...and that's enough of that

[jethrien]

I'm slowly and painfully making my way through Portal--my video game reflexes are crap so the simple act of jumping onto a platform instead of falling into acid is a bit of a problem. Also, I get really tense when I keep dying.

And I just hit the level with the live fire robots who are actively trying to kill you. Holy crap, my heartrate feels faster than it did when I was running earlier today. If I just managed to spike my adrenaline again this week, I'm going to have to have words with my adrenal glands. Words, I tell you.

I think I'm going to back away from the computer now and try to convince my body that really, there's no bear going to eat me in hopes that I might sleep sometime tonight.

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[jethrien.livejournal.com]

I do not, as a rule, play first-person shooters. I've got bad aim and crap gaming reflexes and I'm naturally anxious to begin with. (When I first played Portal, on a friend's video game system, I managed to get myself stuck dropping in and out of a portal in the floor and couldn't get out because I couldn't control the camera angle. Made the entire roomful of people nauseated. I'm doing a lot better on the PC.) Chuckro also doesn't play FPS--he tends to prefer JRPGs and the occasional beat-em-up. So this getting shot at directly thing is not something I'm used to, or am handling particularly well.

My imagination is...overactive. I have been known to produce tears on command during role-playing games.

Anyway, I really like the puzzle-solving aspects of Portal--most of the video games I've enjoyed have been puzzle games. And GLADoS is hilarious and brilliant. But I'm not sure how I'm going to make it through this level without having a heart attack.