Coping with iPad Addiction
I’m not working a whole lot right now, so in an effort to conserve money, I went out and bought myself a $550 iPad. Yes, I know, Suze Orman fans, I have a low financial IQ – just like every other normal American. To say that I’m remorseful about this decision would be an understatement. At the moment, I’m approximately six and a half miles from having to siphon my neighbor’s gas at night.
Money aside, I’m in another crisis situation: for the past 72 hours and counting I’ve been on a Yatzy Addict binge.
Five Yatzys? I call shenanigans, you evil space Avatars!
If you’re not familiar with Yatzy Addict, it’s a knockoff app version of the board game, Yahtzee. I can’t stop playing it. I wake up in the middle of the night to take a leak, and one quick game turns into an all-night bender. In the morning I look and feel like a junkie: bloodshot eyes, bags, pasty complexion, guilt-ridden… If I don’t start working soon I’m gonna have to check myself into some kind of a rehab clinic.
I don’t play casually, either. I play with intensity. And passion. I yell at the computer and swear a lot. According to my dense logic, the computer is out to get me. It has sent evil avatars from space to destroy me and turn me into a boiling mess.
And to think, there was a time when I didn’t understand the allure of the tablet computer…
3 years ago
Adam: ”You want me to buy this iPad so I can play Angry Birds, you say? Stop right there. I’m perfectly happy with my stationary desktop computer that sounds like a microwave oven. What’s so useful about a portable computer that fits in the palm of your hand, and has a camera, and iTunes, and the internet, and that cool notepad thingy? Shame on you for being such a stupid consumer!”
…Now look at me: yelling at computer avatars in the heat of a Yatzy tirade.
This guy would have scared the shit out of me in the 80′s.
I underestimated the addictive qualities of the iPad. I can’t put it down. For someone who once had hopes of weaning himself from the computer, the last thing I needed to do was run out and have one surgically attached to my fucking arm. To give you an idea of the magnitude of this problem, half the comments I left on your blogs this week occurred while I was sitting on the throne.
Yes. I know. But I’m a believer in making constructive use of down time. Wait, no. That’s not true. I waste all kinds of time. I guess staring at the back of the tablet for 72 hours straight would be just as productive. It would be a lot more boring, but equally as productive.
I’m like this with everything.
There’s a switch inside of me. It’s all or nothing. Last week it was Nintendo. Yes, the original. I thought it would be *neato* to relive my childhood, so I dug it out of the storage closet and spent the next half hour blowing in game cartridges. Low and behold, the fucker actually worked. The next thing I know, it’s four o’ clock in the morning and I’m still hunkered down, yelling at Link and Mario…
I guess my problems go way back.
Am I the only one suffering from iPad Addiction? Which app is your vice?
-Happy Blogging \m/
I would blow into the game cartridge and bang it against my palm…damn technology.
There was a whole routine I had: push the game down, hit power, flashing screen…pull the game out, blow in it, push the game down, flashing screen…pull the game out, blow in it, tap the sides, push the game down…
Game on.
Mine was push game down, power, flashing screen..game out, blow, smack, put game in. The hard smack seemed to work usually..it knew I was pissed, maybe.
And then: play game, get pissed off, punch Mario in the head, buy new TV.
Exactly!!
Thank you for making me feel better for being to broke to buy a iPad. Last thing I need is a new addiction. Love your blog!!
You’re welcome, I think. I enjoy writing on it, and I’m glad to have people like you that enjoy following along. Thank you from the bottom of my heart, Lo.
Love it, having fun things > having money everytime.
I second that emotion. If you can’t afford to go out on Saturday night, Yatzy will always be there to console us.
hahahahaha I literally had to pee after reading your post (I was holding it when I started)
Getting an iPad was the worse decision I’ve ever made, I’ll read on it, I fooled myself into it, never read on it, you know what Bejeweled Blitz is?
Well, I had to delete it, I was obsessed with it, still am, I’m trying to recover.
I sympathize with you.
