>> ^Ryjkyj:



No, no, no... Scorched earth and worms are totally different games from Angry Birds and Crush the Castle. Yes, they use physics. So do a million other games. Yes, you shoot things, just like a hundred million other games. But Westy's right. Angry Birds and Crush the Castle are set up in almost exactly the same way. Total ripoff. (Not that there's anything wrong with that.)
The target being physics-based (cages, boards, bricks falling and breaking things below it) is different, but the physics-based shooting is the same. Angle, power, type of ammo, possible interference of map structures; some games made you consider wind strength and direction. That's the core of the game (for me), and I've seen it hundreds... well, lots of times.



We may be talking about two slightly different things. I'm addressing the gameplay aspect, and I think you and Westy are talking more about IP copycatting. Like if RoTT had large floating pumpkins that shot fireballs similar to Doom's Cacodemons. The catapults in Crush the Castle are different than the slingshots in Angry Birds, but the targets are set up the same. I can see why that part looks like a rip-off.

>> ^Fletch:

>> ^westy:
child is traumatized by how much of a rip off angry birds is of this game http://armorgames.com/play/3614/crush-the-castle
Oh, come on... Scorched Earth, Worms, and a million other physics-based games where you lob, shoot, throw, fire, or catapult something at something else were before both those games. I remember playing a Scorched Earth-like game on a TRS-80 in Computer Science when I was in high school.


No, no, no... Scorched earth and worms are totally different games from Angry Birds and Crush the Castle. Yes, they use physics. So do a million other games. Yes, you shoot things, just like a hundred million other games. But Westy's right. Angry Birds and Crush the Castle are set up in almost exactly the same way. Total ripoff. (Not that there's anything wrong with that.)

>> ^westy:

child is traumatized by how much of a rip off angry birds is of this game http://armorgames.com/play/3614/crush-the-castle
Oh, come on... Scorched Earth, Worms, and a million other physics-based games where you lob, shoot, throw, fire, or catapult something at something else were before both those games. I remember playing a Scorched Earth-like game on a TRS-80 in Computer Science when I was in high school.

Is this a situation where the guys at the top really get it and know taxes make things work and what we're seeing is just all the wannabe near-rich causing all the trouble, mistakenly thinking that tax cuts for the rich will catapult them from near-rich to full bore rich.

These people made their wealth when taxes were "supposedly high" and they know that because of the taxes they pay, that America has a good infrastructure and a relatively educated workforce to enable them to thrive.

Hah! That looks like a fucking riot!

>> ^Ma
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It's ok! We still have this!>> ^GeeSussFreeK:
Holy crap, russia is out rednecking us! This can not stand!

It's ok! We still have this!>> ^GeeSussFreeK:

Holy crap, russia is out rednecking us! This can not stand!

>> ^ant:

Didn't battleships, carrying airplanes, do this in WWII?

They used extendable catapults to launch float planes abeam and cranes to retrieve them after landing.

Loved the catapult!

This video has been seconded as a duplicate; transferring votes to the original video and killing this dupe - dupeof seconded with isdupe by bareboards2.

Well, it was fun while it lasted!

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Gotta call *dupeof=http://videosift.com/video/Extreme-Catapulting

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Yes, it is a dupe. And look at all the tags that match up. Mexico, catapult, drug/drugs. You'd have thought it would have popped up as a possible match. Oh well.

I will let someone isdupe it so these votes can go over.