'Cuz Daisies Smell Like Butt Anyway

Danny — 2006-09-18T04:47:00Z

     "I just got my new Alienware Tech 73,000 and I use it to look up all the latest video game codes. With my new internet connection, I can find the newest cheats and breeze through my favorite games in minutes.
Minutes!
     Also, I'm a chronic assbag!"

     In two consecutive computer commercials last night, I saw 'gamers' claiming that they loved to find and use gaming hacks and cheats. Somehow, I don't personally think the gamer's sole occupation is simply beating their games.
     I mean, not to say it isn't.

     But I always thought the point of playing a game was to play the game.
     Just beating a game doesn't net you anything.
     It's not like finishing a game results in some form of super-rewardular payment, that transcends the realm of real reward to extend to a plain of ego-frippery.
     The nothing you get really is nothing, and nearly no one cares.
     No one sits down for a game of Monopoly, knocks down the banker and takes all the cash, then claims to have had a great, Monopolyly time.
     If pixelated cakes and hugs don't get your motor moving, the fun is in the playing.

     Now, I know some people out there actually do think like this. I'm sure theres scores of people who rent their games, blaze through them in a day, and never see a large part of the content.
     But when I personally brag about the number of games I've beaten, it's to underline the gaming skill and knowledge that I have. It's not a checklist of the games that have touched my system. And it's not like I would ever brag anyway.
     I am a modest son-of-a-bitch.

     And I'm not some 1337 supergamer dork. I'm not going to shun you because you use a Gameshark. I personally own a Gameshark for every system I own. I really don't care if you had trouble with the game, got frustrated, thought it too easy, or didn't even finish. At least from a gamer-cred standpoint, I don't care if you stopped a game because you thought it really was too tough.
     Unreasonably tough games aren't for everyone, and not every game should be a cakewalk.

     Code definitely have their place in games. Codes allow you to transcend the intended intentions of the programmer, to practice tricks you couldn't have done otherwise, to extend the playable game-time of the game by exploring more areas, and god-forbid, to get around a part you just don't want to play.
     Not all games are uniformly good, or playable, or fun. It is ok to skip a part that just doesn't strike your fancy.
     And it's ok to skip the whole thing just to have a faster good time.

     But, when you start to use your codes from Moment One, to dash through the game, without seeing the sights...
     When you turn into Golden Sonic while still in Green Hill Zone, and never touch a foot to soil, I have to ask why you went to GameStop.
     Do you actually enjoy games, or is it just something you do? I mean, I played Everquest two months, without enjoying more than a week, just because it was a game to play.
     Is all gaming your EQ rut?

     I mean... I don't claim to understand the thought processes behind my peers. I live in an ego-Danny-world where no one has clear thoughts but me. I love, learn, laugh, play, cough, and dance.
     I figure you must eat, sleep, drink, poop, and maybe... integrate.
     You're really a computer in my eyes. Just inputs, black box, and outputs. A computer that sweats, that I don't understand, that sometimes plays for fake-game-cred.

     You'd think something advanced as a computer-man would have better things to do than pose.
     Go figure, I guess.

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'Cuz Daisies Smell Like Butt Anyway