We all start out pure and honest. We start playing Words with Friends, the addictive iPhone scrabble app. We challenge our friends to a battle of wits and vocabulary. We valiantly struggle on even when we're trying to make a word out of "AEEIIVZ" or "FJMOUUW". But then we lose. And we lose again. So although we know we're honest in our hearts, we also need a competitive edge. So maybe we check an online dictionary, looking for obscure words. And then we might try an anagram finder to list all possible words from these letters. So we might win and we're happy again.
But then the opposition ups the ante. They're winning easily. They're clearly cheating and so we have no choice but to do the same. We find a website that not only finds words for you, but also finds the best location on the board to place them. Now we're unstoppable. Until the opposition stumbles upon a similar website.
Next step is to enlist the help of others. A team of people is surely able to beat a single person. The aim is to win so convincingly that the opposition is demoralised and resigns. Now we start wondering. "Why am I spending 9 hours a day playing Scrabble. Surely there's an app that plays automatically for me?" And now we've reached the end point. We're invincible, and better yet, we don't even need to waste any time playing.
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