00:55 - 2005-03-21
In Which Carol Suffers From Addictions
Disclaimer: If this entry looks familiar, it's because it's a repost of an entry that got fucked up by the server problem.
I need to stop getting addicted to random games. The first half of the semester, it was this thing called Goldminer, which is a lot of fun and can be found here.
This semester it's something called "Cubis", which came with my computer and can probably be found on Zone.com, but I haven't looked for it, so don't quote me. Cubis is proving to be a problem. Cubis causes mental meltdown and creates little blocks running around in my head all day. I see color patterns in my head and I keep playing these never ending cubis games, making things grow and slide up and collapse and I try to get to the damned block behind the indestructable stone block and since none of you have any idea what I'm talking about, I must sound like I'm crazy. I see color patterns everywhere I go, I see Cubis games in my dreams, I see this damned game everywhere. It's one part arcade game, one part puzzle, one part mind fuck. It's so frustrating and I'm completely addicted. I even hear the little star sound in my head at random times. This is also why I sometimes randomly drop out of IM conversations for a minute or two, because even though the game has a pause function, it's so addictive that I just can't bring myself to stop in the middle of a level.
I also brought Myst back with me from home and have been getting Dana addicted to that. Ah, Myst, the game that rules the world of the mind-fuck. I love Myst to death. The graphics are beautiful and the music is haunting and the game stands you on your head for a month and rapes your mind for that entire time. I've been stuck on Channelwood age since I was 8. Not continuously, of course, but stuck there all the same. I took about a ten year break from Myst, but that doesn't make it much less puzzling than it was when I was a little kid. I still love it, I just can't get through Channelwood -- and I refuse to have any relations with a cheatbook except to get a map. Stupid flow valves. I can never keep them straight. Zip mode, in Channelwood, is a horrible, horrible thing because it makes it ridiculously hard to keep your bearings. In the mean time, I'm sitting there, helping Dana make her way through the Mechanical Age. Much fun. The Selenic Age could be interesting since I don't remember exactly what the different sound cues are for the maze. Ah, Myst, how I love thee.
Finally there's this new thing that Mari's got me hooked on, called "Jardinains!" It's like Pong! on crack. So much fun, so very, very bad for the Carol to be on. But lots of fun. And the name means "Garden Gnome" J'aime les nains! Ils sont amusant.
I really need to not get addicted to any more games. And preferably become un-addicted to a few more. Mercifully, I resisted the crack that is Fishy! The game frustrated me to the point where I just gave it a "fuck you." The fact that it had no pause helped there.
Oh, and to all of you out there, Happy St. Patrick's Day. Damn, I wish I was home for the corned beef and potatoes. I miss good food.
