The Addiction is Real

I can't stop playing this annoyingly-addictive cellphone game called "aa." You start with a circle in the center of the screen with 4-5 spikes coming out of it. Your goal is to add a certain amount of additional spikes without placing one where there is already one in existence. Easy, right? Wrong. WRONG. The spike-filled ball turns directions, speeds up and slows down. If you click too fast you lose. If you click too slow you lose. In the background happy music plays, the ball spins against a simple white backdrop. Then you collide two and a gushing sound interrupts the music as red washes over the screen, the pins come out and as fast as you can you start a new game. And you do it over and over and over and over until you are stuck on level 36 and you hate everything. You can pay or do something to skip a level but there is nothing more unsatisfying that skipping a level. If you can't get past level 36, how will I be able to get past 37. And in the end, I didn't truly win.

This game is almost as addicting as Flappy Bird, not quiet as popular though. I swore to myself I'd never play that stupid game but before I knew I had a high score of 267. Which reminds me of 2047 which will also be the death of me. I NEVER WON THAT GAME. Somehow I knew the "cheat" to the game and I still never won. Allegedly, if you only swipe the same direction the whole time you'll probably win. It always worked for my friends. NEVER FOR ME. What was I doing wrong? Left, down, left, down, left, down, left, down, left, down. Other than those exceptions, I'm not really a phone game person. Now when it comes to social apps I'm severely addicted. YouTube, Vine, Instagram, Snapchat. I have an account for almost everything even if I never use it. Like Kik. Who uses Kik anyway? I actually like figured out why it was called "kik" on my own. When you type "lol" and your fingers are actually shifted one key over you'd accidentally type "kik." But yeah, that's all I've got. No idea why they call it "Vine" or "Tinder." However, I can rant for hours how annoying both Tinder and Hot or Not are, but I guess that's a separate blog post.