Wednesday, March 17, 2010

True Confessions

Friday night my daughter came over to get my help finishing a knitted Gryffindor scarf which would be her friend's birthday present. While she was here, she showed me a new-to-me computer game where you shoot bubbles, and I started playing it after she left.

Normally I play games on msn.com, and those games make you watch a commercial every several minutes between levels. My latest favorite is Majongg Dimensions, which gives you 6 minutes to match and remove tiles from a 3-D cube in ever-increasing difficulty levels.

I can handle a finite 6 minutes of play time, with the requisite commercial between games. What I wasn't ready for was the new bubble game. It has no ads, and it has no time limit. It just goes on until you lose or win (mostly you lose), and either way it can take a long time. And then it's really easy to start another game.

I noticed the time at 4:30 am. Holy cow!

I went to bed and slept until 11:30. I don't like sleeping that late, but I needed it.

Saturday night I played it again, because it really is fun. And addicting.

At 4:30 in the morning (Daylight Savings Time, which is only 3:30 am Real Time), I again noticed the time. I decided to skip Sunday School class and just go to the 10:00 service, so I set my alarm for 8:30 and made it to church on time.

But before I left for church, I admitted I was powerless over my addiction to this game, and I closed the browser and deleted its memory from my pull-down internet history list. I cannot be trusted with the bubble game. Ever.

3 comments:

Malott said...

SP,

You sad, pathetic creature. Addictions tear at the very fabric of our society... And I'm particularly saddened to read that love the bubble game more than God.

Might I suggest Bubbles Anonymous?

Christina said...

You know, I don't play a ton of computer games, but those MSN-type free games are highly addictive. My problem was one on a site called POGO that involved trying to line up balloons of similar colors to get rid of as many as possible. I got very good at it. I also lost lots of sleep....not because I stayed up to late, but because I cannot get my mind to turn off when I have played those games too close to bedtime.

I'm pathetic.

Tsofah said...

I personally like the Club Bing games (originally from MSN) where you earn points for free prizes. Some of those are pretty cool!