What's App-ening Wednesday? #9: Tiny Tower

Yo, wassup guys? Today, ANT reviews 'Tiny Tower' for us. Take a look:

http://www.nimblebit.com/

ANT:

Asides from the charming pixellated design that greets you upon arrival, there really is nothing interesting or engaging about this game at all...and it’s only now, as I sit down to write about the app, that I realise it.

Having been at the peak of addiction for a number of months now, I’m at the point in the game where there’s really no point in continuing (not that there was any point in the first place). I’m too rich to care about having a strategy anymore. Gameplay consists of merely clicking. This, as you can imagine, makes the game even less appealing. There is literally nothing to play for.

Yet I can’t stop myself from checking up on my towers’ progress; dropping in throughout the day to stock floors and develop my tower (which is, at this point, far from tiny) to ensure maximum profits.

It’s getting quite ridiculous. I feel, as the official president of my tower, that I’m letting my Bitizens down if I don’t work the elevators for a few minutes *cough* hours *cough* each day, delivering various characters to their homes. The bitizens are like my family. It’s as if I’ve developed a maternal bond with them that draws me into seeing that everything is running smoothly, constantly checking up on them via Bitbook to make sure that they’re okay. Their lives matter more than my own. It’s become a duty, a routine, and a lifestyle that will no doubt last for months to come. 

Don’t let this monster of an app turn your brain into mush because, although your tower may be tiny, the addiction that consumes you is not.

MouseMouseMonday #30: What are Wicks and Jen listening to?

Hello peeps! Ever wondered what we're listening to? Well, here's the lowdown...

A few days ago, Wicks introduced Master to this fantastically relaxing music. Take a listen:

Meanwhile, Master has also been listening to the Beethoven mix that is consistently played in Business. Here it is:

That's all for today, happy listening! :)

Weekly News Round-Up #52: 16/02/2014

Yo wassup everyone! It's been a relatively quiet week over here, but still, here's what happened...

The news has been playing all week in the lunch room TV, and I think it's fair to say that we had fun trying to decipher what the sign language person was saying, since the actual sound was very low.

On Monday evening, ArwaChihuahua, Ruby, DisneyLoverMolly, ConscienceSarah and Master all went to see the Academy's production of 'Oliver: The Musical'. Being a keen performer, Wicks was in the show as 'Old woman 4'. Before the show, however, DisneyLoverMolly decided to kill some time by playing 'The Dumping Ground' game, where she got to compete with other people online, doing various challenges. Why not check out the game for yourself here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/games/the-dumping-ground-game

Tuesday was a day of fun as Cap. brought in a pack of Candy Crush sweets! Yes, they do exist. Here is the photographic evidence:

There was an interesting array of flavours, with the yellow ones tasting surprisingly similar to Lemon & Honey Strepsils. Many thanks to Cap. for bringing those in :)

Later on in the week, Ruby, ConscienceSarah and Master had a little discussion on the spelling of the word 'continuum'. They all thought that the spelling was interesting, and also applied the rule to the word 'vacuum'...

With Friday being Valentine's Day, DisneyLoverMolly hosted a movie night at hers. This involved quite a few of us getting onto the bus. Now, this was an experience in itself, with Angry Bill, the bus driver, getting rather annoyed at someone pressing the bell. It turned out, in the end, that it was DLM, who was unknowingly leaning on it! When we did get to DLM's it turned out that Wicks beat us to it. The fun was amped up even more when we heard that ANT had arrived. This called for us all to cram ourselves into the cupboard in a frenzied attempt to scare her. Unfortunately, she'd already seen us, so the plan failed...

ANT, along with the rest of us, found a new friend in Scout, DLM's majestic dog. At one point, Scout was surrounded by 3 people petting her all at once. I think it's fair to say that we were all feeling the love ;p

We watched 'Mean Girls' first, with Master slightly misinterpreting a particular scene. Afterwards, DLM thought it was essential for us to watch 'Aquamarine', a film that ANT found incredibly cliché but enjoyed it nonetheless.

Thanks to DisneyLoverMolly for being a fantastic host! I'm sure we all had a great time :)

Until next week, have a good one ;)

Report: Perfect Sandwiches HQ Office

On a rare occasion, most members of the Sandwich Crew were in attendance at a particular board meeting. We were all rather bored and somehow we started to toy around with the idea of having an office where we all 'work'. After brainstorming some ideas, we all went away to put these ideas onto paper.

Currently, ANT is the only one with a completed illustration. Here it is:

ANT's depiction of the Perfect Sandwiches Office

And Master's initial reaction was: "This is not a place of work. But it's fantastic!"


