Dear Facebook Application Authors…

If your app says it needs my email address to function, I’m going to block it.

Seriously. What could your *Ville-of-the-week¹ possibly need my email address for? I’ll click through just about anything, but when broken down to a two-line prompt with a picture that essentially says “The author of this app is going to spam the crap out of you”, what do you really expect me to say?

[1. Zynga is just one of many offenders. Did I call them out specifically due to recent shadiness? Maybe…]

Assassin’s Creed: Revelations

Dear Ubisoft,

Please note the following list of completely redundant, unnecessary, and annoying features in your recent Assassin’s Creed titles.

• City renovations.
• Buying artwork / books / outfits.
• Den defense.
• 2D puzzles.
• 3D puzzles.
• Uplay.
• Crafting.
• Unskippable cutscenes.
• Continent-conquering menu system.
• Insta-win buttons.
• Reusing world models.
• Precursor civilizations.

I encourage you to consider redistributing the resources from the above areas into the following gameplay elements.

• Moar assassinating.
• A difficulty curve.

Sincerely,
  - Lownewulf

PS. Fix your clipping. Or at least reset me to checkpoint when I fall through the world.