Ummmm yeah ......

I love my Playstation 3. It's big and heavy and black. Shiny, too. It even has a little red light on the front when it's turned off.

Naw, I'm just kidding around. I really do love my PS3. The kicker is that I got the 60GB version from eBay for $399 plus shipping when it was going for at least $100 more in the stores (man, talk about retail shock but that's a story for another day). So far, it's working like a champ, a particularly electricity hungry champ, but a champ all the same. The truth is, though, I got it because I am so excited about Home (ya know, the Second Life clone that's supposed to revolutionize digital socializing). I never could get involved in Second Life - truthfully my handy dandy little Mac was a bit too slow to handle it. Plus, like I said before, I like my games off my computers and on actual gaming machines. This machine is perfect for me cause I do have a ton of PS and PS2 games and I need that backward compatibility. Now I got three machines in one.

When I first got it, I think I literally downloaded something like 30 - 40 GB in the first week. I am surprised Comcast didn't just shut me off. I love the Playstation Store. If I ever work up the motivation to get one of those pseudo credit cards you can buy in the drugstore, I'm going on a spree. The demos are insane (Conan comes instantly to mind) and they have a couple of games that I want like - don't laugh - Q*bert and Medievil. Odd, I know, but great 'cause I can just download and play.

I have The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion on disc and it's great for my obsessive-compulsiveness: get and find everything in the game and take as long as possible to do it. The only real problem I have with it, though, is the text is a skootch too small for my taste (as I only have a standard def tv GASP!!). I love extremely long RPG's like this because there is just so much stuff to do and get. Now if they can only make a real world version of this ... wait a second, isn't that what's called a job?

Resistance: Fall of Man is another game I have that is a first-person shooter set in the early 1950s. I haven't started playing it as yet because of sheer laziness. I will though ..... eventually.

In other news, The Orange Box is set to be released sometime in mid-December. So I decided to get on the ball and finally beat Half-Life (!) after 2 years of owning the game. Even though the end was kinda spoiled, I wanted to see how it ended. I feel sorta gypped; I thought the ending was gonna be more of a bang that it actually was. I mean, come on, literally five minutes after you beat the final boss, the game is over?! Including that non-decision the Gray Man makes Gordon make?! Oh well...

Great, now I wanna go play Champions of Norrath. Now there was an ending that was great.....