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One of my hobbies is video games. And I am a casual World of Warcraft player.

WoW is fun and relates to the real world in many ways, and one of the ways is that you can do seasonal quests such as Winter Veil (Christmas), Lunar Festival (Chinese New Year), Hallow’s End (Halloween) etc. Love is in the Air is the equivalent to Valentine’s Day in WoW.

I am not going to talk about how ironic it is to have a event in game when the day should be spent with loved ones. The concentration is on one of the achievements for the festival: the Be Mine! achievement, which is purely based on the Random Number Generator. For people unfamiliar with the game, there is a special flying mount reward for people who have completed all of the seasonal achievements, and it takes a whole year to get.

I spent the weekend hanging out at a friend’s place, and was able to get most of the achievements while hanging out with my friends and having a good time afk. But on Saturday night, I realized that the candy bag is not dropping for me… (You need to get a gift bag from a NPC every hour to attempt to get a candy bag from the gift bags). I panicked. I have spent a significant number of hours talking to 75 Elders NPCs all over Azeroth to get my Elders Achievement. If i don’t get my Candy bag by 06:00 server time on Monday, I will need to wait for a whole year to complete the achievement. I started to obsessively log on to WoW once every hour to attempt to get my candy bag.

I got a bag! And since it is made to be like your normal chalky V day candy, the type of candy you get from it is random. I got 7/8 of the required candy. Looks hopeful!

Life is cruel. After countless attempts, still no trace of my second candy bag. Time is ticking… I had up to 06:00 server time (05:00 LA time) to get my last candy. It is 03:30…. My second last chance to attempt to get the candy. After some research, I decided to follow the suggestion of someone to try my luck in Thunderbluff (the tauren capital) instead of Orgrimmar. And viola! I got a candy bag!!!!!!!!!11111

I ritually clicked the bag every minute (there is a cooldown), my heart beating fast, my palms sweating (ok, I am dramatizing, but I might as well be if I weren’t DEAD TIRED for staying up late).

10 charges. 10 longest minutes. STILL NO CANDY. I got 4 repeats for one of the candy I already had. And in the end… I was still “You’re the best!”-less.

I know have one more chance at 04:30. I might still get a bag of candy. I did not try. Laying in bed, I finally started to think about how I wasted my time on a stupid achievement (yes, i am still bitter), and how ironic it is to feel that the world hates me when it is suppose to be a loving weekend…

And the worse part? I did it to myself! But a part of me still feels the guilty pleasure in knowing that thousands of people also failed to get that achievement. Oh well, I guess there is always next year…