You just became my favorite person

That analogy is more than a bit flawed, in regards to people and Peggle.

The thing is, it sounds like you’ve already assumed that that friend is stupid, and maybe because you try to lower yourself to his assumed level of stupid, by observation he’s assumed that you are, and is watering things down to you. I’ve found that many people whom, at first, might appear stupid just tend to think on a different wavelength to the average, and rather unimaginative spod. The problem is, I’d have to say that — like yourself — most never bother to find out.

That person could be brilliantly creative, an artist, or know a lot about another topic that they just don’t talk to you about because you treat them like an idiot, things they keep from you because they feel you might be more comfortable that way, too good natured to break the illusion and all that. And I’ve known a lot of people who are actually like that.

It stands to reason then that Peggle might also be like that, and lo and behold, it is. There’s real depth to Peggle, but you’ve not seen it because Peggle is easy to be around, it’s comforting to be stupid around Peggle because it won’t chastise you for that, but the thing is, you’ve assumed that’s all there is to Peggle, it’s not that Peggle is shallow, but that you want Peggle to be shallow.

Whereas, if one were to scratch the surface, Peggle is a game with quite a good deal of depth, try defeating an entire stage with just one ball and getting 100,000 as the end reward, now that takes sharp wits to be able to plan it out and anticipate the movement of the ball, and there are recordings out there which prove that it can be done, and that indeed, people have done it.

Peggle can be played as a stupid man’s game, but it doesn’t mean that Peggle has to be a stupid man’s game. What it does mean is that with Peggle you can set your own goalposts, be they an inch fromt he ball, or many feet away. And the same is probably true of this stupid friend of yours.

And this is a flaw in humanity as a whole, they’ll take things at face value without actually bothering to dig to find out whether what they see at first is true or not, they’ll go by first impressions alone and those will stick with them as the primary overriding factor of their view of… well, anything. Games, the World around them, and even people.

The ancient axiom of don’t judge a book by its cover exists for a reason, it’s a shared wisdom to remind us not to fall prey to this form of perception, always be prepared to dig a little deeper than what you see at first, lest you’re never really going to know the true nature of anything. Not even Peggle.

That’s maths, right there.

So I blame peggle on my 4+ hour a day habbit.

Also, I am a WoW-hater so I couldn’t possibly appear to endorse it even by playing a game that people play while playing WoW so they don’t have to play WoW while they are playing WoW.