I clicked one of those 'sexy' browser game ads so you don't have to

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I don’t know about you, but I’m off to take a very cold shower.

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I realize that sex-based sales pitches are supposed to be manipulative and misleading(except maybe in areas with substantial non-clandestine sex industries); but that has to be the most grimly banal cow-clicker nonsense to have ever been oversold with one of the uncanny valley’s exploited models.

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It’s ‘good’ to see that absolutely nothing has changed since Evony.

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Well, I went ahead and picked Gorm, because when I play games about maps I like to thirstily extend my realm and it looks like this guy in the picture is all about that.

To do otherwise would be GORMLESS.

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Just think of all the hot sex that’s probably happening in those villages and fortresses. This is even more risquĂ© than those “Monopoly” hotels where players pay for their stay by the hour.

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Leigh, hopefully you did this in a VM. I can’t think of any point in all that pointless game switching other than to recruit your box into a botnet

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Skip the crappy clones that use exploitative ads.

Go play Travian.

Accept no substitutes.

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Thank you. An Irish co-worker introduced me to that word and it’s the first thing that came to mind when I saw one of the realms is called GORM.

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Pretty sure the word “enermy” would’ve sent me packing.

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Beat me to it. At the end of practically every paragraph I was cringing, waiting for Leigh to say that the machine needed to run an admin disk cleaner program and would you please enter an administrative username and password


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Hahahaah the “Sexy woman” image they’re using is just Tifa from advent children: http://i2.bebo.com/041/9/large/2008/03/14/05/1256533098a7145816684l.jpg found on the internet by using google search to look for tifa.

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Well, now we know. Now turn adblock back on, you’ll catch a virus.

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Also, someone’s a Game of Thrones fan: http://i1.wp.com/boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/whatlol7.jpg

Cersei, Jaime, maybe Melisandre, and Jawwwun Snooouooowe. Tyrion gets left out, as usual.

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Would be a shame if someone reported them to Sony for copyright infringement.

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Technically it would be Square Enix I believe
 All the final fantasy stuff is under their wing. I think i’ve seen these ads before and the fact that they were using Tifa’s face was definitely a turn off for me
 something felt wrong
 How right it appears my intuitions were.

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They really didn’t even try to make any sense at all, did they? It’s like taking random pages from other games and gluing them together into a kind of franken-game.

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“Dada of Thrones”

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Always makes me sad that these horrible grindy city builders games have such beautiful polished artwork. Like, as a kid playing Sim City I’d have just about lost my shit to see those screenshots. To think they’re tied up in exploitative monetisation mechanics is such a damned shame.

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I don’t know what I did to get this, I use adblock now. It made me wonder who would be turned on by the picture, but want to play a ‘sexy’ mmo with only male gamers. Also chuckled at the singular use of friend - I’m a jerk.

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