Why torture you, TKD? I'll just put you to work in the salt mines. Might as well get some work out of you before you die.


I gave a villager a voice once. Let me tell you how that went.

ME: Hey, could you do some farming please?
Villager: Uh-uh.
ME: Well, look, we're really low on food and I'm trying to put your interests first. If you don't harvest some food, you're going to starve.
Villager: Uh-uh.
ME: But surely you must see that . . . uh . . . where are you going?
Villager: <Kissy sound, walks into a hut with another villager>
ME: Okay, if you're QUITE finished, you're still in imminent danger of --
Villager: <Kissy sound, walks into the hut with that same villager>
ME: Are you done? Listen, here's the NEW deal. If you don't get over there and harvest some fruit, you're going to be up to your eyebrows in orchid-potions, and when one of them blows up, well, I won't be responsible for what happens.
Villager: <Kissy sound - plucked away and locked in the alchemy lab>

Look, I understand that some in the SPCV are younger people who take their villagers as seriously as my niece took her dolls -- which each had a favorite flavor of tea for the tea parties, names, birthdays to remember, some dolls didn't like other dolls, and couldn't come to the same tea parties. And I seriously don't mean to anger you guys.

On the other hand, it's a game, and these 'villagers' are the outcome of programming and mathematics represented visually; no more sentient, and not as pretty as a fractal image generator. Let's try not to take this too seriously, and laugh where we can laugh?

Life has enough injustices to make me cry; let's not make them up where they don't exist.

LOL, Lurkily!!! Your 'poor' villager!!


Very well said! That's what I've been privately feeling myself.

Wellll, STRICTLY speaking, locking a villager in the alchemy lab to help prevent village starvation, is not a violation of SPCV policies. Neither is "forcing" a villager to learn farming in an effort to prevent starvation of the tribe.

This is, after all, no worse than locking away a bad person who has committed a crime in our civilization. We never said you couldn't "punish" certain bad behaviors, as long as it isn't capital punishment.

In the immortal words of Mr. Spock: "The needs of the many, outweigh the needs of the few."

Sounds to me, that at heart you may have the makings of and SPCV member after all!

Sounds to me, that at heart Rockmower may have the makings of an SPVC member after all!

Ahem, I also have a pertinent (sp?) quote. It's far less impressive, but I post none the less.

"With great power comes great responsibility."
I think that the power to decide if a villager lives or dies is a pretty great power...

"The Guiding hand is supreme." That's my quote. And that's why I'm an unofficial supporter of the SPVC.

You missed the other part.Remember what orchid-orchid-orchid does? Furthermore, remember what alchemy explosions do to very weakened villagers? I think the roster lists it as 'work accident' . . .

Announcement! The SPCV sig image is complete! It's a little low-res, due to size limitations (240 wide when most monitors handle 400 wide fine? Rrrrrrrr.)

I present to you . . .

You can get this beaut at:
http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff9/Lurkily/SPVC.jpg

Some refinements may be made; for instance, it could look to some like the chief is pushing, not directing. When this is done, I'll replace the old image so it'll automatically be used; there may be a momentary downtime, as I delete one image to upload the next.

Edit: Happy now? Look what you made me go and do.


Edit 2:And you. Are YOU happy?

LOL LURKILY!!! I love it!
And you usually do stuff on your own.
Those poor, workin' villagers.

I see a slacker!

Why is that villager just sitting there???

Or is he clutching his little pixel heart because he's been worked to the point of dropping from exhaustion?