A table placed under a hanging stained-glass lamp is the focal point, whether for meals, Scrabble or more insidious games.
Here's the really insidious part: game developers who monetize the best (and that's Zynga) make the most money and can spend the most on advertising.
As we embrace various headlines indicating that we are now reducing prison populations, though, we must be very sure that we have not just fallen prey to a sleight of hand -- that we have not indeed been "taken" by the insidious shell game that is Decarceration Dodge.
By focusing so much attention on how many people are confined within this nation's state or federal prisons in a given year -- at best watching these figures inch downward at a glacial pace and, more usually, watching them ebb and flow at still unconscionable levels -- we have, perhaps, found ourselves unwitting players in a most insidious shell game that might be called "the Decarceration Dodge".
Apparently, this was part of a year-long investigation into the insidious crime of video game piracy.
Rather, I find this entire category of games both insidious in their appeal and annoyingly blatant in their attempt to commercialize their users — to turn players into payers.
Whatever happens in terms of his career as a player on the field, he said, he wants to be certain that he does everything he can to address an issue that he knows, firsthand, continues to have an insidious presence in the world game.
It has become an insidious part of the modern game, partly because referees tend not to give free kicks or penalties if a player stays on his feet, but also because FIFA had painted itself into a corner before the tournament by saying that talented players would be "protected" from rough tackling.
And he would certainly be critical of the "insidious penetration of our minds" by video game companies and television networks, the news media and the partisan pundits.
