ThinkThought #10 : God's Game Console

My world is over. My days are gone. My life has become pointless.

One may ask the question, why? Why, Andrew, has the purpose of all that is good and fruitful in this world become obsolete? Well, the reason is because my home, my beautiful mouse-infested home, has now been graced with the presence of an X-box360. God help us all.

I have never owned a game console in my life, instead I have whored myself and my less-than-adequate game-playing abilities to the consoles of friends. It is for this reason that the sudden presence of an Xbox in my home is most shocking to me, leaving me in a state of paralysis (not real paralysis of course... just a spiritual paralysis). The moment my hands grasped the glossy white double-handed device known to us "gamers" (yes, I am a gamer now, as of two hours ago) as simply "GOD", I was set into a fit of ecstasy, followed by uncontrollable manic laughter and the soiling of my pants. This is my heaven. This is my hell.

The game of choice, which I played for but half an hour, was BioShock, a game in which shit goes down and gets real in an underwater city. I was enjoying shooting and zapping the masked madmen and women throughout the game, to a point, but as I was alone in my humble basement suite, I found myself scared shitless. Herein lies the problem. When I play video games, I get WAY too into them. No, honestly. WAY too into them. In the case of BioShock, I become so engrossed in the world of Adam and Eve (don't know the reference? YOU ARE NO GAMER!) that I find myself convinced of it's false reality. I had to turn off the game and busy myself with eating, as I was too scared to continue.

I am pathetic.

That is to say...

No... there's nothing else to say. I am pathetic.

What I need to do is find something else to busy my time with, rather than attempting to live my life through 2-D images reflecting societies obsession with violence and SUPAH COOL SHIT. You would think that working 4 days a week, going to school, and having Improv business to attend to constantly would busy myself enough to abandon the Xbox, however, I feel that in the coming weeks, this will not be the case.

Please help me. Obi-won Kenobi, you're our only hope.