I’m glad a made you pee your pants!
Please, don’t give me any app suggestions. The last thing I need is another vice. I’m trying desperately to break myself from my current vice. It’s not going well.
…but how much does it cost? Just outta curiosity.
I got it for it free.
And once you try rummic life will be over.
God dammit. I shouldn’t have asked…
Adam,
I am the evil avatars from space.
It is me you are playing Yatzy against and even if you didn’t continue to try for those inside straights you would lose.
I control the dice. Nothing in life is fair, especially Yatzy.
And take a dump on your own time mister; I don’t expect clean language but I insist on clean hands.
Because I like you I’ll see to it that you win a few tonight.
Try some some Preparation H on the bags under you eyes…I hear it works wonders.
Red
Red,
I send emails pre-wipe. No worries. Do you really play it, or are you pullin my leg?
Nah,
I’m pulling your leg Adam. I seriously can’t keep up with the blogging even though I fuck the day away at work most days reading brilliant posts like yours. I don’t even own a video game, old or new. And I’ve held off getting an iPad for exactly the reasons you’ve outlined. I got a bitchin follow-up post on the way though. Maybe tomorrow…
Red
Can’t wait to read it on my new iPad!
You are still wearing the Post of the Week crown. It’ll be a good segue for any new people that jump on board the Society Red wagon. Winner winner chicken dinner.
Oh Adam, I feel your pain. Try being addicted to an actual live role playing MMO (World of Warcraft)…that was me 3 years ago, playing all night long with people I met online…running home after work to jump on the computer because I was “leading a raid” and people were waiting for me to get home…trying to explain, yet again, to my best friend why I can’t gab with her because I am “busy” fighting my way through a dungeon…*sigh* I can still feel the weight of the imaginary sword in my hand…
That’s hilarious! Did you ever see the South Park episode when they were on the Warcraft binge?
Ha Ha! YES!…there were quite a few parody’s a few yrs back and we all geeked out over them…that is probably my favorite episode…except for the one with the Goths which is priceless!
That was by far my favorite episode. I’m definitely not a gamer by any stretch, but Warcraft looks pretty cool. If it didn’t have such a stigma attached to it, I’d probably jump on board. But, I have my quirks. You know this…
I wasn’t a gamer until I got into WOW either…unless you count bubble bobble and super mario cart…I think you would love it but I if you want to write more (which you do) steer clear because its a big fat hole you fall into…people that are competitive like me loose their minds “just one more dungeon honey, I almost have enough honour points to buy that new level 85 sword!” Yup.
Bubble Bobble was the cats ass! I completely forgot about that game!
I might have to eBay that real quick…
sleep well…
I’m tryin’!
nodding off on the toilet while playing doesn’t count!
Oops. Did I accidentally leave the video chat open?
Might be something I don’t want to start coz I am the type that would get hook to app games.
Yes. Be careful. I have an addictive personality myself, so I always have to be mindful of what kind of trouble I’m getting myself into.
Yes! I used work hours and meetings to play and thank god I didn’t get caught
Adam, I wish I could help you. Let’s look at the pros…there are worse addictions, right? And, you must be doing all kinds of calculating, so this is good for your mind. Or, does the iPad do all the calculating? Do you play with others? See, you’re making new friends. Lots of good points!
This thing is off the hook, Bumbles. Get one. (Look at me being all sales guy-ish). Seriously, there is nothing that I don’t like about it. I had got a Nook originally, but I took it back and bought the iPad instead. What a difference. I’ve been reading a lot more blogs too. It’s so much better than having to sit at a desk.
Adam…that thing would be dangerous for me! Can you read books on it? Is it an e-reader, too?! I don’t think I realized that.
You can do pretty much anything short of frying an egg with it. Although, they might have an app for that too. It’s a reader too, yes.
