Caltrops - Half-Life II ??? - Re: BDR to write nasty article of Chet's review

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by Zseni 10/16/2004, 11:17am PDT

Chet wrote:

One of the weirdest experiences of my life is playing half-life 2 in a room, with 3 hours of sleep, hungry, filled with caffine and Gabe Newell sitting over my shoulder watching me play. Even then it was amazing.

I like how Chet thinks that 3 hours of sleep and hungry can fit in a room filled with caffine. I hope they're making Eric the guy in charge of writing and Chet the guy in charge of coercing journalists who don't know their places. No, but more importantly, when did three hours of sleep qualify you for the Olympic Insomnia Revue? He's casually playing video games. I've been to gun shows, martial arts tournaments, fighting game championships, construction sites, deep-woods camping trips, and long-haul drives with people who were asleep on their feet, the first rest they'd gotten in days, or who had simply stayed up for the last three days straight and kept going on pure adreneline or giggly desperation. Let's not even get started on the subject of the Japanese. They outlawed sleep twenty years ago to make more time for production and consumption and there were almost no lasting ill effects.

Luxurious little pricktease Chet gets a big, fat, lazy three hours of sleep, crawls into an ergonomically designed Gabe Newell chair, and twiddles his thumbs for a bit without having a seven course breakfast first, and here he comes to claim his Survivor trophy and million dollars. Nice work, pussy. Why can't I be that guy? Christ, watch me go, I'll stay up all night and play a video game in the morning like the royal fucking badass I am, and I won't even think about muffins. I'm pretty sure a feat like that is a land uncharted on the map of human experience, but I'm ready strip letters off "extreme" until there's nothing left but me.