{"id":8417,"date":"2025-10-27T14:38:34","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T18:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/?p=8417"},"modified":"2025-10-27T15:44:31","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T19:44:31","slug":"another-day-same-old-game-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/2025\/10\/27\/another-day-same-old-game-and\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Day, same old game and &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1440\" height=\"3120\" data-attachment-id=\"8418\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/2025\/10\/27\/another-day-same-old-game-and\/screenshot_20251026_094615_piggy-kingdom\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot_20251026_094615_Piggy-Kingdom.png?fit=1440%2C3120&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1440,3120\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" 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It&#8217;s all just collecting, winning, matching, fun. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So yesterday I wasn&#8217;t going to play, and blah blah blah, I did anyway. No more. I&#8217;m not falling for it again. Un-install.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My need is to just take photos of anything, so make something in the kitchen and photograph it, take pictures of my cats. Take photos outside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cooking and Photography of lots of things are two of my main interests. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I can play on PS5 sometimes and on PC with all my Steam games too. I do not need to use my phone. I also have a PS Vita, I have games to play there as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No more phone games, unless charging my old Note 5 and playing Soduko Daily (not avail. on Google Play for some years already.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No more match-3 on newer phones. Sucks your time right away. Desire to play is a stupid hormone hell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adding free-play time and power-ups, and winning over anyone if I put half an ounce of focus on that game-play. A slave to system, yes, my favorite phone match game, I can play and play, and actually don&#8217;t need free-play time if I have all my bonus chain and the super ball power-up. Ad for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[1924],"class_list":["post-8417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-phone-games"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8410,"url":"https:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/2025\/10\/16\/android-gaming-sucks-life-away\/","url_meta":{"origin":8417,"position":0},"title":"Android Gaming Sucks Life Away","author":"Maisy","date":"Thursday, October 16, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"I had been playing Royal Match back when I had that dumb Pixel 5 phone. 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