I was thinking of Nintendo/Super NES and the original Super Mario trilogy the other day. Remember all the shortcuts and hidden mushrooms, etc? How did we know these in the pre-internet age, especially when only a few other kids had the system? Hmmmm
Anyway, regarding ipad addiction, my apps of choice are word games, jigsaw puzzles, Pissed Off Ornithological Creatures, Alchemy, Fruit Ninja and Plants vs. Zombies, even though I have beaten the game over and over. Now off to check out Yatzy.
Ginger,
Super Nintendo reminds me of Mortal Kombat! Ah, great memories…
I’m not hip to any of the other jive you’re talkin, but be careful with Yatzy. Once you pop you won’t stop.
Now if someone set me up with a black and white TV and Pong, we’d be speaking the same language.
I’m afraid I can’t comment, because I don’t know what either of those things are?
A traitor and a liar!
That was a classic reply. I anticipated some friction haha!
I’m addicted to taking stupid/funny photos with the iPad and recently had an ‘intervention’ where my friends insisted I delete them all (else they may appear on my blog). If yours has the funny photos feature you may be able to do a toilet shot (of the floor, of course).
Dianne, good idea. I will email you the shots ASAP.
What kind of stupid/funny pictures have you been taking?
I’d love to show you, but they’ve been deleted. They kind of like crazy mirror shots
Dianne, to me, Crazy mirror shots +
= Risqué
I don’t have an ipad…but I do have an Xbox which Hubby conveniently just moved to our living room…and Guitar Hero is calling to me…I could ignore it when it was in the dank, cold basement next to the stinky guinea pigs, but the allure is taking over. and don’t get me started on Bejewelled Twist…I only wasted a couple of hours today…
Jenn, what do you rock out to on Guitar Hero? You strike me as a Poison/Tom Petty chick.
I was exactly like you when I was still in my pre-iPad days about two years ago. I was all, “iPad? Puh-leez. Why would I need something that’s like a smaller, lighter, fun-er, more portable version of my laptop?” And then I was gifted one by a generous family friend. I tried hard to resist but once I found the kindle app, I never looked back. So yeah, can’t help you with the addiction. However, should you need more reasons to stay addicted…….
I was telling someone else today, since I got it, I’ve been doing a lot more reading lately. It’s easier to keep track of everyone’s blogs. I actually wrote most of this post on it, As a matter o fact. It works pretty good, except for the autocorrect. I shoulda just left all the goofy word-swaps…
God, I love this! I don’t have an iPad, but I love my lightweight ultrabook with Windows 8 all the same. My friend has an iPad and her son is addicted to all apps Angry Birds. My mom has an iPad and is addicted to Solitaire (fitting game since she’s an introvert). On my ultrabook I am addicted to a windows app called TapTiles, it’s like “3-D” Mahjong.
That’s what I know. Again, I dig this post, best friend.
Dude, I love me some Mahjong! I forgot about that one. As for the ultra book, I’m sorry, I’m in the infancy stages of technology literacy. You’ll have to fill me in as to what that is. A lap top?
And thank you, BFF.
Yeah, it’s like the thinnest, lightest laptop with full range keyboard (& mine lights up! The keyboard that is.) I’m a dino to technology, too. Got this on Thanksgiving and before that I had a 9 lb 7 year old Alienware lap top. Only thing I don’t like is the battery is not removable so if it freezes for any reason, I’m screwed, it won’t turn off to reboot. Happened once, luckily for only 5 minutes which felt like 5 years.
I had an HP Pavillion for less than a year. It started on fire. Then I got a Notebook, and in less than a year the keyboard stopped working. Actually, just the letters on the left side of the keyboard. It made it difficult to send emails without half the vowels.
No more laptops for me!
I hope everything you just shared with me doesn’t jinx me. I haven’t ever owned a desktop and I don’t plan to. You can’t tie me down; no, sir.
Sorry in advance.
Yatzy is from Brooklyn, Yahtzee is from Boston. Sounds right to me anyway
Wouldn’t it technically be Yaahtzee if it were from Bean Town?
lol well, not according to the Boston alphabet:
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q AH S T U V W X Y Z
I just favorited this.
lol awesome, wait, make that..wicked awesome!
