You want him to understand the beauty and complexity, the importance of even the slightest angles. You want to rip off the magic eye patterned button-down and hold it hostage until he recognizes the magnitude of Brick Breaker. “Who the hell wears a going-out shirt to work anyway?” you fume. But despite all your rage, all the timid, suburban badass in you can muster is a “Jeez man, I was playing a game.” Your nemesis looks at you, feigning momentary empathy, and then scoffs and returns to discussing the “amazing acoustic encore” at the Death Cab for Cutie concert last night (you’ll look them up on iTunes later). “I WILL TEAR YOUR EYES OUT OF YOUR SKULL,” you want to explode, fantasies of impressing your MD (who actively advertises the fact that he has beat the game 4 times in a row) disintegrating like broken brick. You glare at the perpetrator as if he’s just stolen your first-born. The level is almost complete, but then, the subway lurches, causing the guy in front of you to lose his balance and knock your head with his hideous, earth-toned canvas messenger bag. You jerk the paddle left and right while tapping away furiously, smiling wickedly as you madly mow down rows of blocks. You play it on the 4-5-6, sandwiched between two Hurley-size African-American Jews for Jesus that spray spit on you every time they say “Y’shua.” But you’re oblivious to them you’re on level 34 for the 3rd time, and you’ve just absorbed the block that gives you guns. The 34 levels of Arkanoid-style fun make an otherwise excruciating existence almost livable, each ricochet a mini-morphine injection that anesthetizes you from the seemingly endless onslaught of deadlines and profanity-laced orders. You’re not sure whether the happiest day of your life was when you received your first glimmer of positive feedback at work (be it but a mildly approving grunt) for well-aligned PowerPoint boxes, or when you found out you had Brick Breaker on your Blackberry-it’s probably the latter.
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