I can barely stand to play the same game for an hour now and Gears of War 3 (a gift from Christmas 2011!) sits dusty on my shelf completely unplayed. I should probably put my ecksbaux on eBay as I don't think it's been powered on in about seven months.
I find myself more interested in chat rooms and casual gaming now.
Oh god I'm turning into a bored housewife.
There are exceptions (Civ for example), but overall I spend far less time playing games.
Vin~ fucked around with this message on 01-23-2013 at 08:19 AM.
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. - John Kenneth Galbraith
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Maradon!'s fortune cookie read:
I still play video games as my primary form of entertainment. I do have much, much less patience for tedious or poorly written games, though (so basically every game from Japan.)
Also, partly because I became a contributor for a gaming site, so I actually get to play a lot of review copies of games and explore and test out new worlds. Some people prefer books, I prefer the interaction of games. Visual and mental stimulation.
I still work 45 hours a week, go to the gym for an hour a day and get my 6 - 7 hours of sleep a night. Generally I game from 9pm - 12pm every week night and more so on the weekend. And I'm way happier in life now. Not going to lie, some stressful days at work, I'll put the controller down at 10 and call it a night. Overall, all is right in the world for me and Video Games are a major part of it.
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. - John Kenneth Galbraith
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nem-x had this to say about Robocop:
Is that a keyboard from WASDKeyboards? If so, awesome. I got one from there myself:
I was playing some different stuff, but the last reformat, something changed.. I went to install SWTOR, and decided that playing a game for 5-6 hours a night wasn't worth the bother of port forwarding. If I didn't bother installing, I wouldn't bother playing. This was 6 months ago.
Holy SHIT at all the free time I have now. Two kids, wife, work... hobbies that actually pay me money to do them. My lawn looks AWESOME.
Now.. I glare at my gamer friends.. I mention that they could log the fuck off and maybe vacuum the house before they have guests over. I point out that they could drop 8 hours a day of of their busy gaming schedule and get a job.. I invite them out to the park, you know, picnic style so they get some fresh air and sunlight.
But they decline. One dude even has a full spectrum bulb in his desk lamp, because he goes outside so little. These people are blemishes on the ass of society. They do nothing, they earn nothing, they make nothing...
Remember laughing at 80's movie images of the Japanese Businessman? The idea of shame for being unproductive? Like that scene in Gung Ho, where Gedde Watanabe is drooling and spitting while yelling shit out in some crazy jap business penance?
I want to put ribbons of shame on all my pale skinned neckbeard friends and make them cry and do situps.
And I used to be one of them.
They have kids... kids who are addicted at age 6, to Call o Duty, WoW, and whatever else the kids are playing these days... And they are fine with it, because if the kid is playing too, they can sit and play all day and night.. Dinnertime? Hotpockets or Pizza for everybody.
I get invited for dinner.. me and my kids show up.. for dinner.. I brought wine. I was told the wifi password, and asked when I was getting the machine from the car.
Fucking generation of children.
I much prefer going outside to work on my cars these days. Ah the joys of vintage cars. Freezing my ass off and swearing a lot, but more fun than clickity clicky click.
The Chief Security Officer would prefer me to not be bored, but also doesn't want me performing SCIENCE! upon shit.
The head of IT would also prefer that I not do that. Mostly because he knows that things would start falling apart that he can't get the budget to fix which is why some things are held in place with duct tape.
They give me a near 100mbit link to the internets... I amuse myself with games so I don't get bored and mass leach pr0n all night.
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nem-x had this to say about (_|_):
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Nice keyboard choice 