DISCLAIMER: Perfect Sandwiches is not affiliated with Costa Coffee, CBBC's Raven or Marvel Entertainment. These references were included purely for the purpose of comedy.

Weekly News Round-Up #51: 09/02/2014

Hey guys! Hope you've all had a good week. Here's what happened around here...

At the beginning of the week, Wicks, ConscienceSarah and Master had a little chat about films that they had seen recently. A certain film that was discussed was 'Eragon', which Master claimed gave 'The Last Airbender' a run for its money in terms of acting. They then humoured themselves with the idea of possible sequels, where ConscienceSarah tried to pitch the idea of calling the new X-Men movie 'X-Men: Second Class'.

Breaktime saw ANT explaining to everyone the new snack rationing system that was implemented in her house only this week. This is where all members of the household are given a certain number of snacks at the beginning of the week and they are not allowed any refills until the next week. It appeared that not everyone was planning ahead, with ANT's brother, KrazyK, already having consumed half of his snacks before Tuesday...

The lunchtime discussion topic turned out to be 'strange stuff that people do in a swimming pool'. It dawned upon us that Wicks, who works as a lifeguard, essentially gets paid to people-watch. Whatta job.

At the board meeting, Alexis' hat was a major topic of discussion, with Wicks and Master both trying it on. Here's a picture of the beanie in question:

From then onwards it was just utter headwear mayhem, with ConscienceSarah wearing Wicks' scarf and being transformed into various characters, such as a Romanian granny and also a pirate.

We also toyed around with the idea of opening a fancy dress store in the future, possible after retirement, as it would be likely that we would have acquired an arsenal of costumes by then.

It wasn't only Alexis' beanie that was getting all the attention, his scarf was also subject to being thrown abouts and wrapped around chair legs. Naturally, Alexis was less than happy with this.

Towards the end of the week, we had some fun with rubber gloves by inflating them and pretending they were real hands. After popping them, we ended up throwing them abouts, which eventually turned into a competitive game of sorts.

Until next week, have a good one :)

Happy Fibillance Day!

A few weeks ago, ConscienceSarah recognised that this day, of this year, contains the most number of words beginning with 'f' in the date. Think about it...Friday Fourteenth of February, Twenty-Fourteen!

And on that note, we hope y'all have a fantastically fabulous Friday :)

Happy Valentine's Day!

Hope you all have a wonderful day :)

Weekly News Round-Up #50: 02/02/2014

Hello and welcome to a brand new edition of Weekly News Round-Up!

To kick off the week, Wicks made an appeal for everyone to tape their 20p's to an envelope and send them to her, so she can pay for the Minecraft server. Naturally, this prompted a round of 'Wicks doesn't have any money!'

To illustrate how 'meh' ANT was feeling on Tuesday, she comes into school and explains that she accidentally used body wash as shampoo and her hair was feeling a little unusual.
Also, she told us about KrazyK's 'shrivelled up mess of a Geography book', which was due to a little accident with cooking ingredients. This left ANT's mother with no choice but to throw out the book, leaving the Grography teacher less than impressed.

PS was rather eventful indeed. ANT had trouble on 'Tiny Tower' trying to find where an evicted bitizen previously lived. Master attempted to conduct a search, however gave up in the end. One good thing did come out of the hour as it happened to be ANT's day when she finally passed level 181 on 'Candy Crush', a barrier that she had been stuck at previously for quite a few weeks.

At lunchtime, Alexis and The Appalling One were being more than annoying by throwing pieces of a plastic fork into Master's lunch. Along with this, there was a large portion of regurgitation jokes.

On Thursday, it came to our attention that The Appalling One often has trouble differentiating between r's and w's. He tried to emphasise the importance of reading, writing and literacy. He dubbed this trio 'The 3 R's'. Oh dear.

This week's lunchtime discussion topic was: popcorn - yay or nay?

Also, in that same lunchtime, ConscienceSarah managed to hit both her knees on the table leg. Not at the same time, of course.

Friday claimed to be a day of 'Flappy Bird'. ANT was very keen on the game, whilst Master was determined not to cave and download the game despite ANT tempting her. Meanwhile, it had a major influence on the lads at lunchtime, who were all there with their phones, competing for a higher score.

Until next week, have a good one :)

Quote Week: February - Day 7

"I'd rather be a Google Gal than a Bing Babe."
- S.A.

Story behind quote:
ConscienceSarah discusses her allegiance to certain search engines.

[Note: ConscienceSarah did not intend to offend or impose her views onto anyone. She made the statement to create comedy.]

