Strategy Guide: Beating Agar.io

Table of Contents

• Strategy
• Conclusion
• Comments

Agar.io is an amateur clone of the popular game "Spore", featuring an online, real-time multi-player gameplay, where instead of facing off against the computer, you face off with real competitors from across the world.

Like with Spore, Agar.io is a dog eat dog world, yet with Agar.io - even the usernames of other players will be disgusting, containing the occasional cuss, self-promotion, and obnoxious Internet memes (such as a single Swastika). There will be players constantly and opportunistically stalking you, and players that will attempt to destroy you even if it means that they will be destroyed themselves.

In Agar.io, you start off as a small cell, collecting pickups and eating smaller creatures with a goal of growing larger and larger until you make it to the leaderboards. From the leaderboards, it's matter of trying to survive for as long as possible.

So how do you beat this game and get to the top of the leaderboard of your current "room"?

Strategy

Censorship Quest

One zero, one zero. Just bits and bytes on the internet. Meaningless digital information that's constantly being thrown around and streamed through fast networks of cables and wires on the internet.

Traditionally, a censor is defined an "official who examines texts for the purposes of suppressing objectionable material". However, contemporary definitions of censorship is more broad not restricted to an individual.

Censorship is is the suppression of speech, public communication or other information which may be considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, politically incorrect or inconvenient as determined by governments, media outlets, authorities or other such entities.

Gaming

Click, click, click. Ever heard of the dreaded web-based games where you just click all day? Candy Box and A Dark Room some of the exceptions, however "Depression Quest" is not.

The whole gist of the game is that it's like an interactive book. There's some sort of text that you have to read, and a hyperlink that you would have to click to progress through the story.

No scores, its not an "activity engaged in for diversion or amusement". Defining "Depression Quest" as a game is like defining a 10 second clip of wind gushing as music. Sure it has elements that might one day might make it potentially fun and enjoyableit a song, but overall, noise and sound is not a song.. Given the title "Depression Quest", its obvious that its hardly meant to be fun and to be played as a "game".

Traditional Media

This post will not be a sole wall of text. Here's an example of censorship at its finest.

Russell Brand provides an engaging discussion solely based upon censorship on this video. You can watch it here. But note our favourite host Sean Patrick Hannity of Fox Mews censors the speech of Yousef Munayyer (Palestine Center - Pro Palestine - Pro Israel) while freely allowing Zuhdi Jasser (American Islamic Forum for Democracy - Pro Israel - Pro Palestine) to speak.

Edit: Daniel Nascimento pointed out that I got the agenda of the guests mixed up.

To clarify, "Yousef Munayyer" of the "Jerusalem Fund for Education and Community Development" is for the "Palestinian people", whilst "Zuhdi Jasser" of the "American Islamic Forum for Democracy" is against Islam and tends towards the "Pro Israel" side of the debate.

I have my own agenda, but the sides are not important in this post, it's the idea that censorship is real and will inevitably influence the rest of our lives.

In hindsight, we all know that traditional media is bias. And its highly recommended that you actually watch the conversation above (either the original or Russell Brand's version), to see censorship for yourself. Now watch this, this is where the "Depression Quest" game links in with censorship.

The issues that this video explores raises the question, "What if article-based sites. Dedicated professional gaming news blogs covering 'Depression Quest'. Suddenly degraded to a point where it becomes the next 'traditional media'? Like fox news."

Feminism

I am not a feminist, but nor am I misogynist.

I prefer the idea that everyone should be treated as equals.

That way, we won't have issues such as.

RACE RIOTS

RACISM

SOCIO-ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

or people white knighting in defence of an abuser of social justice - Miss Zoë ʻGRANOSʼ Quinn.

The people supporting Zoe Quinn, aka "TheQuinnspiracy" aka "The Quinnspiracy", are mostly feminists, mostly consisting of a female population on twitter and tumblr, however also consisting of a fairly vocal male minority.

I have not a single issue about this. Free speech is key to overcoming issues of censorship and online freedom.

But the issue lies due to the following

Shitstorm

The Streisand Effect: An attempt to impose censorship leading to backfire and the reverse of what is intended happening.

This shitstorm is highlighted in TotalBiscuit's mini-post

DCMA censoring leading to EVERYONE knowing about it? Good job, Zoe! Or should I say, good BJ...

