overheard at work today:

"An if-statement is a conditional statement, right?" -- A Senior Developer

also: i think they forgot i'm here. [02.15.06@15:18]

for whatever reason, i've been playing some exceedingly difficult games lately. games with horribly unforgiving learning curves. i see many of these games, especially the puzzle games i've been playing like puzzloop or the music games like guitar hero and osu! tatakae! ouendan!, as a forms of training. through positive reinforcement, these games are helping me develop skills. unfortunately, i think i must be getting old, as i am for the first time considering "maybe i should be doing something else with my time".

the 80's are long gone, games don't impart skills that will make me useful to aliens anymore. sure, it's great that i've vanquished most of guitar hero, even 5-starred everything up through the middle of hard mode, but what is that doing for me? do i really need the godlike colored-ball-sorting-skills i am receiving by suffering through the unspeakable wrist-destroying horrors of puzzloop ds? i'd like to think these are important questions, but i think that thinking is all i'll be doing. because i know deep down if it wasn't for my repetitive stress injury, i wouldn't be writing this, i'd be back playing the same damned level of puzzloop until i beat it. [02.27.06@23:11]