There Goes My Productivity

Posted by jeremy on May 19th, 2007 filed in Computing, Games, Mac

Back around 2000 or so, I started playing StarCraft on a PC. I spent many, many hours with that game. I played all the races until I memorized the technology trees. I played through the single player game multiple times. I spent hours in one-on-one battles with first one AI, then two, then three. I spent a lot of time in, er, Team Building Exercises with some of my coworkers. One of the applications I was lead engineer on was named after one of the Zerg units in the game.

I slowly moved away from PC’s, both at work and at home, and as a result I really don’t game much anymore. Although, about a year ago, I threw together a PC from some old parts so that I could fire up StarCraft again.

And now StarCraft II is coming.

And it will release on Mac and PC at the same time.

My productivity is about to take a dive….


One Response to “There Goes My Productivity”

  1. Gail Peck Says:
    May 21st, 2007 at 3:28 am

    I love this little vignette. My youngest son Jonathan played Everquest for three years during high school. It drove me crazy how much time he spent on it, however, he had the last laugh. When he eventually (I threatened death), broke the addiction, he sold his virtual character to a man (probably like you) for $3200! He started another game in college, but fortunately realized he was getting sucked in and quit.

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