I liked but only because of the Nintendo Wizard picture.
I’m sorry to almost completely let you down.
Yatzy … yes! Nintendo/Mario … yes! Visualizing Adam on the throne … yes!
I have a Nook Tablet, and just today my boring Kindle Paperwhite arrived. The only game I’m addicted to right now is Tumblebugs. I play on the PC, but it’s available for iPad. I play when I need to take a break from my other addiction – blogging.
I got a Nook HD for Christmas. It was pretty cool, but it was horrible for browsing. I took it back and got the iPad instead. My life has improved drastically in some ways because of it. In some ways it has not improved.
Speaking of, I need to shower…
My Nook Tablet is nice when I’m on the go, but I was a secretary in a previous life, and I don’t think I will ever give up a full-size keyboard. … Yes, please shower. I have the visual of the throne, now the shower. Thank you very much.
You’re making me feel self conscious now, type-writer lady.
You know I’m just teasing you. Go play a couple of games of Yatzy, and you’ll forget all about it.
I’m one step ahead of you, Maddie.
Bejeweled is addictive. I had to delete it from my phone, although I later downloaded it again in a moment of weakness. There’s a helpful stat menu included that shows me how many gemlike hours I’ve wasted playing this game, although sadly they won’t give me a badge for being a be-loser.
I always get those invites on FB. I’m not sure what it is? But, in any case, I wouldn’t get down about it. My Yatzy hours put your jewels to shame…
I have to admit that sometimes I become gamers addiction – to killing the times and the boring side
. And from my point of view technology has undoubtably played a large part in how many of us live our lives and technology like everything else in this world has pros and cons. Technology, Internet and app games it’s something i couldn’t resist 
Yessie, right on. It’s all about work-life balance. Work for eight hours, play Yatzy for eight hours. See how that worked?
Yeah Bitching!
My phone is a $14.00 piece of AT&T shit that takes 15 minutes to type a four line sentence -no keyboard. Oh, if I had the money to purchase a damned Ipad I’d have an addiction too: Sell the fucker to pay the utility bills.
So yeah…. go go gadget.
Signed,
Some Poor Fucker on Disability in Reno
-who paid in hundreds of thousands of dollars in SS during her working years,
P.S. no bitterness
PPS I play Nazi instead… being Half A Hebe. Explains the lack of money via the government. I know the Swiss are involved. Oh yes. they have mad a deal with Steve Jobs -adjusts tinfoil hat-
Rachel,
Maybe you can start up a tinfoil hat company and sell them on eBay? I think we might have stumbled onto a cash cow here.
Adam,
I feel your pain. As I read your post on my iPad this morning, I have to confess that I, too, can get a little wacky about the thing. Venice Mystery is my weakness and most of the time, I control it, but everynow and then, I do go on a bender. Even so, it’s a great tool and I even go so far as to be sure that any new purse I might buy is big enough to fit my iPad…
Cathy
Cathy,
Is this thing not that greatest invention ever? Tell me something that you can’t do with it. Mine cooked me breakfast this morning.
I only have a Kinde Fire (a cheap knock off of an iPad_ and don’t know if they have an Yatzee App. I haven’t played Yatzee since I was a kid but I loved it as a child and spent many happy hours playing it with my brother and sister and friends. I sort of hop that Amazon doesn’t have such an App so I won’t be caught in the vortex you describe. I’d never get anything done. Not that I get much done now…
Does the browser work pretty good on the Kindle?
For me, it’s Brick Breaker. Or was, anyway. After I’d broken my 2,956,352th brick, I suddenly wondered, “Will breaking that 3 millionth brick bring some sort of deep-seated satisfaction? Answer some of life’s questions? Help me discover What It All Means?” Alas, no. Though it beats staring at the back of someone’s head while standing in the DMV line, which brings me no satisfaction at all.
