espionage

surf the web when he's not killing and stealing secrets?

need them since i live in a small apartment with my wife...

can't wait to give burnout revenge a try on the HDD. that game had some pretty lengthy load times...

I loved WoW and played it since closed beta until earlier this year. I made characters on different servers and after finally reaching level 60 on one that I would decide would be my main, I began the end-game raiding and was able to join a hardcore raiding guild.

After 20-30 hours of raiding every week for a few months (pretty much every night and all day on weekends), I burnt out. I woke up one day and came to the realization that the best items I kept trying to get would only be replaced by new items Blizzard would come up with. What fun is sitting in a 40-man raid for several hours each night knowing that the gear you're working towards will become obsolete anyway? I also got annoyed with how the amount of work I needed to put in went dramatically up (getting exalted with different factions, etc.) while the actual improvement the items provided to me was very minor.

It felt like work with no real tangible benefit. I could have taken a break for several months, came back, and worked towards the best gear in the newest raid dungeon. I could wait until the expansion and get level 70 gear instead of all of the level 60 gear that everyone is raiding for now. I could wait until next year's expansion to start and get gear better than Burning Crusade.

Maybe the only way to "beat" WoW is to just burn out like I did. Stopping cold turkey while you're still addicted to the game seems pretty painful. Can't one just let the game go through their system and be done with it completely like I have, completely free of the game with no desire to play it again? Or is it rare for people to actually "burn out" and wake up from the game?

I often see FFIII-related posts accompanied with an in-game screenshot to highlight how graphically advanced the game is. This Akeem picture was totally unexpected and had me cracking up. Great choice!

Probably sit down with Solid Snake and Dante. I'd ask them, "Hey if you two got into a fight, who would win?"

I realized that Blizzard games have been the only games I come back to playing as the years go on...and these games have never been hardware intensive.

Heroes V on the other hand causes massive amounts of slowdown if you ever try to move the camera.

I have that same Ikea TV stand and it's really nice! There's enough sections for each console that you want to seperate, and you can even fit a mid-tower PC in the middle column if you want that to be your media center.

Seems silly to have the event on a weekday. I wanted to actually check this out since I live nearby and heard Hogan would be there, but I'm at work. In fact, do all of these parents take off work to take their kid(s) to something like this?