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A few weeks ago I awoke to another fine Scottish Summer morning with plenty of rain. I dragged my body out of bed and went through the usual morning program of washing, dressing and eating.
I sat down prepared for another thrilling day of doing nothing, it was the holidays of course. I picked up the post and flipped through the white envelopes:
My bank statement of £18.36.
Safeway Sales leaflet, including half-price ice tea.
Some Telewest letters for my parents.
I was preparing my plan for buying £18 of ice tea when one of the Telewest letters caught my eye. It was a bullet with BROADBAND in large letters, so I opened it because I wasn't waiting for parents to come home.
And so the new plan was born to convince parents to pay out for broadband... surprisngly they agreed without me asking them which I found scary considering they hardly use the net.
All I had to pay was putting up with some fat Telewest bloke drilling holes in my room... I even had to make him tea.
Anyway it was done and dusted I hate BROADBAND... Hurrah... I could download music at up to 100 times faster than before. Well I could but I messed it up in the first day would you believe. I deleted software by mistake so spend ages fixing it, which I did because I'm the best.
Well that long story was how I got broadband, that morning I woke up could just be a normal day and most definately was but could it have heralded the day of downloading games instead of buying them in shops? Well... I suppose it might.
Since I had it installed I've been able to download hundreds of songs, only taking about 2 minutes for one song. In this I also risked downloading 'free' games... which was going well for a while until I downloaded virus... so moving on from that I was able to download game in a matter of minutes.
Could this way be the future of buying games? Gone with the practice of buying software from such good places as Special Reserve and other poor shops (hehe) but now these retails would need to move to the net and establish downloadable services for people to purchase games.
Well after writing this I've realised many flaws in this such as:
Not everybody has the internet
Harder if you have consoles
Shops would probably object to it
You'd need credit cards and many gamers are children
It would make gamers more lazy than before
So that is my future of gaming and goodnight.
I sat down prepared for another thrilling day of doing nothing, it was the holidays of course. I picked up the post and flipped through the white envelopes:
My bank statement of £18.36.
Safeway Sales leaflet, including half-price ice tea.
Some Telewest letters for my parents.
I was preparing my plan for buying £18 of ice tea when one of the Telewest letters caught my eye. It was a bullet with BROADBAND in large letters, so I opened it because I wasn't waiting for parents to come home.
And so the new plan was born to convince parents to pay out for broadband... surprisngly they agreed without me asking them which I found scary considering they hardly use the net.
All I had to pay was putting up with some fat Telewest bloke drilling holes in my room... I even had to make him tea.
Anyway it was done and dusted I hate BROADBAND... Hurrah... I could download music at up to 100 times faster than before. Well I could but I messed it up in the first day would you believe. I deleted software by mistake so spend ages fixing it, which I did because I'm the best.
Well that long story was how I got broadband, that morning I woke up could just be a normal day and most definately was but could it have heralded the day of downloading games instead of buying them in shops? Well... I suppose it might.
Since I had it installed I've been able to download hundreds of songs, only taking about 2 minutes for one song. In this I also risked downloading 'free' games... which was going well for a while until I downloaded virus... so moving on from that I was able to download game in a matter of minutes.
Could this way be the future of buying games? Gone with the practice of buying software from such good places as Special Reserve and other poor shops (hehe) but now these retails would need to move to the net and establish downloadable services for people to purchase games.
Well after writing this I've realised many flaws in this such as:
Not everybody has the internet
Harder if you have consoles
Shops would probably object to it
You'd need credit cards and many gamers are children
It would make gamers more lazy than before
So that is my future of gaming and goodnight.
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Don't you miss your old 56k? The good old days of downloading a song, waiting 15 minutes and playing it up to that point as it continues to download the rest.
No?
Oh alright then. You'll have nothing to download soon, too much too quick you'll think.
Maybe.
No?
Oh alright then. You'll have nothing to download soon, too much too quick you'll think.
Maybe.
Is this a good thing to post on SR... I want Broadband too.
So do I
Since I wrote it I've downloaded another 2 songs :D
Since I wrote it I've downloaded another 2 songs :D
Well I think Broadband rules.
:-)
:-)
A few weeks ago I awoke to another fine Scottish Summer morning with plenty of rain. I dragged my body out of bed and went through the usual morning program of washing, dressing and eating.
I sat down prepared for another thrilling day of doing nothing, it was the holidays of course. I picked up the post and flipped through the white envelopes:
My bank statement of £18.36.
Safeway Sales leaflet, including half-price ice tea.
Some Telewest letters for my parents.
I was preparing my plan for buying £18 of ice tea when one of the Telewest letters caught my eye. It was a bullet with BROADBAND in large letters, so I opened it because I wasn't waiting for parents to come home.
And so the new plan was born to convince parents to pay out for broadband... surprisngly they agreed without me asking them which I found scary considering they hardly use the net.
All I had to pay was putting up with some fat Telewest bloke drilling holes in my room... I even had to make him tea.
Anyway it was done and dusted I hate BROADBAND... Hurrah... I could download music at up to 100 times faster than before. Well I could but I messed it up in the first day would you believe. I deleted software by mistake so spend ages fixing it, which I did because I'm the best.
Well that long story was how I got broadband, that morning I woke up could just be a normal day and most definately was but could it have heralded the day of downloading games instead of buying them in shops? Well... I suppose it might.
Since I had it installed I've been able to download hundreds of songs, only taking about 2 minutes for one song. In this I also risked downloading 'free' games... which was going well for a while until I downloaded virus... so moving on from that I was able to download game in a matter of minutes.
Could this way be the future of buying games? Gone with the practice of buying software from such good places as Special Reserve and other poor shops (hehe) but now these retails would need to move to the net and establish downloadable services for people to purchase games.
Well after writing this I've realised many flaws in this such as:
Not everybody has the internet
Harder if you have consoles
Shops would probably object to it
You'd need credit cards and many gamers are children
It would make gamers more lazy than before
So that is my future of gaming and goodnight.
I sat down prepared for another thrilling day of doing nothing, it was the holidays of course. I picked up the post and flipped through the white envelopes:
My bank statement of £18.36.
Safeway Sales leaflet, including half-price ice tea.
Some Telewest letters for my parents.
I was preparing my plan for buying £18 of ice tea when one of the Telewest letters caught my eye. It was a bullet with BROADBAND in large letters, so I opened it because I wasn't waiting for parents to come home.
And so the new plan was born to convince parents to pay out for broadband... surprisngly they agreed without me asking them which I found scary considering they hardly use the net.
All I had to pay was putting up with some fat Telewest bloke drilling holes in my room... I even had to make him tea.
Anyway it was done and dusted I hate BROADBAND... Hurrah... I could download music at up to 100 times faster than before. Well I could but I messed it up in the first day would you believe. I deleted software by mistake so spend ages fixing it, which I did because I'm the best.
Well that long story was how I got broadband, that morning I woke up could just be a normal day and most definately was but could it have heralded the day of downloading games instead of buying them in shops? Well... I suppose it might.
Since I had it installed I've been able to download hundreds of songs, only taking about 2 minutes for one song. In this I also risked downloading 'free' games... which was going well for a while until I downloaded virus... so moving on from that I was able to download game in a matter of minutes.
Could this way be the future of buying games? Gone with the practice of buying software from such good places as Special Reserve and other poor shops (hehe) but now these retails would need to move to the net and establish downloadable services for people to purchase games.
Well after writing this I've realised many flaws in this such as:
Not everybody has the internet
Harder if you have consoles
Shops would probably object to it
You'd need credit cards and many gamers are children
It would make gamers more lazy than before
So that is my future of gaming and goodnight.
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