Pineapple and Toontown

[Ten]

Deviating from my usual weekend procedure, today my father and I went into town for tacos. After we paid we were walking alongside the street and we came across this old, wrinkled black woman with a white thing on her head that looked like a turban. I found this surprising, as (a) very few black people live around here, so when I see one it's like "hey look, someone who's not white or Mexican" and (b) she just looked so... not stereotypical, really, but very... typical? She was wearing a turban towel thing. And it looked like it was made to be worn that way, too. I just didn't realize there were old black women who actually dressed that way in real life.

She was selling baked goods, among them a pineapple upside-down cake with the price written with sharpie on the plastic wrap that covered it. I told Dad to get one. He obliged, but he asked the woman what the price was because the price she had written confused him. I rotated the cake at the same time that she told him it was $10.

Later, in the car, he confessed to me that he had thought, "Bless her heart, she's illiterate" because it looked to him like she had written P1$

The cake is delicious and I felt special buying a cake somewhere other than a store. On a different note, have you ever noticed how ironic and wrong the game Toontown is? It's a great game and I love it, but you know a lot of the people working at Disney are a lot like those cogs.

Plus, remember the in-game explanation that "cogs can't take a joke"? The higher-level gags get harsh, and dropping a piano on somebody isn't a joke.

Also, even though cogs aren't nice, it's disturbing to think that what toons are doing is annoying them until they explode. My sister defended this practice by saying that cogs make toons sad. By her logic, people who cause sadness deserve to be blown up. I know they're robots, of course, but they're rather human-esque robots.

And where does the trolley get jellybeans?

[Darky [Megan]]

The trolley is magical. Every toon knows that. :U How it gets it jellybeans makes as much sense as how it can transport you to different locations (be it mid-air, underwater or in a forest).

My dad used to play the game, to my amusement, and he theorised that it could simply be a satire on the working world and its down-sides. The cogs represent the scum of the working world. Perhaps the programmers over there are just trying to help people relieve stress by having cats, mice, ducks and monkeys blow them up by dropping pianos on them.

I wonder if I'll ever play that game again. It's going to be a pretty heavy reminder of my dad.

I've always wanted to try an upside-down cake. it just looks so queer and interesting. =w= I like how you described that old lady. Must've been an interesting little experience.

[Ten]

"how it can transport you to different locations (be it mid-air, underwater or in a forest)"
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uh... virtual reality headset?


"My dad used to play the game"
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That's so funny though. x)


"It's going to be a pretty heavy reminder of my dad."
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It would be celebrating his memory. ?


"it just looks so queer and interesting."
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Tastes like fruit and bread. Very normal, except for the fact that it was made upside-down.

[duckyaisha]

I've never actually played Toontown. I've only seen the advertisements on Neopets.
Is it fun?

[Darky [Megan]]

"uh... virtual reality headset?"
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Then I shall say; virtual reality headset JELLYBEANS. :U

They could also be invisible though.


"That's so funny though. x)"
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It is. xD I can remember being so amused at the whole ordeal because he's not the sort to care for such games. He was awesome at Toontown. He got all of us up to 100 Happy Face Points (because I can't remember the proper name for tho-- OH LAUGHTER POINTS) and helped us max out all of our chosen gags. He used to have a bunch of pals on there too. Apparently a lot of middle-aged adults play Toontown.

Oh gosh, we even used to tag-team together when we infiltrated the Cog HQs and did the final boss battle things. For some reason I can distinctly remember him telling me, 'Don't let them know we've got two people playing at the same time' while we were concocting strategies with the rest of the toons at what was the most effective gag to use in that situation or how to maneuver the magnets so those safes would land where we wanted them to.

If I ever do play the game again, memories are going to hit me in the face like bricks, I tell you. D: I don't know if it would feel like a celebration, because things were a little sticky at the time, but I know that I might very well cry.


"Tastes like fruit and bread."
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...Huh. Well, there's still the upside down part, I guess. x3


"Is it fun?"
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Describing Toontown would be like trying to describe a crossover between Runescape and Maplestory. x) It's certainly unique and intriguing and dips into childish fantasies and there are lots of little easter eggs to look out for throughout the maps. (Like doors telling you knock-knock jokes and toon rankings for most Cogs defeated, etc.)

It's a Disney game, though, so there are kid-safety thingies that you may need to get around. One interesting thing about Toontown is that you have no free speech to start with. That is, you can't type whatever you want to other people. You're given a drop down list with lots of phrases and sentences to choose from, and to get free speech you have to share Secret Friend Codes with other people so they can type them into a little box and you can speak to them like that. What you're saying will be invisible to other people.

I remember that we used to share Secret Codes by way of leading eventual 'friends' into your houses (you get your own private homes that you can furnish) and reorganising furniture in their midst (this automatically gives them a bird's eye view of the room to simplify matters - usually the items we rearrange are small and all the same. We buy tons of the same thing just to do this) to spell out letters.

... Ah, good times. ='3

[Ten]

"I've never actually played Toontown. I've only seen the advertisements on Neopets.
Is it fun?"
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The ads don't do it justice. If you like turn-based battle games and if a lighthearted sense of Disney doesn't annoy you, you'll like it.


"Then I shall say; virtual reality headset JELLYBEANS."
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Toons use jellybeans to catch fish. Are the fish wearing waterproof headsets?


"I don't know if it would feel like a celebration, because things were a little sticky at the time, but I know that I might very well cry."
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Aw, Darky. D: -hug-


"Describing Toontown would be like trying to describe a crossover between Runescape and Maplestory."
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A crossover between Runescape, Maplestory, and classic Disney. The whole world has a cartoonish, retro style.


"One interesting thing about Toontown is that you have no free speech to start with."
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That's how it used to be, but on my newest account, I was able to select the other form of chat where you're allowed to type (although there are a lot of words it won't allow). I'm thinking it's because I'm above a certain age.


"reorganising furniture in their midst (this automatically gives them a bird's eye view of the room to simplify matters - usually the items we rearrange are small and all the same. We buy tons of the same thing just to do this) to spell out letters."
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You spelled things with furniture? o-o I'd never thought of that.
Darky, you're so cool.

[Cloud]

Ten's sister is funny. Wait, is she younger or older than you?

Toontown reminds me of Millsville.

[Ten]

Ten is the oldest and her sister is the youngest.

What's Millsville?

[Cloud]

Ah, I figured.

Millsville is this old online game I used to play long ago. You had a person and you had a house, bought food, etc.