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Feb. 22nd, 2007 02:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elsajeniIn other news, at some point today Zack brought home an NCAA basketball video game. This decision bewilders me, since neither of us
a) fully grasps or
b) likes
basketball, but so far I'm having a good time watching him play it anyway. My tendency with these games is to get really into the imaginary players the computer creates, with their computer-generated names (so far our best in the basketball game is Samaki Beltran; we are also fond of Thor DeJesus, who turned up in the NCAA baseball game we also have) and playing styles, and come up with elaborate explanations for everything they do.
Right now I'm working with an elaborate fantasy world involving the fact that, every single time someone on Zack's team knocks the ball out of bounds or commits a personal foul, it's the same guy, Brian Stone. He's very nice, but he tends to get over-excited. His roommate, Steve, has gone through four cheap lamps this year, because every time he gets a new one and sets it on the end table by their little sofa, Brian gets excited about something on TV and knocks it over within three weeks.
(Actually, that's not quite true; the most recent one lasted almost two months, mainly because Brian was feeling increasingly guilty about his room's inability to have nice things. But alas, not even that was enough to contain his large-muscular-arm-flailing enthusiasm for long. There was a Scrubs marathon on, the janitor was on screen... anyway, it was tragic.)
... Clearly, I have a problem.
a) fully grasps or
b) likes
basketball, but so far I'm having a good time watching him play it anyway. My tendency with these games is to get really into the imaginary players the computer creates, with their computer-generated names (so far our best in the basketball game is Samaki Beltran; we are also fond of Thor DeJesus, who turned up in the NCAA baseball game we also have) and playing styles, and come up with elaborate explanations for everything they do.
Right now I'm working with an elaborate fantasy world involving the fact that, every single time someone on Zack's team knocks the ball out of bounds or commits a personal foul, it's the same guy, Brian Stone. He's very nice, but he tends to get over-excited. His roommate, Steve, has gone through four cheap lamps this year, because every time he gets a new one and sets it on the end table by their little sofa, Brian gets excited about something on TV and knocks it over within three weeks.
(Actually, that's not quite true; the most recent one lasted almost two months, mainly because Brian was feeling increasingly guilty about his room's inability to have nice things. But alas, not even that was enough to contain his large-muscular-arm-flailing enthusiasm for long. There was a Scrubs marathon on, the janitor was on screen... anyway, it was tragic.)
... Clearly, I have a problem.