Updown Town

After the whole server fiasco, I was in the mood for some gaming. I've been playing SimCity 3000 all day.

This game is mad fun. I've been telling these crazy environment-Nazis to take their retarded ordinance proposals and shove them. I'm telling you, these guys make up the most useless ways to waste my funding since illuminated parking meters. Just five minutes ago some hippie strolled into my office (figuratively, or course) and handed me a proposal to stick water meters on fire hydrants. I told him to take his proposal and go pound sand. I have been getting good deals from my neighboring cities, though. I'm selling water to Dryfield, and I'm piping my extra power up to Sparkstown. I'm getting the shaft from Ungerville, though. I've got this deal to send my garbage to them every month, in exchange for a modest fee. It's good for me because I don't have to dispose of it myself, cutting pollution in the air and water; the only problem is that they've been upping the rates every year, now they're to the point where I pay nearly two grand per ton of garbage I shovel out. (Trust me, this is a very bad deal.) I've got plans to tear up my contract next time they come asking for more cash.

This crazy guy "Malcom Landgrab" keeps showing up with these awesome deals on behalf of some company or another. The last time he came around he offered to pay me money every month to let him build a "Gigamall", a big mother of a shopping center; before that he gave me a phat sum of loot to build "Casino Row", an establishment that does more dice-rolling than the cities of Las Vegas and Reno combined.

My residential sector is doing great, I've got a bunch of mad high-value waterfront property, and a good chunk of high-density apartment complexes to house my massive population. I've also got this giant hotel-looking building that reminds me of a Four-Seasons, I don't know where it came from, but it's attracting people by the boat load. My commercial sector is sort of shabby. I think my Gigamall is having the Wal-Mart effect on my local businesses. My industrial sector is great, lots of high-tech research centers have come in and set up shop, making those giant smoke spewing factories a thing of the past.

I'll have to expand my power grid, though. My lone power-plan is stressed to the max pumping power to my city. I'll buy and build a Fusion power plan as soon as I have the funds. The Fusion plant will pump out twice as much power as I could ever use, giving me more juice to sell to Sparkstown. I should probably build some more garbage elimination structures while I'm at it, I'll need them once I tell Ungerville to pack it and I have to take care of my own trash.

Oh....I just spent like a million years writing about a game of SimCity. My bad.