For the bored and curious

[altivo]

I have nothing to hide and everyone else is doing this so...

Click here to: Ask me anything.

Or I suppose you could do it in a comment here, but then I'll know who you are. ;p

Comments

[altivo]

I figured the inflatable one might be you. All are answered there on formspring.me now.

[calydor]

*looks at various answers*

Didn't you state some time back that you got tricked into playing Farmville on Facebook? That counts as a video game. Technically.

[altivo]

Maybe in a very loose sense. It didn't last long, because it was really limited. Not Farmville, but the other one. Farmtown, is it?

In any case, that's a weak kind of simulation and not very gamelike. "My Zoo" is another example, though it's a bit more extensive. Neither has much that you'd call competition or strategy to it. Nor do they have even as much challenge or problem solving as the old Colossal Cave Adventure by Crowther and Woods.

Probably the closest I've come to actually playing a video game was Lemmings, way back in the Amiga days, and that didn't last long either. Today's hack, shoot, explode and wreck games with their extensive video effects are quite repellent to me.

[cabcat]

Do you clean your frogs?

[altivo]

Of course. It's just like cleaning under your fingernails or claws.

Those of us who have paffers, though, usually don't have frogs. My horses have frogs, but I do not. ;p