Sirlin's World of Gaming

One part competitive gaming, one part game design, and one part trombone rubber ducky non-sequitur insights. Sirlin plays to win. www.sirlin.net

Sunday, September 26, 2004

A True Gamer

My friend at work recently told me about an injury he sustained. He was changing a lightbulb and he had to get up on a ladder and remove this large glass globe which was screwed into the ceiling in an awkward way. During this process, he accidentally shattered the glass globe in his hands, sending shards of glass everywhere, all over the carpet, and into his hand. His girlfriend asked if he was ok, and he held out his hand, which then started dripping blood everywhere out of several cuts. As he was telling me this, I saw his bandaged hand.

He told me at that moment, he had two thoughts. The second thought was "Am I going to be able to go to work tomorrow?" The first thought was "How am I going to play Burnout 3 now?"

I asked him if he did play Burnout 3 after that and he said, "I had to wait two hours, but yeah."

That's the spirit!
--Sirlin