Dirty, so dirty...
Yes, I've done it again. I've been playing with myself... games, that is. Being an incredibly smart, and let's not forget most handsome, young man, I have come to find simple games to be too... eh, simple. Yes, way too simple for a refined mind such as my own. One game that is not difficult enough is Rubik's Cube. I mean you only need 29 simple turns and you've solved it. Pah! I say. Bring on the
Magic Cube 4D. Now, that's a real challenge... for anyone with an IQ of 170+. Why the hell would you want a 4-dimensional cube? I have problems getting my head around six sides of those pesky little cubes (which I bet would be no match to pry loose with a screwdriver), and if you follow the link and click on the picture at the top of their page, you get to try it out. You can just feel neuron's breaking down in tears and committing collective suicide from the complexity of that thing.
I haven't played it, looking at it was quite enough for me. I did play a little
Vulture's Eye though, a graphical
NetHack-version. Another game which makes your braincells try to emigrate is
Tong. It's as simple as it's devious. A combination of Tetris -- the classical falling-blocks game -- and Pong -- the classical hit-ball-with-a-board... game, eh, yeah -- and you are supposed to play them at the same time. The ball is bouncing inside the Tetris playing field and you have to control both games, simultaneously. It's kinda like constructing a 30-story skyscraper while giving your girlfriend a full body massage (and I'm talking the whole thing: massage oil, Barry White, the muppets, live candles). So, if you're up for some mind fucking, you should give Tong a go... and that sounded a lot less wrong in my head.
Anyways, those are my current gaming adventures. You know what that means? It means I'm still procrastinating... shit.
Time is a'wastin'
When I installed linux, I figured I shouldn't install any games. The silly rabbit knows I've played the Windows games way more than I should have, and if they're not installed, it's a lot easier to resist the urge. Those easy and quick to play games are a real and very potent problem, office workers all around the world spend countless hours playing WinMine and Solitaire. They're really devious; you have to use your brain just enough to not feel like you're watching TV, but not enough to actually get smarter (it's quite possible it'll actually make you dumber). Now, contrary to my own words of wisdom, I couldn't resist the urge and installed a game tonight. It's called
Neverball (featuring Neverputt). It's similar to Super Monkey Ball for the GameCube (and Dreamcast?) which means it's very addictive. Yes, addictive, just like drugs, coffee and lubricated horseshoes. I ended up wasting my whole evening playing that damn game instead of writing. Is procrastination rearing it's reluctant head? Hell yeah! When I'm procrastinating I always end up looking for games. I've also spent a fair share of time tonight, reading about
OpenTTD (Open Transport Tycoon Deluxe),
FreeCiv and
FreeCol. Lucky for me, I managed to resist installing them, else I wouldn't be blogging right now (god damnit! I just used "blog" as a verb, another step towards the dark, smelly, evil abyss of quite possibly eternal fruitcake).
Procrastination is a real bitch. But I also think trying to write a script which doesn't contain any fantasy elements makes it a bit more difficult for me, because reality is boring... or dumb... or possibly both: dorumb.
While I'm on the subject, I should mention this link:
Supposing... Computers are deliberately wasting our time which is a fitting article for this evening of wasted work. So long, and thanks for the fruitcake... I mean fish.
George Lucas in Love
I happened to find this while surfing about recently:
George Lucas in Love which is a Shakespeare in Love-spoof but we're back at the school years of George Lucas and we get to see where the inspiration for StarWars really came from. Great fun and well produced.
I've also just now (about an hour ago) finished watching
Point Pleasant which was axed by Fox (meaning they applied cheap deodorant) after 13 episodes. And what can I say, I loved the show. Sometimes it gets just a tad bit too heavy on the melodrama (don't get me wrong, I like melodrama, but in a few spots, they overdid it) but other than that it's just great. I was literally jumping in my seat while I was watching the finale. Too bad they cut it short (deodorant is good for you -- one of life's lessons).
