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"Not what it used to be"

I was just thinking today about gaming in general. It was all sparked off by me going round to a mates house and seeing him playing his Xbox. I thought to myself, when was the last time I really played a game?

When I got San Andreas back in early June I played it and played it for a few weeks but after that I got a little stuck. Normally the allure of the game brings me back to it or when I'm bored I just go on my Xbox. Recently though I really haven't felt the urge to play a game in the same way I used to and even my Xbox has been acting up (its disc tray being very temperamental)

With the onslaught of another generation of consoles just around the corner I'm wondering whether or not I'm actually going to bother buying one. Although I'd play it a lot because of novelty value it'd soon become another dust-gatherer that caused me to fork out a fair amount of cash whenever I see a new game coming along. After all, new consoles have more games and higher prices.

Excluding San Andreas, I can't remember the last time I just sat and gamed in the room whilst the Sun drifted by outside. It shouldn't really make me forlorn that I can't get into a disc with some information on anymore, but, I enjoyed gaming for many years and it's something I devoted some time to. I will still go back and play my Xbox from time to time, but more nostalgically then anything else.

I still subscribe to OXM and read the magazines. Even that's not the same. I used to spend some hours reading the reviews, counting the days until games I wanted were out and putting money aside, I even played the demo discs for hours and entered the competitions. Now I barely ever put the disc on, if I do it's just to watch someone's Driv3r playback or PGR cone score.

Everything is subject to change. The outdoors is appealing, as it always has been, but now the indoor environments just can't hold their own against it even for brief periods of time anymore. I haven't played the discs as much since my old tv with VCR was replaced by a DVD-combi.

So, I'll still talk about games and my opinions and play the ones I already own but the future of my gaming is ... uncertain

Oh, gosh darn it, now don't I feel all muddled and abashed and slightly left out. The hard life in the playground.
:' (

But yeah, private joke, so one can assume I don't know anything about it, and therefore my posts obviously didn't have anything to do with it, being as I am totally unaware of its existence. I was making my own, you see. Magical.

and that's an 'oh dear' on so many levels.

<3

I think I may actually love you.

Clearly I am "the man".

I think we need a really good way of blatantly showing tone of 'voice' on these forums.

Nah, it's better without. Then we can say what we want and it's the other person's fault if they didn't understand, and, of course (your favourite, I believe) we can say something so very simple, but which can mean almost an infinite amount of things, none of which actually mean anything, and all of which are so, so terribly wrong.

God bless the Internet and all who sail in her.
Or mail in her, perhaps, if we want to crawl into a depressive ball of poorness.

I'd like that.

and we're back to 'oh dear' again.

See! Amazing!

yey

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Tell me, what exactly do you do when you're posting?

:' )

Is this the part when we compare lives, and you get to show everyone how very superior your are? That's nice, I'm glad we're sharing.

Well, I usually just stimulate my penis when I see my name pop up, and when it's really late, I tend to melt the things lying about my desk with matches I collect from hotels and bars, then I google for "ugly people" and try to make myself feel better, fail miserably and almost (almost) slit my wrists. Then, when I get I bit to sleepy and my heady-weddy starts to drooop, I go snuggle in my big bed with all my toys and fall asleep safely, dreaming of kittens and rape-songs.

Did I win?

Now it's your turn! We can share our deepest thought and feelings, and every detail of our lives, and bond together on the Internet like all good friends do ... then feel better off for discussing our character flaws and having a good ol' chuckle.

See now we're back to 'oh dear' territory because you wrote another mini-essay.

Edit: And it was a genuine question, because the length of your replies to things I would deem 'trivial' are baffling so I was wondering what exactly was prompting you to write these things.



Plan on getting Live anytime soon?