#flockers

I'd like to say lesson learned alas, likely it's not. What lesson?

Read the fine print before you sign on the dotted line.

The devil is in the details.

A pig in a poke.

When these chicken chips began to show up on my FB feed, the first thing I noticed was Hattie B's! Love Love Love Hattie B's! I resisted the urge to follow the link down the rabbit hole for a few days but then, what would it hurt to look at the website?

After the briefest of examinations I decided to order the 8pack of chips for $26. If they were good, I could give some to friends to try. If they sucked, I could give them all away. If they were great, I'd eat 8 bags of chips eventually.

I didn't pay extra for speedy delivery because, you know... chicken chips. After a few days I began to glance at the porch as I'd drive up expecting to see a box. When the box finally arrived, it fit easily in our mailbox. Gulp. What had I done?!!!

Well I had read the product description closely enough to understand these weren't potato chips flavored like Hattie B's chicken. They were chicken chips...shudder whatever that is. I didn't open them right away, I was a little reluctant to see what I'd got.

What you see in the bottom of the tiny bag is 3 smallish pork rind like chicken chips...net weight 1 oz.

Drew like a dark, fucked up version of the worms sheep haha. Just a glimpse into my dark reality.

Flockers released in September of 2014 on PC, Xbox One, PS4, Linux and MacOS, being a spin-off of Worms starring the sheep as they attempt to escape from the Worms' weapons factory. It plays similarly to Lemmings, only that there's BLOOD AND GORE AND THEY DIE AND THERE'S BLOOOD WOOAAHHHH. They really did try and market this as some super fucked up game but all there really is in that regard is toggelable blood which some Worms games also have anyways.

That aside, though, there is some differences to Lemmings. The game doesn't have any environmental destruction (which is weird because why would you make a Lemmings clone in the Worms franchise and remove the one thing both series are iconic for) and instead relies on more physics based puzzles, with you being able to move around things like crates and trigger contraptions, alongside many death traps. Our friends the Wormius Fisticuffius appear as bosses, too.

Like Lemmings, you can assign the sheep with different tasks and abilities, being the Jumper, which makes them jump, Super Sheep (of course), which flies up walls, Exploder, which makes them explode, as well as different formations which causes them to stop and assemble into things like barriers and staircases by stacking on top of eachother.

There's 60 levels in the game, alongside 6 secret ones. The PC version also includes a level editor called the Meat Maker, as well as Steam Workshop support for the Steam version. There are also 17 skins for the sheep and 6 types of BLOOOD WOAAHAHH.

i can say fuck in this post, the game still got a pegi 16 despite being wayy more tame than the marketing lets on, im simply helping attract the target audience

Are we just flockers?

https://phys.org/news/2018-09-people-flock-similarly-abilities.html

This link is to an article by Seth Frey and associates at UC Davis published just recently. They are computational scientists.

It used to be that philosophers, social scientists of all kinds, ethologists and biologists studied group behaviour. Now the computational scientists are getting into the act. But this group and others…