"Fuel"

Earlier today I read a review of the game Fuel, focusing on the fact that it has the largest playable area in a console game, with an expanse of 5,560 square miles, all free for the roaming. As I read it, the game is quite lacking, with poor physics and controls, leaving little to do but simply drive as far in any direction as you can. Suddenly we have a land that just keeps going and going, but is filled with nothingness. The author points out that as much as he tries to see it in a philosophical light, as something similar to the endless anticipation of something more, as in "Waiting for Godot", he cannot. It is nothing more than a frustrating exercise of Sisyphean proportions. Soon his mind turns to suicide, but the internal coding refuses to allow it. He is stuck in a car in the middle of nowhere, with nothing to do but drive and drive and drive...

And as I sat at work reading this, it dawned on me that I was being interrupted every minute or so by a beep in my ear. The beep signaled a new account being brought up, so I would click over to the dialer system, click the button to bring it into our secondary system, wait for the phone to ring the 3 or 4 times necessary to reach a voicemail message, hit the hot key that enters in a comment stating that an answering machine was reached but no message was left, click back to the dialer, disconnect the call and click that I was finished with the account. And then do it over again and again and again...