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I’ve quit many things over the years. At various points in my life, I’ve quit drinking, smoking, gambling, comic books, and several other things I can’t remember. (Sadly, I’ve never been treated for sex addiction like Tiger Woods, David Duchovny, and Chazz Michael Michaels.) Obviously, I have an addictive personality. One thing I’ve never given up is playing games. Certainly I’ve had a lot of stretches (too many, really) where I’ve played games way more than I should have, but I’ve enjoyed the “work” excuse for my marathon sessions.
How about you? Have you ever played games to the point you neglected eating, sleeping, and your social life? Have you ever had to take a step back and said, “Yeah, I really need to quit gaming for a while.”? Perhaps games have made you pull and HBK and you had to leave them in order to “find your smile”. Perhaps games have made you tap out and you had to take a break in the real world to recover. I’d love to hear about your experiences. Kindly share!
I will absolutely let you borrow mine. I never turn it on anyway. BTW i am being serious.
@rrod
you can totally borrow mine…i havent even turned it on since the uno game
@ray
why the mr perfect picture? i must have missed something..
@topic
im 31 years old, i have a family and a mortgage, i play games as much as i can…but there are whole weeks where i dont play anything…no time
I used to play Wolfenstein Enemy Territory for 20+ hour stretches. My wife, at the time, didn't like it much. I wouldn't eat all day or drink anything. I rarely spent more than 30 seconds in the restroom. The following day though I would suffer from severe headaches due to eye strain and dehydration. I finally had to quit playing that game, mostly because Punkbuster wasn't kicking cheaters anymore.
Since then I don't play games more than a few hours at a time, unless it runs late on weekends. I generally find myself playing the PS Minis for 10-15 minutes at a time and save real games for real free time.
I had to quit playing from Thanksgiving to Xmas this past year. I would go to work for 8hrs get home and do some herbal activities and game for like 9hrs. I would get home at 5 or 6pm and play until 2am and get up at 6am to go to work. CRAZY, I lost my life to Xbox, like literally. Now I have it under control but for a while there it looked like I needed a visit from A&E's Intervention.
@ TOKZ
That sounds great man, I think we all have enough respect and everyone here seems trustworthy.
@BIg Blak
I'd like to think so too. I guess the only thing we need to do is just compile a list and criteria of how to go about doing this. i'm open to suggestions.
Yeah I have plenty of games. I guess everyone saw my collection. But I will loan them out to anyone here. But not everyone can get Haze I mean really I just have the 1 copy so take turns.
@ All
We should come up with a system/game swapping system. We can call it the GamePad lol.
I don't mind paying for the shipping as long as the other person pays the return shipping and keeps tacking numbers or pays for signature requests (okay I don't mind paying up to a point, i guess it could get out of hand). All of my games are already filed with the condition of the games/booklet/case.
@ray
that must be a mistake..mr perfect could easily handle ric flair…mr perfect rules harder!
@Big Blak
how about RgamePad (like our)?
I quit for entire stretches before to concentrate on music. There was like 2 years that I just played my guitars instead of games.
I also have a mortgage and a family so my marathon sessions are only on the weekend. Most Fridays I put the little one to bed around 9 or 10 and then I turn on the PS3 and the next thing I know I hear my wife downstairs cooking breakfast.
@ El Capitain Planet
That sounds great, RgamePAD!!! I'm feeling it. I think the shipping should be handled the way you suggested. You pay shipping, I pay return shipping. Simple, sweet, and str8 (thats for you N8R) to the point.
@ Topic;
I've had on-again, off-again stretches of gaming. I was really off gaming when I was in college and was studying and trying to get laid. You'd be surprised how busy that keeps you! I started getting back into gaming when a friend brought his N64 to the rec room (my hangout and home away from home at college) and everyone played Smash Bros. for hours and hours on end. The next year, another guy brought in his xbox and played Halo multiplayer marathons into the night. That was oodles and oodles of fun. After that, I was like: "I'm buying an Xbox."
-M
I have never quit gaming because of gaming. I only stop when I can't bring myself to do much of anything.
