Today Zynga announced plans to lay off 15 percent of its staff, which amounts to about 314 employees. This follows massive layoffs last June, during which more than 500 employees lost their jobs. But Zynga can't stop trying to buy its way out of trouble.

After a bazingo exit, the possibilities for a startup founder seem endless. You could form a mafia with your old coworkers, you could design bourgeois apps for your pals. If the mood strikes, you could charge a small Hawaiian island on your credit card. Whatever floats your yacht. Ever the outlier, OMGPop founder Charles Forman is trying his luck in Hollywood.

The east coast presence of Zynga, that once-proud and mighty maker of tractor simulators, has been decimated—but it looks like it's not completely gone. Yet. A skeleton crew of doomed software refugees is sticking around Zynga's Manhattan turf, given the terrible "choice" between staying on longer or forfeiting their full termination packages.

While Zynga was busy laying off 520 employees without warning yesterday, including most of his officemates, Zynga's newly hired VP of mobile ad strategy Timothy Price piped up on Facebook to assure his friends that he wasn't one of 18 percent.

Zynga's gargantuan purchase of OMGPOP, that company that made briefly mega-popular Draw Something, will now be an icon of tech collapse. Only slightly over a year after impulse-spending $200 million on the small company, Zynga is killing it.