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I’m a big Mario Bros fan, but then why shouldn’t I be? I’m an 80’s baby, and I grew up on Nintendo. I think that’s why I absolutely love to see videos like this. Of course this guy definitely had way too much time on his hands, but I have too much time on my hands some days, and I can’t come up with anything cool like this! Bummer!

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So I’m sitting here being lazy.  I decide I want to play a game, but for once I don’t want to play Sims 2.  I load up Zoo Tycoon 2 and get to work.

I’ve been at it for about an hour, and a little red message pops up telling me my maintenance person can’t reach the trash.  I pop on over to see why he can’t reach it, and I find one of the typical game glitches.

There’s a  blonde woman standing in front of the trash with the big red face above her head because she’s not happy.  Of course she’s not happy.  She can’t move.  So I hit space bar to clean up the trash, and the blonde woman disappears.  Mission accomplished right?

Then I notice all the other people standing where the blonde woman was all have big green smiley faces over there heads.  They may be happy because they like the animal, but maybe they’re happy the trashy woman is gone!

:-D  I thought it was quite funny, or maybe I’m just that bored.  I seriously need a life. *sigh*

Ben Shuey and I got into a huge fight tonight.  It was really stupid, but it escalated to a blow out over a stupid video game.  We both love playing Tourist Trophy for PS2.  If you’ve ever played Gran Turismo think Gran Turismo 4, but with bikes.   It’s a great game, but hubby is a really sore loser.

When it comes to video games he’s actually worse than most kids I know.  He’ll scream, throw things, punch things, and curse up a storm when he’s not winning.  His dad is the same way, so I always tell him “honey, it’s just a game.  Walk away for a minute, calm down, then go back to it.  If you keep getting frustrated you’ll never win.”

The problem is he never listens…just like a man.  If he was my kid I could just take the game away, but it’s kind of hard to do that to your husband.  He finally got so pissed off that he wasn’t winning, he punched an big screen tv we have.  It doesn’t work, but I still don’t want him punching it.  The only reason we have it is because it’s got the perfect shell to turn it into a storage unit, which he’s been promising to do for 3 years.  That’s another story for another day.

The point is how do you tell a man you seriously have to stop playing this game now without making the situation worse?  His temper only comes out when he’s playing video games, and it’s to a point where I’ve seriously thought about taking them all to Gamestop one day while he’s at work, but yeah I know how well that would go.