As Gaming Moves Forward into the future a lot of us older guys are feeling it less and less. It's because our brains are dying just like the rest of our body. The ability to get excited about anything besides food and sleep goes away. Do I want to play the new Sexboxgod60? If you asked me that 5 years ago I would have said AWWWW hell yeah! But now my response would be more like "Depends on what kind of stupid chickenshit moves M$ pulls". That's where the industry is right now. It's in Chickenshit Land and we have been given a cheap plastic scoop from which to extract our favored droppings. The idea of a "good game" much less the idea of a "good value" is long dead. It's been destroyed by the Two Great Evils AKA paid DLC and "free to pay". We are told these things are "good" for the industry. Well that's good for the industry and all but I have no interest in any of it. I don't feel like being a sucker for these morons any longer. So starting today I have decided to eat One Peppermint Patty every three to eight hours until DLC is gone. I have also pledged to eat a half gallon of Friendly's ice cream every two days until "free to pay" is gone.

Before you think "Oh the PS3 and PC are sooo much better" let me stop you. They are so much worse! The only good thing about the PC is it's easy to pirate games. The only good thing about the PS3....well I will have to think about that some more. Both of these platforms are even more chickenshit than the M$ offering. If you don't even want to play games you got for free what does that say about them?

Gaming as a business is falling apart rapidly. The money angle is falling off the face of the earth. It's so hot outside you can barely breathe. The only good MP out right now is Gears of War 3 and it barely gets a few thousand players each day. The price of gas is fluctuating like mad. No one wants to drive anywhere and waste money on stupid shit but more importantly they don't want to waste time they could spend downloading MAME.

A really unfortunate turn the industry has taken is believing people want "asynchronous" gameplay. I am sorry but even as a kid riding the bus to school every day and being driven around by my parents the rest of the time I never wanted to play my fucking Genesis games on the go because I knew that was impossible! My little niece likes to play Temple Run. She doesn't get on my computer and want to play it there as well. She plays it on my rooted Nook. If I am coming off as a hard ass I am sorry but that's just the way it is.