Saturday, July 11, 2020

More Homage -- Mobile Games

Homage is one of my favorite things to find in games. Of course, there's the psychological reward of feeling like you belong to the in-crowd, but blogging about it isn't bad either.


The latest, a reference to The Incredible Hulk in the mobile game Clash Royale. "You won't like me when I'm angry" is the classic line from the original television series. (Why the skeleton is using a snorkel, I'm not sure.)


Amazon Still Thinks I'm A Student

It's been over five and a half years, and multiple complaints, but Amazon still insists on showing me Amazon Prime advertisements. I've told them directly that I am not a student (the funniest response was "the student flag on your account is on", of course there is no such flag, why the text chat person felt like lying, I don't know), so they have the data that I am not a student. Apparently they don't really want all the data; they just don't care.


Here is the latest screen grab from this week: