Off Topic
Wow… Hockey season is over. My brilliant plan to use random hockey facts and anomalies to distract you from the fact that I have nothing substantive to say on Saturdays has failed… for now.
So, we continue into the world of being totally off topic and to the point, since if I’m not on topic, why on earth would you keep reading? Except of course when you can see the bottom of the page. Why stop then?
So, video games — I’m a nerd, right… last week, I had the chance to read through an experiment that a gamer is running in “The Sims.” If you’re unfamiliar, The Sims takes the premise of SimCity (where you built a city and it operated the way you built it and then you messed it up) to an absurdly focused micromanagement level. You create characters and help them operate their lives and you mess them up.
Anyway, this gamer has created two homeless “Sims” and set them loose. I think my interest in it was as much in her ability to write what went on from the point of an independent observer as it was in the experiment itself. Well worth five or so minutes to read a little bit of it. It’s an interesting way to raise the homelessness issue, for sure.
I’ll be back Monday, and I’ll be somewhat on topic.
