Drugs & Gaming (Oh my!)

You know that your guild leader smokes pot. You know that the guy you just beat in the arcade smelled like he just chugged a bottle of vodka. You know that crazy muffucka on the mic screaming at you just did a couple of lines.

Who's to blame for all this drug intake? Society? Video games? Parents?

It's a mixture of many things. Boredom for one will make anyone do anything and peer pressure's a bitch.

The thing is, do any of these drugs help you play games?

It depends on who you are. Personally, playing anything while drunk sucks. I get physical, and not intellectual when drinking. Although, if I were to smoke some weed and then play some Wii games, I can tell that there is a huge difference in my gameplay. It actually makes me concentrate on timing my smash moves, listening to the wiimote so that I know when to serve the ball in tennis, or which Mii is the look-alike.

Some people may look down upon this, but at least we're playing video games instead of being out in the world causing havoc. Imagine a world where there are no video games and everyone still did the same amount of drugs. Thinking about it scares me.

On that note...looks like some people want their faces owned.

...Liquid_Courage out...

Gamer Youth

Today, in a semi drunken stupor, I found a long line going into a local video game store. Not an EBGames or a Gamespot, but an actual local video game store. They had brand new HDTVs with Smash Brothers Brawl playing. Tournament... fuck yeah! Damn you alcohol, made me forget about the most anticipated game of the year's launch.

To be honest, I didn't know that today was Brawl's launch. Sad, I know, but I had other things going on. I couldn't get into the tournament, but what I gained is a better sense of the new-age gamer (new-age meaning, young age). If you approach them, they will talk to you, they are not afraid to talk to anyone at all, especially if it's about gaming.

Just a tidbit to the haters of video games.....think of a generation of people of all races, genders, and backgrounds coming together to be entertained. Discrimination disappears, relations are gained, and the product is the ultimate victor.

Thank you Nintendo!

...liquid_courage out...

Where do you game?

Being at a college where 90% of the students play video games daily, you see a lot of things.

One room may have several days old Carl's Junior bags of food with beer cans strewn throughout a sea of Maxim and gaming magazines,




another one may have the biggest HDTV you have ever seen, but realize to yours and my dismay that it is only being used for RockBand and the whole series of Planet Earth,















and another one may have the most random of group of people sitting on broken beds and chairs or on the stolen gas station rug all playing Mario Party 8's minigame 'Shake it Up'.

Where do you game?

...liquid_courage out...