Charles has been rather more fragile than usual lately. His crisis for today is that Corwin is playing a new first person shooter game (Battlefield 2). Unfortunately, this game is a bit beyond Charles’ capability so he can’t play it by himself. On the other hand, the game doesn’t seem to support bots1 for multiplayer so if Charles plays with Corwin, they have to shoot at each other or there’s nothing to do and that makes Charles sad. It turns out that all of Charles’ other games now bore him. Only Corwin’s new game is any fun.
So I ended up spending a lot of time getting a upgrade (536 megabytes!) and upgrading the computers to a version of the game that let Corwin and Charles play together with bots. This made Charles happy for a little while.