From time to time I find myself sucked into a game here and there. Sometimes for months, sometimes for weeks, but I find that eventually one consumes me a little too much for my own good.
From Facebook’s Cafe World, Vampire Wars, and now the House M.D game, I’m afraid to admit how many hours I used to spend on CW and VW actually! Though for a time I also played “My Farm” which wasn’t nearly as complicated as the while Farmville thing. I also attempted one of those other games… what was it… with a themepark? I wasn’t very good at it. It seems I do better on games that don’t really 100% rely on me bugging people for things for the game. Maybe that sounds like I just don’t play well with others? But really it come more down to that I feel like those games aren’t so much playing with others. As they do bother others.
Though it’s not even been a month and I’m starting to get bored of the House Facebook game.
I also tried to play on Winster for awhile. Bingo, and all sorts of games to get points for prizes. I like prizes. Real tangible things. Even better if they’re FREE real things! Admittedly, I wasted a good few weeks on there, but quickly got fed up. I was also a paying member for awhile, which I regret, but it was an addiction. I wanted to win these points for prizes that had I just paid for… I wouldn’t have wasted my time.
I think that’s one reason I like things like swagbucks, I get points just for doing my usual and I get to go ahead and get prizes eventually.
That wasn’t the point of this post really.
I was thinking recently about the types of things my ex-h and I used to do. There was this particular bingo site, and gods I can’t even remember the name of it. But you played totally free, and attempted to win… well… anything. We’d play for hours and hours. Yes, we wanted the jackpot to get out of the lower-income bracket of frustration we were in. I think we spent a good few months on that site, playing bingo cards of various type (black out, cross, etc) just to try and win…. anything. Though our goal was this massive jackpot that we watched climb and climb. Honestly, I wonder if I found the site again, would I dedicate as much time to it hoping to win? Like the lottery, but without cost? Who doesn’t dream of winning the lottery? The grand prize of a bingo game?
I’ve yet to really strike it rich, or really strike it anything other than a few bucks on the lotto here and there. Yet the desire just to be one of those lucky people who wins and grand prize and who has their life changed ‘forever’, is one of those things I’ve wished for since I was younger.
What about you? Have you ever wanted to win something so much that you did that? Spent lots on the lottery, played a game over and over in hopes to win?
Thankfully it’s been awhile since I’ve done anything that extreme. Even if I do sometimes bother with PCH 😉
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