Hey, Did I Mention I’m Awesome At Scene It?

Because I am. Awesome at Scene It, that is.

I wouldn’t make a big deal about something like this under normal circumstances. I mean, yes, I realize that my last entry was all about how awesome I am at Lumines (which, since writing that, I’ve had to get Dave to hide so that it didn’t completely destroy whatever productivity I might need to get shit done at home in the evenings; I seriously just had to quit cold turkey and didn’t even let him get the game out again for the train to and from Syracuse last weekend). But there isn’t any game I play that I always win, so when I am lucky enough to do so, I try to be gracious and so forth. But I’ve probably played twenty-five games of Scene It now and I

remain

UNDEFEATED.

As Dave pointed out this week, Scene It is not a videogame as such. If anything, it’s most like a game show, what with the buzzer; it’s just a trivia game. The night before we went to Syracuse, Dave and I played a couple of short games, which I won. No big whoop. In Syracuse, we played a couple of games a night, and I kept winning, which I still didn’t think was such a big deal — until Kim and Dave started openly plotting together to take me down using tactics. It didn’t work, and even though I got less gracious in my victories after that (the tactics!), the game also got less fun; now I had a streak to protect!

At one point between games, Kim asked who in my acquaintance I thought could beat me, and I said possibly Adam could. If I know a lot about movies (particularly recent ones), it’s from reading Entertainment Weekly and running Fametracker, both of which he also did — plus he’s always interviewing actors, so I assume he has to research them and stuff.

But tonight we had him over to play and I kicked his ass too.

To be fair: the game seems only to remember not to give you puzzles you’ve had before on a single machine. Which is to say, we didn’t get any repeats on the XBox at Kim and Jim’s, but questions were coming up tonight that we’d had when we played here, and at Kim and Jim’s (not many, but some), which obviously put Adam at a disadvantage. If there were a way for the game to download new questions from the internet to ensure you didn’t get any repeats, that would be ideal. Could one argue, then, that my wins tonight are less impressive? Sure. But I’ve played every game against Dave too, and he hasn’t taken me down either — and, by the way, is so disproportionately pissed off about it considering it isn’t even the kind of game he cares about or even considers to be a videogame. He really gets so mad about it that I don’t know why he still plays. If I were him, I would have stopped playing me a long time ago.

So what do you think? Time for me to assemble my team for The World Series Of Pop Culture?