Bithound
Shared on Thu, 07/26/2007 - 19:36Have to forgive us who've been around for a while. Sometimes it takes us a while to get around to changing. I have a friend who literally resisted using the internet at all back in the day. When he finally did come on board, he downloaded volumes more then I've ever touched; just in all the user-created content for UT2K4. The man is an absolute freak for his flak cannon 
Fast wind through to today, and he's circling xbox live like it's going to bite him. Took a blast from the past to even get him on there without someone else he knew onboard to play with him. Poor guy goes way back with Wing Commander, and it took the arrival of Wing Commander: Arena to get him onto xlive and into contact with someone he didn't already know. I'm trying to encourage him to at least make some effort to explore it, but we can't be blind to our reality. Simple truth is gamers are pretty much like any other brand of people. A few winners, a whole lot of losers; I say this with full knowledge, that I am, in fact, a loser to a great many people. Hell, I haven't made much effort to explore public rooms on xlive yet, despite owning my xbox for serveral months. To those of us without an abundance of patience, Xlive can seem like the amazon. Full of a great many, beautiful things, but also chalk full of weeds and bugs which the mind can only barely comfortably comprehend.
On to the business of living. I do apologize that I haven't updated as often as I'd wanted to, I can only plead to being...somewhat distracted. I'm working on a theory that work is trying to get me to experiment with Drano Martinis. Those of us who have experienced massive layoffs, probably know the phenomena. Every workplace, before it undergoes massive change, experiences a shockwave which can last a matter of weeks/months, in which the employees all know something's wrong - but don't know what exactly will happen and only speculate. (Needless to say, during those periods productivity is usually very low). To top that off, someone I've known for a very long time is getting married tomorrow. To be sure, I wish him and his wife well, but there's also no denying that events like that really only serve to remind me that I'm not as young as I used to be.
I have no idea what to think about it really. I'm 34 and I can honestly say, I've never actually been to a wedding. I'll be curious to observe. It's true, I've had friends get married, but not with the traditional pomp and circumstance. At least one couple I know went the two-witnesses and the justice of the peace route. Another, I never actually met the wife. The husband moved out to california. Needless to say, half failed. That's divorce for you. Fingers crossed that this one will last, and I can honestly claim that 2/3 of the marriages I witnessed last. In the end, you never really do know. I think though, at least for the sake of the romantic in me, I'll hope for them.
Fast wind through to today, and he's circling xbox live like it's going to bite him. Took a blast from the past to even get him on there without someone else he knew onboard to play with him. Poor guy goes way back with Wing Commander, and it took the arrival of Wing Commander: Arena to get him onto xlive and into contact with someone he didn't already know. I'm trying to encourage him to at least make some effort to explore it, but we can't be blind to our reality. Simple truth is gamers are pretty much like any other brand of people. A few winners, a whole lot of losers; I say this with full knowledge, that I am, in fact, a loser to a great many people. Hell, I haven't made much effort to explore public rooms on xlive yet, despite owning my xbox for serveral months. To those of us without an abundance of patience, Xlive can seem like the amazon. Full of a great many, beautiful things, but also chalk full of weeds and bugs which the mind can only barely comfortably comprehend.
On to the business of living. I do apologize that I haven't updated as often as I'd wanted to, I can only plead to being...somewhat distracted. I'm working on a theory that work is trying to get me to experiment with Drano Martinis. Those of us who have experienced massive layoffs, probably know the phenomena. Every workplace, before it undergoes massive change, experiences a shockwave which can last a matter of weeks/months, in which the employees all know something's wrong - but don't know what exactly will happen and only speculate. (Needless to say, during those periods productivity is usually very low). To top that off, someone I've known for a very long time is getting married tomorrow. To be sure, I wish him and his wife well, but there's also no denying that events like that really only serve to remind me that I'm not as young as I used to be.
I have no idea what to think about it really. I'm 34 and I can honestly say, I've never actually been to a wedding. I'll be curious to observe. It's true, I've had friends get married, but not with the traditional pomp and circumstance. At least one couple I know went the two-witnesses and the justice of the peace route. Another, I never actually met the wife. The husband moved out to california. Needless to say, half failed. That's divorce for you. Fingers crossed that this one will last, and I can honestly claim that 2/3 of the marriages I witnessed last. In the end, you never really do know. I think though, at least for the sake of the romantic in me, I'll hope for them.
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