Originally posted on Aug 17 2006 on my Friendster blog.
No no no, not the bet-my-whole-family-fortune-on-the-roll-of-the-dice kind of gaming. I gamble only during Chinese New Year, and even then only in small amounts. By 'small' I mean bets of under $10 with the working adults and usually 10 cents with my cousins.. We've also used peanut shells, kuaci, and even glasses of water (no peeing while the game is still on). When I was still a scrawny kid, I once built a fortune of 30 bucks (!!!) from just 50 cents (!!! again) that my dad lent me to gamble. Guess what I did? I lost it all again, except for the original 50 cents which I returned.
Anyway, the gaming I'm referring to is of the computer kind. Oooh yeah, Civilisation IV, Emperor, Sims, Grim Fandango, Monkey Island I to IV, SimCity, Heroes of Might & Magic, etcetera etcetera... Why the guilt? Because games are EEEEEVIL..... Just take for example Civilisation IV which I just started playing on Monday (it's Thursday now). I was playing my first real game after the tutorials and what not. After I won, the stat report showed that I spent 19:46 hours playing. That's frickin' 20 hours!! I could have baked more cookies, read most of my material, exercised, cleaned my room, gone shopping, the list goes on. *Sigh* But it sure is fun thwacking barbarians...
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