Bohemia Bunny

In which Life is just a Game

October 18th, 2006 by lynn under Comments

Life can be envisioned as a game.

Most of us make it to Level 60 and above. Some really awesome ones make it to Level 120. We haven’t yet found any strategies or cheat codes to get beyond that level.

Some of us never make it past the loading stage. Some of us have a tough first few levels. But if you can make it past the beginning, you might have a good long run.

Some of us start out armed with cheat codes for infinite strength, mana or gold. If life is an MMORPG, these people are the higher echelons. But not to worry, just because they got there first, and more easily, doesn’t mean you can’t do the same without a cheat code. But the way games are evolving now, those cheat codes seem less like cheats and more like necessary criteria for full enjoyment of the game.

Some of us do stupid things like rush a high-level monster or play with weapons we can’t totally control, and it’s an early “Game Over” for us. Sometimes we get griefed by others. Sometimes we just get corrupted software and it’s a long hard struggle before the end.

Some guild leaders are assholes who do nothing but plot how to bring down other guilds. Especially if a guild is large and powerful, they can go around messing with the way other people play their games. Not nice. When the little guilds gang together to protect themselves, they’re derided as a minority of n00bs and persecuted.

If you set up your game in a nice peaceful server, good for you. Other people can always migrate over and join you anyway. They may cause increased lag time and whatever, but it’s a free world and switching servers is a time-honoured survival tradition.

Most of us have a good game run. We accumulate our weapons and gold, flirt with a few beauties, and after a long hard session, we look back and say “Good game.” And then we log off with the satisfaction of knowing that nothing matters in the end except one’s own happiness.