I have thought about this subject a lot. When playing a game like Guitar Hero or Rockband, people always say “Why don’t you just play a real instrument?” This question I feel is easy to answer, as I am going to try to do here. First and foremost, I would like clarify the subject of gaming as a whole, for me, the simplest way to do that is to compare it to other things which EVERYONE does: Gaming is: A waste of time. Watching TV is: A waste of time. Watching Movies is: A waste of time. Sitting around drinking beer is: A waste of time. Reading Magazines is: A waste of time. Now that we have that out of way, when people look at me as an adult gamer, they find it hard to understand why I play games. It is such a waste of time after all, right. However, if I […]
Month: June 2008
Anyone wanna watch some Metal Gear?
So I finally got to use my Playstation 3 for something other then an overpowered Blu-Ray player, Metal Gear Solid 4. I am still not really sure if I am writing a review of the game or not with this post, but I tend to think its not so much of a review, more of just some of my impressions of it. So I started the game out on “Big Boss Hard” mode and it took me about 4 hours to get about an hour into the game. Even though I generally play every game I get on the hardest skill level, it got so frustrating that I finally just kicked it down to the normal difficulty level. It became a lot more fun after that, since the game is about sneaking around everywhere and the only way we were able to succeed on hard was to shoot everything, really […]
Am I Too Trusting?
I never lock doors. Not my car, not my house. Now that you know this, I should probably start. I grew up in what I always considered to be a pretty rural area, not farmland rural but, can’t walk to your friends house, rural. As such, I never really felt the need to lock my doors. After all, for someone to rob the house they would have to drive up a mile long driveway with a truck, load it with shit, and drive off. It’s not like they could just stroll down the street carrying my tv. Since those days, I have moved quite a few times but the habit never left me. I have gone from rural Pennsylvania to a real life ghetto in West Philadelphia and back. Still never lock doors. What is even more impressive is that the majority of things I have had stolen from me […]
Naps are Super Good.
I have long been criticized by whomever I am with at the time (girlfriend, roommate, parents, whoever) for my love of the good old fashioned afternoon nap. I have been one to take naps after work, or school, for as long as I can remember. A lot of people think I am just extremely lazy, or that I should work out more, or some other such thing in order to combat my desire to nap. The problem is, I don’t always nap because I am tired, I nap because I truly enjoy a nice afternoon snooze. Over the years, my schedule has varied quite a lot, there have been many variables at play all the time, yet my desire to nap never waivers. Perhaps I should be the subject of sleep study, I don’t know. My day to day schedule in the past 5 years has gone from 21 credit college […]
What’s so bad about cubicles?
For so many years I have heard people make fun of cubicles and the people who inhabit them. Everything from TV shows to comic strips have long loved to insult the ever hated cube. Even the people working in them yearn for that corner office to escape the “cubicle monkey” namesake. I for one, don’t really get it. In my relatively short career I have worked at 3 different companies across 5 different office buildings and I have yet to find a cubicle I don’t enjoy. Have I just been lucky? How did I escape winding up like this guy? (this was later found to be fake, but the point is the same) Office Berzerker I can understand the cubicle monkey mentality, and I have seen some examples of really poor cubicle layout which makes it seem like you are working in a sweat shop, I think a lot of […]