After jailbreaking my iPhone with blackra1n today (which was a surprisingly painless process), I had the opportunity to install the Cydia tool (an apt-based alternative application repository) and to my great joy, I found a game that I have not seen for a long while.
Law forbids me to tell you which game it is, but here’s a screen shot.
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“Bread and circuses” (or bread and games) (from Latin: panem et circenses) is a metaphor for handouts and petty amusements that politicians use to gain popular support, instead of gaining it through sound policy. The phrase is invoked not only to criticize politicians, but also to criticize their supporters for giving up their civic duty.
In modern usage, the phrase has become an adjective to deride an infantalized populace so defined by entertainment, instant self gratification, and personal pleasures that they no longer value civic virtues and the public life (not necessarily accomplished through deliberate pacification by politicians but through the popular culture itself). To many social conservatives, it connotes the wanton decadence and hedonism that defined Rome prior to its decline and that may similarly contribute to the decline of modern society.
Source: Wikipedia
This is the first posting in what is going to be my “private private” blog. I’ve been struggling to find a meaningful distinction between this and christopher-kunz.de and I think it’s looking like I will put stuff that I don’t find relevant for my main blog here.
That’s not to say this blog is a second-class citizen, but some things that don’t belong on my other site will go here. Mainly this is stuff about games (WoW, first-person shooters, all that stuff), music and movies.
I’ll try to balance both blogs a bit – stay tuned!