One vice I have never fallen victim to is the hypnotic debauchery of online games … until I discovered the enticing Facebook application, Jetman.

Jetman is the ridiculously simple game of maneuvering a little character over and under obstructions. This is accomplished with the click of a mouse or the tap of a spacebar.

The characters range from Jetman/Jetgirl to Jetrasta, Jetkurby, Jetcow, and even Jethobo. The player gets about 40 points for successfully evading each block/car/bale of hay/ trashcan. There is Jetman challenge arena in which one can face off with other Jetman addicts and a scoreboard that displays the ranks and best scores of the player’s friends.

Despite the fact that I am a complete Jetman fanatic and have devoted more than six hours to playing in the past two days, my best score is a dismal 2,089, faint in comparison to my fellow players Frankie McFarland and Mike Renner, who have scored 9,156 and 10,231 points, respectively.

In desperation to improve my Jetman skills, I ventured into the Windows computer lab recently during lunch and began to play. Halfway through the lunch period, Assistant Director Sue Kovacs stormed in and announced that online games are not allowed at school and anyone found playing would be subject to suspension.

I quickly exited my Internet browser and left the lab in a huff. Why exactly it is against the rules to spend a casual lunch period playing a harmless computer game simply made zero sense to me. Apparently there is a section in the Student Handbook about school computer usage, but being a rebellious teenager who maintains only fleeting interest in such issues, I didn’t bother to find a handbook or search for a loophole.

Jetman has left me internally conflicted. Although the dangers of entertaining a Jetman addiction, such as extreme waste of time and loss of sleep, are beginning to dawn on me, the game is way too much fun to not play, and the fact that online gaming is prohibited in the Uni computer labs only adds to my want to play.

In light of the incredible nature of Jetman, I think that the handbook should be amended to allow online games during lunch. I see no harm in clicking a mouse repetitively for under 35 minutes.