Here’s a way you could square the circle: Become a Yatzy Addict shark. Start playing around people who know the game and act like you’ve never tried it before. Before long, you’re laying a little wager. Next thing you know, it’s double-or-nothing time. You could have your iPad paid off in no time!
Paul,
We are on the same page. The DMV is a painful place to hang out.
Is brick breaker the old arcade game with the nobs that bounce the ball off the tiles? I used to eat that game alive back in the day!
Yes, although the one I got hooked on was the smartphone equivalent. Upside: portable, convenient, no going through rolls of quarters. Downside: phone can’t handle the abuse I used to heap onto its older arcade cousin. (“IT? Yeah, this crappy phone broke down for some reason. What? I don’t know, I guess the screen spontaneously cracked.”)
But if you want to talk arcade addictions, give me Centipede, Tempest and … Phoenix. Man, I used to KILL on that game. Ten minutes of my lunch hour would be spent eating, 50 minutes would be spent trying to blow that smug, pasty-faced alien in the mothership at the end straight to Kingdom Come. He used to cower, too, when I got to him. I know I saw his eye twitch. Yeah, game ON, pal.
Paul, if you had said, Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter II, and Tekken, we’d be talking the same language. Although, from that era, nothing beats Pacman. I could play that game all night. And, AND! Pole Position. That game was the shit.
All good games, no question. Pole Position was great. One drawback: Playing it, then facing stop-and-go traffic the next day on your daily commute. The contrast was enough to make you seethe. As for Pacman, well, I could never stop pulling on that lever hard enough to about break it off — AS IF IT WOULD MAKE IT GO FASTER.
WHY?!!!! Why did you have to say Yahtzee?!!! There goes my entire weekend. I’m going to need some eye drops and I think it is only fair that you buy them.
Becca,
I’m sorry in advance for your restless nights to come. You’re right. I’ll be down in a day or three with your eye drops.
Don’t let me down Adam.
But that vlog you spoke of could substitute in case you don’t quite have the gas money.
I know. I need some ideas. I’m not a good vlogger, so feel free to pass on some ideas. I really do wanna do it.
E-mail me. I have plenty of pointers to share.
Age of Empires ( yeah, not even AoM), got so addicted I forgot to pick the kids up from school. Now I have the iPad I am addicted to everything. I’m guessing if you’re yelling at your iPad in the middle of the night you must live alone. It’s 2.30 am and I am posting a comment. Which one of us is more sad?
Sasha,
Do not confuse tech savvy and sad. Go get some sleep. You’re brain is tired this afternoon.
My Android phone. I’m always checking Twitter, Facebook, or WordPress to see if someone has tweeted, commented, or , um, commented on my pages. It’s quite shameful. I need help.
Twindaddy,
Warm it up. Is today the day you become el Presidente?
It damn well should be!!
Adam, that’s the spirit. Now you are perfecting your addiction! Great post; I just hope you are getting some rest too — so your mind and senses are sharp for gametime.
T,
Thank you. I’m sharp as a tack right now. Lately, I’ve been taking notes on this thing all throughout the day. I’m happy to report that I am now experiencing a topic surplus. You want to buy some? Half-off weekend special?
Feast or famine, hmm? Isn’t that always the way. If only I could go big with very little, I could afford to buy some of your leftovers.
I’ll buy your iPad. You’ll have some cash, and I’ll be able to play two games of Yatzy at the same time.
At least you won’t be bored when you’re homeless…
I’ll have a hard time finding free Wi-Fi though…
Actually a lot of places have it now; McDonald’s, Tim Hortons…
Oh no. It’s going to be very hard not to try and get this Yatzy Addict. I don’t know what it is, I know I don’t want it, but I know that I NEED it!
