Desktop Pet WishList

Published on January 10, 2006 By ZubaZ In Personal Computing

I picked up the desktop pet and think it's pretty cool . . . but there are some things right off the bat I wish for:

A better ball, something like this: Link. Maybe being able to play kick with him.
More interaction with the little guy (all it appears I can do is tickle/pet and move). Being able to put him to bed. Or making him take medicine. Or a behavior change when I move him away from the trash can.
Give him a radio/BoomBox.

With access to my playlist. Let him pick the music.
Give him access to my desktop icons and/or windows. Let him decorate (move, apply icons via Icon Packager if available) his living space.
Give him a matching skin/suite (with wallpaper)
Give him more sounds (louder too, kicking the ball is much louder than his tickle giggle)
Fix layering (every once in a while the ball goes behind an object (usually the box) and the lil' guy will be in front of it and still kick it.
Always on top option. I almost always have windows open.
Be able to skin him (in the Windoblinds sense, not the taxidermist).
Allow for tribblization: Advanced Sex Link

For $8.95 he does what he does well. I got my money's worth. But I know he can do much more . . .

Any other wishes?

Comments (Page 2)

GreenReaper

on Jan 25, 2006

Surely that would be another function on the outhouse?

As an aside, I find it annoying that cleanmgr always tries to compress files. Maybe that worked when there were, like, 10,000 files on disk. No longer. And yes, I know you can disable it, but most people don't.

ZubaZ

on Jan 25, 2006

GR, I hope your done with any GalCiv ][ work that you have and aren't wasting valuable time reading newsgroups or forum posts.

Priorities man, priorities!

Surely that would be another function on the outhouse?

I think from a PC functionality standpoint the Outhouse and Trash bin are equal. Not so much from the pet's point of view. {And don't call me Shirly}

Agreed. I use "cleanmgr /sageset:99" to configure cleanmgr and "cleanmgr /sagerun:99" to run said config. Further I have a batch file that deletes all "other" temp files, defrags, runs spybot, and does a defrag. It rocks!

If you know of a good command line registry cleaner, let me know so I can add that too.

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starkers

on Jan 25, 2006

I'd like to see a bit of mischief from the lil fella....like throwing rotten eggs at your screen, peeing on the outhouse wall instead (to be sure he went)....and maybe some green gas clouds coming from behind him with fart sounds added to them

, like in Oddworld: Abe's Odysee, etc. Oh yeah, and a fridge full of beer...burp sounds as well.

Okay, okay, so I'm a little warped, but they'd be fun additions for others too.
Besides, I need a decadence fix since the wife banned me from sick.com and the Playboy site.

NetBadger

on Jan 29, 2006

I had started a similar thread elsewhere, but this one seems more active. I'd love to see the ability to save the layout as mentioned above. Also, it would be nice to be able to give the little fella a name.

I don't think Sir Starkers is so warped. A few more oddball behaviors would do well as comic relief.

Regards,
Doug Barnhart aka NetBadger

GreenReaper

on Jan 29, 2006

Technically, he does have a name, you just can't set it. We decided to hold off on that until we actually did something with it.

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