Solitare-y Voices
Jul. 26th, 2006 10:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sailorzeoThe voices in my head always turn computer solitare into something else. For the longest time, it was a sort of red-vs-black mafia coverage. All the showing cards had to be one color or another (makes it real tough to win) Tonight, for some reason, it was thick, bad Spanish accents and ballroom dance. Don't ask; if I knew, I'd find a way to stop it.
It's almost like background noise anymore. I'm never really thinking "black ten on red jack." I'm sort of just listening to the absent chatter and hoping something clicks. Yammer yammer yammer no more moves, new game. Have to keep playing until I win. And I very rarely click all the cards up to the top, to get the fireworks. Once I know all the cards are out and in order, boom, I'm done. No need for aimless clicking.
I remember back in the days of Windows 3.0 or earlier, when my aunt was working at the Clarion University library and they were switching all the computers over to Windows, they wanted everyone to play solitare for a certain amount of time a day, to get used to the mouse. She actually got in trouble for not playing it enough (she had a computer at home and was perfectly used to the mouse, thankyouverymuch).
We all got hooked on Free Cell freshman year of college; it was packaged with the SPSS software we needed for our statistics classes. My roommate and I both played it for so long that when we closed our eyes at night, we saw the green background and cards. I used to be good at it, but I don't think I've really played it since then.
Do we all have solitare quirks, things we have to do, or else the game "won't work"? I have to keep my aces red-black-red-black, or black-red-black-red. Can't have two of the same color next to each other. When I was playing with the Sailor Moon deck, I had to keep Neptune and Uranus next to each other. And I can't flip over any cards until all the moves are made. No pulling down from the draw until after the flips; I just know if I prematurely pull down that red six, the next card I flip over will be the other red six, and I'll be kicking myself. Sometimes, when I'm on a particularly spectacular losing streak, I get the sense that the computer takes pity on me, and occasionally throws me an easy game, just to keep me hooked.
Computer solitare: drug of the masses
It's almost like background noise anymore. I'm never really thinking "black ten on red jack." I'm sort of just listening to the absent chatter and hoping something clicks. Yammer yammer yammer no more moves, new game. Have to keep playing until I win. And I very rarely click all the cards up to the top, to get the fireworks. Once I know all the cards are out and in order, boom, I'm done. No need for aimless clicking.
I remember back in the days of Windows 3.0 or earlier, when my aunt was working at the Clarion University library and they were switching all the computers over to Windows, they wanted everyone to play solitare for a certain amount of time a day, to get used to the mouse. She actually got in trouble for not playing it enough (she had a computer at home and was perfectly used to the mouse, thankyouverymuch).
We all got hooked on Free Cell freshman year of college; it was packaged with the SPSS software we needed for our statistics classes. My roommate and I both played it for so long that when we closed our eyes at night, we saw the green background and cards. I used to be good at it, but I don't think I've really played it since then.
Do we all have solitare quirks, things we have to do, or else the game "won't work"? I have to keep my aces red-black-red-black, or black-red-black-red. Can't have two of the same color next to each other. When I was playing with the Sailor Moon deck, I had to keep Neptune and Uranus next to each other. And I can't flip over any cards until all the moves are made. No pulling down from the draw until after the flips; I just know if I prematurely pull down that red six, the next card I flip over will be the other red six, and I'll be kicking myself. Sometimes, when I'm on a particularly spectacular losing streak, I get the sense that the computer takes pity on me, and occasionally throws me an easy game, just to keep me hooked.
Computer solitare: drug of the masses
