Fly the Unfriendly Skies

And other random thoughts on games

Sorry for the lack of any game-related postings today (Wednesday) - I spent the day traveling from the San Francisco to NYC. As luck would have it, I was seated next to two women who considered my seat part of their domain as well, so it was hours of passive-aggressive guerrilla warfare over which part of my seat (all!, IMO) was mine, and not theirs to rest their feet on, store their shoes under, etc etc. I took a nap after finally having it out with them both, and hopefully snored obnoxiously, and bothered them both in doing so, for the remainder of the flight.

I was surprised at the number of people NOT playing games on mobile devices on the trip to NYC today. In total, I observed one guy playing Solitaire. Flying out to San Francisco a few weeks ago, the flight was gamer geek central - Civ IV, Majesty, Doodle Jump were all fired up on various devices - it was a cornucopia and cross-section of gaming interests. Today - one poor soul trying to put down and 8 of Diamonds.

One other surprise, of the noob blogger variety. Ads finally started showing up on my blog today. However, the first ad I saw was for Frosted Flakes - in Spanish. This was replaced by an ad for Alpaca Farms. I was like WTF? Then I realized my previous Tiny Monster posts were all about Farm optimization, so some algorithm must have picked up on the F-word (rhymes with "Harm") and placed ads accordingly. Here I was thinking I'd the poster boy for Cybernetic iPhone Video Game Simulation Users, Apps, and Terminators, and instead the Dairy Council thinks I'm just swell. Stupid Skynet...

Now I'm afraid to run a bunch of posts I was honestly considering to blog Zombie Farm 2 and Farmville2, lest I end up becoming the Best Sales Rep of 2012 for Burpee Seeds. Any suggestions? Seriously.