Crapload of Games
Yes, back there around New Year’s time I think it was, I bought a crapload of games because they were on sale. I was getting some for $9.99 and $14.99 and whatever, so I figured I had to buy them because they were so cheap.
I haven’t even played all these games, but I can tell you what games a 52-year-old woman keeps in her Steam list.
Assassin’s Creed, Audiosurf, FEAR & FEAR 2, Half Life & Half Life 2 + Episodes 1 & 2, Hitman & Hitman 2, Left 4 Dead, Prince of Persia & Sands of Time, Stalker: Clear Sky, Unreal Tournament, Wolfenstein 3D (for the memories), Counter Strike, Deathmatch, Portal, Painkiller, Splinter Cell.
So I haven’t even played half these games. Who has time for games anyway?
Apparently I have lots of time for Bejewelled Twist. I also bought that game when offered up to me for a mere pittance. And now I can’t even remember how to play the regular Bejewelled game, but I think I’m obsessed with Bejewelled Twist.
I find myself thinking of making moves in the game at any time of the day. I can be at work. I can be watching a movie or TV. And in the back of my eye I realize that I’ve just made a move in Bejewelled Twist.
I dunno what there is about that game but when I go to relax after a hard day of, well, work, I come into the computer room and play a game of Bejewelled Twist.
Then I get pissed off because I didn’t get my name up since I’ve put the lowest score so high that it’s too tough to beat it, so I turn off the game and make some jewellery, or do some stuff on the net, or whatever else I need to do to relax.
Then after my pissed-off-ed-ness subsides, I may just play the game again – hoping that I’ll get the ‘fruit’, that it will make my score higher, that I won’t get blown away by that ticking thing that you can’t get rid of unless you have 5 of a kind or 4 of a kind in the same colour.
So boys and girls, see what you have to look forward to when you reach 52? This is it. This is what you’ll dream about all day – not getting laid, not a great retirement and income, but how to twist those things just right in order to get the fruit. I don’t even like fruit – does that make this ironic?
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Ah, I loved Half Life. The lost days, the lost weight because I was too involved to eat, the feeling of power and superiority…*sniff, sometimes I miss all that. Life was simpler then.
Bejeweled is evil! I used to really like that one but again, I get too wrapped up in it and don’t get done what I need to. Bubbleshooter online is the same way. Evil…and addicting!
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is the new 30. I want the world to close their mouths when they’re eating or chewing gum. If they don’t, I want to elbow them in the face.
I guess it is the forbidden fruit…