Our Gaming History
Prologue I guess most people will find this post to be very unengaging, but I want to structure up a record of our shared history of computer gaming. This is of both for nostalgic reasons and as a sort of therapy. So, as I have mentioned in other texts, our friendship started out with us gaming and ended with us gaming (on Javed's very last day of consciousness). I might as well point out that we did a lot of other things besides this, of course, but gaming was indeed a potent way for us to work together towards a common goal in a stimulating framework (later the only practical way to go about this when living continents apart). I am tempted to dig into the meaning of things like gaming for men (yes, I use the word "men" for this apparent childish endeavor by purpose) later on. I would like to make the case that gaming could serve as a substitute and outlet to meaningful functions embedded deep within us - perhaps especially in men when it comes to task-driven cooper...