Where the hell is Alfa?

If you are wondering why there are no uploads in the past few days know that Alfa caught some incredibly malicious type of common flu. Why do I say that? Because it’s true.

How did I catch it? Well my girlfriend was sick and, as always when she is sick, asked me one of those typical girl questions: “Do you love me even when I am sick and thus hideous?” And I haven’t thought of anything better than to kiss her. On her lips. Passionately. Telling her she is beautiful while in my mind I was thinking: “I haven’t caught it till now, why would this change it in anyway?”

Sometimes I am such a fucking moron I could just slap myself.

So yeah, of course the next day I woke up with the exact same shit as she had – fever, pain, nausea which eventually now that my immunity defeated it, turned to regular coughing and sneezing as my body tries to get rid of all that ugly dead stuff floating in my blood stream.

So yeah, it might take two or three more days before I will be ok to record again as constant coughing/sneezing is hardly sexy.

Again – I am a fucking moron and deserved every minute of this flu virus. So my apologies for the rupture in (space)time continuity.

But this sickness as many before brought me to the immunity system as a concept. Why hasn’t anyone made a genuine, good real time/turn based strategy with this theme? It is an incredible place if you think about it, the body. Endless waves of bacteria and viruses that know no mercy or surrender swarms it while the immune system hurls white cells, raises temperature and produces huge amounts of body fluids designed to destroy. Will you raise the temperature a 0,1°C higher? But then the body looses a bit of its taste for food and ability to function normally. Can you handle this infection? What about that one? What if it isn’t just common flu? What if you need antibiotics? Will you hold the fort before they come from the outside world? And what about the most serious diseases? Will you be able to slow down the terror, sacrificing parts of the bodies in hope that help from outside will come in time? Or will the world of medicine fails you and you will perish?

Now that shit I would play. Bonus points if there were medical accurate things included and total win if you get a body and lead it from childhood to death by old age. Holy hell can you imagine that? Difficulty settings? Easy – 21^st century. Medium – 18^th century. Hard? Dark Ages. And super hard? Stone age.

Just imagine the achievements. Will you play in dark ages and somehow manages to save the body from the attack of plague? ACHIEVEMENT – You survived hell! Oh god I want that game now. Finally something to play while you are sick.