That’s the spirit! And don’t blame me when you can’t sleep at night. It will be your own doing. I’m giving you fair warning now…
Okay, I’m going to give you an idea of how archaic I am. I was the first kid in my neighborhood to have a video game. It was Atari Pong. There was no cartridge. You just plugged it into your t.v. and the box WAS Pong. You turned the knobs and played a ping-pong type video game. Black screen, little square white ball, white paddles. Every now and then the ball would get stuck in the corner and go d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d and you had time to go off and get a Coke or pee. I would turn down the sound and play that sucker almost until my alarm went off and it was time to get ready for school. It is so good that I didn’t grow up in the days of Nintendo!
Old Bitty,
The last sentence made me pee my pants. Nintendo was the greatest thing that ever happened to this world. Your table tennis video game playing generation is too proud to admit it!
Hey, who are you calling Old Bitty, ya little whipper snapper?
My Pong was the Model T to your XBox. A classic. A life-changing event. The precursor of the next generation. Like disco. Okay, bad example . .
Disco Jean,
I’m not really a gamer to be honest. I haven’t really played a system since Sega Genisis. If that means anything to you.
But, I do remember playing pong a few times a long time ago. I remember there being more than just Pong, too. There were a bunch of games that all looked exactly the same. The concept was two have two people volley some object back and forth in every game. Boring!
Dude! You just reminded me! Pong had the Breakaway game where you break through walls. That’s the one that kept me up every night!
And guess what? My gadget addiction has my upper back SO SORE! And my right shoulder is all hosed up from reaching across to work the touchpad in the middle of my laptop. My neck is stiff from playing Jewels on my phone. Bubba says I get a little TOO focused when I play that. He thinks a fire could erupt and I wouldn’t move until I got my 3 stars for that level.
Make yourself a Margarita. It will help you play through the pain.
I was wondering why your comments smelled a bit off lately.
I don’t know if you ever got into Risk, but the iPad version is like the boardgame on crack.
I have a good way to break the iPad addiction. I have the iPad 1, and I don’t upgrade the software, so all my old apps are starting to bug and I can’t load any new apps. Pretty soon I will be letting my sons use it as a Frisbee. If you really have a problem breaking the addiction, just tell me and I’ll send you the IPad 1 for whatever version you have. .
Kozo,
My auto correct always changes your name to Kosovo. I’m just giving you advanced warning. And what is stinky about me, good pal?
This iPad will never become a frisbee. Ever. Not after having to suck gasoline out of my neighbors gas tank with my mouth. Gasoline tastes horrible, by the way. I’m seeing spots. The light is bright…
What’s happening to me?
I hope you aren’t sucking anything else of your neighbors to pay your bills.
“I woke up wit my pants unbuttoned?”
My neighbor is divorced, and her ex husband lives in Barbados.
Sadly for me, money has stopped me from being able to get an IPAD. However, my phone recently decided to give up on me and I was forced to take a replacement phone until an upgrade is available to me. Little did I know this replacement phone came with Sims 3. Needless to say I spend most of my time in the bathroom, in bed, in the car…ect playing Sims. This is a serious addiction problem and I do not see a cure in the foreseeable future!
That’s funny. I remember playing Sim City in tech lab during high school. Clearly, it wasn’t much of a tech lab.
Sim Farm, Sim City, Lemmings…it’s no wonder…
Well my iPad addiction is kind of a good thing because it’s where I’ve been writing a lot of my posts now that I’m taking the train to work. I use iWriter I think it’s called… Something like that. Plus I read magazines on there all the time. I’ve had my iPad for a while now, but it’s only recently that I’ve started using it more regularly since I’m away from my laptop more often now.
I’m finding that I can put a post together more quickly by using a tablet, rather than a computer. I keep all my notes on the notepad, then transfer it and edit. It’s an awesome piece of technology. Five out of five stars.
I’m gonna look into this iWriter. I’ve never heard of it until you mentioned it.
NextIssue is a great service for reading magazines on the iPad. $14.99 for a year of subscriptions to a ton of magazines! I’m curious about this iWriter now.
I’m the same way! I fell in love with my husband during some major Nintendo marathons in college! lol I’m currently addicted to Words with Friends and Scramble with Friends. Now I’ll have to check out this Yatzy business. Thanks a lot!
