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I occasionally play Bejeweled online… it’s addicting!

I have too short an attention span for any kind of games LOL

On AFW we have an arcade with a bunch of different games. My favourite are the Yeti games, I will play only occasionally. I procrastinate enough as it is, without the added distraction of games

I don’t really do other games either, no matter what time of the day if I sit down to watch DH play PS3..I’m asleep within 10mins

Hi - can’t believe its Friday again already!

I haven’t really discovered playing games online, which is just as well, as I find keeping up with people’s blogs takes up a lot of time, which makes me feel guilty (a mothers lot).

I do have a Second Life avatar (Starling Picket) but I haven’t managed to get her off the training island yet. There’s always something that looks more like work to do …

Laura - I have played Bejeweled too - the fact that it is an addictive game is why I try not to get started very often.

Leigh - watching others play games on PS or computer always bores me.

Lucy - I haven’t even started looking at Second Life - what is the objective of it?

I’ve played bejeweled, but on my cell phone, not online. I do enjoy it, but usually use it to kill time (gasp!!) while I’m waiting outside the school to pick a kid up.

While I don’t have time to play online games, it seems my kids do. One of them, in particular, is very into ClubPenguin. Do anybody else’s kids play ClubPenguin?

Laura - we have not started on ClubPenguin. My kids went through the Disney Virtual Magic Kingdom phase. The girls are now into Webkinz online big time and my youngest likes the new barbiegirls.com site. My son does Aces High and mostly flying games on PS.

I’m not sure there is an objective for Second Life, as such - you join, set yourself up an avatar, and then roam around meeting people and going to events, gigs, shows … Rumour has it that you can make real money selling virtual ‘things’ to people (so running a virtual business). Companies are setting themselves up virtual branches in Second Life for marketing and recruitment purposes.

The architecture underlying Second Life is available for companies to use for their own purposes (at a price). For example, NASA use it to help their rocket scientists collaborate with other rocket scientists to build more rockets …

But I think most people just use it for fun.

I use to play Neopets when it first started out, then bejeweled, after that is was Twister (with words). Now hubby plays poker on it and I just blog and check email.

I was going to say that I don’t play computer games at all - never had, umm, until I saw the first comment - bejeweled, that’s a cool game, but on my cell phone too, like Laura.

My wife and I are regular condition zero(think counterstrike) players. We always try to outdo each other and everyone on the server laughs at our little competition.

Hmm, I play Simms on the computer…just not the internet.

I have not put any games on my phone yet, but I am thinking I might.

I have been out of the office most of the day and didn’t even get a chance to send my normal Friday note out. Thanks to everyone for coming to visit today.

I play on pogo. They have a free version, with tons of mind numbing games, and a club version which allows you access to more great games, an avatar mini which they update almost weekly with new backgrounds and outfits, etc. they also have weekly challenges, which have become quite competitive for me. My sister also has an account and we compete against each other.

I play a lot of SecondLife, mainly because it reminds me so much of the SIMs, which I’ve played since as far back as I can remember. I like the interaction too, as well as making a few dollars selling things in-world!

I also play internet scrabble via ISC.ro - it’s terribly addictive! I also play a lot of Scrabble on my mobile, usually when I’m on the bus to and from work. I wish I could get ‘Big Brain Academy’ for my phone, instead of having the borrow my brother’s Nitendo DS all the time!!

And of course, I play poker at PKR.com - which is like poker meets the SIMs!!

I don´t play online games and my kids are still too little to be interested in anything but banging on the keyboard. However, I do play a lot of computer games to relax. I love games like Bejeweled, The Sims, Morrowind, etc. Also, word games are fun.

Usually, I try to limit play and use it as a reward for myself when I get lots of work done. On slow days, I will set a goal of 5 articles and then play for 30 minutes, etc.

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