Webkinz is evil

[pyat]

I 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 velvetpage would look good in that jacket!

Comments

[melskunk.livejournal.com]

Aww.. I always wanna buy webkinz :)

[neebs.livejournal.com]

You know, if there is a way for others to log on and waste time at work I MEAN HELP ELIZABETH EARN POINTS, then I would be all over that for her! =)

[asqmh.livejournal.com]

I think velvetpage actually is resembled by that panda chick. Perhaps that explains your crush? ^_^

[pyat.livejournal.com]

That makes me feel a bit better about it. ;)

[melskunk.livejournal.com]

Agreed!

[pyat.livejournal.com]

I'll think about !

[pyat.livejournal.com]

It's not a bad game, really, but I think it's geared to 7 or 8 year olds or older.

[anidada.livejournal.com]

We have not brought Anyone's attention (and I would appreciate it if nobody else did, either!) to the online usages of Webkinz. We're hoping (perhaps naively) that if we don't point it out, we'll never have to deal with it. For now, they're just other stuffed animals. Also... we've lost the codes.

G-d help ya, man. As if you needed yet another job. :P

[pyat.livejournal.com]

In the future, everyone's job will involve earning virtual dollars to send a virtual pet to a spa!

[seritaph.livejournal.com]

I live in a house that's ruled by Webkinz. My sister and her husband regularly play the games in order to help both daughters out with their purchasing habits.

They tried to sucker me into it but I don't do drugs.

[pyat.livejournal.com]

I'm sure there are vast warehouses of Webkinz farmers somewhere in China...

Maybe if they let you stay rent-free?

[relee.livejournal.com]

Well, the Panda is kinda cute.

[relee.livejournal.com]

That's not really that far from the truth. ^.^;;

[pvenables.livejournal.com]

I hear ya man and agree totally. My girls cannot play all the games themselves and so I end up helping a fair bit. Then I want to play for them so I can earn some kinzcash or whatever it's called.

I always groan inwardly when I hear the words "Webkinz" coming from my kids.

[anidada.livejournal.com]

Ah, you beat me to it. :)

[pyat.livejournal.com]

^.^ She is!

[quoting-mungo.livejournal.com]

Heh. I was sinking something like 3-4 hours a day into that site last summer/fall. Mostly doing that Bejeweled-like game, with the dog in the lab.

And yes, the wish factory does suck with the whole "put in five million tokens before you can make a wish!" thing.


-Alexandra

[rikoshi.livejournal.com]

I think Rikoshi would look good in that jacket!

[tuftears.livejournal.com]

I concur with asqmh. };)

[forkly.livejournal.com]

What?! That is so stupid that you need to save up that many wish tokens. As if they'll still be around in nine more years. By then we'll have AI 'plushies' and we wont even need the computer! ;D

*Whistles*

[lee-in-limbo.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the Pandagirl sort of reminds me of your wife, too... except, you know, not as curvaceous and stuff. And missing glasses. But anyway.

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.

[pyat.livejournal.com]

You are now the 5th person to note that Erin looks like the Panda. ;)

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.

[pyat.livejournal.com]

There are other ways to get the Wish tokens, it seems, but darned if I can figure 'em out.

[pyat.livejournal.com]

Squeee! :)

[tigerwolfvix.livejournal.com]

http://www.elubin.com/webkins/wish_factory_token.asp
That's all I could really find.

[pyat.livejournal.com]

So, you need 10 tokens to get in, but the cheapest "wish" costs 12! Yay! :)

Thanks for the link, though.