Far from inspiring awe and terror, this dragon inspires contempt. When it attacks, it kicks a stupid football at you! Ooh, scary. There is no way this dragon could lay waste to a city or devour an entire hillside of sheep. This dragon is clearly a buffoon, a hooligan. What words spring to mind? Does it conform in any way to your mental image of either dragons or soccer players? Let us look at a picture of the Soccer dragon. If I was a real soccer player I would be more constrained by legalities but I would want to do the same. Then I would steal their huge piles of Dragon City gold and burrow into it to sleep, or swim about in it like a dragony Scrooge McDuck. If I was a real dragon, I would swoop down on the creator(s) of the Soccer dragon and tear out their guts. But the Soccer dragon is an offense to both. There are also some frankly ridiculous dragons-the Mojito dragon, the Gummy dragon, the Icecube dragon (I mean COME ON) and so forth. There’s the Flame dragon, the Jade dragon, the Burning dragon and the Star dragon. In this game, you breed and hatch and collect dragons-all sorts of dragons. Wannabe app-billionaires would do well to study the structure of Dragon City and how it feeds addiction.
Those who tend to fail the Delayed Gratification Marshmallow Test would spend much, much more. Even I, a cheapskate, have spent $4 on in-game purchases. Do not succumb! It is highly addictive, particularly for those of us who feel strong compulsions to complete sets, or to collect one of every kind of thing. You may have received pleading emails from Facebook friends, “inviting” you to join. There exists in this world a game called Dragon City.
Like a cat, a soccer player’s movements embody both poetry and danger. Maybe not scaly or gnarled (they use too much product for that), but there is definitely some overlap. What other words spring to mind? Possibly some very similar ones-sleek, supple, sinewy, powerful. (Or “football player” for anyone anywhere other than Australia and the US). Like a cat, its movements embody both poetry and danger. A dragon is an ancient thing of cunning and strength. What other words spring to mind? Scaly, perhaps, or sinewy.
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