Today has been an eye opening day. I was originally going to finish and post an essay here about how sliding scale economics need to be brought back to the medical field, but that will have to wait to another day because I have much more important things to discuss here. Earth shattering things. Things that may make you laugh, may make you cry and may make you wonder when you look at the person sitting next to you on the bus.
I have never made it a secret that I am not a fan of online gaming. Meaning massively life sucking role playing games or running around and shooting eachother in "accurate" World War II simulators. This came mostly from a roommate of mine who never left the dorm room due to his addiction to Ultima Online.
I've been told that these games aren't necessarily that bad. People can play them recreationally, but I have yet to see it. There are support groups out there. If you were looking for your next fix of creating a female elf character online go find some real porn and then go listen to a record and play Nintendo with someone sitting next to you, read a book, or maybe even go to the mall and buy some soap.
Until today I hadn't played games online much. I had done a three day tour of duty on Warcraft until I realized that it was four in the morning and I had just spent the last 3 hours trying to find 12 red bandannas and 14 fish scales for Edna's farm. Today however, I played the XBox for the first time and engaged in Soul Caliber IV online. I was a douche. I played as Yoda over and over again and ended up winning some online matches against some people that had 40 hours of play under their belt.
No one had heckled me and I could quit whenever. I left feeling quite good about my time playing Soul Caliber online. My friend had almost convinced me that playing a game against an invisible fifteen year old playing as only girls in bikinis was ok, it was all in good fun.
I decided I'd go home and try one or two of my own online games out. I plugged in Super Smash Brothers and got online and started playing matches online. I was wiggling my Wii Remote and having a blast until I started playing with two people whom I will call P2 and P3. Note that one the Wii online play is anonomous and you can't pick who you play with although you can keep playing with the same people fight after fight if you want to.
P2 played only as Link and P3 played only as Zelda and mid fight they would find a corner and make their characters pretend to fuck by having them crouch alternately (one down one up) over and over again. If you tryed to interupt, the couple would team up can kick your ass.
IT'S A DAMN KIDS GAME. What the hell? It's going to take a lot to coax me to ever play an online game again, or some beer, or a really hot pixalated character. I guess the point of this is to say get a life, write a book, write a poem and then go back and play video games but pretending to fuck with Nintendo characters does not count as social or as a sex life.
1 comment:
I am really really glad you didn't get sucked into that world. I think I might have had to divorce you.
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