Shitstorm? I don't believe that the defecation of faeces is an appropriate term for this scenario. Maybe a Hurricane would be a more appropriate term to define this even. Since it blows you away.

This is censorship.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5CXOafuTXM

This is ""feminism"".

Typical "factual" response

So from what I have seen @Vahn16 did not write a review for Depression Quest on Kotaku or RPS.

— Emerson Goo (@emgoo_gooem) August 20, 2014

---

FOUND ONE! (strictly speaking its not a review, but its been mentioned and looked at - "to look at or examine again")

This is the rest of the nonsense.

Real glad there's parasitic youtube personalities contributing to & signal boosting a harassment campaign from MRAs spewing gossip as gospel

— Zoë ʻGRANOSʼ Quinn (@TheQuinnspiracy) August 20, 2014

Oh yeah. Someone on YouTube just posted this...

In the immortal words of my fifth-grade self, MYOB. Don't attack Zoe for what is a personal issue, and not an industry-wide deception.

— Emerson Goo (@emgoo_gooem) August 20, 2014

If you're trying to make ME responsible for YOURS or ANYONE'S shitty views on women, you should stop making all women responsible for one.

— Zoë ʻGRANOSʼ Quinn (@TheQuinnspiracy) August 19, 2014

Edit:

The consensus is that the entire cause of this "gamergate" issue is one of sexism and misogyny, when in fact it only targets Zoe Quinn. Sexism and misogyny is untrue, as media journalism is a part of a conspiracy where they are currently facing criticism for being biased to the matter, favouring Zoe, and hence why the reputations of "gamer" news sites are currently taking a substantial hit across social media. With that said. Zoe Quinn may be a gamer, but "Depression Question" is hardly a game. IN fact, the symbolic aspect of the title "Depression" subverts the very meaning of "game". "An activity that one engages in for amusement", hence, Zoe Quinn has managed to manipulate a plethora of so-called web "journalists" who cannot see beyond it. Instead lets call "Depression Quest" an interactive web app. Because that's what it is...

The judgement to make is that this Quinnspiracy mess is a result of corruption to start off with.

No matter how you look at it, it doesn't matter that Quinn is a female and happened to be a "game developer", she still offered bribes to further her own cause.

If you are a female and reading this post, remember this, Quinn does not represent females, she is representing herself and her own interests only - if it was a male building sexual relations with female journalists for favours - just like with Quinn, then who would you support? the male? or the community that's affected? Right... The male, because you also happen to be a Social Justice Warrior (SJW) who's also interested in your own cause.

Gamergate is ONLY about Quinn's involvement in the gaming community. Remember, the livelihoods of MALE journalists are also getting screwed over. So its not a sexist thing.

Though...

Gamasutra founder:

Intel pulling ads from Gamasutra, and therefore protecting the interests of the gaming community:

An example of narcissism, and "condescending" behaviour in females

Oh. And seriously, there is a reason why there is a social disparity between females and males in the world of information technology and computing exist.

And its because there's a stigma to it. The only real way for this stigma to be overcome is for more females to enter in computing courses at a young age, instead of pursing textiles, design and hospitality classes.

Though. Make your own judgements about what's going on in this scenario, before continuing. Because it is real, though quite hilarious.

"Radical feminism is wrong, because it rejects the idea of equality."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_feminism

Radical feminism is a perspective within feminism that focuses on the hypothesis of patriarchy as a system of power that organizes society into a complex of relationships based on the assertion that male supremacy[1] oppresses women. Radical feminism aims to challenge and overthrow patriarchy by opposing standard gender roles and oppression of women and calls for a radical reordering of society.[1] Early radical feminism, arising within second-wave feminism in the 1960s,[2] typically viewed patriarchy as a "transhistorical phenomenon"[3] prior to or deeper than other sources of oppression, "not only the oldest and most universal form of domination but the primary form"[4] and the model for all others.[4] Later politics derived from radical feminism ranged from cultural feminism[1] to more syncretic politics that placed issues of class, economics, etc. on a par with patriarchy as sources of oppression.[5] Radical feminists locate the root cause of women's oppression in patriarchal gender relations, as opposed to legal systems (as in liberal feminism) or class conflict (as in socialist feminism and Marxist feminism).

[1] Willis, p. 117.
[2] Willis, p. 118.
[3] Willis, p. 122.
[4] Willis, p. 123.
[5] Willis, p. 141.

