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Reviews From the Customers of the Various Simulator Games I Play

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“My food came quick though the person handing me the food stared at me with lifeless, dead eyes.”

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“It’s very clear that because us drive thru people can’t leave, he leaves us until the end of the day. I ordered food at 7am and didn’t get it until twelve hours later. I was also the last person in line at the drive thru so I got a burger with 25 patties on it.”

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“Seems to force fairies to do all the work and also kept leaping over out table on the way to help other customers. The steak was not that great.”

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“Asked him if they had more than the five items on the shelf and he said that he hadn’t unlocked anything else. I don’t know how I’m supposed to make a meal with chocolate cereal, flower, white bread, sugar and vegetable oil.”

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“Oh God, he’s killed so many people. He doesn’t slow down for road closings. He just barrels through. He’s a menace to everyone else on the road. Sometimes he’ll just be driving normally but he’ll just veer off the road and crash into the guardrail.”

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“I’ve never met anyone happier to do their job than this power washer. Though I’m a little worried about the condition of his knees as he keeps falling off of tall things and is seemingly fine.”

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“It was a really good shop until he overextended himself and couldn’t afford to finish a car. Since then it’s been left fallow and he never came back to it. I’d like to get my car but he hasn’t been backed. Welp, he’s starting a new garage, I’m disappearing like I just got snapped by Thanos. Goodbye my darling wife. Goodbye my chi-“

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“It’s good food as long as you don’t show up in the last ten seconds. Then they realize they can’t fulfill your order and just spin in place.”

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“He was preparing my food but then he was alerted the bathroom needed to be cleaned and he did so but didn’t wash his hands.”

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“Good coffee for a bad price. But make sure that you’re order isn’t complicated because if it is, the owner will come around the counter and hit you with a baseball bat. Also people keep leaving their cigarettes on the floor. One person did and the swing of his baseball bat hit most of us. He seemed to not care and then went to bed at 3pm while there were still people in the queue.”

Once again I have overthought a game genre

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Another game genre that I’ve been enjoying are simulator games. Two in particular lately, fast food simulator and supermarket simulator. I can say that the first one is a highly accurate version of what it’s like working in a McDonald’s as I did for my first job. The only thing is that I’m not horrendously shy and scared of people.

The work in both games is just as monotonous. You perform the same actions day in and day out. You can throw on a podcast and just cruise. There’s no story to pay attention to.

So, why do I love these games?

Yahtzee the very swear-y video game reviewer has called these dad games and one of his points is that it lets you envision your life if you had taken a different path. As someone who has played these games it also allows you to pretend that these are viable career paths. I put together one bag of food for someone coming through my drive through and it had four items an somehow cost fifty-six dollars.

I’m not a dad and never will be but I’m dad age. Sometimes I imagine pulling a dude from American Beauty and going back to work at McDonald’s when things in my life were simple. But I don’t think that’s why I actually like these games. McDonald’s made my clothing stink no matter how many times my mom washed them. One of my prize Kurt Cobain t-shirts was forever cursed with the smell because I put my work shirt on it overnight.

The real reason that I think that I like it is that I have another hobby that some people might consider boring: knitting. For a lot of people, it might seem so boring to sit still and slowly knit stitch by stitch. But there’s something that I love about the click of the needles and the slow creation of a scarf or washcloth(I’m not that good. I need to work on getting better).

It’s the same thing with these games. Watching as my level goes up in either one and expanding on the things I can make in my fast food restaurant or watching my supermarket slowly expand. It’s the satisfaction of a job well done. Even though it’s just a bunch of 1’s and 0’s.

When I knit, the world falls away, my mind clears and I can just focus on that. It’s the same thing with these simulator games. I don’t care if people think they’re a waste of time or boring, for me those moments of peace are what make it all worth it.

I’m including the Yahtzee video if you want to hear more about dad games: