Corpse Camper

Starting a new blog is always such a ... quiet thing. No one knows about you, the blog's still in its infantile-squealing stage, and you're all alone in a big-big blogger world, trying to make your way post by post into something full-grown, gorgeous and interesting. It's a long haul -- a lot like puberty, not that I remember much of it, thankfully -- and it can be a lonely lot.

Of course, that's why you beg your friends to come and hang around, just to make it look like there are people who love you and who are hanging on your every word. Of course, I have a limited supply of gamer friends, and all of them are either doing odd flying ERP things on Aion, waiting for their 3.3 patch to download in World of Warcraft or playing bass for Rambling Man on Rock Band. (Ahem, friends? This is for you to read and consider, whenever you get your little tailbones here to read and support me, six months from now. And no, being my backup healer in game does NOT count -- especially since you let me die!)

The life of a gamer can be lonely, even when you're surrounded by people. Thankfully, more and more geeks are coming out of the console and admitting what they do in their spare time. So until the rest of the world arrives, it's just me and you and Steve-the-duck-4-evah. I'm in your debt forever (or at least until someone else shows up!).

Camp that corpse! M-J

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Found this funny post via Casual Girl Gamer: Top Ten Crummy Jobs that are Great Fun as Games. And she has a few points, namely about jobs like air traffic controller, bridge builder and hotel manager. Although I did love waitressing, a whole lot. Mainly because it paid my way through college. And I did grow up on a farm, so I can vouch for the horribleness that is that one.

While I was thinking about it, I thought I'd put together my top five jobs that I adore in-game, but would hate in real life:

1. Tailor. I'm often a tailor in the MMOs that I play. I like making things that I can wear in-game, and since I often play casters and healers, about all I can wear is cloth. Also, you can make bags in most games, and that's a good way to make money. You can tailor in games like WoW, Everquest2 and most other MMOs. However, in real life, I get tangled in fabric, I can't sew a straight line to save my life and I don't have the patience to darn a sock or tighten a loose button. So... next.

2. Race car driver. Okay, granted that I'm showing my girldom here, but the thought of driving a car around forever and forever in real life while trying not to run into trees, other cars or mud puddles. It doesn't help that in real life, I tend to hit everything that is anywhere on the screen and I fall off most cliffs. Destruction Derby 2 and Twisted Metal? I'll freaking pass.

3. Soldier. Again, I get that running around shooting things is great fun in games, but I have to admit that I don't want to do it in real life. Especially not in the name of God or Government. Fun soldier games are Fallout (you can even be a girl soldier, which is quite fun) and Modern Warfare 2.

4. Skinner. This is another career choice that I often make in MMos. The leather sells well, and I sometimes need it for tailoring stuff as well. In real life, I've watched people skin deer and rabbits and anything else. It's just icky and bloody and gory, and you have to do a lot of things with the hide before it becomes anything useable.

5. Chef. I like to cook, I really really do. But to cook huge amounts of food by rote for everyone and anyone, just so they can bitch about it being too dry? No. Thank. You. But I could cook in-game for hours, via places like Cafe World and the Sims 3.