you know you've played too long when...

I don't really like video games much; they're generally too violent for my taste and they stress me out. But Christopher bought this lovely little game called World of Goo, which is the first video game EVER that I have plans to beat.















If you mess something up in the game, you can click on a little bug, the screen flashes, and you go back to your previous turn. When the little goo structures you create collapse or fall down, you can just go back in time and try it again. Apparently, my hour tonight with the game (and its you-can-go-back-one-turn policy) made me forget reality.

While moving some things on top of the fridge just now, I knocked over some dishes. They clattered all over the floor. Nothing broke, but the whole thing startled me. My instant reaction in that moment? Click on a little do-over flash bug. I tried to press my thumb down on the game controller I didn't have in my hand, and it actually took me an entire second to realize that I had to pick the dishes up. Maybe I won't play video games again for a little while.

2 comments:

Mr. Christopher said...

You're so cute. That's funny. It's been a trippy day. The 5:30 thing, and now this.

Deja said...

Love it. It's weird how the video games do that, no? Too much TV does it to me, too. I hear laugh lines when something's funny and NOT on TV.

What's the "5:30" thing? How mysterious.