A Simpler Time

If you don’t know recognize the items featured in the image of this post, then we can’t be friends. Either you’re too old, too young, or perhaps… just not cool enough. (That’s right… us nerds have coolness standards.) 

After a long day of trying not to tell people that JavaScript really isn’t that hard, I grabbed my daily plate of pizza rolls (Just kidding. I don’t eat pizza rolls every day anymore), sat down on the couch and watched Luke and his pal attempt to navigate their newest Xbox addition, Portal 2. If you haven’t heard of it, consider yourself lucky. Basically, it’s an exaggerated version of Super Mario Bros (the one I played when I was a kid, none of this new garbage), but way more frustrating. When did video games move from being an outlet for dumb, mindless after school entertainment to this beyond extreme, obsessively complicated, emotionally manipulative garbage?

 

As many of you know, I still have all the game consoles from my youngest years to beyond my college days. And yes, I still play them from time to time. But…

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