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Sep. 27th, 2024 10:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
turpsEvery morning I play a couple of tap games on my iPad, one of those is The Simpsons Tapped Out, and today when I played it updated to say the game is finishing, will be taken from the app store soon and the ability to play at all will be stopped at the end of Jan next year.
I played through the very last quest, and it was very meta and very bittersweet, with the characters thanking the developers over the years, and also thanking the players while gently mocking them for poking at a screen for twelve years. Then gave thousands of donuts -- the in game currency -- and free buildings that generate donuts, the idea being for the loyal players to get as much paid content before the end.
I'll miss the game when it goes, I downloaded it in Dec 2012, so have been playing almost as long as the game has been around, and it's a gentle, non-thinking way to ease into a day, and also end the day.
The day also started, finding a dead mouse at the foot of the stairs. Not sure what moggy was responsible for that, but Kevin looked very proud when he picked it up, and I had to chase him around the house before he tried to eat it.
James was supposed to have a hospital appointment this morning, but the consultant's secretary phoned yesterday and said he'd been put with that surgeon by mistake and was actually supposed to be seeing someone with an interest in AMC. So, that appointment was cancelled and another will be made next month sometime.
I was quite pleased it was cancelled tbh as we also have to see Rosie for our one-to-ones at 1:30, then we're picking our nephew and niece up from school, then James has a phone meeting with his team leader to arrange going back to work again next week. So, a slower morning was a bonus.
I played through the very last quest, and it was very meta and very bittersweet, with the characters thanking the developers over the years, and also thanking the players while gently mocking them for poking at a screen for twelve years. Then gave thousands of donuts -- the in game currency -- and free buildings that generate donuts, the idea being for the loyal players to get as much paid content before the end.
I'll miss the game when it goes, I downloaded it in Dec 2012, so have been playing almost as long as the game has been around, and it's a gentle, non-thinking way to ease into a day, and also end the day.
The day also started, finding a dead mouse at the foot of the stairs. Not sure what moggy was responsible for that, but Kevin looked very proud when he picked it up, and I had to chase him around the house before he tried to eat it.
James was supposed to have a hospital appointment this morning, but the consultant's secretary phoned yesterday and said he'd been put with that surgeon by mistake and was actually supposed to be seeing someone with an interest in AMC. So, that appointment was cancelled and another will be made next month sometime.
I was quite pleased it was cancelled tbh as we also have to see Rosie for our one-to-ones at 1:30, then we're picking our nephew and niece up from school, then James has a phone meeting with his team leader to arrange going back to work again next week. So, a slower morning was a bonus.
