walkthrough reqd pls thx
My daughter has started to want things. Until now she has only needed things. Here is the difference:
Scenario A: Fin Needs Something
Fin: “Mmmrrraaaaaa.”
Me: “It must be lunch time. Let’s get you some food.”
Scenario B: Fin Wants Something
Fin: “Book? Book?”
Me: “No book, it’s time for lunch.”
Fin: “Book? Book? Book?”
Me: “No, honey.”
Fin: “Book? Book? Book? Book? Book? Book? Book? Book?”
For a while now I have thought of raising Fin like a video game. You start off with fairly simple tasks to accomplish, to help you get a hang of the basic controls. Thereafter you encounter obstacles of steadily increasing difficulty.
The only real difference is that if you fail a level, you don’t get to go back and try it again. Instead, all of that level’s monsters follow you to the next one. Oh, and you get no power-ups.
Here are the levels I think I’ve completed so far:
Level 1: Don’t Drop Me
Level 2: Keep Me Warm But Not Too Warm
Level 3: Guess Why I’m Crying
Level 4: I Did A Poo In My Pants
Level 5: Food
Level 6: Try To Make Me Sleep
Level 7: Guess What I Just Put In My Mouth
Level 8: I Have Noticed That You Do What I Want When I Cry
Level 9: Biting Is Fun
Level 10: Am I Sick?
Level 11: I Can Reach Your Valuables
Level 12: But I Don’t Want To Wear Pants
Level 13: I Can Climb On Things To Reach Your Valuables
Level 14: No
Level 15: My Education Depends On You Signing Me Up To A Good School’s Waiting List A Year Ago
Some future levels I’m expecting:
- Why Don’t I Have A Penis?
- But Mom Said I Could
- I Want A Pony
- All The Other Girls Have Pierced Belly Buttons
- Boys Are Cute
- I Should Look Like The Girls In The Magazines
- My Boyfriend Has A Car
Then of course there are the optional bonus levels, such as I’ve Decided To Go Backpacking Through Thailand, and Dad This Is My Life Partner Susan.
I think I need to read some more strategy guides before then. I believe they are called “parenting books.”
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Myke (#2316)
Posted: 6440 days ago
Julian Bennett Holmes (#2209)
Location: New York, NY USA
Posted: 6440 days ago
Colette (#324)
Location: Houston, Texas, USA
Quote: ""The good Earth â we could have saved it, but we were too damn cheap and lazy" -- Kurt Vonnegut"
Posted: 6440 days ago
Danni (#357)
Location: England
Quote: "Eagerly awaiting the European Tour."
Posted: 6440 days ago
It's never easy :)
Jane (#321)
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Quote: "Which is worse: Ignorance or apathy? Who knows? Who cares?"
Posted: 6440 days ago
I have been feeling the same way about my baby since about day one. (He is now 6 months, and I have just reach Level 5.)
In addition to no power-ups, there are also no easter eggs, no cheats and worst of all, no 'off' switch!
Life with a baby definitely feels like a computer game sometimes - especially the first 3 months or so; it was all quite surreal in my sleep-deprived state. I kept waiting for 'the authorities' to knock on the door, say "Thanks for looking after this little chap so well. You've done a great job. Now we are going to take him to be looked after by professionals". I knew when this happened, I would be sad, but would know it was the best thing for my baby.
Then, one day I suddenly realised, this isn't a game. There is no expert, professional parent out there. Oh yeah, and if I were to fail a level... (cue ominous music)
Dead (#724)
Location: Ipswich, Australia
Quote: "5'4" and bulletproof."
Posted: 6440 days ago
Dan Maurath (#2013)
Location: Maine
Quote: "You know, we're not the only ones destroying trees. What about beavers? You call yourself an environmentalist, why don't you go club a few beavers? - Lindsay - Arrested Development"
Posted: 6440 days ago
Ever think of writing one of your own in a few years when Fin is older? It doesnt necessarily need to be practical just entertaining. Id read it.
Janet (#2030)
Location: California
Quote: "There are three kinds of people in this world: Those that can count and those that can't. Which one are you?"
Posted: 6440 days ago
Gee, what else are you missing?
"Daddy, can I have a cell phone with unlimited text messaging and minutes? And make sure its a Dulci and Cabbanna phone too!"
Yenzo (#829)
Location: Secret underwater pyramid base in the Pacific
Quote: "In order to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe (Carl Sagan)"
Posted: 6440 days ago
I wonder if, after you finished it, you'll want to do it all over again to find all the side quests.
Marleen (#2741)
Location: Canada
Posted: 6440 days ago
Besides. I'm 26 now and I still want a pony.
God (#1369)
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Posted: 6440 days ago
Craig Barron (#1276)
Location: Leeds, UK.
Quote: "Trust Elizabeth to get upset over a donut."
Posted: 6440 days ago
Max: "Come on sweetheart we have to set off now"
Fin: Why?
Max: "Because we are going to be late"
Fin: "Why?"
