August 25, 2011
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Farmville - how they suck you in- (please give this blog attention, had to re write the whole thing
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Re writing this stupid blog! Thanks At&T, you came through again!
so please be nice and make it worth the fact I wrote the whole thing again. So frustrating.Hi I'm Laura, and I'm a recovering farmville addict. Farming is really not my thing. I don't enjoy the smell of manure, I kill plants just by looking at them, but most importantly, it's hard work.
I don't remember how this happened, Zynga ( not to be confused with Xanga) was like a drug pusher. Just by watering a couple of my neighbors crops, I had money to buy my own crops. Strawberries were cheap, why not? I didn't get a big high at first, when planting the strawberries, so I just planted and left for the day. When I returned I saw this!!!!
It was shocking, it was disturbing. I almost cried. In fact I probably did shed some tears. All that work! The clicking of the mouse, moving my little farmer around. I was pissed. I learned after that, you either stay glued to your computer or you buy crops that last a couple days or at least more than four hours. I don't remember how you earn money, I think you pick good crops and water your neighbors crops. I did those things, but a couple times I pulled out the credit card. Just a 20 here and there, and only like twice, don't judge.
I just really wanted a big house and a town and my cows had to be in a barn. It just looked bad the other way. No house, animals everywhere, wandering around. It needed to be stopped.
At the time I had my beautiful farm, with a town, and a couple houses, a green house and even a school, I lived with my ex, expunged. Sometimes he was downright rude about my farm. For example he would say things like " how's your farm?" But he said it in a way that meant he wasn't really interested, it was more like " how's your stupid computer, not real, ridiculous, waste of time farm?"
I didn't let it bother me. After all, when I was a Sim's addict and I made my expunged Sim pee his pants, before letting him drown in the pool, the real Expunged didn't even crack a smile. I mean come on that's funny!
Anyway, after decorating for Christmas, even though I was very put off there was ZERO Chanukah decorations, I started to get tired of Farmville. No one seemed impressed with my Farmville photo I posted on Facebook. And I got sick of having to be home by 10:00 to pick my Watermelon and milk my cows. Farming is a lot of work and not as fun as setting your virtual ex-husband on fire.
So I killed my farm, no hurricane or flood, just a delete. Sometimes I miss my bunny, and the chickens, but I know it's better for me to actually go to real outside, where the wether actually changes.
Sims are gone too, they all died horrible death
But now I have a new hobby, big time amateur photography, here are a few of my photos - my new signature at the end of blogs.
I will post a few at the end of every blog
, I know too exciting!!!!
Boys at work
Navy pier a view form my Dad's apartment
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Comments (12)
I had no idea that you could do those kind of things to the sims - If I had known, it would have been a much more attractive game!!
@murisopsis - Oh yeah, there are many ways to kill your Sims
Never got into sims and so glad. Xanga already takes up so much of my time.... I grew up on a farm and have lived through the droughts, hail and such.....Farmville sounds a bit real to me...
Wow, and the most I ever did in Sims was to figure out how to force them into being lesbians. Smh. I missed a whole world.
I've never played Farmville. I have steadily resisted the Zynga fever, until I discovered Words With Friends, and now I'm hooked on Scrabble. And not the "Huk'd on Fonix Wurkd 4 Mee" kind of hooked either.
I'll raise my chai latte in memory of the death of your farm today,
just as soon as I finish figuring out how to place four letters in such a way that I'm winning this game.
Also, I'm scared of playing Farmville because I carry scars from The Oregon Trail. Any game which gives my oxen a chance to die while fording the river can take that chance and shove it.
Oh, and by the way? Love the pictures. Especially the first one.
LOL...I must have been abducted by aliens and taken to another planet for a while. Either that, or I pulled a Rip Van Winkle, cause I've never heard of Sims, Farmville, or Zyngas. From what you've posted, I don't s'pose I missed much...
BTW, nice pics. Is that a Ferris wheel at the navy pier???
@opticalnoise - Sims were a great way to get aggressions out, I may start again.
I played Oregon Trail, lol I never let the kids on and it was their game. Simis too actually. Thank you I'm glad you like the photos, I really have fun with them.
@vexations - Yeah, Farmville is too stressful, it's best you don't participate. Thanks for coming over and commenting, this blog was not fun to write the second time around,
@dsullivan - yes on the Ferris wheel. And thank you. Farmville is on Facebook, that's how I learned about that and the makers of that game and others are Zynga. Sims? Yeah those have been around a long time, very popular and actually REALLY fun. It's like you're God and you control all these little people you make.
Lucky that my niece have giving up SIMS.
@RestlessButterfly - that's for sure, it can be very sick
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