So Chris keeps complaining about old monitors and the refresh rate. Apparently, anything below, like, a billion Hz gives him wacky jive-talkin trippy nightmares or something. I don't see it unless I'm really concentrating on it like those annoying magic eye posters that I could never quite get the hang of and wasn't sure if it was three dolphins or a top hat and a dinosaur. Sometimes I think I was just making it up in my head (unlike normal people who imagine it but at least come up with a consistent answer.)
I no longer know where I was going with that since the parents distracted me with a bunch of "will you set up the new Xbox? (cleverly phrased as a question, see?)" and "Can I watch Netflix on the new Xbox?" and "Where's my saved game?" "What do you mean I have to select memory unit instead of the hard drive?" and, my favorite, "Why isn't anything showing up on the screen?" Well, dad, that would be because you didn't plug it in. It's okay, I'm sure you'll figure it out someday. I assume it's working now because dad has begun his customary cursing at the game for being too hard or the controls for being inoperable or something-ruther. This does not, however, tell me what game he's playing as he says this for every game that has ever been made.
Funny story, since there were just three of us playing Left 4 Dead one day, we asked dad if he wanted to play with us (since he'd been having a hard time doing it on his own earlier that day.) He said no because he "didn't want to have to follow other people." I guess he likes being the leader of the pack and doesn't want to be inconvenienced by picking up incapacitated teammates. After all, that's what the AI's are for, right?
At first I disagreed with getting another Xbox (because I get it when I leave, apparently, and I'd rather have an extra PS3, hehe,) because I figured there'd be money arguments again. Apparently the worth of being able to play separately (co-op gameplay? what?) is far greater than any monetary inconvenience caused by getting another Xbox and all its associated peripherals. I'll be sure to bring this up at the weekly/daily money fight. But hey, I probably won't actually be able to take it with me when I leave because they'll be too used to not fighting over the video games/t.v. time. In that case I'll get a slim since I'll kinda have to have a job by the time I move out anyway or it defeats the purpose.
It seems it's time for me to go be extraordinarily nerdy so I'll leave you with a random segue to best video ever?
(Wham, bam, I'm done with a post for this month. Commence not-feeling-guilty subroutine!)