raddevon

It's probably because you are a lazy, good-for-nothing youth who will never amount to anything chasing artificial achievements in an artificial world to escape the soul-crushing reality that you're going to live in your parents' basement until you're 30 sleeping until 1:00pm every day wearing the same shirt for weeks and hanging onto your precious virginity 10 years longer than you anticipated.
 
Welcome to the club!
;-)
 
In all seriousness, it's pretty obvious to me that video gaming is the ultimate form of home entertainment. It is infinitely less passive than TV and movies. It can encompass many of the social elements of board and card gaming. It's a very flexible hobby as well. To my knowledge, there are only two major sub-species of human beings who do not play video games:

1. Those who were, in the hobby's infancy, too old to want for new things to do. These people were already more than satisfied with TV sitcoms and ball-in-a-cup to think video gaming would or could do anything for them.
2. People who believe becoming an adult means artificially discarding every remnant of your childhood regardless of whether or not they still enjoy and appreciate those things. At some arbitrary point in their lives, these people stopped skipping rope, watching cartoons, and chewing bubble gum most likely all on the same day. However, they are more than happy to get shitfaced and vomit on themselves in front of their young children or charge $100,000 of shit they don't need on credit cards. They can do that because adulthood is not about responsibility; it's only about not playing video games.
   

raddevon
 
Mine is lame because it incorporates my name, but there is something interesting about it nonetheless. I originally chose it because I thought calling myself "rad" would be ironic while also showing an affection for the decade of my birth, the '80s. The use of the word "rad" has since become more common and hence less ironic. Lucky for me, in parallel to that same transition, I have also myself become actually rad retaining my official license to attach the word to my name for use as my gamertag/online handle. What luck!

I'm interested in checking out GamePro magazine as I haven't read it in many years now. I know John Davison is heading up content on GamePro now, and this makes me interested. I almost picked up an issue yesterday, but I chickened out when I saw how thin the magazine is now. It's really a stretch to call that thing a magazine. I would call it a pamphlet.
 
I wouldn't mind subscribing to a cool gaming magazine, but I get really disappointed when I pick one up to find 75% of the content is split between reviews that ran two weeks ago online and ads. I'm more interested in feature content and post-mortems. Can anyone vouch for the quality of very recent GamePro issues?

Most of those I listen to have been mentioned already, but there are a few which have not.
 
Bytejacker is an excellent video podcast about indie and downloadable games. Many of the games are free. Viewers vote weekly for the best of the three free indie games featured the previous week.
Some Other Podcast is a funny weekly cast by a couple of gamer chicks. The format is pretty traditional. They tell you what they played and recount the news. They often do so with a vulgarity that is... er... charming?
Geeknights Tuesday night podcast covers gaming of both the video and tabletop varieties.

" You never know when the apocalypse is going to happen. Make sure all you extra games are in underground vaults, then when the inevitable plague hits, you will be ready to ride out the storm.

" Most people collect something. Collecting games isn't the worst habit in the world - at least you can play and enjoy them (eventually). Some people collect figurines that just sit on a shelf. Good luck with it - enjoy the games. "

" I just keep track of 'em, that way when I want to play them? BAMTHEREITIS, no one says you have to play the game as soon as you buy it. "

" Just put some rules into your buying: 1. Only buy on sale. Keep a list of the games you want but don't buy them until they're $10 to $20 off.2. An exception can be made if you're really going to play it right away and you can't live without it right now.3. Play more freeware titles. There are some really awesome ones like Cave Story, Iji, 78641, Trilby, etc. No cash spent. Great games enjoyed.As for having more games than you can get through in a few months, I look at it this way: Variety. It gives you the choice of playing whatever fits your fancy at any given moment. Sometimes I want an FPS, well, I have 20 to choose from and I can impulsively hop into one cause it's already bought and in my hands! "

• Katamari Forever
• Guitar Hero 5
• Uncharted 2
• Brutal Legend
• The Beatles: Rock Band
• Torchlight
• Dragon Age: Origins
• Borderlands
• Mario and Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story
• Demon's Souls
• Wolfenstein
• Okami
• Aion
• Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
• Chrono Trigger