"videogames are a conduit for the soul"

September 05, 2001, 12:56 am

This is a warning: I donut have internet access at home, so I am not quick to respond to email and will probably not have the chance to update my /dev/diary as much as I would like to. If you email me and I don't respond for a few days, I'm not dead! I am going through internet access withdrawal!

Actually, in all honesty, I'm handling it well. I'm not freaking out. I'm not going ape-shit because I'm not reading my daily webcomics or checking the dreamcast-fanboy-pages every five minutes. But I have come to fully realize how much time I've been "wasting" on the Internet. Time that could be spent playing guitar, for example.

When I first started playing guitar, I didn't intend to really put much effort into it. I just wanted to learn a few songs with which to make girls swoon. But then it got to be really fun and I was playing multiple hours every day. Now I find it hard to believe that I've been playing for something around four-and-a-half years.

I'd forgotten how powerful one feels when wearing a guitar. It's like a sword or battle ax or something; a tool that, in the right hands, could knock down walls and shatter glass. And there's definitely something about those special songs with the big, palm-muted buildup and then -- THE BIG JUMP -- and it breaks down to halftime. Ugh. That's so wonderful.

I leave you today with a quote from one of my favorite webcomics, MegaTokyo:

Videogames are a conduit for the soul. They expand our lives, channel our imagination, test our skillz. Games exist as a channel for the boundless energy of people all over the world.

It is a medium you are incapable of understanding.
Ha.