Okay, so I'm still sick, but no longer feeling like I am about to die. Being sick can be quite boring so I decided to try my hand at a game called Kudos. Big fat mistake I tell you! Basically the idea is to start a character and then take her from her 20th birthday to her 30th. In those ten intervening years you have the opportunity to advance your career, love life, health, etc. All my games started with my character being a waitress.
Okay so the first time I tried it I started out as a reasonably happy waitress...I ended up a famous extremely miserable chef. So yes, I progressed in the area of career but I failed everywhere else. Friends were dropping me like flies and every day it would say I woke up and went to work depressed and unhappy! I finally got tired of trying to fix that character, so I started another one. This time I was prepared, I wasn't going for the chef, I would be a doctor by taking night classes.
So we start with our reasonably happy waitress, and she progressed to being a surgeon, and there were a lot of ups and downs but at last I was asked out by a guy! WOOHOO right? Wrong. Of all the male characters in my game, that was the one I liked the least, but when he asked if I would be interested in him, I had the choice to say, "Sorry I only like you as a friend" or take the relationship...by then I was so horrified that it had taken me 4 years to get a date, I obviously clicked on TAKE THE RELATIONSHIP. Sadly, even my game generated boyfriend was the most boring of creatures and even with a boyfriend my character still ended up being a Successful Materialistic, Miserable Surgeon. Now, I still don't know what I'm doing wrong, but my characters become quite materialistic really fast, however, if I try and make them characters who like bowling and beer in the neighborhood pub...then all the people I get introduced to snub me saying they don't want to be seen in public with me.
I decided this game was going nowhere so I took another nytol and headed to bed. During the night I had an epiphany! The reason I didn't have the character of my dreams was because I was trying to accomplish too much, raise the salary, night school, be social, have a clean house, etc...so I awoke thinking AHA I have the solution, I will forgo my character's career advancement until I have secure friendships and a relationship. Armed with this new tactic I headed back into the world of Kudos. I did exactly as planned, let the career slide...well I upgraded my kungfu enough to become a security guard cuz I was having trouble making ends meet as a waitress and my house kept getting broken into. But never mind that! I was a social butterfly...then I realized all my friends ever wanted to do was go have beer, and the only way you bring your alcohol level down is by sleeping on the sofa (don't ask me why), so that would atrophy my muscles, which made my job precarious, so I would have to work out all week, binge drink with friends on Friday, sleep all weekend and continue along. I gave up that character 4 years into my 10 year stint. I retired as a miserable, reclusive, alcoholic nightclub bouncer.
So I have come to this sad conclusion...if I can't make a simulated life work, it's no wonder I'm sitting at home alone dying of the flu wondering why no one is here caring for me!
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