I'm a WoW addict. I have quit a few times but only to go back later. This past time I quit, I was WoW free for almost a year. I just recently went back and am enjoying it. Last night when RPad invited me to scrabble I had drug myself away long enough to finish Splinter Cell
I have to do a variety of assorted errands (including accompanying someone for teeth extraction *ouch*) and will be gone for a few hours. I'll try to comment on my BlackBerry when I can. Kindly keep the conversations going! There's some Boddington's in the fridge. Try not to burn the place down!
@Ray
Do you think Apple unveiled their tent poles a few weeks back when they first learned that phone went missing?
@smartguy That's a really interersting point. Let's check the dates.
@Ray
April 8th I believe it was. That would fit well with the phone being missing for close to a month.
@smartguy Hmmmm, I believe Apple would have reacted faster than that, if the announcement was "only" a reaction. The phone was lost on March 18, I believe.
@Ray
Interesting. Must look in to this some more.
Oh I have had my share of game marathons and game droughts. Started when I was 5 or 6 on my parents computer, and computer games where always around me. I played Pokemon Blue and too many other GB games all the time. I played N64 at three different friend's houses, one of my friends had a playstation and another had a PS2. Another two friends had Xbox's and then got 360's. I got a NES working again in high school and got a laptop that I was gaming on non-stop throughout my junior and senior years of high school. I always had something to play on some system somewhere. Everyone in my school knew that I was a gamer. Then I stopped the summer before college and the first semester of college because I was working so much and then I was partying waaaay too much. When I stopped partying and finally got rid of my seemingly endless hangover I got a DS lite and another NES. Had one of the greatest NES collections ever…I didn't know anyone who liked to game at the time who was not jealous of my collection. Then I had a bad semester in school and gave everything up.
A semester later I had a fight with an ex and bought another DS lite. Soon I traded the ex in for my fiance now (*joking* sort of), and then I traded the DS lite for my 360 and I have been going strong ever since then and don't really plan on stopping.
@ Ray
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@N8R
Have you seen those shot glass ice trays at thinkgeek? Great idea there
http://www.thinkgeek.com/homeoffice/kitchen/986a/
@ Slicky
That is a pretty good idea.
Serious question:
Moto Droid or HTC Incredible?
Might get get one this evening. I just can't take 256k down for $30 per month with sporadic coverage. VZW has improved a lot down my way.
I'm leaning towards the Moto because it comes with more storage and can expand to have more than the HTC. Advise please.
@smartguy Camera on the Incredible is better. Sense makes Android friendlier, but barebones Android can be more flexible. CPU on the Incredible is also better.
Really, I see only two reasons to go with the Motorola:
1) You need the keyboard
2) You want faster Android updates. (Incredible updates will always be behind because of Sense. )
I think its pretty……cool.
@smartguy – yikes, i tested both out when my girlfriend was shopping for a phone, not exactly intuitive if you ask me. I'd hold out till June if I were you. there's a lot of Verizon/iPhone rumors this year.
@Shockwave562 Rumors for iPhone on Verizon happening this year have gone old. If anything, it's looking more like 2011.
@ SG
http://www.wirefly.com/learn/resources/cell-phone…
@shockwave
yeah, but I have that "I want a new gadget" bug now. June 7th isn't that far I guess. I can't keep paying for this service though.
@smartguy – haha… i get that all the time… I was leaning towards a new macbook and ended up with the iPad… that bug will get you every time. Fortunately I space it out between new gadgets and toys for my Jeep.
@Shockwave
New truck next year as a reward for when I pass my CPA. I'm already looking.
I could wind up with an iPad still. I don't like to do contracts on phones, so I'll be spending that much if I go either way.
Maybe I should just go play WoW and get sucked in and try and wait til June.
Yeah, coinciding with a broader LTE release.
@Ray
Good info. Thanks.
Anyone using Cydia to jailbreak their Iphone? Give me a safe sight to use please.
@smartguy
I used the blackra1n jb, from Geo Hotz.
try http://www.blackra1n.com
what OS version do you have? Also do you use a Mac or PC for your iphone? Cuz i think there's a redsnow for the Mac version.
@tokz
I'm rocking 3.0 for tethering. Perhaps if I simply jailbreak my phone I can fight the urge to run out and buy a new device. I run a Mac.
