QUOTE(Milton Roe @ Sat 6th February 2010, 4:43am)
QUOTE(RDH(Ghost In The Machine) @ Fri 5th February 2010, 7:56pm)
QUOTE(Milton Roe @ Sat 6th February 2010, 12:07am)
Article carefully does not mention what IS supposed to be cool. And if the answer is "tweeting" (IMG:
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And playing
Farmville on Facebook.
Vegetables pretending to grow and sell vegetables...
Farm Town. I've been going on and on about the apparently demented horror that is Farm Town, now, for many moons.
In theory it's no worse than mindlessly knitting something you could buy for 1% of the time you spend on it, if you were being paid your normal wage. Well, 1% worse. Still, there's something ironic and sad about it, given mankind's historical struggles to escape mindless agricultural labor. So much so that it transcends ordinary time-wasting activities. It's like that Millet painting of the gleaners-- only imagine them as rich fat Americans, doing it in virtual reality, out of boredom. Rather than sending money to Haiti or The Children's fund or the
Dog Pound local animal shelter. It's so mindless it makes Wikipedia-editing look Einsteinian. (IMG:
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Indeed, there is a reason why most people, excluding the
Oliver Douglasses of course, can't wait to leave the farm in search of a more (sub)urban lifestyle.
Then there is the whole question about ambition...at least in Mafia Wars you can become a Don, run a crew and build an underworld empire.
Who wants to be a farmer when it is possible to be an Emperor?!
In the RTS games I play, farming is what lowly peasants do to produce food for my troops and taxes for my coffers.
What's next? A
mining sim!? Hey, at least it promises to be more exciting than farming.
Then after that maybe a
forced labor camp sim...oh wait, nevermind that's Wikipedia.
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"Even uncooler than editing Wikipedia..."
Daniel Brandt "Even uncooler than editing Wikipedia..." 
