Geek vs Life

I’ve been pondering a few things (some of them while starving myself for 5 days due to a parasite of some sort).

Let’s try a discussion here:

-No surprise here, Casual games are geared towards a largely growing  market of middle aged women with possibly too much time on their hands. I’m not trying to say it like it’s a bad thing though. My concern is that the companies are making the games TOO CAT FRIENDLY. If I were to leave my laptop on with Bioshock running, my cat would stay the fuck away. The pretty landscapes and southing Jazz of Bejeweled 2 seems akin to catnip. Discuss.

-Last February, someone commented on how the “companies” want you to buy in to the whole “valentine’s” day crap and buy your loved ones candy. Now I am far from being a business major, but the opposite would seem to be more logical. Promote individuality, promote being single, promote it en masse. Why? Two consumers are better than one. In a couple or in a household all you need is ONE TOASTER (for example, of course). Individually, you all need one. Think about it, if you just moved in with someone, chances you had to get rid of some stuff because your partner had a better/cutter one. If the relationship ends, you’ll be forced to buy that precious little tea kettle all over again. Now I might be taking a leap here and forgetting about stuff like the housing market, but to save the national economy, we should all become hedonistic polygamists. Discuss on how it relates to everyone owning their very Xbox360.

The end for now.