CubeVille: Unsolvable Cube (for Facebook)

Eh, I still think the grammar should be fixed. Some people (like me) are unaware that Farmville had that mistake so the wording looks careless in Cubeville. Don't get the wrong idea though, I still like what you did, and I Shared it in Facebook. It's just my opinion that the bad grammar used in Farmville is not needed for Cubeville.
 
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Same thing with 'their.' I'm tired of hearing otherwise. It's just a string of letters. No need to make rules about it.
 
rjohnson_8ball said:
Eh, I still think the grammar should be fixed. Some people (like me) are unaware that Farmville had that mistake so the wording looks careless in Cubeville. Don't get the wrong idea though, I still like what you did, and I Shared it in Facebook. It's just my opinion that the bad grammar used in Farmville is not needed for Cubeville.
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Yeah, I get your point. Ignoring the fact that I'm actually in favor of using "their" as the best option for a gender-neutral pronoun, I often have trouble parodying things incorrectly, because pointing out your care would subvert the intent.
This time, I just had to go with it. :rolleyes:

(My point with making sure to include it was also to make people notice that the original FarmVille notifications were just as lazy. And those REALLY didn't need to be.)
 
This is cool. How feasible would it be to implement a Facebook application that was like a hi-games simulator, and we could keep our best scores and rank them among our friends. I don't know if that's doable, but I'd love that.
 
Lucas Garron said:
I'm actually in favor of using "their" as the best option for a gender-neutral pronoun
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I am as well. I've looked into the alternatives people have suggested and there is simply no better word to use when you don't know someone's gender. As the dinosaur comic correctly points out, suggested new pronouns like "xe" and "hirs" always end up looking and sounding stupid, and all the existing alternatives are either awkward or clearly wrong. Besides, "they"/"their" is already grammatically correct in the sense that every native English speaker who hears it will know what it means immediately. Don't fix what ain't broke.

Kyle Barry said:
This is cool. How feasible would it be to implement a Facebook application that was like a hi-games simulator, and we could keep our best scores and rank them among our friends. I don't know if that's doable, but I'd love that.
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Feasable, but it wouldn't be easy. Heise hasn't released any source code so we'd have to make sure to use jfly's, and since that's so customizable you have to figure out what puzzles you want to rank people on and what puzzles you want to ignore. It would be pretty darn cool if someone made a facebook app to keep track of PB single/avg for jflysim, but as I said it'd be pretty tough.
 
Irony: I blocked Farmville notifications long ago, so now this is the only thing that's spamming my newsfeed.
 
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