Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Snake.. the video game

I will use this post to inform my readers about my uncontrollable snake addiction. Yes the simple electronic game where a snake chases after apples and in consuming them grows in the confined space. Most of you probably encountered snake through your cell phones, however the snake I am referring to exists online, and I play it on my computer. Why is this game so consuming you might ask? Well I think the answer is obvious, it is simply so impossible to win, yet you still get closer and closer the more you play, and your skills show noticeable improvement as well. True this can be achieved in many video games, but few so concretely as in snake.
I only started to play snake about one and three quarters years ago, but starting immediatly i began to it compulsively. Now, to give you an idea of exactly how much snake I play regularly, and further to the point, have played regularly. Almost everyday that I do play snake, at www.neave.com, I end up in the top five or three, and can fairly often achieve one (today i am at 3 with the score of 5897) on the high score list. If you do play snake regularly on neave, and check the high scores accordingly, you might then recognize such alias' of mine: NAPOLEON BONERPARTY, HUGH LIVES, SHARPTOOTH, MAN ZONE, MAN ZONE NORTH, BONERTIME, BONERZONE, and many other boner, men or bong related names. My all time high score came last year, during the peak of my time spent playing, and was 7891 (for those of you who have ever played snake on neave, you will know this is quite a difficult score to achieve). Last year I even began a log in which I kept track of all my snake games played, their scores, mode of death, and whether or not I was high, for merely purposes of curiosity (this log ended up being rather extensive and is now likely destroyed with little to nothing resulting from it). Around the time when I played most consistently last year, I would estimate that I played about 1.5 to 3.5 hours a day. Ridiculous yes, but stimulating all the same. Now I share this information with you, not to brag or boast on my ridiculous snake abilities (yes, these are apparent), but rather to elaborate on something that has played an extremely crucial role in my life, as well as occupying a drastic amount of my thoughts over the past two years. I have recently tempered my snake addiction, I don't even play every day, and those days that I do, it rarely exceeds an hour. I'm not sure how long this temperament will last, as I simultaneously hope to reach 10,000 points someday (this indeed will only come with further honing of my skills). To further emphasize my obsession I made a video about my relationship with snake, which I will upload separately (because my computer was inexplicably turned off as I attempted to upload it in context when I went to class) shortly after this post.