The sight of all those grown men
buying a computer game at midnight is heartwarming isnt it?

Actually no, its a little bit sad isnt it? Seriously, whats the appeal and more importantly, how the fuck does anyone have time to do this shit? I sort of want to be one of those people but not to play silly games but basically be younger and have more time. My friend is 38 and is getting up to buy it this morning, and has booked off the week from work to play it, to the extent of sending his wife away. I said I'd pop round tomorrow to say hi and he suggested that he'd rather I didnt. Thats basically a mental disorder of somekind isnt it?
( I have run out of coke is a little sweaty, Tue 10 Nov 2009, 6:21, 60 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

What game is out?
I have a PS2 but only use it for ABBA Singstar and to watch movies!
( Batshitmentalist is sane for once, Tue 10 Nov 2009, 6:33, Reply)

some war thing
call of duty 2. Its the 2nd coming apparently
( I have run out of coke is a little sweaty, Tue 10 Nov 2009, 6:37, Reply)

Ah ha!
I have seen the commercials all day today! Tedious. Even I was more interested in Monday night football (go Steelers!)
( Batshitmentalist is sane for once, Tue 10 Nov 2009, 6:40, Reply)

Pyar 1337!
But seriously, there is no doubt that the Modern Warfare series is milestone in the FPS genre. I played the first one and had a ball! But it boils down to this: it's just another fucking war game.
(The Boy Monders I have ginger bits in my beard., Tue 10 Nov 2009, 8:29, Reply)

Doesn't come across as a sickness,
besides your mate will probably be disappointed as the story is meant to be around about 6 hours of gameplay and no doubt inifinity ward will have done something to shaft the console online-play too.

It's just another hobby which is appearing more with the modernisation of the world. If someone took a week off to ride their motorbike through the lakes, or take a week off to go surfing or finish off a DIY project they had started no-one would bat an eyelid. Someone takes a week off work to run through some epic raids on WoW, they're an ill, sad, lonely virgin*.


*Not saying they might not be, but cybering a night elf counts, right?
(Vikingheadache, Tue 10 Nov 2009, 8:36, Reply)

Totally
Night elves act all prissy, and Blood elves seem like they'll do anything... but as always it's the total opposite. There has to be a reason why nelfs wear leather all the time... (can you tell I'm about to reactivate my account?)

I do agree with you. It's just another hobby. It's some fun, and if people want to play it, let them.
(Potty Jag har smör i min rumpspringa, Tue 10 Nov 2009, 8:44, Reply)

You do realise
you've just posted a stream of total fucking gibberish don't you?
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 10 Nov 2009, 9:04, Reply)

Oh yes
Well, to anyone except a Warcraft player. but that's par for the course with my posts.
(Potty Jag har smör i min rumpspringa, Tue 10 Nov 2009, 9:35, Reply)

It's utterly pitiful
I'd be having a serious look at who my friends were, if I were you - and I don't mean that in an advisory manner, I really would. What kind of a pathetic twat do you have to be to be acting like that at 38?

'I said I'd pop round tomorrow to say hi and he suggested that he'd rather I didnt'

He's done you a favour. I'd never pop round again.

For crying out loud, what a fucking tool.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 10 Nov 2009, 8:42, Reply)

Couldn't agree more
What a fucknuckle. A week off work, to play a fucking game?? At 38!! There are enough hours in a day to accomodate LOADS of things, including seeing your pals and your wife.

Sounds like a spoilt little cunt who needs a good teaspooning.

"Do they do a braille version of Call of Duty?"

"No, why"

"Because your gonna need it"


*SCOOP*
(Cancer Joy was short lived, Tue 10 Nov 2009, 9:06, Reply)

*applause*

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 10 Nov 2009, 9:09, Reply)

Men!
I'll never understand them.


And let's fact it, 99.9% of them are men.
( girlinthehole, Tue 10 Nov 2009, 8:44, Reply)

I am a war widow
He's holed up with provisions and Red Bull and I will not be hearing from him for at least two days. I am a sucker for nerdiness though, so I find it almost attractive.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Tue 10 Nov 2009, 8:49, Reply)

Nerdiness I love.
This verges on obsession which is sad.
( girlinthehole, Tue 10 Nov 2009, 8:51, Reply)

We're all obsessed with something
If I had the manual dexterity and reaction times necessary, I might like games. As it is, I almost have a mental breakdown playing Pacman. Anyway, if a band had released an album at midnight, more people would have thought it normal to cycle to HMV to get in the queue. Wouldn't they? I dunno, it's a bit sad, but a bit cute.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Tue 10 Nov 2009, 8:59, Reply)

No, that would be pitiful too
The fucking record would still be available in the morning. After a good night's sleep.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 10 Nov 2009, 9:02, Reply)

too fucking right

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 10 Nov 2009, 9:05, Reply)

Oh I think that would be fun
You're dying to hear the new material by your favourite band. You stay up late, you burst through the doors, you listen to it as soon as you get home. I can relate to it that way. Pulling an allnighter is in itself something that makes you all gigglesome. Add to that something you think is amazing, like gig tickets or an album, or one of those hobbit films, it's an occasion isn't it. A day you'll remember. And a manipulative marketing ploy to boot. Oops!
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Tue 10 Nov 2009, 9:07, Reply)

The sight of a queue
of blithering spastics lined up in the West End with sleeping bags and Thermos flasks, or adults dressed up as characters from Harry fucking Potter, makes me want to weep with despair. I can just imagine the conversations sparked up between these gimps...

