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Life without a PC

It's been a couple of weeks since my PC died and I haven't spent much time trying to track down the problem. In years past I would have stayed up until the crack of dawn troubleshooting but I'm old and uninspired. I wasn't playing anything amazing (was finishing up Settlers 7) and I use my MacBook for general computing and internet consumption. Aside from StarCraft II, there really isn't anything coming out in the near future to spur me into PC reanimating action.  
 
So to satiate the gamer within I've been looking to other platforms. I finished Red Dead Redemption in roughly 17 hours. I played a few exhibition matches in Fifa 10 while the World Cup was going on (Spain vs Netherlands 9-0). I actually played quite a bit of Torchlight on my Mac before the most recent update killed it. And now I'm playing nothing. I'm left with a strange, empty feeling. 
 
Unfortunately I don't think StarCraft is going to be enough to motivate me to fix the PC and Civilization V doesn't come out until late September. 
 

 Civilization V: Fixing PCs this September.
 Civilization V: Fixing PCs this September.
 In the mean time, I'll add to my wish list of PC upgrades. And who knows? Maybe by September I'll be building a whole new gaming PC.
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It's been a couple of weeks since my PC died and I haven't spent much time trying to track down the problem. In years past I would have stayed up until the crack of dawn troubleshooting but I'm old and uninspired. I wasn't playing anything amazing (was finishing up Settlers 7) and I use my MacBook for general computing and internet consumption. Aside from StarCraft II, there really isn't anything coming out in the near future to spur me into PC reanimating action.  
 
So to satiate the gamer within I've been looking to other platforms. I finished Red Dead Redemption in roughly 17 hours. I played a few exhibition matches in Fifa 10 while the World Cup was going on (Spain vs Netherlands 9-0). I actually played quite a bit of Torchlight on my Mac before the most recent update killed it. And now I'm playing nothing. I'm left with a strange, empty feeling. 
 
Unfortunately I don't think StarCraft is going to be enough to motivate me to fix the PC and Civilization V doesn't come out until late September. 
 

 Civilization V: Fixing PCs this September.
 Civilization V: Fixing PCs this September.
 In the mean time, I'll add to my wish list of PC upgrades. And who knows? Maybe by September I'll be building a whole new gaming PC.
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Those are my thoughts on gaming in general. Personal I don't feel too hyped about anything coming out, but that's just me.
 
If you are looking for more PC games, R.U.S.E also comes out in September and Guild II comes out next week. For RPG's, Dues Ex comes out in Feb and Fallout New Vegas and Arcania come out in October.
 
There is also this....  

  You might be into this sort of thing.
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Even Starcraft 2 is going to be out on Mac anyways so you don't even have to worry about having your PC for that one. 
 
Good luck on getting that thing fixed sooner or later.