I cannot believe that this is still a thing.
Farmville can absolutely be filed under "things I do not give a single shit about". Part of this is because I don't find it remotely interesting or useful and the rest of my reasoning is directly related to the fact that Farmville is stupid. It is disheartening to be in mid conversation with friends who have to regularly check on their pretend farm. (Am I less important than your cyber rooster?)
1. Your 'lonely cow' or whatever is not really lonely. It has the whole internet to play in. If I could play in the internet like a kid in 'TRON' I would peace outta Facebook quickfastlikelightning.
2. Your crops are not resolving world hunger. And I feel that world hunger deserves a resolution.
3. The sounds emitted by your computer when you leave it on Farmville make me want to seek out and destroy cute baby animals. Sister once left Farmville open on her password protected netbook and went to the store. During that forty six minutes, I could not adjust the volume or close Farmville, so I walked around it and stared at it bitterly, wishing I had the ability to make that thing to burst into flames. I was genuinely disappointed that I couldn't.
4. If it is a make believe game, my thought is that no one should be penalized for having a real life or a job or sleeping. If you ignore it, it should stay blissfully unaware that you were logged out for a period of hours or days. No one seems to appreciate what a problem this really is. In the event of an internet outage OH NO! WHAT WILL YOU DO? YOUR COW IS ALL ALONE IN THE VAST, VAST INTERNET. PROBABLY DYING A SAD, SAD DEATH OF LONELINESS.
I would just like to reiterate - IT IS NOT A REAL FARM. THEY ARE NOT REAL CROPS. IF YOU WANT THAT KIND OF RESPONSIBILITY, GET YOURSELF A REAL COW.
/rant.
