one more paragraph vs. PC games!

Andrew asks on Facebook:

I’m just wondering do you say to your self when you are writing …. ok 10 more paragraphs and then I’m done for the night?

I tend to write in 100 to 200 word bursts at the end of the night. Like, I’ll look at the word count thing in Microsoft Word or LibreOffice Writer and say to myself, “OK, it’s at 34,300, let’s get it up to 34,500”. Then I’ll do that, and I’ll switch into a game for a while. After a few minutes I’ll get bored with the game and switch back to writing.

So for me, one of the most important features of a game is the ability to ALT-TAB out the game and into Word and back again without the game crashing. Seriously – if I can’t do that I won’t play the game. There have been games I’ve started but haven’t finished because you can ALT-TAB out of them without the game crashing.

I started playing a lot more Skyrim once I figure out how to ALT-TAB out of the game without it crashing.

-JM