In the immortal words of Thomas Falsetta “Sleep's for babies, gamers play all night,” and, in my journey to 10,000 achievement points before “Super Smash Bros. Brawl” comes out, it seems to be more of a reality week after week.
I think I’m actually forming an addiction to getting achievement points. The symptoms are becoming more and more obvious. For example, if, for some crazy reason I don’t get any points on a given day, I actually lay awake in bed at night, and, in some cases actually have to get out of bed and play, or else I can’t fall asleep.
Nighttime gaming has generally been my preference for many years now, and I’ve learned the hard way not to pick up a game in the morning if I actually have to be somewhere before noon (like school, or, more importantly, work). However, it has only been a rare case that I’ve actually been kept awake by a game, much less by something as unimportant as achievement points. This week that's what happened.
The quest to 10,000 continues, and as I press on I am learning not only about the games, but about myself as well. As much as I love getting achievement points, there are some that just aren’t going to happen. I don’t have the time, energy, and in some cases mental capacity to handle getting some of these points. It’s just not going to happen.
Two weeks in and things are not going as well as I had expected.
When one video game addiction gets in the way of another, things can really get ugly.