Waiting…

October 25th, 2008Blog0 comments

Fallout 3 comes out in three days. So excited. I mentioned recently that I would be interested in throwing a certain friend off a bridge in order to play it now. I am serious about this. It wouldn’t have to be the Golden Gate bridge or the Brooklyn bridge or anything huge — just a small bridge, like the kind that goes over a creek and serves as housing for trolls.

I really dislike waiting. Everyone does. The thing that I don’t like about it is the helplessness — you’ve done all you can to work toward a favored outcome, and now all you can do is wait for the result.

I’m a pretty “Fire and Forget” kind of person. I’ll do my thing, forget about it, and when the results come out they’ll almost be like a surprise. Right now I’m waiting for Fallout 3 and this other thing, and these two waits have joined together into a wrasslin’ tag team that’s calling me out on the microphone. They’re hard to ignore together.

I was toying with the idea of buying Fable 2 to tide me over — Fable 2 could be my methadone until Tuesday. But that seems silly — I will literally put all other video games aside for Fallout 3 once it comes out. Playing anything less would be uncivilized. Thus buying anything now would be a waste of resources.

I can’t even use the Internet properly, because I keep subconsciously skimming over to watch Fallout 3 gameplay videos and read Fallout 3 forums.

I’m a huge Fallout nerd, but there are people that are far worse than me. There are serious Fallout Wingnuts who have sent death threats to the developers of Fallout 3 because it uses a first-person view as opposed to the classic isometric 3D view used in Fallouts 1 and 2.

Those people scare me.