I finally got a day off to play some video games. I quickly put in Starcraft for some defense games, ahh nostalgia. Too bad, my girlfriend complained and I had to study. Oh well, at least I can stare at my copy of Big Brain Academy and Resident Evil 4 for the Wii. The weird part is that my girlfriend hates it when I play video games but she doesn't mind if I watch someone else play, ie my roommate when he is on live snipping poor saps in Halo 2. Anyway, the 4th of July was cool. I love the PC on-line community because no matter how immature one is, they'll always revert back to the gameplay or just talk about nonsensical stuff. For example, someone was lagging and we all chimmed in, once that person got kicked out, we just talked about the 4th and how lame we were for playing video games instead of setting off fireworks. Instantly we complained about zoning laws that kept us from truly enjoying the 4th because none of us could set off fireworks in our city. We were discussing the merits and disadvantages and it was pretty intelligent and introspective, then someone did something stupid and we reverted back to five year olds complaining and swearing. At the heart of it, no matter how intelligent or old they are, we always revert back to name calling and the blame game. I love that about the PC on-line community because while there are a-holes everywhere, its the cool people or the interesting aspects of the community we tend to remember. I think we just block out all the crappy people, which kind of says something about our tolerance for dumb people.

Still waiting for Halo 3 so I can buy me a xbox360. Its freaking expensive to play video games as a hobby, while I can afford all three consoles I know they'll eventually drop in price and I'll get more bang for my buck. Then again, I can just play with my roommates.

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