geekgirl101 rant spot

I remember buying the original The Sims back in the day and getting excited over the Pets expansion.  What I didn't expect was a trend soon to follow where many games would be segmented into various DLC packs to make up a game that in the end once you added the cost altogether would be as expensive as buying a brand new PC. This trend of buying extra content doesn't just stop with games that I will now refer to as "incomplete games" like The Sims franchise, but is used in many games such as MMOs and phone app games for buying optional items. Now personally I don't mind games like MMOs where buying extra content is optional and not game breaking if you don't buy it.  What does bug me is games that gate you and massively slow down your progress or require you to use items that can only be purchased from an online shop using real cash. For example I used to play Grand Fantasia, a cute anime style MMO that was free to play, but every time your gear broke you neede...

So this Covid-19 virus has now been around for 2 years and our awesome British government (sarcasm) still hasn't come to terms that in order to protect the people around us and to reduce the number of infected we need to keep our bloody doors shut and stay behind them.  Our government isn't setting a good example when they're bribing people to go to public restaurants, opening public schools, and are filmed shaking hands with random people in hospitals.  What in the hell was all that about? Now that there's a vaccine being passed around the most vulnerable members of the public the government has decided to relax the lockdown regulations once more, even if most the public had already given up on trying to guess what the hell they were or weren't supposed to do before due to constantly changing and conflicting press announcements or just didn't give a crap. Aside from our government being run by an amoeba who hasn't brushed his hair since the day he fell out ...