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Fugly Friday : Aiseikai Hospital has no opthamologist on staff
With all the hullabaloo over medical reform in the U.S., you might wonder what health care looks like in other parts of the world. At this hospital in Japan, your care comes with a healthy side order of flashing, blinking Lucky Cats, and a prescription strength dose of animated gifs.
Warning: If you're epileptic, we take no responsibility for what may happen if you click to view this Fugly Friday. And, for once, we're really not joking.
Granted, I don't read Kanji, but I don't think I'm going too far out on a limb to say that this site is in need of some time in the emergency room. Even if the visible text were eloquent and poignant -- and I could read Japanese -- the overwhelming and incredibly inappropriate use of crazy color combos, frames and the dreaded solid black background of doom makes this a Fugly Friday to remember -- and avoid.
I don't know if this is a labor of love or merely the brainchild of four very gifted games designers, but Level Up is a really weird mash-up of gaming elements that you have probably never seen in a Flash game before.
Let's start with the premise itself: Groundhog Day meets Memento. The game experience revolves around 'days': you explore the world and the clock slowly ticks towards the evening. You bounce around picking up gems and talking to the denizens of 'Level Upland'. Eventually you feel tired and head back to ...
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NyaR said 8:22PM on 11-06-2009
1998...
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Brox said 11:32PM on 11-06-2009
"[T]he overwhelming and incredibly inappropriate use of crazy color combos..." Mmm, I'd bet you have never watched Japanese commercial television.
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EyeMac said 12:01AM on 11-07-2009
It's "Ophthalmologist"
Fugly Friday: Download Squad has no spell checker on staff.....
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Loren said 10:34PM on 11-07-2009
I do read Japanese, and I can assure you that just makes it worse.
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