Webkinz is evil
Apr. 17th, 2009 02:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pyatI just spent an hour playing Elizabeth's Webkinz.
In my defense, I was earning Webkinz Dollars for her, so she can buy pointless in-game crap that doesn't do anything except occupy pixels in her virtual real estate. She's not very good at Tetris or Checkers, and doesn't read fast enough for most of the games.
You try earning $900 for a pink hammock, when your best efforts at the arcade games win you a buck at a time.
She can get a job in-game, but she has to pass exams to get it. And if she make a mistake, she gets laid off. Way to raise a new OCD Generation of wage slaves, Webkinz!
Poor Claire lost her Webkinz toy, but keeps showing up at the computer with random stuffed animals (I will not call them "plushies") and hoping they can play, too. "We put my cow on computer now?" Poor kid.
Stupid Webkinz.
Elizabeth logged in on her birthday. She got a "Wish Token" and a special message telling her to go the "Wish Factory" to get her birthday wish. We hurried over. Maybe we could wish for a pony!
The cruel Pandagirl who runs the place informed us that we need just nine more Wish tokens to redeem the birthday wish! Yay! Come back in 2018, Elizabeth!
Webkinz. Bah.
*Keeps playing "Booper Gets an A", relentlessly adding numbers together until the screen inevitably fills and the game ends...*
Also, it is totally wrong that I should have a crush on the Pandagirl who runs the Wish Factory. Creepy!
I think![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
velvetpage would look good in that jacket!
In my defense, I was earning Webkinz Dollars for her, so she can buy pointless in-game crap that doesn't do anything except occupy pixels in her virtual real estate. She's not very good at Tetris or Checkers, and doesn't read fast enough for most of the games.
You try earning $900 for a pink hammock, when your best efforts at the arcade games win you a buck at a time.
She can get a job in-game, but she has to pass exams to get it. And if she make a mistake, she gets laid off. Way to raise a new OCD Generation of wage slaves, Webkinz!
Poor Claire lost her Webkinz toy, but keeps showing up at the computer with random stuffed animals (I will not call them "plushies") and hoping they can play, too. "We put my cow on computer now?" Poor kid.
Stupid Webkinz.
Elizabeth logged in on her birthday. She got a "Wish Token" and a special message telling her to go the "Wish Factory" to get her birthday wish. We hurried over. Maybe we could wish for a pony!
The cruel Pandagirl who runs the place informed us that we need just nine more Wish tokens to redeem the birthday wish! Yay! Come back in 2018, Elizabeth!
Webkinz. Bah.
*Keeps playing "Booper Gets an A", relentlessly adding numbers together until the screen inevitably fills and the game ends...*
Also, it is totally wrong that I should have a crush on the Pandagirl who runs the Wish Factory. Creepy!
I think
velvetpage would look good in that jacket!
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Date: 2009-04-18 01:15 am (UTC)The jacket looks pretty neat.
I've applied to Webkins numerous times in several positions and never heard a word back from them. Starting to think this is a good thing.
Lee.
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Date: 2009-04-18 01:18 am (UTC)I've applied to Webkinz a few times, myself. Never got a call back. It is actually a fun utility, just a little advanced for Elizabeth.