'We've come down from Rotherham for this, haven't we dear?'

'Oh I've done this for the last three films'


A mixture of ghastly forced cameraderie and awful jollity, all run through with an insidious undertone of competitiveness.

No, no, no.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 10 Nov 2009, 9:14, Reply)

We became an agent
for Ticketmaster a few years back, and last year the 'T in The Park' goons set up a mini refugee camp outside, the day before the tickets went on sale. Arrived at work the next morning and the street was FILLED with rubbish, empty bottles, cans, discarded camping chairs etc. A total fucking mess.

So, for their freezing night on the pavement, they ALL got tickets, however the funny thing was, we still had availability several days later...Stupid cunts.
(Cancer Joy was short lived, Tue 10 Nov 2009, 9:22, Reply)

There are people who would use similar scathing terms for us
Spending our time talking to people on the internet. And what would 'normal' folk think of the premise of a B3ta bash? Let everyone get on with what they want. Maybe I'm jealous. Maybe I wish I had an obsession.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Tue 10 Nov 2009, 9:23, Reply)

I have loads
I really do. I understand the mentality - but I also deplore it when taken to its public extreme. It makes me cringe.


EDIT actually I disgree - intelligent or humorous human interaction is pretty easy to defend. Particularly when compared with sending your wife away and shunning your friends in order to play a computer game. Aged 38.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 10 Nov 2009, 9:28, Reply)

Thank your lucky stars you didn't direct this at the old Daniel O'Donnel women
They'd have found you and killed you by now. They are the scariest thing I have ever encountered. It was 3am. I was drunk. I was trying to be friendly. Fucking hell they interrogated me. Why was I passing, what did I think of Daniel, had I come to make fun? I was just trying to get home. I mentioned my mate's mother. She's big on the camping-out-for-Daniel-O'Donnel-tickets scene. Knowing her was what saved me that night...
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Tue 10 Nov 2009, 9:35, Reply)

A close call
Escaping a shoeing from a coven of tone deaf bog trotters.

*shudders*


I think people who go to see a band wearing that band's t shirt are gay. 'I'm such a big fan I've got a t shirt - I like them more than you'. Worst still are those who turn up at the show, go and buy souvenir shirts and the change into them there and then. For the love of God, WHY?
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 10 Nov 2009, 9:43, Reply)

*mumbles*
Well, i must admit to being guilty of wearing a bands t-shirt to one of their gigs.

HOWEVER

There was a very good reason for it. Went to a Faust gig in Glasgow a few years back and wore my 'exclusive' embroidered 'x-rayed fist' (the cover of their first album) Which was only available to a tiny amount of people on the Faust List. Got there, and told them i was on the guest list, because i was, they checked but no mention could be found. Luckily the singer from the support band, Ectogram, was standing, she pointed out my t-shirt and told the woman at the desk that there was no problem and to let me in. So that was the one and only time.

I usually wear my old Krautrock t-shirts such as, Can, Neu!, Faust and what not, to raves and clubs and generally get folk coming up for a chat. No dirty young ladies though :(
(Cancer Joy was short lived, Tue 10 Nov 2009, 9:55, Reply)

Then you are excused

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 10 Nov 2009, 10:18, Reply)

Several members of the IT team have called in sick this morning.
They were fine yesterday.
( Peej, Tue 10 Nov 2009, 9:45, Reply)

*puts on 'theme from Surprise Surprise'*

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 10 Nov 2009, 9:48, Reply)

The members of my team all have Wii's
They are all at their desks.
( Peej, Tue 10 Nov 2009, 9:54, Reply)

all together now
"Surprise, surprise, the unexpected gouges out your eyes
The unpredictable, that's the surprise you see, surprise! surprise!"

