Hyper-Interactivity
Thursday, May 15th, 2008I’m in a game-playing cycle right now.
My interests/obsessions tend to move in rapidly shifting cycles. For weeks, I’ll want to do nothing except read manga, and then I’ll suddenly shift to playing Battle For Middle Earth 2 on my Xbox 360. People not used to the enthusiasm with which geeks tend to devour our current interests are often confused and frightened by the level of single-minded dedication we can display. But honestly, if you watch us over a long enough period of time, you’ll see that we’re actually pretty well-rounded; you just have to change your scope.
I continue to be obsessed with comics (especially super hero comics), but beyond my comics (which only show up at my office every other week), I want to just fill all of my free time up with playing games on the computer. When I’m not playing World of Warcraft, I want to be playing Warcraft 3. I’m enjoying the hell out of interactive entertainment basically.
The dilemma of the day comes in when I think about what I brought to do on my lunch break. I’m reading through Lies My Teacher Told Me, a book about the teaching of American history, and while the book continues to be pretty interesting, I find myself thinking only about how much more fun I could be having if I had brought my laptop or my PSP with me. I’m sure my book will be a fine way to occupy my lunch break, but I’m halfway tempted to just listen to comics podcasts instead.
Basically, I feel just like this.
