1. Video card calamity , days/ weeks of troubleshooting
 2. Declaim PC gaming 
 3. Buy XBox 360 with Kinect for family Christmas
 4. Have great fun with family gaming, anticipate huge backlog of games. Hooray! for the simplicity and stability of console gaming, THEY were right all along.
 5. Xbox hard drive calamity 
 6. Declaim Console gaming as farce 
 7. watch Giant Bomb videos for gaming fix. 
 8. get older

I only buy games when they go on sale through Steam.  Ever since I realized this, I've wondered if I'm a bad person.  I never steal games because I'm old enough to think it's wrong, but I rarely pay full price.  The one time I did pull the trigger without a price break, the game went on sale a week later and I vowed to never 'make that mistake again'. 
 
Why was it a mistake? I like the game.  I claim to believe the developers deserve the money.  I scoff at the used games market that consoles suffer from.  I rail against the theft that is the scourge of PC games.   
 
I'm coming to terms with the simple fact that I'm a hypocrite. It's uncomfortable.