Okay, so maybe it was I who pressured my mother and sister into playing iPhone games like Letterpress (awesome!) and Bubble Galaxy (pretty good!) with me. But just like the lessons of cyberyore, all this gaming has gotten Mom(bot) into using her mobile phone more. Like, she actually texted me the other day! On her own! It’s just a matter of time before we’re Facetiming on the regular. *shudder*
So are you gaming with your parents/siblings via your smartphone or tablet? Letterpress? Words With Friends? Scramble? Bejeweled Blitz? Sound off in the comments!
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LOL!
Thankfully no one in my family owns smartphones. We have regular ol’ only for makin’ phone calls cell phones. I just can’t see the point of having a “lpatop” for a phone. I rather use my laptop! Really pointless.
By the way, Mr. Jeffbot. Read about your job situation and hope things turn out good in your new adventures.
But… I do confess that I have NO idea what a multimedia designer is! What you eat that with?!!! Is that the same of a graphic designer? What is the freakin’ difference anyway?!!
And for the record… you still owe me that video explaining how in the world you sketch and ink in Photoshop your comic!!!
glad you got an LOL out of this one, JCB! and it’s probably best for the sake of your family that you don’t have smartphone games to compete with each other over. heheh.
and thanks for the job sitch sympathy. a multimedia designer’s kinda like a graphic designer, but in addition to creating graphics, i did animation and programming (mostly in Flash) in addition to getting training courses working on Learning Management Systems via SCORM (a standard for LMS and eLearning courses.) now that i have the time, i’ll be able to make that video, most likely!
and check you out – you just received the infamous Shades of Firsting! wear them well: these have gaming apps built-in to the lenses for gaming at all waking hours. now you just need to find someone else with a pair of the same Shades of Firsting to compete:
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Oh my… HEAVENS!!!! I got a FIRST?!
*totally shocked face —>> O_O *
I wasn’t even trying since is so difficult with the rabid fanbase you have that fight to the death to become the first comment of the new comics! I can die happy now!
heheh. yeah, the Shades are somewhat difficult to obtain, JCB. congrats!
I dont have an iPhone, but I bet if I had I would just download games and annoy the sh*t out of everyone I know who has one…
heheh. you’d fit right in, DAS! i get so many requests from friends to play new games every day, it’s ridiculous.
BTW, I like your little eye twitch in the last panel XD
thanks! 😀
My mom doesn’t have a mobile gaming able device /yet/ I will be donating my Droid 2 to her when I get an iPhone (don’t judge me I was pressured into it by my roommates) but I don’t think I’ll be redownloading draw something or words with friends anytime soon. With the amount of time she spends playing them on FB I don’t want to see what she’ll do when she can play them on her phone >>
whaaaaaaaaaaaa….??? i never thought you’d go over to the “dark” side, dj! can’t wait to see what you think of it! 😀
and yeah – so far Mombot doesn’t have Bejeweled or Solitaire, two of her favorite games. it’ll be interesting when that goes down. heheh.
Words with friends with my mom and she kills me all the time.
This Thanksgiving she told me, “Tim, I’ve been taking it easy on your with Word with Friends.”
I was modified! I said, “no, don’t let me win, do your best. Why are you taking it easy on me?”
“Last time we played you quit after only a few moves, I thought you were mad at me or something.”
“Mom, I quit cause you got like a 105 point word on me and I had no chance of catching up.”
“Actually, I think it was a 120 point word.”
So yeah, my mom now takes it easy on me when playing Words with Friends.
ha! that’s my greatest fear, TPC. my mom was so gleeful when she beat me twice in a row at Letterpress; it was borderline gloating! afraid to introduce W w/ F to her, but it’s bound to happen sooner or later. 🙂
I don’t do much phone gaming with my family any more. I prefer doing it old school with a family game night. Preferably Apples to Apples and Monopoly.
good games, 52pickup! and easier to close up and walk away from when the games are over.
My mother-in-law is obsessed with Bookworm, but she’s never played competitively. I don’t know if it even has a multiplayer mode.
i used to love Bookworm, E. A., but haven’t played it in years. might have download that one again – i’m sure my mom would like it. 🙂
I used to compete with my mother-in-law to see who could set the record for longest word. I thought I was doing good when I hit 14. Her best at the time was 17 with — in her own words — no Q’s, no plurals, and no superlatives. Mine was a plural 1 Q-word. No hope of competing!
But yeah, I haven’t played in a few years either. I’m trying to make a living writing novels, so I want to get away from making words when I play games!
yeah… my mom texts me… its weird…
heh. yeah, it’s still a bit surprising every time i get a text from my mom, steve.
For me, I’ve gotten into Gems and Hanging with Friends, but not Words with Friends. I always get really into it for a few days, then forget about playing…
i haven’t played Hanging with Friends, GG11 – i’ll hafta look that up later.
