Thursday 14 June 2007

Pic of the day: Untold legends. And that's the way they're going to stay for now.

Buying, not playing

Even sea slugs slowly learn from experience. Perhaps humans are the only ones who are able to not do so, when we really set our will to it.

I bought another game for the PSP. I know I bought one last year too (Sims 2 for the PSP) and one the year before (Kingdom of Paradise). But of course this was going to be better...

In all fairness, the game seemed pretty optimal for me: Fast to learn, repetitive gameplay, traditional role playing game. But the main excuse for buying it was the heat.

You see, the computer room is the hottest place in the house (big surprise there...) but the living room is not exactly chilly either during a summer heat wave. So my plan was to take the PSP to the forest, where it is always cool and shaded. Or at least down in the laundry room in the basement.

I don't rent the basement, but I do rent the laundry room there. The basement is almost entirely underground, with only a series of narrow windows above ground level. For this reason it is by far the coolest part of the house in summer, and probably fairly well protected from the cold in winter too (although cold air does sink down and hot air rise up). In the Chaos Node where I lived before, the basement was into the ground only on one side, and on the broad side it had big windows toward south-west. Having a cool basement is certainly a good idea. So I might have retired to the laundry room with my PSP if I didn't hare off into the tick-infested woods.

But of course, the next day the chill came back. I am happy about that. Now I can stay in my home office after all, and play The Sims 2 and City of Heroes, as befits a man of my age. And I can take long walks again, during which I don't play games at all.

I did get to play it 10-15 minutes though. It looks easy enough to get into. So if the heat comes back, I may still take it up.

OK, so it was a harebrained purchase. But it could theoretically have been a passable idea, perhaps, under certain unlikely circumstances.