I've been pretty bored with gaming lately.  As a matter of fact, I've thought of hanging it up for a long while until Metal Gear V comes out and then maybe Witcher 3 after that.  You know.  Pare down.  Cut bait.  Get real about my back log and say adios to a bunch of games either half done or untouched.  

But then along comes you-know-who, offering X-COM, Sniper Toast Warrior 2 and a long time unrequited itch: Call of the Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth for ash tray money and whatever I can find in last year's winter coat.

I mean, the stupid voters saved me $10 by picking Borderlands 2 over Dishonored yesterday, and I thanked God for their supremely bad taste and general internetish doltery because it saved me some cash I would have had no other choice but to spend.  Sometimes those mouth-breathing trogs work in your favor.  I was oddly relieved.

But I just know there'll be a flash sale for it in the next week and it'll probably only be fifty cents more than the last offered price!  

I feel like those guys in Das Boot.  You know, that submarine movie where they just sit in their own steamy fetor with pinhole leaks squirting all around, not making a peep and praying to an indifferent God that the complete Bioshock collection isn't offered for $19.99?  No, not the one with Jon Bon Jovi.  That was a different (and lusciously dreamy) movie entirely.

Not this one. ^

It's the one that you didn't see and don't even know or care about or even understand what a Das Boot reference is, because it was made, like, thirty years before your mom and dad probably even met!  Yeah.  That one.

This one. ^

That's EXACTLY what I feel like!

And now they've got Mars: War Logs at half price!  They know I have a lost puppy dog thing for clearly flawed games.  Especially action RPG's!  This one is "7's" across the board in every publication!  I need a new Alpha Protocol to not shut up about, and I just know this one is it!

And then there's Universe Sandbox for $2!  And Nazi Zombie Army for $6.  I can overlook a world of overused and hackneyed pop culture tropes for six bucks.

And Garry's Mod just for the PC street cred!  $4.99!  Even if I play it five minutes, $4.99.   FOUR NINETY NINE!! 

Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.