Sunday, September 7, 2014

From slumlord in The Simpsons to destroyer of nerds in Family Guy

Having chronicled the rapid moral descent of a K-Landnews computer game player in the post "The Simpsons - Fully Tapped Out", we have to say there is worse.

In the Simpson's game, our player realized that building continuous blocks of houses without public infrastructure meant cash was rolling in thick and fast -- and became a slum lord.

After much pleading and arguing, The Simpsons was uninstalled, only to be replaced with Family Guy, the quest for stuff.

We vaguely remembered the Family Guy TV show as a bit risque. In the game the remainders of scruples over zingers have been discarded.
The developers and writers obviously had a blast, and so had our resident player.

Less than a week into the new game, the following conversation took place.

Come on, we need to go.

[Head down, not paying attention]  
Go where?

To the county, for the appointment at 11.

[Head down, fingers moving fast enough to warrant buying a high speed camera]
Oh, okay, just a few more minutes, I gotta whack some more nerds to get a bonus.

What??????

[Head down, fingers moving fast enough to warrant buying a high speed camera]
Yes, I built a wall around the nerds attending Comic-Con, and I get points for whacking them.

You serious?

[Head down, fingers slower, not blurred]
They are kind of hard to hit, so I built a wall around them, that has only one exit, and I can take them out one by one easily when they try to leave.
[Head up, proud smile, fingers stopped]

Wait a moment, you are killing nerds in Family Guy?

[Head down, methodical tapping]
Yes.

You went from slumlord in The Simpsons to killer of nerds in, what, four days?

[Head down, methodical tapping, chuckle]
Yes, I get bombs for killing nerds, and I use the bombs to kill Baby Stewie.
[Chuckle]

We did make the appointment with two seconds to spare.

If any of you readers have solved the problem of moving a slightly game-homicidal human from Family Guy to Candy Crush, please let me know.

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