For the uninitiated, Cyberscore.net is a website where gamers around the world post their best records in certain portions of games for everyone else to read em and weep at their own mediocrity. Side effects may include a compulsion to dig up your old games and replay them to get on the charts and compromised emotional security upon realizing that you'll never be as good as the people on top, or even the top 10.;) Of course, getting into the top ten is really not that big a deal if not many people try out a certain challenge, but it gives you a sense that you've accomplished something, similar to the feeling of placing high in a Pokemon or Smash Bros tournament, among others. And since I am not likely to be attending any of those, I will have to settle with getting my humility lessons from Cyberscore. Alone, you may think you're the best, but when you see the actual best, you get motivated to get closer to the best, and sometimes even beat the best (if you are one of those select few who possess the predisposition, or just have a ridiculous amount of time on your hands).

One thing I am concerned about is how Cyberscore manages to weed out liars and cheaters. All you have to do is just simply type in a number and you're on. I wonder if the site will require actual proof, like an image of the in-game score or a Youtube video showing the painstaking effort to get the score (the latter being dang difficult to hack duplicate). Well, I see no satisfaction in getting on the charts by fraud, so that is motivation enough for me to stay honest.

Obviously I will not be attempting to become the best gamer in the world on there. That requires such devotion that it would cut into my other activities. But it is kind of satisfying to place a few high scores here. For the record, my username is CollectorV.

In other news, Spore got 8.0.

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I'm still buying it anyways.