Ragging on riches

Game Idle

Mutton Bunky follows all the latest trends. Casual discrimination, forming coalitions with socially reprehensible vat-grown clone men, and refering to oneself in the third person. With that in mind, Bunky has been watching with slack-jawed indifference as a host of unfortunate social misfits blandly hum their way to forgettable one-minor-hit-no-wonder-this-country-has-gone-downhill-derdom.

Execrable fare though it is, Bunky spots potential gold, or at least semi-precious shiny pebbles, in them there public-fleecing, moron-exploiting hills.

With programming interfaces becoming more and more sophisticated, and modelling tools easier for any hack to churn out a passable imitation of a spiky-haired protagonist or gravity-defying busty heroines, there is an opportunity for the more gullible members of the public to audition for the chance to be a part of the next, say, Square-Enix blockbuster.

 One Button Monkey would probably suggest that the winners and losers of such a contest (and in fact any public contest) be dealt with fairly; standardised executions all round.

 Bunky, being a people-online-entity, is not nearly so casual about dispatching human life. All Bunky advocates is that following the first round, where Alex Shepherd or Bayonetta wannabes will demonstrate their posing skills and ability to mime badly to stultifying dialogue, that the second phase features 'mock' combat sequences wearing those natty 3D body suits, and using real weapons.

There was more to this fantastic, and clearly original idea, but Bunky fell asleep on the keyboard whilst typing the last paragrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

Random angry thoughts

In other Bunky fun this week, has been ire at the following, none of which can really be described as a surprise, but nevertheless get the Mutton Bunky goat.

• Adverts that hinge on selling a new product based on rebranding features that have been on the market for in some cases years, as if they were some new innovation.
• One Button Monkey's MMORPG hate
• MMORPGs that promise much, but fail to deliver
• Ongoing failures to win millions spot-betting on the Bunky household tiddlywinks championship

 Was der heilige Mist?

As close friends and confidantes are already aware, Mutton Bunky has an eye for a nice phone, and as everyone knows, has no time for Steve's jobbies.

It was with much glee, then, that earlier in the week Bunky gratefully accepted an upgrade to the Android on his HTC Desire. Froyo-tastic fun awaited. Imagine the surprise, then, when the Froyo turned out to be das Froyo. El Reg laid it all out, and hopefully such searing publicity will lead to some sort of patch that removes the repeated browser crashes that have forced Bunky to install Opera-mini, and takes away the plethora of unusable apps that have been perma-installed.

Mutton Bunky likes his froyo like he likes his cars sausages industrial rock well, English, anyway.

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[Button Monkey]

Button Monkey thinks that compulsory execution is too little, too late. Your presumption will get you belatedly and unsatisfyingly executed, Captain Pseudonym.