I feel 0wn3d
I am a foolish, young man, whose judgement is clouded by his dreams. Yesterday, I was crushed after coming home and purchasing the HL2 silver package which contains all of Valve’s past work, Counter-Strike: Source, Day of Defeat:Source, Half Life: Source, and of course HL2, only to find out that the only piece of new software available was CS:S.
You see, I purchased a package, that was only “Half-Full” and this made me, as my friends like to say, a sad sad panda. Half Life was the best game ever when it was made. Half Life 2 has been a long time coming and I can’t stress enough that the anticipation that turned to dissapointment last night was in the league of mental torture. I can only hope the following confession to come is more humerous than not.
My only salvation, last night, was to drown my sorrow away in a CS:S binge session, an entire evening of beholding the new elegant Source engine mixed with the frustration of getting beat up on by Counter-Strike junkies that have played long after I stopped a couple years ago. You see, I am a recovering Counter-Strike-a-holic and this used to be my life. I know what people who play video games constantly think like and what they dream about (playing video games, actually). I did not write that bio, by the way. The night was something of an experience for me, and I can only imagine the feeling was something akin to what heroin addicts feel when they find the “really good junk”. As the boys from Penny Arcade would say, Counter-Strike:Source is shit-hot.
On an even further tangent, this was the first real site I ever designed. I didn’t even know what a blog was back then, but looking back, it’s quite amusing.