Moron #22: The Designers of We Rule

In the event you are not a gamer on such platforms as the iPhone, iPod, or iPad, "NGMOCO :)" is a very familiar gaming company that puts out gaming apps for such i-devices. It was recently purchased by none other than Zynga, which is a gaming corporation known throughout Facebook and online gaming communities to carry viruses, malware, and the like.

From the very day Zynga's purchase of NGMOCO :) was made official (December 2, 2010), weird things started happening in their We Rule Quest game: in-app purchases that required very real cash instead of the "play money," the odd disappearances of comments calling their business practices into question, and more recently, buildings that have nothing to do with the game theme but greatly resemble Islamic expansionism.

Now, I'm not really interested in their crappy way of doing business, no matter how underhanded it is. "Buyer beware" isn't a mantra pulled out of someone's ass for the hell of it, and if you can't reasonably determine the pros and cons of a company and make an educated decision to stay away from the naughty ones, that's your problem.

What DOES concern me and should concern everyone is this new intrusion of Islam into a game that is supposed to be about Medieval Europe.

Okay, to be fair I should point out that they, also, recently introduced a Roman Coliseum and Greek God temples. What should be noted, however, is that these introductions came swiftly after Zynga's acquisition and very closely follows the practice of grooming the consumer to accept queer changes that make no sense at first but then seem quite fine after public relations representatives step in to sugar coat the discrepancies.

How do they do this? With planted comments by fake gamers who just "looooove" the new item and share images of the items in their cleverly constructed kingdoms. These comments target the lonely gamer, whose only justification for existing comes from the acceptance of other gamers. This gamer reads these reviews, sees the attention the reviewer suddenly receives (by other planted employees), then rushes to buy one of his own so he, too, has a pretty kingdom to share.

Before you know it, they throw in this ("Observatory" is what they call it and this is their description):

 

I was sent this story by someone who I will not name with screen shots of their own comments regarding the MOSQUE. Those comments that were made in several locations on the official Facebook We Rule page have strangely disappeared, as have the comments of a player arguing that it looked nothing like a mosque (removing the initial comment to cover your ass means, also, removing any reply referring to the now missing critical comment). 

Hmmm ... Well, here are just a few of the images of mosques I found in less than one minute surfing the net:

Sure, chief. Looks nothing at all like a mosque *coughbullshitcough*.

How about we take a look at some photos from around the world of REAL ancient observatories:

Yeah, that We Rule observatory looks just like an ancient observatory and nothing like a mosque. Color me embarrassed!

Let's take another look at how the ..."observatory" is described in the game, shall we?

"Chart the stars over your realm"

Now that we can clearly see it IS a mosque, one has to wonder why the company insists upon calling it an observatory, treating it like an observatory, and deleting any comments suggesting it is anything but an observatory.

Hey! Just for shits and giggles, let's see how big this "observatory" is. I mean, it can't be too large since astronomy was more of a tool and not worshiped back in the middle ages with grand exhibits, and not too many shrines were built to house ancient astrology.

(Screen shot of an actual kingdom found in We Rule.)

Holy crap, that's big!  It's almost as big as the Ruby Citadel, which is one of the largest "castle" units offered in the game. Why, it's even larger than the Roman Colosseum (round item found at bottom right), which people complained was too big at the time it came out (oddly enough, said people haven't breathed a word about the size of this ... "observatory." Then again, I'm remembering other comments criticizing it quickly disappearing.).  It is the largest structure in the game, coming very near to dwarfing the castle. 

If anyone still cannot see that this is a mosque, I urge you to kill yourself now for the good of our species' evolution. You're too damned stupid to breathe our air, much less carry on your genes!

I think what really gets me going about this is that it comes on the heels of the mega mosque being built at the feet of Ground Zero. It never ceases to amaze me how completely batshit stupid people can be when the facts are there before them.

Let's say you still can't see the forest for the trees and are still skipping through the cotton candy fields of your delusional mind. At the end of the debate, the questions remain: Why do any comments inquiring about it's resemblance to a mosque disappear? Why does it look more like a mosque than an actual ancient observatory? And why do they refuse to call it what it obviously is?

Moron #21: GUTLESS MILITARY OFFICIALS

(SEE PREVIOUS POST)

Moron #21 is a collective of the Navy officials who have chosen to throw CAPT Owen Honors under the PC bus in lieu of, you know, STANDING BY A DISTINGUISHED OFFICER! (story is here)

It isn't all that common for an XO to have such great rapport with his crew, but the majority of these men and women have always taken great pride in serving beneath him and to this day, defend his actions with vehemence. I would like to know when the last time was that these higher-ups stepped foot on a ship for an actual deployment. How could they not remember what it's like? Or perhaps they are bureaucratical office bitches who never stepped foot off land!

In my 15 years as a Navy wife and 37 years as a sailor's daughter, I have seen time honored traditions get the ax because of whiners who regretted joining because they didn't realize they would actually have to work for their GI Bill-funded college education, because of politicians and lobbyists who never spent one day in the military, and because of a politically driven liberal media still touting the "Make love not peace" mantra based upon PCP-induced imaginings of a world in which our country needs no military presence. Every damned time, some military official in Washington has stabbed the people in his command in the back by sucking the liberal cock. And now THIS!

Now, our sailors and soldiers can't even JOKE with each other because some mamby pamby Obamatard back home wants to pretend this is the worst possible event in the history of mankind. And what do the Navy officials do? CAVE!!! They cave in to the demands of the very people seeking to destroy them!  These selfish assholes in charge of protecting military honor and traditions are only too happy to throw good service members to the wolves to make themselves look good! Are they really that fucking stupid?

When the hell did it become okay to bash our military at every fucking turn, much worse for military officials to ride shot gun on the bandwagon?!

Moron #20: PANSY ASS PC MILITARY HATERS

And this one goes out to all the politically correct fucktards who, in their infinite douchbaggery, have the unmitigated gall to raise hell over this INNOCENT military humor! Seriously, if you can't handle these kinds of jokes, you have a choice: DON'T FUCKING WATCH IT!

It's MILITARY HUMOR! It takes place on a Navy ship during long deployments to keep our men and women laughing and having fun while away from the comfort of their own home. You know, like the armchair warriors who think their 160 hour a week time spent playing Halo qualifies them to pass judgment on those dying to protect their liberal batshittery!

What this country needs is a civil war, one in which the anti-military crowd fights the military and the military families. It's the only way we'll get back to what is swiftly becoming our FORMER glory! What's that you say? Unfair advantage? No, my dear. I call that survival of the fittest!


I used to be neutral in the old political party arena. Still pretty much am but I'm more driven now to side with Republicans and Conservatives (even as crazy religious as some of them admittedly are). This is the kind of thing that justifies my political leanings. Here we are with military families on welfare and service members dying because they are ill-equipped because the Democrats continue to cut military funding, and these playful videos of sailors having a good time while 7 months out at sea are what the liberal media choose as news worthy.

Liberals, THIS is why we HATE you!!! You're the geek club of high school, never had a date for prom, wore clothes your mom picked out from her 10 year old Cosmo magazines, and were perpetually picked last for kickball. Go get your tray of hypo-allergenic foods and sit down in the corner by the trash cans so the cool kids don't have to look at you!

While our men and women are DYING to defend you worthless, gutless, thankless twats so you can bitch and moan about the real world everytime you get your ass handed to you on XBox, I and THOUSANDS like me will LAUGH at this video and all the others like them! Why? Because you do NOT dictate what I can and cannot think is funny, regardless of what you and your liberal, PC motivated main stream media believe!