Ladies and Gentlemen, meet Kyle Orland.  Kyle writes for popular gaming website like Gamasutra and Joystiq.  Kyle thought it was necessary to write a help book about the hugely successful Zynga social game, Farmville.  Speaking with Ars Technica, Orland describes why he feels that the world needs a “Farmville for Dummies” book.

According to Orland, people who play Farmville do not play many video games and therefore need a book detailing how to a play a game that already practically changes your diapers, puts a bottle in your mouth, and teaches you how eat.

“Sure, Farmville isn’t a particularly difficult game—it practically holds your hand in telling you how to play, and there’s a limited amount of strategy to playing,

“Some of the sections of the game—especially the farmer’s market and some aspects of animal tending—require multiple, time-lapsed steps to complete successfully, and the game only gives one screen of text-heavy explanation for how to go about them.”

Okay, moving on to actually doing things in Farmville such as growing your crops and items attained by leveling up.

“The book also gives a lot of details and reference that might not be apparent to a casual player,

“For instance, we outline a few somewhat-seedy methods for leveling up quickly by doing a few repetitive tasks over and over, lay out what items are unlocked at what levels, and suggest the most time- and cost-effective crops for different points in the game.”

Seriously Kyle Orland?  You could not do anything better with your time then writing a book about Farmville for people who might not understand a rather simple and no brain game?

Thank you Kyle Orland for reminding us all why Dumbass of the Day exists.

via Ars Technica

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let me suggest to him "good articles for dummies"

I LOVE Farmville...but it will never require a step-by-step guide lol.

Dammit, it was a stupid move, but I do like the guy otherwise. Played with him before and such, pretty level headed, (and holy ish does he know his stuff. Should have seen him during video game trivia 1vs100 nights.)

I have never even played farmville.

Frontierville is way more challenging.

i prefer project legacy

I prefer Minecraft.

I prefer Vampire Wars.

From Twitter:

KyleOrl: Hey I won an award, I'm so honor--wait, "Dumbass of the Day"? Oh well, still an award. *Beams* -- http://bit.ly/iciLm7

Lol. Is that good or bad

Makes you wonder. Was he googling his own name, or did someone he know come across it? lol

He had a convo about my article on Twitter, lol.

http://twitter.com/darkwhitehair Scroll down to Feb. 18.....apparently I whine and if I could I would write "Angry Birds for Dumbasses". Lol, that made my morning

If he can get away with this crap, I should totally right a Tetris for Dummies.

I asked how he got alerted to it. He has Google alerts setup for his books and it sent it to him. The guy is honestly pretty cool.

now i could see some ppl using this book but well there on there own as well just right along with him that is writing the book:) LOL so really can't say to much ..lol but well ya he is a total fool but hell must not be to bad as he is making money from the book LOL

still a dumbass xD

He tweeted about it? lol