Withdrawal Symptoms
Posted by Ray @ 8:44 pmExams are just tomorrow, I have not much time, I have an extremely shaky grasp of Competition Law concepts… and yet, I cannot concentrate. Where ordinarily desperation lends men wings, this time it’s given me lead weights and sandbags.
I attribute this crushing apathy to: withdrawal symptoms.
You see, I’m a gaming addict, and my last fix was in June. I think.
I can’t remember the last game I played. Hell, I can’t even remember the kind of game it was, or if it was on my PlayStation 2 or my PC, or if it was even fun. It’s driving me to madness; a continuous itch in one of those nerve-sparse areas of your body where you can’t scratch the darn thing because for some reason you don’t have enough nerves to register the satisfaction of a scratch, but you do have enough nerves to register the existence of that $%&@ itch.
And there’s the rub: it’s not like I can even play any games. Because I’m using a cursed Macintosh, whose game library reads like last century’s fashion catalog (The Sims 2? Doom? Please!).
Worse, the impending holiday season is driving me into pavlovian madness. Witness the deluge of top-notch games (upcoming or otherwise) that I have yet to palate:
- Shadow of the Colossus
- God of War
- Splinter Cell 3: Chaos Theory
- Age of Empires III
- Serious Sam II
- Quake IV
- Black & White 2
- X3: Reunion
- Call of Duty 2
- Civilization IV
- F.E.A.R.
- Fable: The Lost Chapters
I mean, come on, look at that list. Civilization IV alone will destroy any hopes of a social life for at least a couple of weeks, while X3: Reunion will probably do irreparable damage to numerous already-strained friendships.
(Note that I do not include World of Warcraft above. That’s because WoW is an insidious evil disguised as a video game. The aforementioned games will lose me some friends, at most; WoW will have its way with me and then happily spew my lifeless husk out to provide sustenance to maggots.
Everyone knows feeding maggots is evil.)
Oh Apple, why have you forsaken me? In my hour of need, you hang me out to dry while you sit on the vast quantities of wealth sucked from iPod sales…
Why do you do this to me? You say your OS integrates with OpenGL at the lowest level, you say you have the most powerful development tools, you say you have the best, the coolest, the fastest, well then, where the $*%# are my videogames??!
Never in my life have I yearned more for the buggy, BSoD-ing, crash-prone, security-holed zombie-magnet piece of s%$t the world calls Windows.
…
Now look what you’ve made me do. Are you happy now?
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3 things:
BnW2 has glorious graphics, but is a crashing piece of shit, so unless they deal with the technical issues, everything else is irrelevant.
Fable: TLC is damn bloody good, but it crashes like a drunk driver as well. Lionhead Studios better get their act together.
If I fail this semester’s exams, it will all be Sid Meier’s fault.
Comment by Han — Sunday, November 6 2005 @ 9:10 pm
Han: You evil person, taunt me not with your access to Civilization…
Comment by Ray — Sunday, November 6 2005 @ 9:42 pm
AHAHAHAHA. This brings to mind all those days when you used to curse my un-MAC status…. *feeling very smug*
Comment by vic — Monday, November 7 2005 @ 4:42 am
Ray, Ray, Ray… posting 3 times in one day. Someone’s obviously avoiding work. Tsk tsk tsk.
Like me! In the middle of the freaking exams and I decided to play and complete Fahrenheit (aka Indigo Prophecy including pixellated porn) in 10 hours. In the middle of the freaking exams.
Be thankful the Mac is keeping you away from the forbidden fruit.
Oh, and I’ve decided that I simply have no time for multiplayer games any more. They just take up too much freaking time.
Comment by Joao — Monday, November 7 2005 @ 7:37 pm
Joao: Actually, I’ve an admission to make… I installed virtual PC on the mac, and am now playing Planescape: Torment to my heart’s content.
Sigh.
Comment by Ray — Tuesday, November 8 2005 @ 2:33 pm
Virtual PC??? *scoff scoff*
Just build a gaming box already!! Sheesh! And none of that linux OS crap neither. Pfft. Damn non-conformist minority… Not so bohemian now are we? ARE WE??
Comment by Joao — Tuesday, November 8 2005 @ 6:24 pm
Joao: you misunderstand; my gaming rig at home is a regularly-updated budget performance machine. The computer I use for work is an Apple iBook G4, purchased for the specific purpose of preventing my addicted self from actually playing games.
The plan was to cut me off from games, and increase the amount of work I did.
It worked.
Sigh.
Comment by Ray — Wednesday, November 9 2005 @ 11:22 pm