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Way to spend a day.


I don't know about you but nothing makes me fell refreshed like wasting an entire day playing video games.

My roomate just returned home last night after a 3 month incarceration in Pittsburgh. Since his showing up last night at least 17 (conservitive estimate) hours of gaming has been logged between the two of us on our hardworking Signature 2000(?) television. I myself have been playing more games than in the last few months as of late due to having a new job and a little spare cash for once. No big spending sprees, but used gaming trade ins have been good to me. For me its been lots of Metroid Prime 2 on the Gamecube until my $6 ebay copy of The Matrix: Path of Neo showed up in the mail yesterday(after being sent through the US Postal Services worm-hole apparently, as I won the bid on Friday afternoon and paid for it late that night. It was coming from Texas freaking standard mail, not even priority). My roomie has been playing the fantabulous God of War. Actually all these games are at the least very solid(The Matrix being by far the weakest though).

ANYWAY, my point is that we've been wasting a ton of good time on good games. I want to know if anyone out there has any stories of days destroyed by gaming. Not just 6 hours or some weak number, I'm talking about epic struggles against physical activity of at least 12 hours or more. If memory serves me correctly, my greatest achievement in gaming sloth was my first Sunday with Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. I assumed the fabled slouch on the greatest loveseat ever known and played that damn game until I could barely see straight. Those were the days my friends. Those were the days. Let's hear it kids.

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Anonymous said…
Hmm, you need to update your shit more often.

I think that the format war will become irrelevant when private ownership of film becomes a dinosaur.

On-demand is the future. We'll have access to almost every form of media ever created and we'll pay a dime to download one time use viewings. Napster is the future, not shiny disks.

What are you up to Friday?
3:10 AM, May 03, 2006
Lauren said…
I not only have a story about a game destroying my day--but I have a story about a game destroying 12 years of my life.

When are we going to solve Maniac Mansion together?
11:14 AM, May 05, 2006
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