Life Advice

Tips for Game Sneaking

     Here's how to keep your night gaming safe from discovery.

     1. Don't even try to play when the people you are keeping this a secret from are sleeping in your room. If you will play inside, the risk is too high. If they are light sleepers, don't play. If they aren't, be as quiet as possible. If you will play at outside, wait 5 minutes before commencing your gaming.

     2. Leave no trace. Keep your tracks clean. If the battery of the device shows a percentage, do what you have to do to have it at that percentage once you are finished. Keep the surroundings free of change. Put everything on the device the way it was before you started playing. Don't make any changes you can't reverse. Put chargers where they were before you used them. 

    3. The device you use should be easy to close quickly. This means no large and/or outwardly complex devices.

    4. This is an important one. I didn't observe this, and now, I can't work my night gaming. Cut your losses. If what you use on your device to play can't or won't work, play something else, or if you can't play anything else, give up and go to sleep. Here's an example from my life. 

    On the device, a laptop, that I use, there are two different internet browsers: Chrome and Safari. I play Facebook and read webcomics for my game sneaking. I can't use Chrome because my father's using that for his Facebook. 

    That night, I tried to open Safari, and for some reason, it wouldn't work. I panicked and tried to fix it by restarting and logging, and those didn't even work. The laptop just shut down all its windows and didn't restart or logout. Tip 2 broken. I should've stopped there and hoped that it would be easily explained away, but instead, I shut it down, hoping to open it again and use Safari. And then I got caught. Should've quit while I was ahead.

   On an unrelated note, shutting down the computer and opening it again fixed the Safari.