Day Fifty-Six: Bootleg Toys

8/8/14, 4:04 AM PDT

I rediscovered "Plague Inc" on my phone today. Two years ago, I was absolutely OBSESSED with this game, I beat every plague type on the hardest difficulty and pretty much beat the game 100%. Since then, I pretty much just let it sit in my iPhone.

You can imagine how surprised I was when I opened the app today and found they added a NEW hardest difficulty, a new plague type, customizable genes that you had to unlock, AND new scenarios.

And I thought I was on vacation.

Yeah, I got to work. And tell you what, compared to Brutal, the hardest difficulty back then, Mega-Brutal is EVIL. Brutal was a cakewalk for me, but DAMN, Mega-Brutal absolutely WRECKS ME when I play. But the new Zombie mode is REALLY cool. Haven't been able to beat it yet on anything harder than Normal, but I'm working on it.

Later, we went to Gaisano again to buy my sister a toy for surviving the blood sample that she needed to have to be diagnosed. There were a BUNCH of bootleg toys in here that I thought was hilarious.

First there's the name-changed ripoff toys to avoid copyright lawsuits:

Like the guy that writes Sherlock, right?

Owning it is your best choice! Better than college and a job!

The Autobots accidentally landed in North Korea.

These guys just got lost.

Then there's the awkward translations:

It's temperature is only 70°F. Hardly cool in my book.

"I can cook, clean, do dishes... Please I'm so lonely."

This one's not too awkward, I'm just amazed
that they said "circumgyrate."

Notice how the phone itself has NOTHING to
do with Angry Birds.

And then there's the toys where the manufacturer stopped caring completely.

Raphael now comes with a shiny Lightning
McQueen!

The Claw really messed that alien up.

That snake in her boot was unfortunately a
carrier of the Rage Virus.

There was this cool little thing too.

Real? Fake? No one knows, but it's still cool.

Also, my grandma's dog has PUPPIES. They're adorable. Even though they're covered in ticks and probably have a skin disease, but hey, cuteness comes in many forms.

In the aaaaaarms offfff the aiyyyengels...

Fly awaaaaaaaaaaay from here...

This one got a little too close to the camera.

There we go.

The proud mother. I think.

Oh, yeah, we have a goat. I forgot to mention that.

Hi.

RFotD: The time it takes for an update to save is directly proportional to the amount of pictures in the post. This post took 45 minutes just to upload.

SGAT: Got into the swing of using this tablet even though it's been sitting in my closet untouched for over a year.