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Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Soooo
So Sage_of_magic reminded me of alittle something about Gaia, and how my dad can be.
My dad is about the most mind-numbingly thick headed person I've ever known. You know those people online that like to challange you, and say whatever they want and not have to worry about it 'cause they're online and not face to face? That's him. Only he'll demand that you are wrong even in a face to face conversation, and WILL say whatever he wants too, just like they do.
He was looking for an online game, after trying various ones. (FlyFF, Puzzle Pirates, that kinda thing) and asked me about this "one game" he found called gaia online.
I immediately told him that it wasn't anything he'd be interested in, and that it wasn't the kind of game he'd injoy. "Well how do YOU know?!" he said, looking at me like I was ignorant "How do YOU know that I won't like it? Maybe I will!"
(I think this stems from the fact that when you tell a child "no you can't do that" they will try and do it just to show that they can only to fail miserably) I said "well because I have an account there, and the site isn't any good." I explained to him how it was cross between a web-based site, but with a few mediocere mini-games, which can only advert your attention from how mind numbingly dull the whole thing is. Most of the flash based stuff is a giant interactive chatroom, and even that it's not all that good at. Chatrooms in 93, less primitive and more interactivity had more appeal than Gaia's run-about areas where the housing was.
"Well how do YOU know?!" he repeats. I just looked at him "Because I've been there!" "yeah well, I wanna see it." As usual, he didn't hear a word I said, so I just threw up my hands and said "fine whatever. Try the guest mode...." "it's not working. Sign into your account instead" Which I denied. In 15 minutes he looks around at what he could, and concluded that it was a web based game, and that was something he didn't want.
It takes me two hours to explain how to play WC3, or Perfect World, and I have to repeat myself 5 minutes later when he dies and then asks why.
And this is the man that supposively went online back in the day before they had internet, connecting to each other's computers, and playing all the games, the texted adventures, and all the interactive D&D-esk chat games of the day. I look back on this, and I think: It's a wonder he was even able to beat Donkey Kong Country.
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