Category: Mago Elf Liam

SPOILERS AHEAD, unless the emotional reaction of a fan to a film isn’t a spoiler for you. Actual plot spoilers are clearly and safely partitioned thus.

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Me: That was the first Star Wars film that made me cry.

Mago: No, you cried when [spoiler]
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Han Solo died[/spoiler].

I played an artillery game variant, Worms2, when I was a kid, with my family, a lot. This is a very fun and entertaining game. I kept an .iso (disc image file) of it lo these long ages, and a few days ago I installed it from that image and played it with “Mago” (11yo at this writing). We could not get the game to run without putting a music CD in the drive; I remembered the game was coded to only run if its disc was in the CD-ROM (and for some reason it wasn’t recognizing the mounted image). I also remembered we used to put in any random music CD in the CD-ROM drive, and it would function okay that way, only playing whatever music happened to be on the CD instead of the music tracks burned on the original game disc. We would play to the “BRAVEHEART” score or whatever else.

The only music CD we had handy at this game revival now was chamber orchestral arrangements of sacred hymns. So we fired virtual bazookas and super banana bombs at each other to these.

Mago: Where’s my blue coat?
Me: It’s not in the knife display case, because we don’t have one. But if we did, I’d totally put it in the knife display case. After I stabbed it, over and over and over again.
Mago: Dad, I’m in a hurry, and you’re being silly!
Me: Hm, it’s not here–wait, is this it?
Mago: Yes.
Me: It’s not in the volcano, because we don’t have a volcano. But if we did, I’d totally throw it in the volcano. It’s not in my pants, because I don’t have any pants. But if I did . . . I’d totally put it in my pants.