@smartguy
you should be able to use the Redsnow which will JB and unlock the phone. If you are just wishing to jb then blackra1n is the way to go. It's easy but with redsnow you have to enter firmware stuff or if not create the firmware ipsw ( i think that's what it is), if you go the iphone dev team website it explains it more in detail. I have done redsnow since they've only updated it for Mac's and i don't have one.
correction to my last post# 44
* i haven't done or used redsnow since they newer updates for Mac's only.
@smartguy – ya if you want to jailbreak why not unlock too and move it over to verizon. by the way, a bonus if you jailbreak download MyWi, it turns your phone in to a wi-fi hotspot. works great with my ipad. I'm actually getting my money's worth out of that $30 data plan… haha
@shockwave and tokz
Working on it now. Will let you know how it goes.
@topic – honestly I've been so busy lately I've had more time at work to discuss these things than I have had at home to actually play video games. I'm lucky to put a few hours in a couple times a week anymore
@Shockwave
Yeah my friend has that MyWi. Not all device can pick it up but it does work well with others. Same with the cracked Pre on Sprint, not all things can find it.
Yeahi wish i had a mac so i can creat. The ipsw but i dont. I bought my iphone last oct with 3.1.2 already installed :(
HECK NO!!!!!! Speaking of which, who wants to let me borrow their Xbox so I can play Alan Wake?
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@thundercracker He’s quitting to Flair’s figure four. Yeah, it’s not the best or most obvious, but Flair rules!
I’ve never quit gaming but i’ve gone droughts where i play it and don’t. Sometimes it is because of lack of time or lack of games.
How awesome are slicky and thundercracker for letting someone borrow their 360. Maybe we should start something like this, not console sharing but how game sharing. i wouldn’t mind borrowing some of my games to you guys.
I bought the Incredible.
@smartguy
hahA didnt feel like jb huh
@tokz
It was neat, but when i fell in to edge…….that was it. if the new Iphone is badass though…I'd consider jumping over again….after a few months anyway.
@smartguy
yeah at&t edge blows, real life rated R edge, rules!
@smartguy The first batch of Incredibles is sold out. They won't be shipping again until May 7th at the earliest.
@Ray
It's a neat device. I bought mine at Bestbuy. Instant rebates. My girlfriend got one as well.
Figures, the guy who found the iphone at the bar did not call apple and try to return it, according to his statement through his attorney. Things might not be looking so good for him.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ytech_gadg/ytech_gadg_tc1…
@Shockwave
Are you guys in Denver ready to hunt down Coach McDaniels and kill him yet? First he gets rid of the franchise QB, then gets rid of the franchise #1 wide receiver, and now he gives up a 2nd, 3rd, and 4th round pick for Tim Tebow. He's running that team into the ground.
@RROD – did you know that Tim Tebow's Jersey is the most-selling rookie jersey of all time? Say what you want about Tenow and McD, but I do love the fans here in Denver. haha.
in all seriousness though I really like the receiver we picked up, and if anyone is able to turn Tebow in to a team leader it's McDaniels. let's look at his track record
Tom Brady – 'nuff said
Matt Castle – I bet he misses McDaniel's coaching now, but he was great in NE
Kyle Orton – McDaniels took a less than average QB from a less than average team and gave him a near 4000 yard season(1000 more than the year before). Orton can't complain about that.
Marshall's talent will be missed. but like TO, that guy is a virus to a team. His attitude early and late in 2009 showed me that he is not a team player. We need those more than ever right now.
http://www.tigerdroppings.com/rant/messagetopic.a…
there's the link on how Tebow's Jersey holds the record for fastest sales of all time.
@Shockwave
Yeah, I know about Tebow's jersey. That's not surprising as he's college football's most popular player from the U. I think you're giving McDaniels too much credit. If he made Brady then make another Brady. About Tebow I just have a hard time seeing him be a good QB when he can barely take a snap from center.
@RROD – well I think his goal is to make another Brady – but If the broncos continue to go 8-8 and Tebow hasn't figured out how to be an NFL QB by the end of 2011 I doubt McDaniels will still be in Denver