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Golden Eggs

I do know that there are Easter eggs (Golden Eggs) in the game. Should I add it in? Rng0286 (talk) 05:25, 25 August 2019 (UTC) P.S. This is NOT a joke. (I promise.)[reply]

No, a list of the golden eggs or other hidden things are not encyclopedic content. --Frmorrison (talk) 18:36, 25 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

OK, I get it. Rng0286 (talk) 04:09, 1 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 8 December 2019

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The result of the move request was: not moved (non-admin closure) ~~ CAPTAIN MEDUSA^talk 09:26, 15 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Angry Birds (video game) → Angry Birds Classic – that is the new name on the App Store 184.181.98.125 (talk) 07:06, 8 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose. Natural disambiguation is preferred when possible, but in this case the game is not (yet) widely known by the proposed title (or if it is, that hasn't been shown). Dekimasuよ! 16:29, 8 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. I'm not very fond of titling articles after retroactive renames. In this case, the game shot to fame as Angry Birds, and is predominantly referred to as such by sources. If I were to see an article titled "Angry Birds Classic", my first thought would be, "oh, so they remade Angry Birds?" Nohomersryan (talk) 20:55, 8 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. While the game is today known as Angry Birds Classic, it is famous for just being known as Angry Birds, not Classic. --Frmorrison (talk) 21:07, 8 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per above. The name the subject is most widely known by is "Angry Birds". Paintspot Infez (talk) 01:53, 9 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Similarly to how we don't append "Remastered" to a game's title whenever it gets re-released on a new console, because it wouldn't make any sense._{ZXCVBNM (TALK)} 14:04, 10 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Contradictory claim?

Hi. I know I could just be bold and change it up, but I guess I had to share this to y'all first. The article claims that Rovio was inspired by the swine flu epidemic to make the antagonists pigs, with a source showing a quote by a then-Rovio employee:

"As the concept evolved and the Birds needed some opponents, the pigs were born. This was around the time the swine flu pandemic scare had reached its highest level, so the sickly green pigs were born out of that!"

However, from Jaakko Iisalo (the designer of these characters) himself, there doesn't seem to be an actual correlation between both. In The Guardian, Iisalo claims that the characters were inspired by childhood drawings and doesn't reference the epidemic (there's also information about why they're green):

We realised the game needed enemies, but the schedule was tight, so obviously I just drew an animal – a pig thing I’ve been drawing since I was 10, according to my mum. [...] Since the main character is red, I chose green – the complementary colour – for the pigs, who have stolen the birds’ eggs and are sheltering in the structures.

More directly, in the Angry Birds: Hatching a Universe book, which concerns the creation of the series and its games at the time, straight-up has Iisalo deny the epidemic directly influenced the pig-based design of the enemies (image from Discord, take is as you will):

However, it's long been rumored that there was a circumstantial aspect that may have influenced the choice of the Angry Birds nemeses: an outbreak of swine flu. lisalo is quick to play this down: "It was certainly something that was happening that you couldn't fail to notice, but I wouldn't say that it was a direct influence!"

This is it. I wanted to share these sources I found since they contradict the page's (and employee's) claim that the swine flu epidemic was a factor in pigs being picked as the antagonists. Cheers. Lazesusdasiru (talk) 00:39, 10 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]