There's nowhere to go but crazy

[vovat]

I received the Future Bible Heroes album Memories of Love in the mail today. I chose to buy this album over some others that I might have wanted a little more because Amazon said it would ship immediately, and I wanted to get my order as quickly as possible without having to pay shipping charges. As it turned out, though, they shipped it separately anyway. I didn't have to pay any extra, though, so it's no big deal. The album is pretty cool, although far from my favorite record released by Stephin Merritt. I like "Lonely Days," "Hopeless," and "Real Summer" (the latter of which some of you might recognize from my summer mix CD). The lyrics to "Death Opened A Boutique" are pretty clever. I also quite like the cover art, which involves a lot of games and puzzles.

In other news, Bill O'Reilly apparently thought respondents to some poll were dumb for saying that they were more concerned about the economy than terrorism. Really, though, does the average person stand more chance of dying in a terrorist attack, or starving because they couldn't get a job? That's why it always annoys me when politicians are all, "National security and fighting terrorism are our TOP PRIORITIES!" They're important, certainly, but there are many other things that have much more of an impact on my day-to-day life. I guess if you're rich and powerful like O'Reilly, though (and his commercials SAY he's powerful, so why shouldn't we believe it? :P), there's no reason to be concerned about the economy.

I had a dream in which a temp agency offered me a job at a gas station. There was also another one that I wish I could remember better. There was some video game with a town in it. It reminded me of Animal Crossing, but the town was bigger.

Hmm, Animal Crossing is a game I haven't played in a long time. I was wondering today whether it would be preferable to live in an Animal Crossing town or a Sim neighborhood. It might take a little while to get used to living around talking animals, but I'm sure you'd adjust eventually. Besides, even the meanest animals don't come over to your house, nag you, walk in on you in the bathroom, clog your toliet, and leave in a huff because you're not entertaining them every single minute. A Sim can get a job with no tedious interviewing or anything. I'm sure I, personally, would never get promoted, since you have to make friends for that. I'd be guaranteed the initial $100 per day, though, I suppose. On the other hand, you can get money in the animal towns simply by shaking trees (although then there's a risk of bee stings) or selling the fruit that grows all over. I'm sure either one would be more fun than living in a game where monsters are likely to attack at any moment, which is the case with most of the games I play.

Comments

[goose-gumshoe.livejournal.com]

i personally would opt for animal crossing over the sims any day. worst case scenario in that peaceful forest is you run into Mr. Resetti and you'd probably have to bring that on yourself! XD

[vovat.livejournal.com]

Speaking of Resetti, isn't it weird when characters in a game tell you how to play it? It's probably a good idea, since a lot of kids lose or throw out the instruction booklets, but it lessens verisimilitude. How would someone IN the game know what a reset button or a Rumble Pak is?

It makes me think of the part in The Secret of Evermore where some crazy preacher guy rants about how they're all characters in a video game.

[rockinlibrarian.livejournal.com]

The ponderance on the best video games to live in made me happy, thank you.

[vovat.livejournal.com]

You're welcome. I like coming up with posts like this one.

[jenhime.livejournal.com]

Animal Crossing definitely!

With my luck, I'd get stuck in The Sims neighborhood created by the sadistic person who creates houses with no bathrooms.

[vovat.livejournal.com]

Well, in AC, you're actually IN the game. The fact that you're an outside force controlling the Sims' lives makes for interesting gameplay, it must be difficult for the people whose houses keep changing around them, affecting their bankroll in the process. On the other hand, maybe people who never think to knock before entering a stranger's bathroom and take forever to figure out that they can go around an obstruction NEED to have an unseen force bossing them around.

[bethje.livejournal.com]

Animal Crossing of course. Everyday, I could tell Portia she was pretty and her home was nice, and then she'd call me a subhuman. I love Portia. But the roaches in The Sims scare me a lot less than the roaches in Animal Crossing.

[vovat.livejournal.com]

Everyday, I could tell Portia she was pretty and her home was nice, and then she'd call me a subhuman.

But maybe "excrahm" or "fwah, fwah!" also translates to "subhuman." {g}

But the roaches in The Sims scare me a lot less than the roaches in Animal Crossing.

I guess in a town where cats and mice are the size of people, it stands to reason that the roaches would be oversized as well. It would be convenient if you could hire a maid to kill the roaches in AC, though. If there WERE a maid, I wonder what kind of animal it would be.