"Voting" on the "Game"

(Note to hburgnews readers: this isn't in anyway a jab at our new Clerk. I don't know anything about him. I've only shaken his hand once at Calhoun's and I was one glass down of Bourbon Barrel Aged Imperial Stout at the time. All my gaming references are strickly about games and actually are just kind of funny when you match them to politics.)

I was thinking about our recent local elections today, more exactly the Clerk of Court. You might not think this has anything to do with video games, but I can relate anything to video games. So let's give this a shot.

Our recent Clerk election had 11 candidates running for the $125,000 a year/8 year job. It's caused quite a stir around town. Some people think that the position shouldn't be voted on and shouldn't be an 8-year contract, but a yearly position with evaluations or even an appointed job with resumes.

I still consider myself new to town and I don't know all the political relationships and how things "work". So I was very confused with the system, the job, and I ended up not voting. So I thought to myself, how could this have been done better, in my gaming world. This only works with this unique of a position. It's not political in nature and has it's roots in office management and business. It's a job that should be performed with diligence and not political promises, just like our jobs that we work everyday.

So I wish there could have been a website or magazine review with a list of features and options, just like video games and software have. How does this "game" work with this "system"? I want to see a feature list and a check mark beside each one the game has. Then I want to see all the games and what features each one of them has. I don't care if the game likes/dislikes the other features it's not compatible with or if they were planned but never programmed in.

There's nothing worse than getting an over priced game that doesn't play well. But I can return video games or sell them on eBay.

My summary -- But I guess when you have thousands of users looking to buy the same type of game, not everyone is going to agree on what's good. That happens all the time. It's personal preference. What you like, I might not necessarily like. But we all don't get to vote on the game that comes out. The game is what it is and if enough people don't like it, they don't buy it, and it gets taken off the shelves because of bad sales. If not, we pass it on the shelves, laugh at it's low, used price tag, and move on.