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Carver's easy shave butter to make your shave even more buttery smooth and listen we all do it you gotta try one wipe Charlies the new peppermint infuse wipes for men they tingle in a good way save time save money join now at Dollar Shave Club calm / TechnoBuffalo again fat azz Dollar Shave Club complex TechnoBuffalo now that I've got my beard for a prop I can finally shave it my wife can be happy again so where we left off don was saying that he was a little bit upset people over using his app and then he took his Twitter account again to say that he can call flappy bird the success of mine he wrote but it also ruins my simple life so now I hate it but why keep in mind his native Vietnamese speakers something certainly might have been lost in translation it was accused by gaining site kotaku of stealing sprites from mario though he denied those accusations and said there's an art to doing that he told another user on Twitter that he had no plans I our PR agency or take some of his work off his hands because the altar doing so would mean he wasn't indie developer anymore he lose the street cred because supposedly if you're just going to mainstream by mid-afternoon that one februari eighth win officially announced today we take down flappy bird from both iTunes and Google Play attention had evidently gotten to him even though he originally labeled the title success the game was indeed pulled although wins last tweet says that he was making game still he also said he won't sell flappy birds so don't ask him at all Oh an also said he didn't pull the app because of anything related to legal issues just that he can't keep it anymore despite denying any of the glitch at all a Reuters report suggested Monday that wind may have received letters from Nintendo although the report said Nintendo was not considering a lawsuit has been rumors of extortions and all kinds of crazy stuff but that's the story of flappy bird so yeah on one hand refreshing to see a developer not being it to start a company or become a gazillionaire on the other hand I kind of want to yell WTF dong you got a success you've got something on your hands developers can only dream about even if you want to keep your indie cred you could still enjoy the success opposed to the app was making upwards of fifty thousand dollars a day so credit for making a pretty fun game that I deleted then i reinstalled and then I oh I can't stop playing but there are ads on that so there was a ton of money to be made and perhaps if you didn't want the success it could have go into that money somewhere that could have used it instead of just pulling it all together but that is the story of dong win and that is the sad sad rise and fall of the flappy bird what do you guys think I love to hear your thoughts on this sort of crazy bizarre story flappy bird sort of flapped onto the scene all of a sudden and then flapped away just as quickly one of the other developers going to follow this path maybe release an app making a huge success or try making success and take it away to try and you know up its publicity the reality is you can still get flappy bird there's a port of it even on the pebble watch and play it on the web you can still install it if you choose on your iOS device if you want to look through some back channels to get it there ton of ways to get your flappy bird on but not the official way so dumb maybe you want to give its official statement on what happens thank you guys for watching hope you enjoyed please leave comments in this region about what you think happens until next week i'm jon rettinger see you next video what's up everyone thank you for watching that video if you want to see more of the latest and greatest tech news you can subscribe to our main technobuffalo channel by clicking the button right down below in my pants region or click on the buttons to your right to see more videos