Emma Weylin

Archive for October, 2010

Pink was a Dragon
Bugs was a Fairy.
I was turning into a Zombie.

We went to a Halloween Bowling Party on Saturday where Bugs won the Scary Laugh contest and Pink won 2nd prize for her costume.  Out family/lane won the trivia contest.  They got candy and tokens for video games.  We had fun!  The day cost 72$.  We came home with 70$ in prizes and gift certificates.  Sounds good to me!

Today we went to the local mall for trick-or-treating.  We got more sugar, had more fun and took bad pictures.  I need to get my camera worked out again. It’s been so long since I’ve used it.
Anyway, I look like death warmed over.  The husband looks like a farmer and the kiddies are just adorable.

Now I am off to try to schedule my life!
New Year’s resolution 2011.  Repeat of 2010 only this time do it.

Signing off.
My head hurts.

Lacking Intelligence? Or purposeful stupidity?

In these days of blogs, online gaming and forums I would think the average person’s reading comprehension would be slightly above that of my first-grader, but alas, this is not true.

I belong to an online gaming community. It’s a game created by Big Fish Games. It’s called Faunasphere. It’s a delightful little game with the player being called a Caretaker. Your in game persona is a cute little animal you hatch from eggs you can earn as you explore the world and destroy pollution. You can help other players by gifting them items and they can help you by gifting you back. It’s a fun game for children and grownups alike. My mother plays, I play, and my children play.

So where does the lack of intelligence come in do you ask? Why the forum of course and the team of “Moderators” whose decisions I am supposed to trust. When anyone writes out a intelligent well thought out argument about any topic not on the “approved opinions list” it is quickly squashed with stupid questions that were answered in the original post by the favored posters and the mods tell you to stop being argumentative if you dare answer more than one of these “questions” and then lock the thread. The very same Moderators, who say there is no favoritism, yet are on all the “friends” lists of their favorite posters along with being on a special list of what is called a patron in the game.

Apparently Faunasphere doesn’t think too highly of the intelligence of their customers and that no one would be able to see this and think it suspicious.

My advice if you want to play this game is to play the free version. You can earn things that people will buy with bux (in game currency) and then you can enter items into the market to earn more without ever having to pay them a dime. Then stay away from the forum. You’re new so anything you post that isn’t already posted by someone else will be locked and you will be pointed to a thread created by one of the favorite posters. Go to customer support if you an issue as the moderation team is relatively useless.

Game Rating = 10
Moderation Team = 1
Customer Service = 3

So there is my review of the game Faunasphere.