Posted on June 30th, 2008 by The Silly Addiction
One of the side effects of going cold turkey is that you start to feel irrational flushes of hatred towards anything that makes your day more difficult.
For me, this recently manifested itself in an intense hatred towards the European microstates: those pitifully tiny countries which exist only to deprive me of a 100% score in [...]
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Posted on June 26th, 2008 by The Silly Addiction
This is the second part of the article. For part 1, click here.
This list, found at Diablofans.com, tells the story of hell in 600 installments. Intended to catalogue the signs that you are addicted to Blizzard’s popular PC role-playing game Diablo 2, it begins as a light-hearted jibe at addiction, yet quickly becomes a window [...]
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Posted on June 23rd, 2008 by The Silly Addiction
My efforts to shake my gaming addiction were going well. But recently I’ve started seeing Diablo everywhere. No matter where I look, it’s always there: in the smile of a child, in the subtle interplay of light on water, on the website called diablofans.com that I’ve just spent six hours browsing; truly nowhere is safe.
And [...]
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Posted on June 19th, 2008 by The Silly Addiction
It’s the fourth hour of my gaming session. For the entirety of my evening, I have been hacking a bunch of monsters to bits with my axe, looting their corpses, then reloading and killing the same monsters all over again. I am hitting the Council for Charms, and if I don’t dick about, I can [...]
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Posted on June 16th, 2008 by Tim Cameron
I finally did it. Three days ago I gave away all of my games worth giving away, and threw the rest in the bin. See the harrowing pictures below. If they’re blurred, it’s because the air was saturated with passion.
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Posted on June 12th, 2008 by Tim Cameron
A review of Metal Gear Solid 4 which takes certain liberties with the truth.
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Posted on June 9th, 2008 by Tim Cameron
I don’t know about you, but the previews for this game have made me poop myself nine times already. It’s going to be the dicks.
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Posted on June 5th, 2008 by Tim Cameron
Oh, hi! Nice to have you back!
As a recent non-gamer, I’ve tried hard to fill my time with productive, creative and above all fun pastimes, and last night I think I excelled myself. And who better to share my experience with than the entire world? So sit back, relax, and learn how to accidentally subject [...]
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Posted on June 1st, 2008 by Tim Cameron
Join us for the deeply moving final chapter in the story of Tim’s Galaga addiction.
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Posted on June 1st, 2008 by Tim Cameron
I’ve moved from being a wordpress hosted site to having my own darn domain! Yee-haaaaa!
This new version is about a million times more complicated, and I’m only just beginning to figure it out. If anyone has any experience with hosting their own Wordpress blog and would like to share it, I’d be very grateful.
In the [...]
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