Deep Sarcasm

Today I finally gave in to temptation and downloaded the trial version Spore Creature Creator. I must say, it is quite entertaining to build your own creatures and watch them spring to life at your command. Unfortunately, this is only the Creature Creator and the actual Spore release is a long way off in September…*sigh*. I will probably not be buying the creature creator since it is not that much fun without the core game.

Here are some pictures of my random and not-very-attractive creations:

It's a sad purple monkey...I suck at this game.

Don't ask me what this is supposed to be, all I can tell you is that it looks constipated.

"I'm flying, I'm flying!"

I think that’s enough for now, I did have some more but they are equally uninspiring and you would probably be better off finding creatures in the Sporepedia. My sad creations are reflective of my originality, I’d say…it’s nice to be able to fool myself so easily.

One of the slogans used to promote this game is “survival of the funnest”, the idea being that during the course of the game the player would choose to continue with only those species which are more fun than the rest - kind of makes sense, but nobody has any idea how exactly this works yet. I mean, do you kill off everything else? Abandon your own creations to take care of themselves? Have them eaten by other creatures? The possibilities are theoretically endless, and hopefully so is the margin for ethical decisions.

Personally, I feel that this slogan should be applied to a plethora of modern world phenomena in addition to this game: Imagine being able to completely get rid of uninteresting channels on your TV, or getting rid of that one salesman who follows you around Circuit City, looking over your shoulder and ensuring you get the limited combo deal. Being able to flip through all of life’s problems would be a convenience to trump all conveniences…where’re those darn comets when you need them?

There are some things, though, which aren’t fun but are worth putting up with. Kind of like the time you get lectured by your parents for wanting them to buy you something but they end up getting it anyway, or when the fire fighter drags you kicking and screaming from the edge of that high-rise and you realize later how fortunate that was.

I will be putting more effort into future blog posts as and when I find my camera, for lack of a scanner and abundance of scan-able stuff you might like.