| True story circa late 1990s: As a high school student in a religious affiliated private college prep environment, the Senior/Junior class members could be a part of a nearly "free study" computer course, contingent on acting as the school's basic IT resource. I was among a team of about 6 total, and we were very close knit. There was a 'brother' who ran the computer lab, about 30 networked PCs, and along a back wall, we had our array of about 7 machines on a separate network. So what did we do with our unchecked, unmonitored machines? Installed Duke Nukem 3D, natch! When the Brother eventually noticed we were playing against each other instead of, you know, doing work related stuff, he came over and the discussion went as follows: "Hey I don't think you guys are supposed to be playing games." "It's okay Brother J, we wrote this one." "Oh! Wow, that's pretty good. Okay then." Not sure who it was who threw that Hail Mary but it landed and we couldn't believe it. ...and that, ladies and gentlemen, is but a sliver of my life that would eventually be dominated by Half-Life until finally putting down the mouse for a guitar pick once and for all. |