{"id":1506,"date":"2009-05-30T10:28:07","date_gmt":"2009-05-30T18:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/?p=1506"},"modified":"2009-06-01T16:06:01","modified_gmt":"2009-06-02T00:06:01","slug":"why-i-hate-spymaster-but-was-fine-with-sxsw-assassin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/2009\/05\/why-i-hate-spymaster-but-was-fine-with-sxsw-assassin\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I hate spymaster, but was fine with SXSW Assassin"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new twitter game has started up called Spymaster. The backlash has already started, but there is still enough spymaster messages out there that make me want to write a filter (on twittfilter<\/a>) to hide all tweets with spymaster on it. \u00a0Now if you remember back at SXSW, there was something similar called Assassin where friends would tweet success or fails trying to kill other players. You would sign up, then get a DM tweet telling you who your next target is. \u00a0You would then have to go around Austin and look for this person and kill them will a toy nerf gun. \u00a0When that was going on, I enjoyed seeing who was hunting and killing who because I knew 1\/2 of them. \u00a0The other 1\/2 I tended to check out and started to follow. I liked it enough to even write a little bit of code to show the kills. (assn.php<\/a>) \u00a0<\/p>\n

So why was I ok with assassin but now spymaster? \u00a0First off, in the SXSW game, it was a real mission with real people using real weapons! I only saw public updates when there was a kill or a fail. \u00a0Great.<\/p>\n

<rant>\u00a0Spymaster, give me updates on kills, fail, drops, new missions, going up a level, etc.. \u00a0Uggg.. And I really do not care! \u00a0They are not really hunting each other. There is nothing connected to the real people. \u00a0Just as bad as the games that were going on FaceBook back in the day. Seemed like every 3 days I get people sending me invite to play vampires or what have you.<\/p>\n

So, I’ve gotten annoyed enough that I’m coding a new function in twittfilter <\/a>to hide tweets with certain keywords. And spymaster will be the example entry. … Suck on it spymaster! <\/rant><\/p>\n

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