I think quite possibly I will remain constantly wetting myself for the remainder of the year and into summer 2008. There are an absolutely ludicrous amount of games coming out for both the PC and 360 within this period that I can just not wait for.

I got myself all ready with a new HDTV from my job. There, the home theater department had spare TVs, so I picked up a 1700$ TV for 450$, 42in, 1080i 10000:1 contrast ratio LG TV. Pretty damn slick lookin', and complements the dorm well at school. I'm off for the next few weeks, almost perfect timing for for me to indulge into the first wave of wetness, which takes the form of Bioshock. That'll hold me over til I can pick up my long long reserved copy of Halo 3 next month *pumps fist violently* But really now... who's not excited?

Also upon hearing about Starcraft 2, and of course Crysis, I uppgraded my vid card setup by acquiring a BFG 8800 GTX for kicks. I had Vista and thought I could harness DX10 in Crysis well. I'm definitely looking forward to it!

I go RPG frenzy too, with Blue Dragon, Eternal Sonata, then Mass Effect, topped off by Lost Oddesey in around the end of the year, begging of 2008. I'll pick up Assassins Creed, GHIII and COD4 on their respectable dates. A salavation season for gamers on the 360, be ready my friends!

a barebones and unprofessional parts list:

- Lian-Li Aluminum case.
- AMD Athalon FX-57 processor, 2.8ghz and 1MB L2 Cache
- x2 nVidia Geforce 7800 GTX 256MB video cards, with HDTV capabilities
- 4GB Kingston PC3200 DDRRAM
- ASUS A8N-SLi Deluxe nVidia nForce4 motherboard
- 1 terrabyte of storage, 10,000 RPMs each HD - RAID 0 Striped configured
- Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Platinum 7.1 with 1394

and the 21.1" flat panel monitor, 1600x1200 resolution is a nice top off.

I have given into the demons of pure laziness...

I ordered a pre-built PC from ABS, instead of making it on my own.
I'm sort of disappointed in my inability to want to make it myself, but I guess it could be worse.

I grossly checked prices here and there, making sure I got it as cheap as I could, which isn't anything close to cheap in the end -_-. I saved a hefty bit of money though for this computer, and I do use the PC over the edge, for gaming anddd my career, so I thought of it as a sensible investment, although a painful one too.

End price was 5000$ about, which is a lot to me, since I don't have richie parents giving me money past the end of HS. I got to burn my own wallet on this one, but it'll be worth it in the end, some high-high end stuff, bought with scrutiny.

I was an idiot though, delaying its arrival for a week or so. I forgot to call in with ABS to confirm mmy identity. So they froze my order until I did, for my protection though, which I found comendable on thier part since they coulddd just charge and ship without giving a damn if I'm really who I say I am. But yes, I'm a dumb "bastos", and didnt call til 6 days after I ordered, 1 day before they would, cancel the order due to lack of response to the phonecalls/email that I failed to catch... like an idiot.

But w/e it's done now, hurrah.

I prolly could have built the same PC myself for 3600$, but knowing my idiot-face, I would have done SOMETHING wrong, as I always do, and it so wouldn't be worth it, and the parts would not be utilized. I'd feel like a failure, so screw that. Professionals do thier work while I still suck at building PCs. (and the physical stuff might be sh*tty since I'm a gimpola).

But with this goodie, I'll be able to cruise through all my photoshop/marcomedia hobbies, Hi-def dvd obsessions, and eye-boiling gaming needs for a good 3 years at the least. The one I'm, passing down to my sister has served me a great 6 years, it has earned its cost well.

Woo, and I've got BF2, CS:Source, and the beta test of F.E.A.R. to cristen it with. I'm thrilled to be a vg junkie, before going back to college classes this fall, boo.