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Councilman Booted For His Farmville Obsession

Posted by samzenpus on from the think-of-the-crops dept.

Bulgarian Dimitar Kerin won't have to decide if he should tend his crops or pay attention to Plovdiv City Council business anymore. The committee voted him off 20-19, saying that he obviously "needs more time for his virtual farm." From the article: "Kerin was not alone in his obsession among council members. Council chairman Ilko Iliev had previously warned several of them that the new wireless network and laptops provided to all 51 council members were not to be used for playing games on social media sites during budget meetings. Kerin was singled out for continuing to manage his farm and milk his cows despite Iliev's warnings. "

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  1. Re:Too nerdy. by Hatta · · Score: 1, Interesting

    That's the difference between normal people and nerds. Normal people get obsessed over things too. But it's banal, uninteresting shit they get obsessed over. Sports, soap operas, miniature figurines, gun collections, etc. Nerds get obsessed over things that are actually interesting because they requires some thought. Normal people can't relate to it, so they label it and shun it as weird, geeky, nerdy, etc.

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  2. two news in one. by andrea.sartori · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The real news here is, they voted him out 20-19. What were they thinking? I mean, the other 19.

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    1. Re:two news in one. by ZekoMal · · Score: 2, Interesting

      People in government typically don't care about their job. Unless you're IT, people in front of a computer have the priority of porn followed by youtube followed by facebook followed by twitter with actual work at the very, very bottom. Combine these two and you get half of your local government preferring to dick around than actually do what they're paid to do.

  3. I Want Him For My Councilman by Petersko · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I've considered throwing a brick through the front glass on city hall to indicate how I feel about my local government's obscene spending policies. Time spent playing online games is time during which they aren't spending ridiculous amounts of money on stupid, wasteful things.

    I want them to do at least 80% less than they do, so if they waste a bunch of time on online games, that's okay with me.

  4. Re:Too nerdy. by mini+me · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I believe it is the time limited nature of game play. Once you have tended to your farm, there is nothing left for you to do. This builds up excitement that you will get to play again soon. That excitement keeps people coming back. If you could play FarmVille for hours on end without stopping, the novelty would quickly wear off.

  5. Wait. What?? by BigBlueOx · · Score: 2, Interesting

    There's an AOL News?? AOL is still around???

  6. Re:Too nerdy. by wjousts · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I found this piece rather informative:

    5 creepy ways video games are trying to get you addicted