Internet Scrabble Club

One of my greatest fascinations and addictions is the game of Scrabble. I will take anyone on. I will take you on. I will beat you.

And then I will laugh at you. I lack all forms of modesty or proper decorum when it comes to games. If you somehow triumph, obviously through the use of magic or trickery, I will probably come close to crying. But I won't actually cry. You won't see a tear, they'll be trickling down somewhere deep within me. I will hide my tears and I will definately swear at you and sullenly walk off to a place I can be alone with my sad, self-pitying, weeping and spoiled inner child.

A year or so ago I started playing online Scrabble, joining the "Internet Scrabble Club," so I could hone my Scrabble skills playing strangers instead of my friends or family who most likely don't want to play with my pompous ass anyway. Now I'd talk trash to the unknowns whenever I'd pull off a sparkling 7-letter word or a staggering triple word score. And they couldn't do a thing about it but talk trash back or get a more sparkly 7-letter word and handily defeat me. I would get beat a lot. There wasn't even anyone to pout to.

Luckily for my ego, my computer got a virus, I wiped my hard drive clean, and soon forgot all about online Scrabble. And I quit my job. That's where I'd play Scrabble the most. Regardless, Scrabble isn't too fun when you're unemployed and drinking heavily by yourself at home.

Well even though I am still unemployed and still drinking (much less now, in case you were wondering), today I joined the old Internet Scrabble Club again. You download a tiny freeware program/game--probably the most lo-fi game I've played since GATO or Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders (just had to throw that one in)--from a site hosted in Romania, then you choose a unique username and password, your keys to this club.

I've won the first three games of my Internet Scrabble Club second coming (I forgot my original username, thus I had to start over with a fresh account and new username, "Hawklord78" for any of you dorks that happen to see me online and want to step up). Scored a 379 on the third game with a sparkling, double word score "wielded" as my first move--oh yeah, 82 points right there. So my rating right now is 804 or thereabouts. That's totally damned high, take my word for it. Or don't. Hold it, I need to tell you something:

BOW DOWN! THE SCRABBLE KING HAS RETURNED! I'M THE AWESOME PIMP KING OF SCRABBLE!!

For today, at least.

INTERNET SCRABBLE CLUB: http://www.isc.ro/