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[–] april 57 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The original author made an incredible hit and everyone got so jealous that they bullied him off the internet. Really sad story.

Now this crappy wannabe group buys the trademark years later and thinks they can fool people?

[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 months ago (1 children)

In their defense many people are exceptionally dumb.

[–] SomeGuy69 6 points 2 months ago

It's totally going to work.

[–] ivanafterall 40 points 2 months ago

The whole article reads like satire.

[–] catalyst 33 points 2 months ago

I had a bad feeling when I saw another developer had picked it up. This sounds worse than I imagined.

[–] edgemaster72 19 points 2 months ago

I am so shocked, I have to put all my shock into a spoiler:

shocking levels of shock aheadΒ 

Did you catch how shocked I am? I'll do it again:

no really, so shocked you guysΒ 

Ok, maybe not that shocked.

[–] cmrn 8 points 2 months ago

I feel like they’re a couple years late to the boat on that (already sunken) fad

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Why am I not surprised.

[–] Resol 2 points 2 months ago

First Neopets, and now Flappy Bird? No thanks.