In less upsetting news

[trinityvixen]

This same weekend as the gross personal injury, PopCap Games had a sale this weekend for charity to benefit Japan following the tsunami and earthquake. All their games we $1, $2 if you bought it for the iPad, which I did. I narrowly avoided buying Bejeweled, for fear that I would never stop playing. (I already have Catan on my iPad, and I'm killing the battery with that enough as it is.) Instead, I bought Plants vs Zombies and some other game I can't recall right now. For $2, I bought peace of mind by having a game or two to turn to when I'm about to smash the iPad into pieces because someone threw the robber on me for the third time, what the fuck I don't even have any cards for you to steal...

Ahem. Alas, it seems I didn't escape the Bejeweled problem. Plants vs Zombies is easily just as addictive. I do at least have some new home-preparedness ideas for the zombie apocalypse. Oh, I'm not saying that sunflowers and pea-shooters will make a lick of difference, just that the game made me aware of how criminally undefended my as-yet-unpurchased home's lawns and roof are. I'm thinking Sleeping Beauty-style wicked brambles and razor wire will get planted instead of adorable, bouncing flowers that sing.

Speaking of singing flowers, I've had the "Zombies on Your Lawn" song from Plants vs Zombies alternating in a loop with the theme from The Great Escape, which I finished watching while playing Plants vs Zombies last night after studying for my exam. Suffice to say, I paid a lot more attention to the movie before I started in on the addictive video game. I also bet that if the microbes I need to memorize were trying to reach my house and eat my brains, I'd know them a lot better by now.

(The Great Escape was good, but the ending is terribly tonally confusing. It's got a lot of tragedy and then some random levity surrounding Steve McQueen that...yeah, doesn't really follow from what happened immediately prior to that scene.)

Comments

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

I hated that movie when I was a kid. I should probably watch it again, now that I am old enough not to get so invested in the characters that their various tragic ends mess me up.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

It messes you up! It's as light-hearted as it can be, being about WWII and Nazis and all that, and then EVERYBODY DIES and I heard a record scratch with the mental disconnect. It went off the player a second time when they ended with Steve McQueen throwing his ball against the wall--liked nothing had happened in between.

[neo-leviathan.livejournal.com]

Zombies on Your Lawn is utterly awesome. Of course, the "There's butter on my head" line always just makes me feel sorry for the zombies...

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

STUPID ZOMBIES. I'm having trouble with the buttered-corn cannon mini-game right now. Can you tell?

[neo-leviathan.livejournal.com]

Man those corn cob cannons are OP >

[shell524.livejournal.com]

Maybe imagining microbes trying to invade and eat your brains is a good way to study?

I have this problem with Angry Birds, Bejeweled, and, of all things, Sudoku.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I played Angry Birds a little. It's cute, but I'm not sure how come it's so addictive. I think it's better that I remain in ignorance, personally.

[xannoside.livejournal.com]

Yeah, when you were saying that you avoided Bejeweled because it was too addictive, I was all nodding my head, understanding.

Then you said you got PvZ instead, and I was all >.<

[chuckro.livejournal.com]

The nice thing about playing Puzzle Quest as a Bejeweled fix, is that as an adventure game, it has an end. Once you finish the final quest, that's it, you're done and can go on with your life.