I send Text Messages while I am driving, even in heavy traffic and on the freeway.

I was just wondering if that pisses anyone out there in cyberspace off? I was thinking about it today, and I don't really think it is that different from smoking or having a beverage, or reading some directions. I have been using text messaging since it first was available on wireless phones and I am so proficient, and know my phone so well, that I can send them to recipients of my choice, message and all, without even looking at the phone. So with all of that in mind, I wonder, do you think that that is any worse than having a cigarette, talking on the phone, or drinking a beverage in the car?
- posted by d3pth @ 12:30 AM (1) comments

 
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Sometimes I feel like I am now to the point in my video game evolution that I can only play First Person Shooters without being frustrated or bored.

I know that it is not just a general case of ADD, because I can focus for long periods of time on other tasks that are far more boring than video games.

I started playing video games on the Atari 2600, and in the arcade. And have played about everything that I can think of that was created from about 1980 and on. For over a decade I was content playing one player games in my own living room, or at the arcade when a new game would come out.

I think that my Gaming ADD started around the time that I first played DOOM online. One I connected to another user and played against a real human opponent, it was all over. And over the last 13 years, I have gotten to this sad point.

I even become frustrated if the first person shooter I am playing makes me wait more than 4 seconds after dying to respawn. I used to love games like Sonic the Hedgehog on Genesis, you couldn't even save your game, and I would spend 2 hours getting to the last level, and die, and happily start right over. I can still do that with games sometimes, but only if the game is a shooter, andthing that doesn't involve shooting things from a first person perspective has no replay value, and I almost refuse to do things over.

I know that many other gamers ahve experienced this same sort of phenomenon, if you have any comments on the issue, please let me know. I will update this post later, just wanted to kind of get it started.
- posted by d3pth @ 11:59 PM (2) comments