How I Got $1656.36 in Debt

I've never had a PS2, and besides using the display consoles in WalMart, and this one time at my cousin's house, I had never really played one until last month when I got my PS3 (if that even counts). The reason I never got one is because I used to be a pretty big Nintendo Fanboy, and I even drew this terrible picture (according to deviantArt) in March of last year. Since then, I got my 360 (last November, actually), which, being said Nintendo Fanboy, I was pretty skeptical about. Turns out I absolutely loved it, and still do.

I'd been contemplating getting a PS3 for a while, especially after I found out how great the 360 was, and then after getting a PSP last July and loving it, too, and then after Metal Gear Solid 4 came out and everybody said that it was one of the best games of the year, I knew I had to get one. So, I was "surfing the web" (I hate that term) for PS3 prices, because I had heard something about a PS3 price drop, and I came upon someone's blog post that said that anyone who was planning on getting a PS3 with MGS4 should get it now, because in a few weeks, the MGS4 bundle would be gone, and then Sony would be selling a really bad PS3 with no backwards compatability. Backwards compatability was one of the main reasons I was getting a PS3 in the first place, so I knew I had to get a PS3/MGS4 bundle ASAP.

Up until this point, I had been using a debit card that my mom gave me to buy stuff. Since it was a debit, she would use it to distribute allowance and stuff, so I could buy stuff off the internet. I told her about my "I have to get it NAO" delimna, and to my surprise she was like, "Okay.", and I was like, "WTF? Why? What in the world has possessed you to just let me go out and guy a $600 PS3 just like that? I don't even have that much on my card." And she was like, "You got a credit card, too, so you can use that.", and I said something like "But you know I'd be going in debt, right?" and she said "Do you really want this?" and I said "Yeah, and I need to get it now if I'm getting one" and she said "Matthew, some things are worth going in to debt for.". Long story short, we went to almost every GameStop in the area until we finally found it.

I ended up getting the PS3/MGS4 budle and a used copy of Ratchet and Clank Future: Tools of Destruction, and it totalled up to right at $600 after tax and everything. I ended up paying about $400 off, but added about $200 back, so I was still $400 in debt. As you know, the other day, I got a computer, and she was basically the same way as she was with the PS3. It's extremely weird. I honestly don't think I've ever seen her so...understanding about anything like this. We went out and got the computer, and it totalled up to $1256.36. So now I'm up to my ears in debt. My mom actually likes it because she's making at least $200 payments, so it's helping her credit.

This story started out being about the good and bad of the PS2, but I didn't realize the story of how I got my PS3 was so long, so I think I'll just end it here for today, and maybe continue tomorrow, or possibly later today.

WHAT. THE. FUCK.

http://www.destructoid.com/the-worst-game-ever-made-animal-soccer-world-for-the-ps2-62712.phtml

9/11/08

It's 9/11 today. I should probably be sad about something, but I'm not. 9/11 never really affected me, and I don't know why. Yes, Osama was an asshole for blowing the towers up, and a lot of people died, but I never really cared. Is this a sign that I've been playing too much GTAIV? Surely not. Should I feel sad, though? I mean, I never knew anybody who knew anybody who was even directly affected by it, so it never really mattered much.

I have a question on the subject, too. Why is it that people want to remember such an awful event? I think it's fine to remember the people that died, and even the towers, but why the entire event? And even though it never affected me much, doesn't mean that I don't find things like this comepletely awful. Why would you use an event like this to make money? Who even cares about a freaking fake $20 bill? I think that commercial is almost as bad as the event itself. It's just so tasteless.

Hell Yeah

I got my new computer last night. It's pretty freaking awesome, other than not being able to use some software and stuff. Oh, yeah, and SPORE FUCKING WORKS! I was up all night last night playing Spore (I got to the Galactic phase and even met some of Dr_Worm's (Owner of Gridline Productions and all-around cool guy) aliens and made peace with them...and then abducted a few) and I went to bed around noon...only to wake up at 4 P.M. because I had to go get a haircut >_> Oh, well, at least Spore works (quite beautifully, I might add).

Fuck This Shit

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After eight 4-12 hour downloads
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After 3 different times trying to install
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It works. Fuck yeah.

There's just one problem. My computer is shit. The game works(although on the lowest graphics settings, and then just barely), but not very good at all. It's crashed five times. Not the game, the computer. The computer crashed once, then when it powered up, it said "Windows has recovered from a serious error" and I'm literally screaming at the computer "NO SHIT!".

That's it. I can't take it any more. I'm getting a new computer, and I getting a new computer today. I'm looking on the internet right now. My mom said she would take me to get it tonight. This is just so fucking ridiculous.

God, I've been playing for two hours and I'm still on the Creature stage because it keeps crashing. I think I've saved 50 times. That's all I can do. It apparently isn't autosaving for me.

If I get my compy, I'll post later.

EDIT: It just crashed again, literally not even two seconds after I saved. I'm so fucking pissed right now.

OHMYGODOHMYGODOHMYGOD

OHMYGODSPOREFINALLYFINISHEDDOWNLOADING!! I'm installing it now! Oh, God, I hope it's worth it. I'll post later today (well, tomorrow) with my thoughts on it.


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JUST FINISH ALREADY!

God, I've been up for like, I don't know, but a long time. I'm tired. And testy. Anyway, last night I tried to get my mom to take me to the store to get Spore, but noooooooooo, she was too tired. I ended up downloading it from Direct2Drive on my Windows PC, and it got about halfway through the 3.8Gb download before MY FREAKING INTERNET CRAPPED OUT! It eventually came back on...on all of our computers EXCEPT FOR THE WINDOWS!

Long story short, I was pissed, and had to wait for my mom to get up at 5 A.M. to help me figure out why the internet wouldn't come back on. It turns out I had to router password wrong (don't you think that it should tell you if you type in the wrong password? Because it didn't.), so she fixed that and I started downloading it again...it got halfway through AGAIN, then the SAME EXACT FUCKING THING HAPPENED! I was freaking PISSED!

Guess what...yeah, it happened A THIRD TIME! Well, I started it back, and now it's going slow as HELL (something like 60kbps as opposed to the 290kbps I usually get), but I think it's at least working...I think it's at about 20%, so I'm going to bed praying that it doesn't happen again while I'm alseep.

"GOD, WHY DO YOU NOT WANT ME TO PLAY THIS GAME?! P.S. Did you make up the theory of creationism just for the lulz?"