John Paczkowski

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QOTD: A New Color of Cat for Sale? What Fun.

“If Farmville is laborious to play and aesthetically boring, why are so many people playing it? The answer is disarmingly simple: people are playing Farmville because people are playing Farmville.”

SUNY Buffalo’s A. J. Patrick Liszkiewicz explains how a game as repetitive and shallow as Farmville became so popular.


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I probably shouldn’t be saying this, but it is a compliment of sorts … [Piracy is] something that comes along with having a wildly successful show on a subscription network.

— HBO programming president Michael Lombardo, talking to Entertainment Weekly about the “rampant” piracy of HBO’s “Game of Thrones”