I’ve been thinking a lot about goats lately. The Belmont Goats have been in my neighborhood almost as long as I have, and I see them nearly every day. They’re adorable and creepy! Goats have oval-shaped pupils, guys, it’s weird. But I’m going to miss them, because they’re moving out to Lents as their field becomes home to a new development. I guess I’ll have to figure out a new “That’s So Portland” spot to take visitors.
Thankfully, I’ll have a way to remember those wonderful, beautiful, creepy creatures thanks to this upcoming video game in which you can play a goat. It’s best if you just watch.
Goat Simulator started as a game jam project and then, after an upswell of “Well, isn’t this just delightful!” from the internet, it’s going to be a real game that you can pre-order now. (You may want to wait to pre-order it until they actually make the game, but I’m not the boss of you, do what you want.)
“the Belmont Goats have been in my neighborhood almost as long as I have”
So, like a year? They’re a relatively recent addition to the neighborhood.
“Goats have oval-shaped pupils”
No, depending on who you talk to they either have slit-shaped pupils, or rounded-rectangle shaped pupils.
GOAT ATTACKING!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxbbIKnQld4
They’ve been there since.. I think 2010 or 2011, on and off. Originally they were used as lawnmowers of sorts but the storeowner on Morrison missed them so he bought them, making it more of a goat pasture that you could enter, and to a certain extent feed. I saw the little orange goats at only a few days old, and I was as gitty as the toddler next to me. A friend of mine is helping curate this new goat pasture, which I think will be a good addition to the Lents neighborhood. Sucks not having the goats on my daily commute, and it really sucks that Goat Simulator won’t have multiplayer, but oh well.