Scary

  Played some more of Assassins Creed 3 last night and did quite a few of the missions where you are a captain on a sailing ship, firing cannons, hoisting sails, that kind of thing. As part of one mission you are sailing at night, in a torrential storm, riding these huge waves. Looking at it it makes you wonder how the crap did people back then sail around the world. You are in these relatively flimsy ships in weather that ships nowadays do their best to avoid and you are sailing somewhere that you potentially have no idea what is in that direction. Just playing it in a game and seeing how the ship could be tossed around gave me the willies. Doing it in real life I simply can't imagine it.

  The other thing playing that part of the game last night brought up is my insistence on doing everything right if given an option. I was doing one mission that had an optional objective to do it within a certain time limit. Normally I get annoyed at that kind of thing since it forces you to play one particular way rather than the way you want. However for some reason with this game I'm determined to get everything exactly right. I kept failing and restarting and after enough times my wife told me to just finish the damn mission. I did just finish it in the end but it niggled at me that I hadn't done it "right". I then did a couple of other missions and went back to that one and did it a couple more times and actually managed to do it within the time limit. Somehow I then felt that I had played it right and got that sense of accomplishment you get. It seems weird to me that theses games I play for fun can also force me to do something and I am happy for knowing that I can do what they ask of me. Not everyone bothers to do it or can do it but most of the time I can. Yay me?

  So now I just need to get work to have their arse in gear for this course next week and sorting out where/what I will be doing and today might have actually been ok. Until I get home to my wife though and the world is right again today is just being annoying.