Social Justice Warriors do not promote "Social Justice", but in fact promote social injustice. Radical feminism is the branch of feminism that they propagate and attempt to brainwash others with. The use of the words "oppression", and "patriarchy" are recurring ideas that so-called "Social Justice Warriors" work with, and yet, hypocritically, even if they're not being oppressed in real life and given free-speech on Tumblr, still attempt to promote Radical Feminism for their own profit.

Social Justice Warriors can only exist as long as what they say are hip and trendy, and so until as we get ideas of true equality going, then the Radical Feminists are going to be the most vocal as the loud-mouthed hypocritical "Social Justice Warriors".

Over time, Radical Feminism will die down, and more Liberal ideas of Feminism will eventually propagate. Equality is what everyone deserves, so don't try to promote inequality just to be seen as promoting equality.

Radical Feminists on Tumblr (uhm...):

http://sexselector.tumblr.com Source

So why do women hurt?
1. Patriarchy means patrilinealism, which means that males have the upperhand in picking mates. Males select for things in women that make subsequent generations more childlike instead of woman-like. This starts to become a problem for obvious reasons. We’re going on about 6,000 years of it, too.
2. Pollution by men’s industrial factories, radiation from men’s nuclear plants, EMF (coming off smart meters and those fuckign BP wind turbines that do almost nothing), poisoning with synthetic hormones like the pill and fertility drugs, GMOs and processed shit food that can’t hardly be gotten away from.
3. The psychological effect of being told by oppressors that a certain part of your body is a smelly dirty secret is that your brain will slowly stop giving that area quite so much maintenance/attention. When you feel like your menstrual muscles are atrophied, that’s because they are. :( Thought is powerful.
So there are the reasons that natural body processes of women hurt. Pain should never be considered a part of life. Being in pain is not a good evolutionary strategy. Of course, this will be a reason for evo psyche to say that women’s pain indicates that she needs male help at that time of month. Ah-ah-ah, now! Men’s choices in the patriarchy *created* women’s pain.

Radical Feminists on Reddit:

Radical Feminists on Twitter:

@radicalbytes

The core value of patriarchal masculinity is control. It’s not a coincidence that control is central to many video game mechanics & stories.

— Jonathan McIntosh (@radicalbytes) September 27, 2014

@AllidoisGwynn

@AmandaKelsie I AM THE FUTURE, THE OPPRESSED WILL NOT STAY OPPRESSED FOR LONG

— Katherine Gwynn (@AllidoisGwynn) April 27, 2014

Further Reading

http://dome.fi/pelit/ajankohtaista/kirjaimellinen-pelialapskmyrsky-seksia-korruptiota-pelijournalismin-etiikkaa-sensuuria http://www.gameblog.fr/blogs/seishou/p_107747_une-inde-couche-avec-un-journaliste-de-kotaku-en-echange-de- http://www.gamerheadlines.com/2014/08/kotaku-and-zoe-quinn-accused-of-exchanging-positive-press-for-sex/ http://www.gamerevolution.com/manifesto/zoe-quinn-between-anger-and-depression-quest-27793 http://gamesnosh.com/zoe-quinn-scandal/ http://gamesnosh.com/the-ugly-side-of-justice-total-biscuit-denounced-over-zoe-quinn-scandal-comments/ http://www.geekscape.net/corruption-in-video-game-journalism-what-does-it-mean-for-you http://invisioncommunity.co.uk/2014/08/20/journalists-game-developers-zoe-quinn-fiasco/ http://n4g.com/news/1569915/no-zoe-quinns-sexual-affairs-arent-a-private-matter http://techraptor.net/2014/08/20/zoe-quinn-unfortunate-state-gaming-industry/ http://wordofthenerdonline.com/2014/08/quinnspiracy-zoe-quinn-vs-internet/ http://www.ign.com/blogs/mrgutsman/2014/08/22/zoe-quinns-sex-scandal-fallout http://gabrielaknight.wordpress.com/ http://shittywebcomics.tumblr.com/post/95434247964/been-writing-at-gaming-sites-for-over-a-decade

