 09:12:08 +0000 editor 84505@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Great stuff Textbook and Qoxiivi - this is NewsBiscuit at its finest! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=30083#post-84495 Wed, 07 Sep 2011 08:31:16 +0000 dvo4fun 84495@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Don't know the igame but doesn't detract from the pleasure of reading. Very funny concept and expansion. Full stars*</p> <p>Given the nature of his rant would Chomsky ask where he collects his interviw fee? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=30083#post-84490 Wed, 07 Sep 2011 08:12:54 +0000 Vertically Challenged Giant 84490@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Good work on the expansion of Textbook's excellent idea. 5* for the pair of you, split 3 each... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=30083#post-84488 Wed, 07 Sep 2011 08:02:48 +0000 writinginbsl 84488@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>funny-especially the adam smith bit </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=30083#post-84476 Wed, 07 Sep 2011 03:50:59 +0000 Psycadelic Squirrel 84476@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Excellent. Good effort from both Textbook and Qoxiivi. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=30083#post-84469 Tue, 06 Sep 2011 23:52:51 +0000 Qoxiivi 84469@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Note: This is, on the Editor's request, an full-length sub of Textbook's simple, yet utterly brilliant idea of an Angry Kurds game: <a href="http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=30049" rel="nofollow">http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=30049</a></p> <p>If this makes the frontpage I request that I be credited as either a hat-tip or, at most, as one half of a collaborative effort between myself and Textbook. It was his idea, I only added some spit, polish and padding.</p> <p>Textbook; if you're unhappy with my effort, please accept my apologies; I merely had some time on my hands and felt your idea deserved a chance at the FP :) </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=30083#post-84468 Tue, 06 Sep 2011 23:46:17 +0000 Qoxiivi 84468@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Apple have come out in defence of Angry Kurds; the long-awaited follow-up to Rovio Mobile's iPhone sensation Angry Birds.</p> <p>Recently appointed Apple CEO, Tim Cook, described the game as “...a cheerful trivialisation of well-known ethnic conflicts over the establishment of a separate Kurdish nation, only with more splats and catapults.”</p> <p>Tuomo Lehtine, the game's senior programmer, is confident the new title tackles, quite literally 'head-on', criticisms that the original Angry Birds was 'vacuous' and 'without intellectual merit'.</p> <p>“Angry Kurds deftly weaves the dense political narrative of the Kurdish irredentist movement through 80 fun-filled and colourful levels in which players get to fire funny little fez and turban-wearing men with big eyebrows at rickety wooden constructions, symbolic of Kurdish oppression.”</p> <p>This has not, however, impressed MIT professor and political activist, Noam Chomsky, who has emerged as one of the game's staunchest detractors.</p> <p>“To shamelessly profiteer from the Kurdish people's ongoing plight as they struggle for self-determination is yet another example of state-capitalism's systemic tendency to instil a utilitarian philosophy of doctrinal compliance within the working classes.”</p> <p>He added, “Adam Smith would be turning in his grave. Especially if he ever got to level 63, which is an absolute fucking nightmare.”</p> <p>Regardless of the controversy, Apple's boss has said the company has no plans to withdraw the game. "Look, I know some people are upset, but if we remove the game now, we'll have a lot of angry nerds to deal with, and they're our principal customers.”</p> <p>Tuomo Lehtine, meanwhile, had some defiant closing words of his own. “Ok, I know the hats may not be ethnically accurate, but everyone knows there's probably someone in that region who wears a fez or a turban or whatever and, come on, they do look pretty funny. At any rate, in Angry Birds we had pigs wearing cowboy hats and no one took offence at that... well, apart the Jewish, anti-American Mr Chomsky."</p> <p>Angry Kurds is out now on iPhone and due to be released on Android in March 2012 in time for the Arab spring. </p>