Nothing is true, everything is permitted

The electric totem continues to be the dominant cultural force in my life.  I've been working hard to get caught up on lots of games that I couldn't play until recently.  I went on something of a mad renting spree and got Blockbuster's Gamepass thing.  It's kind of like Gamefly with less mailing and more instant gratification.  Unfortunately, you're constrained to the local Blockbuster's selection.  The upside is that you can have a single game out for a full month and you can swap out that game for something else as often as you like.  At last count I rented about a dozen games in the space of a month.  Had I actually paid the rental price for all of those games I would've been well into for a couple hundred dollars.  But since it was a timed thing I didn't let myself get too attached to any one game.  I made sure to trade stuff off after a few days so I could maximize my renting.  I know, huge dork.

Anyway, I played lots of stuff and have updated my Amazon Wish List accordingly.  So if you really want to get into heaven, God says send me games.  I just talked to him like ten minutes ago.  I also had to put a few things on there that have not yet come out.  I have done my best to catch up on the old stuff only so I can batten down my hatches and do my best to weather the perfect storm that we gamers call Q4.  See every year around Thanksgiving the game company's decide to dash their fan base against the rocky shore of economic divestment by releasing many, many games that have been sought after for a great long while.  No seriously, it's a lot of games.  I'm told that the business reasons for doing this is to end the year with a bang and show the stockholders a nicely padded bottom line.  For me, though, it's just a bunch of exercises in self-control.  But, the silver lining is that I know that the summer months are always really slow for games so if I toil my way through the games that have recently been released and the new titles which are about to drop, that should see me through to Spore.  Then, like as not, I'll never be seen again.

The funny thing is that a friend brought by the 360 version of Oblivion, arguably my most favoritest game evar(!!!1).  I own this game for the PC and have played many an hour into it already.  But you know I bellied right up to that bad boy and started from scratch and romped through a whole mess of content I'd already played.  Why?  I have no idea, that game in particular (and the horrible horrible freedom it allows) employs some kind of wicked irresistable grasp on me.  I will probably continue to come back to this game until they put out the fifth installment, which won't be for several years yet. 

Yeah so, no big surprises that my posting stopped right? I mean, nobody really reads this shit.  It's pretty much just for me, a giant act of self-masturbatory narcissism that a big puddle of water just couldn't satisfy.  So what do you care?  Send me games.

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