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There aren't many weeks that go by where I don't wish that I didn't have to sleep or eat, even though when I'm actually sleeping or eating I always wonder why I don't do both more often. This week is definitely one where I am feeling the time crunch. With several projects on the go at work, and several more at home I find that most of my gaming enjoyment lately has come from my PSP, and not from playing games on it.
Mostly it has been acting as a movie player, and the movies that it has been playing are mostly game previews. It's definitely a sign of the times, games aren't even released when the hype completely dies on them these days. In fact, some days I wonder if I'm even a gamer at all any more, or just a gaming futurist, spending endless hours trying to determine where the video game industry will go next rather than plopping down in front of a screen and trying to frag my next foe.
For example, I find myself wanting to play both Dungeon Siege II and Earth 2160. Both these games are sequels to ones that I enjoyed but never finished. So why spend time looking forward to the sequels when I could be playing the parts of the originals that I have yet to see?
I would be interested to see the stats on the percentage split in hardcore gamers time between time spent playing and time spent researching the next big thing. In my case the ratio is about 10:1 now. It's almost sick.
On another topic (and one that's actually related to my post title), I recently discovered several interesting web games that I highly suggest you take a moment to check out. The first is a sort of stock trading game, but the commodity is people's blogs. I discovered that my blog is listed, and that as blogs go I am pretty much ready for ruin. Check out these stats! According to that, my blog is prettymuch the least popular blog on the internet. Maybe I need to start posting some FREE STUFF in order to get some more hits. Awww... Fuck it. The last thing everyone needs is more free stuff. I do find it odd, however, that since I am listed in the top 20 for the search phrase "sex junky" on MSN I'm not getting hit like crazy over here by people seeking hardcore anal tranny action. (WARNING! That last link is NOT safe for work!)
Wow, anyway, I had two games I wanted to link to, and then I'm out for the day. The second game is a cooperative web game where you reveal an image to another random person on the internet and they try to guess what the heck it is. It takes a bit of getting used to but onjce you start playing, Peekaboom is pretty damned addictive.
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