3.11.07

Category: dribblings

okay. now i have 4 jobs.

my fourth “job” is Myst Uru Live. hee.

i remember long ago watching my two buddies, laura and liz, get TOTALLY obsessed with some gay computer game called Myst. it was so gay that there wasn’t any actual movement in the game. it was was played one screen at a time. and they would spend actual human time trying to solve puzzles invovling colors and levers and other gay junk like that.

i think the reason i never got into it was because i liked the “regular” video games with “real” plots and “actual” movement like for instance…plumbers who try to save princesses from turtles and dragons…not like that gay stuff they were playing.

you guys are getting the sarcasm, right?
right?

anyway, i’m now addicted to Myst Uru Live because
A. it’s a character (that you design!) that moves around like a “regular” video game
B. it’s online so you play with other people (and let me tell ya, some of the people are really….into the whole Myst lore and whatnot. like, in a not entirely healthy way.)
C. you can’t die. there’s no killing. just collecting light balls and solving impossible, hair-pulling, evil, make you want to hit someone in the throat, eye-stabbing, teeth-gnashing, buck-futting, kick a dog for no reason, wicked hard puzzles.

wait, why is this game fun?

****

i haven’t read a book all week. i did start one, but then see, i had to play uru live, you understand, right? hm? doncha?
you understand that i had to play it all day and skip breakfast and lunch and dinner, right?
it’s okay to eat dinner at 9:30 isn’t it? that still counts. i can survive on doritos and diet coke can’t i?

oh god, someone help me.

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i did manage to solve the Kadish level. done. DONE. and it ONLY took me 6,000 hours. and…i had to reset it once.
THEN i had to solve the WHOLE thing twice cos i shut a door and i couldn’t open it from the other side NOR could i find a book to get to the OTHER OTHER side and let me tell you i was fit to be tied.
THEN THEN, after i found all the hand cloths, after i solved the vault code, after i clicked the linking book that took me to the same vault only….nothing was in it (except a relto page. and yay! it gave me butterfies in my relto!) and then you can’t get back to the regular vault…can you say ASININE?

URU YOU ARE SO FUCKING ASININE!

THEN THEN THEN after walking across the tiny pipe/bridge that liz and i accidentally found earlier (yay for happy accidents!) and after opening the hand door that is supposed to end the age so you can hear Yeesha tell her whatever story so you can get back to your Relto with a totem….

it wouldn’t work.

no Yeesha.

no end of level hoopla.

no nothing.

i asked around in a neighborhood and they said it was a glitch.

a glitch you say? glitch? i spent 8 hours solving that damn bullshit and climbing up that long-ass ladder at least 40 times and….glitch? glitch!?

i was…depressed.
then angry.
then in denial.
then even angrier.
then i was so angry i wanted a loaded gun to shoot my computer to death.
then depressed again.
sick, even. but that may have been from skipping meals and drinking soda.

then i played the whole damn thing over AGAIN and it finally worked.

payoff!

and now i’m going to eat something and maybe read a bit of my book.

oh! laura! i’m using that cute little notebook (with the spinning dress thing?) and orange glitter pen you gave me to write my uru notes in. hee!

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