Three Years of Hell to Become the Devil: Old, Tired, and the Youth is Draining From My Eyes

Everyone else has commented that with the passing of October, things begin to get serious for 1Ls, so I might as well add my agreement to the obvious. This is true, and the sneaking suspicion that I'm behind in my studies, unprepared for exams, and in general paddleless up the proverbial creek preys constantly in my mind. For some reason I feel incredibly old, like I should have been doing this five years ago. I can almost feel the reading etching lines under my eyelids, dry tributaries leading into the Delta of Torts.

Adding to my feeling of old age is the knowledge that one of the first computer games I ever purchased, and played with one of my best friends back in high school, is now available in a snazzier flash version online. Just think how much bluer and clearer my eyes were back then, watching the little Prince die in various gruesome ways (I never was good at the game) on an Epson 386 with an EGA monitor and that whole 2MB of memory.

Hell, my cell phone is more impressive than that these days. Normally I'm in love with progress, but today it just reminds me that I'm little more than a good gestation period away from 30.

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Giving The Devil His Due

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Damn, I forgot how hard that game is. How do you get a sword anway?

Posted by: falconred | November 3, 2003 7:14 PM

Go to the right from the start. If you pass over the first hidden panel and then go down the next, and keep going right, you can't miss it. Of course, I still can't figure out/remember how you get BACK after you get the sword...

Posted by: A. Rickey | November 3, 2003 7:21 PM

Someone needs to do this for Sid Meier's Pirates.

Posted by: Josh | November 3, 2003 9:08 PM