No, not angry birds, as in the famous Hitchcock movie, Angry Birds, which is a game I play on my iPhone.
The basic principle is that there are these frogs and they have built houses round themselves made of steel, wood and glass. You are given a selection of birds (angry) with which to smash up the houses and kill the frogs. The more damage you can inflict, the more points you get - and if you can kill all the birds and smash the whole house with just one bird you get three gold stars. Simple. Brilliant.
It is, it should go without saying, monstrously addictive. I'm on Level 11, Game 9. I hope there are lots of levels because I never want to stop. Angry Birds is fairly mindless, but getting those three stars does involve both skill and strategy so it's always possible to take things to a higher level.
I haven't been converted to what I will refer to, archaically, as 'computer games' because I can't be bothered with all the hardware. But the great thing about games on the iPhone is that it's all there, in your pocket. Angry Birds is the best game I've found so far (although Harbour Master can be quite diverting) and it's probably just as well. I wouldn't want to let modern technology get in the way of my telly watching, now, would I?
Pigs. Unless you have the French edition.
ReplyDeleteThe pig represent the people; desperate, reduced to taking what they are owed unlawfully. The birds are the pillars of capitalism; they must crush the pigs for having the nerve for raising their fucking noses out of the trough and dreaming of more than just the fucking swill they deserve.
ReplyDeleteMonstrously addicitve. The man always wins.