Why I’m giving up game collecting for 2006.

And so it begins. That’s all I’m gonna say. 😆 With a new wave of 2-3 figures arriving every couple of months, I think this pretty much nails the coffin shut for any game collecting in 2006.
I finally managed to play a complete game of Dune 2000 all the way through last, and even with the Winamp/alternate music mix, it worked fine – and I’ve gotta brag on this one: after wiping two of my three enemies off the map, I took the final, and best-built, enemy base with…50 unarmed engineers. Again, I was playing Ordos, and this last enemy standing was Harkonnen; they stupidly had their construction yard, heavy factory, Ix research tower and two power plants built side-by-side with an unprotected bridge behind them. I just massed 50 engineers there, pre-built a gun turret, took those buildings, sold off the power plants in a big hurry, dropped the gun turret right in front of the construction yard and heavy factory (and started building more) and sent the rest of my engineers pouring into their base, taking over their buildings in rapid succession. Once I had their factory, I could start turning out Devastator tanks, and that was pretty much all she wrote. That battle was over fairly quickly and I once again ruled the world. As it should be.
But the best part had to be when the action got fast and furious, and all of a sudden, whatever soundtrack it was from, Winamp starts blasting almost polka-like Jewish music at me. I almost wanted to alt-tab away from the game to see what the heck that was from (it was something, somewhere, in my soundtrack directory), but (A) I wanted to make sure I could finish the game, and (B) I was laughing too hard. Even if I do ever figure out what track that was, and from what soundtrack, it shall henceforth be known as the Harkonnen Bar Mitzvah Jam of Doom. It was just so incongruous because everything that had been on before – some Firefly, some Babylon 5, some Stargate, Nixon, JFK, The Innocent Sleep, had all been so perfect, almost like a well-spotted movie soundtrack.
Man, I’ve gotta find a human to play that game against soon, provided that there’s a day this month that I’m not called in early. (This, by the way, is why I don’t take up any more destructive habits – you can see how hard I’ve fallen off the wagon here, and this is just a computer game…)