Quote Week: February - Day 6

"It's like gingerbread men, without the men."
- S.A.

Story behind quote:
ConscienceSarah's initial reaction to gingernut biscuits.

The 1000th post!

Hi guys!

What incredible day it is today. We have reached the milestone of 1000 posts! I can't believe that we've had so much to write about and I can't wait to write more for y'all!

Thank you for reading!

Quote Week: February - Day 5

"If this message gets around the whole way, ConscienceSarah will get that pastie out from the bin and eat it."
- M.B.

Story behind quote:
One Friday lunchtime, we decided to have a game of Chinese Whispers. ConscienceSarah started us off, however DisneyLoverMolly decided that she'd change it up a little bit...

[Event originally featured in WNR #47: 12/01/2014.]

Quote Week: February - Day 4

"First one to break the opponent's arm wins."
- A.T.

Story behind quote:
ArwaChihuahua and Wicks were having a double arm wrestle...does anyone ever win?

Quote Week: February - Day 3

"It's such a roller coaster ride, this game."
- A.T.

Story behind quote:
After a relatively long hiatus, ANT returned to Candy Crush and finally complete level 181 on Tuesday 28th January 2014. She had been stuggling with the level for quite a few weeks. Here's her reaction after the victory.

Quote Week: February - Day 2

"I need to install something that electrocutes whoever sits on it."
- A.T.

Story behind quote:
It often gets quite crowded at the lunch table, with seats being taken at a 'ya snooze ya lose' basis. Here, ANT humours herself with an idea to maintain a seat...

[Note: ANT does not intend to carry out any operations of the sort previously stated. She expressed her views with the intention of comedy. Please do not take her quote to be a serious suggestion.]

Quote Week: February - Day 1

ANT: "It gets a bit annoying sometimes, y'know that 'ding' sound..."
Master: "What, the sound of profit?"
- A.T. J.C.

Story behind quote:
ANT's #TinyTower issues...

Weekly News Round-Up #49: 26/01/2014

Welcome to a slightly late edition of Weekly News Round-Up! It appears that some readers *cough The Appalling One cough* have been rather annoyed by this, but we’re working on it. Anyways, here’s what happened during the week…

On Monday, we were once again reminded of the time that The Appalling One decided to abbreviate Creative Writing Club as ‘CRC’. And yes, he supposedly studies literature.

During that same lunchtime, Alexis showed a serious case of memory loss. At one point, he turned to Master and said, “Y’know what happened yesterday-“ and at that point The Appalling One distracted him by pulling on the drawstring of his hood. Afterwards, Alexis claimed that he never said such a thing and he couldn’t think of anything that had happened the previous day that was worth sharing with the rest of the group. A strange case indeed.

On other psychological matters, ConscienceSarah had a remarkable dream, which featured Wicks as a ghost princess, who was trapped in a tower, along with a stick monster that would weave her dress. I’m not completely sure what we can infer about ConscienceSarah’s mentality from this.

In the middle of the week, we had an important assembly, where we were shown a video. The only disappointing aspect of the video was that it was painfully clear that the presenter was reading straight from a teleprompter.

After the assembly, ANT declared that she needed to go home to ‘walk her cat’. Naturally, this lead to a discussion about whether or not it is possible to walk a cat. ANT believed that a lead would surely damage a cat’s neck, however Master suggested the sort of cross-body lead.

On a side note, it was fitting that the girl walking in front of us had something that looked like the tail of a cat hanging out of the bag…

As always, Friday lunchtime was an eventful one.

ConscienceSarah opted for a pasta rather than fish and chips, which seemed to upset The Appalling One. After she had finished with her pasta, DisneyLoverMolly and Master thought that they’d try their hands at divination, even though George was slightly skeptical of their psychic abilities. The Divination Duo ended up reading the fortunes of ArwaChihuahua, ANT and Cap. The results varied greatly, however the percentage of truth remained at a constant: 0%. Along the way, the pasta pot acquired a large piece of tissue which, when mixed around, ended up looking uncannily like lasagne.

Other lunchtime activities included shouting out words in a ‘Bogies’-style game (For those who don’t know what Bogies is, it’s a competitive game where contestants try to shout the word ‘bogies’ louder than other competitors). At one point, DisneyLoverMolly shouted out ‘deviation’, to which the whole room reacted by going silent for a brief second. This continued until ConscienceSarah decided that the game was unsuitable for such an environment. Of course, this prompted a game of ‘Chinese Whispers’, which didn’t end particularly successfully, as always.

Until next week, have a good one ;)