Max: "Because I was busy planning my next book tour to the UK some thing I have been putting off for a while now and did not realise the time"
Fin: "Why?"
Max: "Fin we really have to set off now, it's not like I can just turn back time"
Fin: "Why?
Max: "Well there are a few theories proposed by physicists which suggest electromagnetism can warp time and space, Burkhard Heim said that electromagnetic energy was interchangeable with gravitational energy by rewriting general relativity within a quantum framework four-dimensional spacetime universe of a quantum structure of six dimensions allowing for the coupling of electromagnetism and gravitation, But I think is a load of all hooe"
Fin: ....
Barry Mitchell (#1001)
Location: Saukville, Wisconsin
Quote: ""A hamster's like a small camel" - Ben Katz"
Posted: 6440 days ago
Great post! :)
Jane (#321)
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Quote: "Which is worse: Ignorance or apathy? Who knows? Who cares?"
Posted: 6440 days ago
Tom Martin (#372)
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Quote: "I have nothing to say, yet I can't help but put in a quote."
Posted: 6440 days ago
Craig Barron (#1276)
Location: Leeds, UK.
Quote: "Trust Elizabeth to get upset over a donut."
Posted: 6440 days ago
Press : start, A, B, LB, X
for the hidden "Millionaire Princess Fin wins Nobel peace prize and buys Mummy and Daddy Queensland" level
Robert Dillette (#2827)
Location: Brisbane, QLD
Quote: "Cante Jondo and The Blues; Popular suffering raised to a high art."
Posted: 6440 days ago
You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door.
There is a small mailbox here.
Marleen (#2741)
Location: Canada
Posted: 6440 days ago
east
j/k ;)
Adam A. (#256)
Location: Phoenix, Arizona
Quote: "Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that." -George Carlin"
Posted: 6440 days ago
Picto (#64)
Location: United Kingdom
Quote: "Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light? - Maurice Freehill"
Posted: 6440 days ago
haha, that blog was hilarious, thanks for cheering up my day, Max!
ryandake (#2199)
Location: scenic monterey, ca
Quote: ""The rest is not our business.""
Posted: 6440 days ago
Robert (#2152)
Location: Berlin, Germany
Posted: 6440 days ago
Hobbie (#1359)
Location: Cornwall, England
Quote: "There was a little man in his hair!"
Posted: 6440 days ago
"But I don't need to read the books, the films are just sooo much quicker."
austin (#2462)
Location: rhode island
Quote: "hmmm...bleh..."
Posted: 6439 days ago
Yubi Shines (#1664)
Location: Canada
Quote: "HOPE RIDES ALONE!"
Posted: 6439 days ago
Ever watched that video of that guy who successfully played two different Megaman X games at once, using a single controller?
That's what you'll be doing.
Stephanie (#2098)
Location: United States
Quote: "Going crazy. Care to join me?"
Posted: 6439 days ago
Tony Quin (#1310)
Location: Plymouth -urgh
Quote: "Yoga is NAILS"
Posted: 6439 days ago
made me think of this: http://www.thenoobcomic.com/daily/strip236.html
Sudi (#2895)
Location: Ithaca, 10 square miles surrounded by reality
Quote: "Mostly lucid"
Posted: 6437 days ago
http://news.yahoo.com/comics/070214/cx_frazz_umedia/20071402;_ylt=AhvwjFYpAq5Hlkohm_GULDwP_b4F
Tom (#2823)
Location: SouthEast Michigan (U.S.A.)
Quote: "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is."
Posted: 6437 days ago
Thirty years from now:
Fin: Novel? Novel?
Author: No novel, I'm getting married.
Fin: Novel? Novel? Novel?
Author: No, I'm leaving on my honeymoon.
Fin: Novel? Novel? Novel? Novel? Novel? Novel? Novel? Novel?
Jonathan (#2987)
Location: My girl's heart
Quote: "It doesn't have to be fair, it just has to be"
Posted: 6436 days ago
Also the "Are we there yet?" bonus stage.
I never thought of it like that. As hilarious as it may be it the perfect and best way to describe one's parental life. I sorta know cuz I've had to take care of little children before, however briefly. Highly enjoyable, but not easy at all.
I kind of envy you, I'm too mature for my age, but too young to have children. Gotta wait a few years before I can write about the strange greatness of parenthood.
Good luck and take care.
Over and out
FerretWithASpork (#2218)
Location: NY, USA
Quote: "What the F**ks a terminal?"
Posted: 6430 days ago
Fractelle (#2998)
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Posted: 6426 days ago
Love the levels and congratulations for progressing so far. However, have a difficulty with one of the future levels; "Why don't I have a penis?".
As I recall, having actually been a curious little girl some years way back, neither I nor ANY of my girlfriends EVER wondered about a lack of penis - why would we? We were perfect little girls.
Therefore the questions should be, in order:
"What is that?"
"Why do boys have them; they are yukky?"
blab (#1632)
Location: The Sandwich Isles
Quote: "Adventure is just poor planning"
Posted: 6425 days ago
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