Far Cry 3 Cheats

Skip to the actual cheats

The situation

Far Cry 3 is a fun and open-world first person shooter that allows you to explore the majestic and grand world of the Rook Islands, filled with it's colourful characters, jungle environment along with it's chequered history. Throughout the course of the game, you will face challenges that may become too stressful and repetitive.
One of the game's many features is the ability to take over outposts, or "base" if prefered... Sure the ability to crouch behind a tree and sniping from a distance is fun, but what happens when you reach "that" outpost with the fully armoured up heavy; not even a headshot would kill him immidately. And that's when the game starts to suck.
Suddenly, you're at a point where your prime strategy doesn't work anymore. Snipe the heavy until he dies? That would just blow your cover and lose the opportunity for you to gain bonus XP for liberating outposts undetected and without triggering alarms. After the first shot, if it doesn't kill him, it only makes him stronger, the whole outpost would be alereted to your presence

So you mercilessly get civilian's car, and ram it into the heavy - he doesn't die and now you have everyone in the outpost shooting at you with reinforcements yet to come. How fun. So you fast travel to the nearest liberated outpost because you know you have no chance of suvival.

Then once you finally liberate said outpost, there comes Rayats that prance around like deer and exclaim "It's all me" to claim YOUR personal victory and effort as their own, taking your prize away from you, just like that. Arseholes.
So you shoot them and the Rayat shoot back, but you eliminate them quickly. And realize that you've spent so much time playing Far Cry 3 and trying to liberate the output that it wasn't worth killing the Rayat.

So here is some cheats for Far Cry 3 that would make the game a whole lot more fun and less stressful, and to make liberating outposts, taking down that almost-invincible heavy, and slaughtering your "allies" a whole lot easier:

Note! These Far Cry 3 cheats require Steam to be installed and the game to be registered to your account, and will work from Steam despite the fact that Far Cry 3 uses UPlay instead of steam as their main social do-hickey.

The Cheats (click on the link to run the game with the chosen cheat activated!)

Far Cry 3 - Be always hidden
Far Cry 3 - Unlimited ammo
Far Cry 3 - God mode
Far Cry 3 - Be always hidden, Unlimited ammo and God mode

A Review

If you don't have Far Cry 3 yet, here's my review of the game

Far Cry 3 features an open world with an immersive and realistic gaming mechanic similar to those of Skyrim (where you actually get to explore the world as a whole).

Health doesn't regen like you're some god and enemies are actually difficult to shoot at, making tactical planning and strategy to clear enemies a must.
Having a tribal environment mixed in with modern technology (high powered camera to track enemies, the use of phones, e.t.c.) gives the game an interesting plot as you're stranded in unfamilar, jungle environments for the most of the game.
Shooting lions, dogs, deer, pigs are mechanics that add to the feel of the the jungle environment and crafting animal skin makes the game realisitic.

Overall, the game is fun, cheeky and enjoyable however, what was going on ubisoft's mind when they decided to force the integration of uplay? Having to use two accounts to play a single game is a huge dealbreaker for the most of us, even worse, the integration of uplay is terrible; steam does it right, uplay does not.

Friend me on Steam if you've enjoyed this!

Happy Street is flawed

Update as of October 2013: no longer works!

Flaw was open for 10+ months

I'd like to congratulate the developers for spreading the word on the furry community, great job :)

However there's one critical flaw to the game, it uses Appspot and a completely unencrypted gifting/cloud saving system..

Sure there are some horrifically low level protection included (such as "encoding" the data in hex form) but, of course, that was no match for me...

There's really no encryption or any protection that can be found on the way Happy Street handles it's online services, the Happy Street system is wide open....

This is basically what I consider to be the flaw of Happy Street, it's unencrypted... And for a game that attracts millions of players from multiple platforms, you would expect the developers to be a little more careful when it comes to scenarios like this.. However, they're not..

Think that you can't ever send lucky tokens in Happy Street? Well think again..

bAAAAAEAAQYAAABUb2tlbgABAAAAAA==

Temple Run Hack [no jailbreak required]

Welcome to my series of iPhone hacking!
This post will help you achieve extreme high-scores in Temple Run 1.6 for iOS

Screenshots:

Stickman Cliff Diving Hack [no jailbreak required]

Welcome to my series of iPhone hacking!
This post will help you achieve extreme high-scores in Stickman Cliff Diving 2.7 for iOS

Screenshots

Pokemon X and Y announced!

Pokemon X and Y has officially been announced by Nintendo, which is due to be released on their 3DS platform, the first Pokemon game to ever be released for the console.