On the Farm

Can I just express how stupid Farmville is? I mean it's a virtual farm, why is that supposed to be fun? I mean at least world of warcraft satisfies the secret desire to be a powerful character in some sort of magical world. But what does farmville satisfy? The secret desire to be a farmer? Seriously? And the excuse that you're really good at it and almost to level 52 is not acceptable. When are the skills that are required to tend to a virtual farm ever going to come in handy in the real world? If that is the only thing you're good at you need to get a life. I especially hate it when you're in the middle of a conversation with someone and suddenly they say, "Oh! I can finally harvest my strawberries!" I know that I too spend my time doing stupid things (some would even say this blog), but don't you want to spend the limited time you have to spend on stupid things not to be spent doing something stupidly boring? If you want to spend it playing a game, don't you want to spend it playing one where you kill things, so you can at least have the satisfaction of releasing some stress? Maybe farmville does release their stress. Maybe successfully growing something, even if it is virtual, gives them satisfaction beyond my knowing. However, don't pretend retreating into the fake world of farmville is in any way going to help you with your real problems.