RPGs are a blessing in disguised. I love Final Fantasy games and RPGs with a really good story. Unfortunately there are not enough physical hours in a day for these games to be beat. You usually need at least a day and a half straight in order to beat these games. Sometimes simple tasks take a very long time, but more often than not there are usually a dozen given tasks at any moment in the game.
The problem lies when you say stuff to yourself like “Just after I reach this point I’ll stop playing” or “After I kill this guy I’ll stop playing.” The problem being that solving any task opens up several more or worse, plays a long cutscene where the story suddenly changes and you absolutely have to find out what happens next. This is how RPGs suck you in, or the good ones at least. I’ve only pulled one all nighter before and that was with Final Fantasy IX where I was playing the Chocobo game which isn’t even an essential thing to beat the game.
That TV tray is almost precisely like how mine looks except I removed one of the shelves on the front to make it easier to draw.
I just had an idea. You know those boxes like the one below that have weird words in them? They make you type the words in order to proceed for “security reasons”. Yeah well I have yet to hear of a guy who was a criminal because he couldn’t read. I can read perfectly, and there was maybe one time when I couldn’t read what it was showing, and that made me angry, because I don’t see what point there is in having those things. I was thinking maybe you should make a comic about this issue.
Actually the point of those things (aka CAPTCHA) is so that spam bots in theory can’t leave comments on blogs, because it’s easy for the bot to simply enter a name and email then leave a spam comment, but it’s harder for the bot to see the letters, recognize them, type them in and then enter their spam comments.