Apologies for the lull - this time it wasn't my own feeble guttering enthusiasm to blame. I've recently moved house, and haven't got internet sorted out yet. It's on it's way of course, but I've already gone a week, and can expect up to another ten days before I can swim in the life-giving waters of info-topia once more.
(The observant amoung you might notice that this is sorta the internet, right here. Suffice to say, I'm submitting this post from Elsewhere, a place where You Aren't Allowed To Play Games.)
I'm holding in there, into the second week of a haitus from something I've not gone without for any measureable length of time in over six years, and indeed, think I could probably push through this period of cold turkey and out into the sunlit uplands of...er...um....
You see that's the problem right there. It's not that I'm addicted to online gaming so much, or that I NEED to play WoW, or SW:G, or whatever - it's that I can't really find much else that interests me to do instead. I've actually tried to 'Watch TV' over the last week, as opposed to just being sat in the same room with it on in the background, and it was a lot harder work than I'd thought. Despite it being the only functioning amenity at the new Chateau Hemlock, my attention just kept sliding off it; no matter how many times I changed the channel, it still felt like the mental equivalent of squeezing wet soap.
One thing that struck me, amid the opening sequence of Apocalypse Now that my life seems to rapidly be becoming, is how many of my Desktop Icons actually require Internet Access. I made a little folder to store them in, and my desktop now looks very bare indeed. Thank god for Minisculey Singleplayer Offline Games! I have several on the go now, and while not really the scope of this blog usually, it's that or banging on about MMOG News Items; i.e. 'Blizzard buys Oregon! Film at 10!'.
Back to normal a.s.a.p, but until then, check out the revised Offline list, left sidebar, and I recommend:
AFK Gamer: The Carnival of Gamers