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One of my personal secrets to happiness is setting really low standards in life that even a dullard like me can achieve. I am happy to say that I have surpassed my 11-year-old niece in Farmville. Since I have still not managed to have an exciting and fulfilling career or even a steady-but-unsatisfying job to pay the bills, I have to take my joy where I can find it. My niece had to start back to school this week. While she is away from her computer learning things in the 6th grade, I get to stay home and goof off on the internet between scouring the job boards.
FarmVille is not the only game on Facebook that lures people in and makes addicts of them, but it's the only one I play. I notice other people playing games created by the same company, Zynga. Games like Mafia Wars, World Café, Vampire Wars, and PetVille, just to name a few. But I don't partake in those games. The way I see it, FarmVille is like digital crack, and once one is hooked on crack, there is no need to get hooked on heroin as well. It will only add to your misery.
I was thinking the other day, though, that there should be a way to combine the Facebook games and play several at once. One of the ways to do this would be to expand the kind of crops you can grow in FarmVille.
"I can grow potatoes in FarmVille, why can't I grow pot?" I asked my husband. "I can grow tulips, why not poppies? Those plants are where the real money is. Then we could combine FarmVille with Mafia wars. Instead of buying cute little fences and chicken coops for decorations, I could use my Farm coins to buy machine guns and booby-traps to protect my investment."
"Yeah, but then you log in one day and discover that the DEA has raided your farm and all your crops are gone," he said. "After that you owe Big Sal a quarter million dollars and you've got no money to pay him."
"But I've still got my machine guns. I can take Sal out."
Of course, once you take down one mafia don, another one only rises to take his place. That's when I will have to use my Farm Coins to pay an army of vamps from the Vampire Wars game to assault the mobsters while they are dining in my World Café. While this is going down, I will hang out in PetVille and play with the animals there, or maybe visit Island Paradise, until the dust settles.
This would be way more fun. I'll have to contact the people at Zynga and pitch my idea to them.
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One of my personal secrets to happiness is setting really low standards in life that even a dullard like me can achieve. I am happy to say that I have surpassed my 11-year-old niece in Farmville. Since I have still not managed to have an exciting and fulfilling career or even a steady-but-unsatisfying job to pay the bills, I have to take my joy where I can find it. My niece had to start back to school this week. While she is away from her computer learning things in the 6th grade, I get to stay home and goof off on the internet between scouring the job boards.
FarmVille is not the only game on Facebook that lures people in and makes addicts of them, but it's the only one I play. I notice other people playing games created by the same company, Zynga. Games like Mafia Wars, World Café, Vampire Wars, and PetVille, just to name a few. But I don't partake in those games. The way I see it, FarmVille is like digital crack, and once one is hooked on crack, there is no need to get hooked on heroin as well. It will only add to your misery.
I was thinking the other day, though, that there should be a way to combine the Facebook games and play several at once. One of the ways to do this would be to expand the kind of crops you can grow in FarmVille.
"I can grow potatoes in FarmVille, why can't I grow pot?" I asked my husband. "I can grow tulips, why not poppies? Those plants are where the real money is. Then we could combine FarmVille with Mafia wars. Instead of buying cute little fences and chicken coops for decorations, I could use my Farm coins to buy machine guns and booby-traps to protect my investment."
"Yeah, but then you log in one day and discover that the DEA has raided your farm and all your crops are gone," he said. "After that you owe Big Sal a quarter million dollars and you've got no money to pay him."
"But I've still got my machine guns. I can take Sal out."
Of course, once you take down one mafia don, another one only rises to take his place. That's when I will have to use my Farm Coins to pay an army of vamps from the Vampire Wars game to assault the mobsters while they are dining in my World Café. While this is going down, I will hang out in PetVille and play with the animals there, or maybe visit Island Paradise, until the dust settles.
This would be way more fun. I'll have to contact the people at Zynga and pitch my idea to them.
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Date: 2010-01-07 07:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-07 07:40 pm (UTC)