Saturday, November 07, 2009
Farming at the Touch of a Button
It's almost midnight on a weekend and I'm still busy in my garden patch planting my pumpkins and squash. Sweat is dripping off my brow as I plow the soil - manually by hand since I can barely afford the shockingly expensive tractor. The pink cow's probably ready to be milked by morning. Which gives me about 6 hours of sleep before getting up at the crack of dawn to tend to the cows.And harvest the wheat.
Fortunately it's all at the touch of a button. Despite my little foray with gardening, I don't do perspiration.
Unless it's sex with a sexy post-juvenile gardener on the muddy ground.
Could I help plow your fields?
Fortunately we have Farmville since the sweltering heat here is killing every green thing I shove into the ground. Or it could be the endless dust balls choking them.
Obviously a yearning for the pastoral life since it seems like I'm not the only one harvesting tulips at inordinately late hours. Half the online facebook world's doing it as well - more than 62 million actually - tilling the land and harvesting their vegetables on Farmville. The other half is reputedly making Farmville art, arranging hay bales and farm plots to resemble expressionist paintings.
Seriously. Mona Lisa in brown hay bales.
Addictive enough that folks are even leaving early from their dinner dates to check on their pattypan squash.
The game starts off simply enough : Land is handed out in plots where seeds can be planted, harvested and sold. Crows and bugs can attack but fortunately neighbours can step in to help. As the finances improve, things can be purchased from the market from basics like rice and pumpkin seeds to the truly superfluous, like elephants and hot-air balloons. If only I could hire fresh-faced country boys to help out in the fields.
So hey, go give me a tree.
Labels: Issues
6 Comments:
OMG. The Doctor has fallen. Evil has found its way to Miri.
not to offend anyone,but this harvest game...so gayish for guys...
should they create 'built-the-transformers' games for guys?
Facebook's the new root of evil. But yeah, nothing beats a day at the 'ol farm. Ha...ha!
You're right about the early parting from dates or dinners. Everyone is doing that, even my family members -.-
I am not part of the zombie clan..lol
Helix
Oh ya, don't even get started on Restaurant City. The most mind-boggling excuse/joke i've got from my friends:
'I am too busy to attend anything at all after hours. Just opened my very first business and flourishes well at night. Damn, the business is so good that i even have to waitress on my own!' (i nearly fainted)
Well, at least the common folks are being drawn to the internet by unknown force...
Helix
sounds like u r another addict kekeee... i play it too, but somehow after awhile, im getting bored with it, not as enjoyable as before.
but helix is right, out of so many, i enjoy playing the restaurant city the most :P
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