Let's Waste Some Time

Check out Boomshine. It's an elegant and simple game. The object is to detonate as many of the multi-colored balls bouncing around the screen as you can in one shot.

This game made me wonder if it was also the perfect test of intuition, the ability to process vast amounts of information in a blink and come up with a course of action that is right without knowing why. Is this game blind luck, or is intuition at work, calculating hundreds of trajectories at once and sensing the right moment and place to to click to destroy as many balls at once? You'll understand what I mean when you play.

I felt I did worse when I let my analytical side take over and started thinking about where to click rather than clicking at the first spot that came into my head.

Blix

I'm not saying this game is addictive. I'm just saying level 115 is a bitch.

Just Say No

I was fooling around with a computer game called Neverwinter Nights for a few weeks. Every now and then, your character in the game yells, "NO QUARTER!" At first, I thought he was a jerk who didn't like homeless people, but it turns out the saying is his battle cry.

I heard "NO QUARTER!" so often that a version of the phrase pops in my head everytime I see the word no. Leaving the library: "NO EXIIIIT!" Seeing someone walk shirtless into a McDonalds: "NO SERVIIICE!" In my time-travel daydreams of the 1700s: "NO PANTALOOOONS!"

Man Dies After 49 Hours of Computer Games

The title of this news article should have been "Wimp Dies After 49 Hours of Computer Games". Two straight days of playing computer games is nothing. Before I busted my hemorrhoid dough nut, I could play for a week straight. Napping is for load screens.

Best. Game. Ever.

There is no other contender.

Big Red Ball

GROW! (from BoingBoing)

DAMN YOU, PAAAAAPER!

There are some rumors that the winner paper clipped his way to the championship, but I don't buy them. Word on the circuit is that Kruger plays fair and square.

20 Questions

I played an online version of 20 Questions. Guess what the object is.

1. Is it an animal, plant, mineral, other, or unknown? Other.
2. Is it heavier than a pound of butter? No.
3. Can it fit in an envelope? Usually.
4. Is it hard? Sometimes.
5. Is it made of metal? Rarely.
6. Is it made of plastic? Rarely.
7. Can it be used more than once? Sometimes.
8. Is it straight? Usually.
9. Is it multicolored? No.
10. Does it come in a pack? No.
11. Do you use it at work? Sometimes.
12. Do you hold it when you use it? Sometimes.
13. Can you buy it at a store? No.
14. Do you use it in your home? Yes.
15. Can you lift it? Yes.
16. Can it be used for recreation? Yes.
17. Do you clean it regularly? Usually.
18. Can it scratch? No.
19. Are there many different sorts of it? Yes.
20. I guess it a urethra? No.
21. Was it invented? No.
22. Do you use it in public? Rarely.
23. Can you use it at school? Rarely.
24. Does it come from something larger? No.
25. Does it live in African grass lands? No.
26. I guess it a muscle (body part)? Close.
27. Is it comforting? Usually.
28. Can you smell it? Yes.
29. Does your mother know what you are thinking about? I am not allowed to talk about stuff like this, but,
I am guessing that it has something to do with sex? Yes.

Wow

I loved playing this adventure game . It takes about 15-30 minutes to complete. Sure, you may be at work, but it's Friday. Everybody plays adventure games on Friday.

The Most Fun Way To Get Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

Start with Mario.