I went to a birthday party on Saturday. The party was basically "dine out at a local Mexican restaurant, drink some sangria and margaritas, and then play a round of indoor laser tag at a nearby gaming facility."
I had never played laser tag, but I have played nearly 2k hours of Team Fortress 2 – and that's almost like playing laser tag, right? I figured that I would be an instant expert at this game and that I would dominate the playing field.
PRO TIP: One's mediocre computer gaming skills does not translate well into real world settings. I had enough team-versus-team online gaming experience to check around corners and to watch my back when moving around the map, but boy-howdy I had zero gaming experience on dealing with swarming, screeching children. The kids' tactic was a basic wolf-pack "surround and pound the adults!" and as one of our base's few adult defenders, I got seriously pwn3d.
I had a blast (pardon the pun), and look forward to playing again soon. Although their RED team crushed my BLU team, I can boast that I had the high score for my team. That's right: I was able to out-gun the children on my team. Maybe my mediocre computer gaming skills accounted for something!
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22 hours ago
Are you telling me that the hours I've spent hunting spiders will not help me with real life encounters of deadly spiders ? Damn ! I want a refund ! ;)
ReplyDeleteLooks like you had a lot of fun, time to go back to your scripts now :)
I wish adults could allow themselves to play some games that kids play.
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