You know what I think, sometimes I feel its me growing up, but its not, actually, because I still love playing games on my mobile, and other people’s mobiles, and stuff.

May be I need a new game, now that’s a theory I’m willing to explore, and its true, between counter strike, AOE, and Need for speed, I’m kind of bored. And it really doesn’t help that all the games coming out now, require you to have twice and thrice the computing power my poor machine can deliver, and even if I have the numbers, I don’t have the right model, so my stupid computer wont run, despite having the req. specs.

You know that more than anything is agrevating. Why do you need a higher end, more costly blooming video card, when you can get by with something not so fancy? Huh? Why do we need to spend that 5grand every two years? Specially us, people who aren’t rich enough to afford the 5 grand? In a country where everything has reservation, so should gaming, and at least here it can fair and square economic basis.

You know gaming is slightly nuts… in that there’s not real reason to game, there’s no way, however good the graphics, one can believe that a little 17” screen is anything but a little 17” screen. Or that one has a series of super powers based on the number of buttons one can punch in a given unit of time. But its still done, and I wish I derived the same pleasure from doing it.

Its not that I’ve tried and failed, I just haven’t felt like following the familiar set of clicks and double clicks that would run a game, and I don’t know why. Perhaps I don’t want to play CS because my mouse doesn’t respond fast enough anymore, and is very unreliable on most surfaces… but then I have my game pad, which honestly is a little old, and not as much fun to play with any more. I don’t know?

Actually, I guess it’s a combination of a lot of things, consumeristic desires to have a better machine, even though I could enjoy a lot of gaming on my current machine. Then it’s the fact that I don’t have any new games, which a little irritating, specially cause CS doesn’t offer much new stuff, and in NFS I’m nearing the last few stages, when every race feels the same, and takes ages to win… plus I hate down hill drift. Like hate… from the bottom of my heart.

Perhaps I just need a new game. But to play a truly ‘new’ game, I’d need a truly new computer, and to do that… a lot of truly new money. NOT There, instead, I think I’ll go look for an old game I’ve not yet played, they’re tones of those about… in fact… so see ya.

M: so why don’t you use Linux?

E: well actually I don’t know, why should I?

M: because its better…

E: in what way

M it doesn’t hang, it doesn’t get viruses, its easy to use, its smarter than windows and osx, and in general just better.

E: my system doesn’t hang either, I don’t connect to the net, so I don’t care about viruses, Windows is just smart enough for me to use, and in all, I cant quite see any thing wrong in windows.

M: but linus is better

E: but I don’t really need something better.

M: but why use something that is worse, if you can have something better.

E: because I already have something, which is good enough for me, I don’t see the point of investing in getting something that I don’t really need, and am unfamiliar with.

M: well its free

E: its still not on my computer already

M: you’re just lazy

E: no I have better things to do

M: like what?

E: end this conversation.

M: but why cant you use Linux

E: I don’t see the point of it

M: its better

E: but it may not be more appropriate

The conclusion to this fascinating conversation later