Smartphone games are not games. They are ad delivery devices. You start the app, and you see ads for other apps. You download the new apps, and the cycle continues endlessly.
So I was playing a Bitcoin-earning game (actually a Satoshi-earning game; don’t count on earning 1 Bitcoin in an hour’s worth of play) when I saw an ad for a poker game app. An update of the Yahoo! Poker games from long ago, the app screen shows five faces surrounding a poker table. Except these are not still images, but video with audio sound.
So I am watching the ad when one of the players says:
“Life is too long for bad poker hands.”
Read that again.
Life is too long?
Shouldn’t the player be saying that life is too short? The statement makes no sense the way it was said.
But sometimes a turned-around, wrongly-worded phrase is illuminating. Take the time that John F. Kennedy intentionally reversed a phrase to joke about our nation’s capital:
“Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.”
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