You would have to have no eyes to ever think that Cilla Black was attractive, she has ALWAYS been a minger. In fact i find her quite offensive, thank fuck she no longer appears on the telly
(Cancer Joy was short lived, Tue 10 Nov 2009, 10:01, Reply)

My mother once said
'Oh, all the boys used to fancy Cilla Black'


This was met with derision and disbelief in equal measures. What the FUCK were they drinking?
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 10 Nov 2009, 10:18, Reply)

Meths, with a petrol chaser

(Cancer Joy was short lived, Tue 10 Nov 2009, 10:20, Reply)

I still see her on adverts for insurance.
She makes my whole family suffer a case of mass-Tourette's.
She has terrifying cheeks.
She was the "Cavern bike" an "everyone had her" according to lots of my friends' dads. Maybe they just say 'everyone was doing it' in order to excuse their own behaviour. Ew.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Tue 10 Nov 2009, 10:25, Reply)

Kind of like Nazism.


Only less forgivable.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 10 Nov 2009, 10:37, Reply)

at least the Nazis looked good



disclaimer: I do not endorse Nazism
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 10 Nov 2009, 10:46, Reply)

Hiya Bryan!

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Tue 10 Nov 2009, 10:57, Reply)

Don't get me started on THAT wanker
as his even-worse offspring.

Jumped-up fucking Geordie fucking miners.


Oooh! I went to art school! I've got an oboe solo in my debut single! I have an 'interesting' squint! I'm a Nazi!
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 10 Nov 2009, 10:58, Reply)

He's a wanker but I like a few of his tunes.
Love is the Drug is cool.
Well it makes me feel cool when I listen to it.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Tue 10 Nov 2009, 11:06, Reply)

They did indeed
As a militaria fan I can categorically state that their uniform and equipment design was unequalled. Much like their polar opposites, the Italians, whose gear was without exception shite.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 10 Nov 2009, 10:57, Reply)

'Ere
I've got this lovely little satchel-type army bag, with little compartments inside.
It has two little metal studs on top (looks like something could have been attached to them) and inside it has all serial numbers.
Then in bigger letters it says Möller JV/66 or TV/66 or IV/66. I can't see it properly. The old man who gave it to me said it was German army, and that it was a bag for a disassembled gun of some sort.
I couldn't ask him any more because he died the following week. I'm not kidding!

Can you shed any light?
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Tue 10 Nov 2009, 11:05, Reply)

Sounds smart
Can you photograph it?
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 10 Nov 2009, 11:10, Reply)

It's not a vampire, Monty.

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Tue 10 Nov 2009, 11:14, Reply)

HOW CAN YOU BE SURE?
Have you read the Twilight books?

WELL HAVE YOU????
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 10 Nov 2009, 11:19, Reply)

If it hasn't got lift-up flaps I'm not interested.

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Tue 10 Nov 2009, 11:27, Reply)

Do you want my mum's phone number?

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 10 Nov 2009, 11:32, Reply)

it has one big lift-up flap

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Tue 10 Nov 2009, 11:40, Reply)

I'll take a pic when I get home tonight
It's gorgeous.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Tue 10 Nov 2009, 11:39, Reply)

What a coincidence...
my mate (who is 33) has just sent me a txt, he has taken the day off and bought this game (possibly at midnight).

His fiance dumped him a couple of years ago because he spent all his spare time playing games. She liked clubbing and cocaine, he liked first person shooters.

I loved my Amiga as a teenager, but I am a very casual gamer now. There's only so many FPSs you can play before you get sick of them. Also...dare I say it?...It all seems a bit...'childish' now.
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Tue 10 Nov 2009, 10:45, Reply)

I think you do dare say it
and you're 100% correct so to do.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 10 Nov 2009, 11:00, Reply)

You're right, its pathetic for somebody of that age to sit about in front a computer for hours on end....

(TheColonel, Tue 10 Nov 2009, 11:09, Reply)

....and not get paid for it

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 10 Nov 2009, 11:11, Reply)

Touché
although I'm fairly confident people spend time on here away from the office.

Some perhaps a little too much.
(TheColonel, Tue 10 Nov 2009, 11:14, Reply)

I think the thread below this is some kind of mental disorder.

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Tue 10 Nov 2009, 11:10, Reply)

Infantilism

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 10 Nov 2009, 11:14, Reply)

Wankism

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Tue 10 Nov 2009, 11:15, Reply)

I'm feeling smug
I just checked on 'infantilism' to see if I was talking shit and one definition is

'a speech disorder characterized by speech and voice patterns that are typical of very young children.'


I've hit the nail right on the fucking noggin there, I'd say
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 10 Nov 2009, 11:24, Reply)

Aw! my ickle chooky wooky Monty wonty.
*tickles under chin*
( girlinthehole, Tue 10 Nov 2009, 11:26, Reply)

That shit is banned around my daughter
I frown upon 'doggie' as opposed to dog.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 10 Nov 2009, 11:35, Reply)

I thought initially using words like 'doggie' and birdie'
was intended to help kids learn to pronounce consonants, as it made them less likely to say "bir'" and "do'"
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Tue 10 Nov 2009, 11:43, Reply)

My child is, naturally, a genius
and has no need for such techniques
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 10 Nov 2009, 12:51, Reply)