> >[snip] Also, I ended up thinking how much fun it would be to set up a live-action Playstation game, the way people do live-action chess.
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> That sounds like a ruling game. And that's probably the closest I'd ever get to owning video games. Sigh.

This post made me realise why I like some games so much. It's because I *so* love to actually do that stuff myself. I love paintball. I love trying to climb walls and trees and cliffs and things. And walking along balancing on the tops of fences, and swinging on things, and crossing greasy logs over rivers, and exploring creepy dark tunnels, and highwire obstacle courses, and all kinds of stuff like that. I'm not saying I'm particularly *good* at any of these things, but they're so much fun.

At the *time*, it freaks me out so much I can hardly move, but that's half the fun.

If anybody ever set up a place which copied a couple of levels of that sort of game, with all the moving stuff and the traps and things, I would definitely pay money to spend an evening running around in there. And no, I would not go so far as to do this while dressed up as Lara Croft or Sonic the Hedgehog or (heaven forbid) Mario.

Brunnen-"if I was a game character, the player would be hitting the directional button repeatedly and getting all frustrated and yelling 'This isn't WORKING!' a lot of the time"G