Gamesurf - verb: 1. to go from game to game enjoying the highlights. 2. to stumble blindly through as many games as possible for some reason.

To start off, I've got nothing against a bit of gamesurfing here and there. You know when you get raped a dozen COD matches in a row and so fuming you go to your shelf and pick out a few old favs like Assassin's Creed or Gears of War and burn through the single-player campaign and feel some sense of dignity and pride in your abilities return. But when you just cant stop gamesurfing, it becomes a problem.

Lately I've been gamesurfing like a 12 year old who just discovered Stumbleupon. I'm not even pausing to enjoy them anymore. Though in some cases, *cough* Two Worlds, this is not to really a problem or for that matter any different than the first time I played them. But in other cases: Morrowind, Starcraft, Sims 2, Civ 4, or worst of all Oblivion, this game blitzkerg is not only a problem, it makes one feel soiled, criminal even. If spending 46 minutes playing Oblivion before you toss it unceremoniously back onto the shelf isn't a crime then nothing is.

Now if gamesurfing is going to be a crime than it needs a motive. But heres another problem, I've no idea what it is. I find myself wondering if I'm bored with all the games I have, if I'm too busy to commit myself to a game, or if I'm turning into a casual gamer which though it'd be bad for my self-image, my wallet wouldn't be complaining. Does someone just wake up one morning and stop feeling the drive to kick some serious ***? Do they wake up and just stop caring about all the amazing games out there except in a coveteous greedy way? Is this a entering the real world kind of dilemma, or am I just disillusioned with consumerist society?

Finding no answer to these questions, I posed them to a friend. His reponse, "How did you fail philosophy? Shut the *&*& up." As my old philosophy teacher would say, "If you are too much of a gamer then you will not hand in all of your assignments. Since you are to much... YOU FAIL". And though a philosophic response immediately jumps to mind which briefly touches on free will and how hard determinism leaves me no choice in the matter, I just going to give up trying to understand the cause and start learning how to deal with the aftereffects of gamesurfing. Hopefully hair of the dog will work on this one too.