Sounds like the perfect way to find a soulmate. I don’t do Words with Friends because everybody cheats. I use real words like, “that” and “bored”. Not “qi”.
They should call it “Words people never use with Friends”
I have to say that Grand Theft Auto Vice City is great on the iPad
I might have to look into this…
Never even thought about Vice City!
Fun post, Adam! I will never give in and buy an iPad, my laptop is as technically “advanced” as I’m going to get and I spend far too much time as it is yelling at it when it decides to quit loading General Hospital in the afternoon. Hell, I don’t even have a cell phone! But as far as game obsession goes, for me it was one called “Da Vinci’s Secret”. You can imagine how disappointed I was when it really had nothing to do with Da Vinci at all and turned out to be a Tetris-esque, hundred-some level game of get-the-key-in-the-lock. Blocking your path were coloured balls which you had to remove by matching up balls of the same colour — the more you could get at one time, the higher the score; make a move without destroying the balls and they replicate. There were multi-coloured balls that had to be hit twice, bricks and bombs, exploding crosses of light that decimated whatever was in their path….. and I was HOOKED. And once I beat the game — playing during every free moment — then it became an obsession to beat my high score, finish each level faster, get to that 150th puzzle in three days instead of five….. wow.
And do I ever remember blowing in those stupid original Nintendo game cartridges, and bashing them against my knee thinking that eventually they’d learn to associate pain with misbehaving and just WORK. Ah, those were the days… yelling at Mario when he wouldn’t stay on that damn turtle shell at the bottom of the brick wall. I wanted my 99 lives, damn it!
Wendy, I hate missing General Hospital too. It’s something about the lighting that I find appealing. The twinkling of the eyes, I think. Hmm. Anyways…
Shame on me for forgetting about Tetris. Shame on me!
Adam,
I have been saving for an iPad now that I am back to work.. this didn’t, and maybe also did, help. On my iPhone I am addicted to Word Shaker HD… which is just as nerdy as it sounds, but I love it. You like words, maybe you will too!
I spent much of the past year unemployed, I understand the importance of hobbies.. perhaps all you need is a balance.
30 minute walk = 30 minutes of Yatzy Addict (you exercised after all)
30 minutes of reading = 30 minutes of Yatzy Addict
1 hour baking cookies = 1.5 hours Yatzy Addict (gotta calculate eating time in there)
20 minutes of knitting = 40 minutes of Yatzy Addict (because learning is tedious)
1 hour spent making ancient weaponry from found objects = …okay, you can have a full day of Yatzy Addict for that.
Good luck my friend!
PS: Anything you are not happy with about you iPad?
Believe it or not, I hate playing word games. My vocabulary is limited. Every time I play Words With Friends I get beat up. I think people use cheat codes, because I’m not sure half the words they use are even words. WTF is QI?? Not a word…
I love the iPad. I can’t find anything wrong with it, other than the fact that you’re limited to one, maybe two, fingers for typing. I’m getting fast though. Ask me about the Nook however, and I’ll write you an essay stating all the reasons why not to by one. The browsing on the iPad is faster and easier than on a desktop. I bought the retina display 16G. The resolution is insane, and it’s plenty of storage. Think twice about buying one with massive storage. There’s a huge price difference for something you may not ever use, unless you plan on downloading 4 million songs.
Awesome ! Thanks for the heads up now I am super pumped!
Hold on to your pants.
Yatzy? Wow, at least “Words with Friends” made an effort to conceal that they were ripping off Scrabble. Yatzy reminds me of those “Mockbuster” movies like Transmorphers.
And my wife has an iPad. I might get to use it if she wasn’t on it all the time. Her addiction? Smurf Life.
Yatzy Addict is amazing. It’s probably better than the original. You can play a whole game with two people in about three minutes. Each turn takes about ten seconds for all three rolls. I think that’s why they put the word, Addict after it.
Piss on WOW. Everybody cheats…