{"id":304,"date":"2009-03-28T00:38:25","date_gmt":"2009-03-28T06:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/?p=304"},"modified":"2009-03-27T00:06:07","modified_gmt":"2009-03-27T06:06:07","slug":"i-have-no-willpower-when-it-comes-to-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/?p=304","title":{"rendered":"I have no willpower when it comes to games."},"content":{"rendered":"

So, all this week, Ubisoft has been having a Steam sale. 50% off a game each day! Nothing was really appealing to me, though. Assassin’s Creed? Not my sort of game. Prince of Persia? I want to play it, but it’s so much a console game, I couldn’t imagine playing it on the PC. Brothers in Arms? I’ll stick with Call of Duty, thanks.<\/p>\n

Finally, on Thursday, they put up Far Cry 2.<\/p>\n

Now, maybe it was just all of the, I don’t know, rabid love on the Idle Thumbs<\/a>, but I had always meant to try Far Cry 2. It’s a game well-suited to the PC, so that wasn’t an issue, and Brer was going to buy it, so I could talk about my experiences with him, if I wanted.<\/p>\n

Of course, Tuesday was my birthday. I have TONS of games to play right now. TONS. Not to mention my bank account still hasn’t recovered from my PC purchase. I’m so busy I’m not going to get to the games I have anyway. No, I decided, purchasing Far Cry 2, even for the very nice price of $15, was a stupid move. I wasn’t going to do it.<\/p>\n

An hour or two later, I purchased Far Cry 2.<\/p>\n

I partially blame Sarcasmorator for his tweet<\/a> explaining why I wanted it. I’m so eager to go with the bandwagon sometimes. It only takes such a little push. I also blame my always keeping Steam open now on the new computer, so I could constantly look at the sale. How foolish I am.<\/p>\n

I need to teach myself that dammit, I don’t have to play everything. I really don’t. There will come a time, very soon, where I have significantly less funmoney than I have now. Breaking myself of these horrible habits would be a very, very good thing.<\/p>\n

But will I until I have to?<\/p>\n

I would be money on “no.”
\nAnd hey, when I win the bet, I guess maybe I’d have some more money to buy vidjeo games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, all this week, Ubisoft has been having a Steam sale. 50% off a game each day! Nothing was really appealing to me, though. Assassin’s Creed? Not my sort of game. Prince of Persia? I want to play it, but it’s so much a console game, I couldn’t imagine playing it on the PC. Brothers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,7,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}