We've all been there, we've all seen the messages.
Someones farm needs fertilizer, someones fish needs feeding, someones mafia needs joining.
Blah, blah, blah.
These are the evils of casual games.
You see, there are two types of casual games. The first is the more well-known version which are Wii titles that people from ages 8-800 can play effectively and have fun when you get the entire family together for an evening of fun on Christmas Eve or the like.
The second is what I truly consider the casual game, and they are the bane of my existence.
Farmville, Fishville, Mafia Wars, Vampire Wars, School of Magic, etc...
It's easy to blame Facebook and just get it over with, as all of the games I just described got their go on the social networking site. However, I blame the games more than the site as it is the games that have sucked in people like a drug dealer peddling free candy-flavored crack.
And the sad thing is I have been suckered in myself.
Last night I downloaded a game for my Android phone called World War. I thought it was going to be a cool game where I led soldiers like an RTS or maybe sent a guy though the trenches like an FPS.
However, after five minutes looking over the game I realized that I had, in fact, downloaded a mobile version of a Facebook game.
And instead of putting it down and going straight to the hospital for some antabuse or methadone, I instead continued to play the damn thing and started leveling up.
I am addicted, and I hate myself for it.
Before anyone tries to get me to again be their neighbor or join their family, hear this... I will never be a part of another of these games.
It's a fluke that I joined this game, and I don't want to be a part of any other game like this.
As it stands, I have no desire to attack anyone or do anything more than press about five buttons and level up. I don't care about joining coalitions or anything like that. I am a rogue nation, and I want to be left alone.
Anyway, enough about my secret shame, you can all go back to your farms and fish tanks, just leave me out of it.
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