I Am an Addict

and I am addicted to Farmville....not Facebook, oh no, I don't give a fig about that, because the only interest I share with my so called "friends" is Farmville.

The photo is a photo of my ever changing farm.  It is loosely based on the Montalvo Rancho, but I try to make mine prettier and more hospitable.  In the photo you can see my crop of Heavenly Blue morning Glories and some type of Red fruits, Raspberries, I do believe.  You can also see my sauna (because having an Initi is not an option), my lake, my Japenese garden & tea house (where if it were real, I'd be seeing my clients), and a variety of fruiting trees.....  I have moved my dreams to a visible location via virtual reality.

Now here's the problem with Farmville, it panders to greed and the  insatiability of craving for more bigger & better.  There are people who purchase so many animals that they are lined up like an abundance of tchochkes on a hoarder's shelves.  Some people have 3-4 "homes" on their farm, some have general stores or libraries!  

Another unfathomable thing is colored hay bales & fences...I have hay for my animals to eat (see I told you...I am lost in virtual reality) not for decoration....I do not need, nor do I want 3 or more Dairy Farms...that's a whole lot of b.s. (that's a pun)!  Someone actually asked me, "Why do you have water troughs for your animals? It's not as if they are alive and you need to feed & water them."  Well, yes as that is true, I'm trying to make my fake reality as real as possible....if I had farm animals (which most likely I wouldn't), that I was making a living off of, I would indeed have to feed & water them....

Then we have the holiday "stuff". Valentine's Day we had a mailbox, collected Valentines and traded them in for such exciting & much needed gifts as (ok, I'm not kidding here): an I Love Ewe (a pink sheep with a headband supporting two red hearts, a bench with kissing ducks, a pair of flying winged cupid pigs, a garish 3 tiered heart shaped fountain.  St. Paddy's day: a flower cart (cool), a green ewe with head band and shamrocks (I Do Not Lie), a Leprechaun, a stone castle, etc. Christmas: Reindeer, Reindeer with Christmas lights strung on her (yes her, only female reindeer have antlers during winter) antlers, a illuminated flat Christmas box, fences with wreaths (those were nice).  Olympics: a bobsled, torch, ski something-or-other. Mardi Gras: Carnival masks, French Quarter Buildings, Carnival Mask Tree....  Get the picture.  Super Bowl: A Referee Leprechaun, a Referee cow, a field goal kicking cow, team flags, and a pretty good b-b-q (that I got for my back yard). One theme had a Totem pole, which was pretty insulting as it uses cartoon characters.  Ok, get my drift?

Farmville is so busy that most times it doesn't even function properly....I have lost numerous crops to "Out-of-Sync" issues than to anything else.  I spend my time plowing, planting & harvesting...but it gets lost in down time.  What should take me no more than 45 minutes (15 per task), as I have 200 plots of plantable land, takes me hours.

I can not visit my "neighbor's" farms to fertilize their crops, feed their chicken, run off the foxes, raccoons, or crows, or weed their gardens, because they own so much "cutesy" crap on their farms that it takes near forever to load their farms......

Part of the problem is that the creators of Farmville have too much going on at once.  They add too many new applications at one time.  I say focus on one thing at a time....do not add more gifts, new crops, "specials" if all they are going to do is slow down the running of the application itself.  We do not need all that "cutesy" crap...it is taking too much virtual memory to run and again it is pandering to the never ending greed of our existence.  My pc may be old (Windows XP) but it doesn't have problems with any other website or program except Farmville.

Farmville can be fun and at one time it was a relaxing way to spend a few hours after work, but lately it's becoming a chore.  

I am addicted to Farmville.....see my farm...isn't it pretty with all the dead blueberries?