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Idle Thumbs 61: Diplomatic Pouch

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4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2010

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

In this far-flung cyborg future of video game discussion, nobody known where the cast ends and the break begins, when your last shred of humanity gives way to a robot soul, or why you're full of ants. One thing is for sure, though: you will pay to click a cow.

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0:00.0

Video Games.

0:04.0

Yeah, there was an article on Damasutra today where Lee Alexander interviewed Ian Bagoast.

0:09.0

Yeah, about, did you guys see this?

0:10.0

About cow-clicker?

0:11.0

Is it pronounced Bagoast? Yeah, I think Is it pronounced? Bogast.

0:14.0

I think it is, Ian B.

0:16.0

B. B. apostrophe, G.

0:20.0

So, see that is actually also a casual game.

0:22.0

G. Och, Kosh, B. G.. Oj Kosh, B a ghost.

0:25.4

Ian.

0:27.4

What?

0:28.4

So, cow clicker.

0:29.4

Yeah, no, I don't know. I thought that was, I thought that was a cool.

0:31.9

I read about half of that cow

0:33.8

clicker thing like what where did it end up like why would people be

0:38.1

pissed off about that like that seemed to be the people are pissed off because it's

0:41.2

satire that also actually takes people's money in the same way as a social game right?

0:45.1

I don't think he actually there's I don't think he does it take those money I think you actually you can

0:49.7

can pay money you can pay money to be able to click your account more than once every six hours.

0:54.0

Yeah, yeah. So I mean I think a lot of people clearly ended up playing it just because

1:00.5

it at least to some extent works on some others on the same level that a social game does I mean it doesn't have millions and millions people like Farmville but the idea is what you're basically doing is just empty repetitive action that rewards you with just

1:14.9

bullshit feedback and you can pay things to yeah to get like an imaginary

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