Also, you’ve done some Flash stuffs? Any chance of a JefBot animation? :3
yep! and yep! problem is, animation’s just SOOOO time consuming, and i just don’t have time at the moment, even though i’m dedicating nearly all my time to JEFbot. but i’m thinking about taking a day to make a short test, just to see how much potential’s there. when i do it, i’ll be sure to post it in the jefBLOG, but it won’t be for a while. glad to hear you’d be interested!
I have yet to even try and get any games on my smart phone. It’s mostly because I’m lazy and would rather be playing on an actual console, but also because I don’t want to get sucked into some of those games.
not wanting to get sucked into ’em is a good reason to avoid the smartphone games, Fijman – i’ve been playing a couple games on my iPhone nearly every day for years now. 😛
Yeah, I keep myself occupied enough with The Escapist, YouTube, and web comics. Don’t need even more distractions.
I was just wondering, there is JefBot, mombot and popbot. Not going to ask how that happened, but why are there no more “bot”s in your family, or was it just something that seemed to have coincided with the three of you?
good question, W.D. Pat! the naming conventions in the BOTiverse are somewhat different than the ones in our own. “bot” is just a name in this world – not a surname, as jefbot’s actual last name is “Schuetze” just like mine. i consider the “bot” added to Mombot and Popbot as terms of endearment. 🙂
My mom texts all the time, and plays games on her iTouch that I’ve never heard of. (They seem to be variants on the ‘ville’ theme, though, which worries me…) Dad, not so much. I don’t really play online games with my family, though we’re big on Clue and Life and games like that. I guess we still prefer personal contact. 😉
“personal contact”? what’s that, T??? 😉
i’m so afraid to get into the “‘ville” types of games. i’ve been playing DragonVale, Hot Springs Story and Epic Astro Story sims for longer than i’d like to admit, and they’re close enough.
I’m a Words with Friends addict but so far my parents have resisted my invitations.
Just as well–Mom does words games and Sudoku in pen and would absolutely smoke me. And Dad would play a word a week . . .
i’m thinking about getting my mom into WwF, Sarah W, but she’s actually really good at Letterpress (don’t tell her i said that) and i’m afraid of being “smoked” myself!
GOOD MORNING BOTIVERSE!!!!!
And so great to see Lor in a comic, we haven’t seen her in a while. While Mama Pixie and I don’t play games on our phones together, the texts get ridonkulous! And she gets on me if I misspell something. Mom is not a fan of cell phones while I am visiting with her anyway. Everything goes on silent. Daddy Pixie doesn’t even text on his phone! It’s weird!
morning, Pixie!
yeah, i don’t think Lor’s been in a comic since Coolhand and bot went to see The Avengers! so yeah, it’s good to have her back. my dad’s the same way – he doesn’t text or do anything on his cellphone except make calls. 🙂
My dad and I play chess a lot with our iPhones, though apparently if I beat him one more time he’s quitting.. He beat me for 20 years at chess, but he can’t stand losing himself, it’s funny.
Words with friends with my sister, and my mother and I just text.. Or send photos all day.
Though I kind of miss sitting down and actually playing chess on a real board.
nice, Satoshieyes! i wonder if my dad would be into playing chess or something online. he’s more into poker, so maybe that would be the gateway app to get him to buy a smartphone again. hmmm…
My phone… I can make calls, and send messages. I know this makes me sound as old as dirt but what I want out of my phone is it to work, and work good. Thing is, I have this seven year old phone that is held together by duct tape because… well if it was good enough for me to stick in a sock and bludgeon a guy who snuck into my house to rob the place with then it is good enough to keep in shape as best I can… but as I was saying while my friends are holding their smart phones up to the sky trying to get a signal when we are out far from town I am looking at mine and saying “Huh… full bars.”… at which point they glare at me since we all have the same provider.
Just saying. High tech isn’t always what it is cracked up to be.
Reminds me of the joke that an iPad is just an iPhone for the visually impaired and/or fat-fingered, since they’re both equally effective at making calls w/o Skype.
I cant tell who is more pissed at Jefbot right now – Bot or Lor.
Oh, and regarding the cyberyore throwback, I explained defragging to my dad — who’s a professional chef — as trying to make a salad with the ingredients scattered all over the house vs everything being in the crisper drawer. Made perfect sense to him, and his computer knowledge goes as far as playing Jimmy Buffett podcasts.
Heh heh… since I tossed all my discretionary for the next.. um… two years on a Mac Pro last nov… no smartphone for the likes of me. I have am LG reflex… it’s merely clever.
I think I want to start a carrier…..
FÖN Celluar. – It Just Makes Calls.
Dumb Phones for Smart Users.
Your mom is too cute. xD I’m glad she’s getting tech savy!! Maybe she can get my mom into it, it would be so much easier if she actually could just open up a text.
How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Roll Pop? The world may never know.
Knowing that board games are better played in table top format when more than one player is in the house. . Priceless.
For safety’s sake, play face to face,
or else you’ll get Jefbot’s eyeball aches.
The expressions on your faces are awesome. I love it!
No, I haven’t started any of the interactive/multi-player games, although some of them do sound fun.
Look up The Curse. Fun app to kill time. Also slightly creepy.