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I’ve had a headache for two days now that is inching ever closer to becoming something that incapacitates me. Naturally, I do not have time for this. In addition to wanting to play video games, I am literally surrounded by fucking routers that need configuring which, in my role as technical writer and training manager, I am clearly responsible for doing.

Some days, I feel an awful lot like Dante (my life is both a Divine Comedy and an Inferno, and I’m not even supposed to be here today).

Last night I traded in Fable II (finished it), Animal Crossing: City Folk (it’s *exactly* the same as Animal Crossing: Wild World for the DS) and an extra controller to my favourite EB in exchange for Fallout 3 and Burnout: Paradise. They didn’t have any more Special Edition copies of Fallout, which was kind of a bummer – I wanted the lunch box and bobble head. I haven’t started playing it yet; I have to wait until Saturday for Ed to be in class so I can play without spoiling the story for him and vice versa. We did start in on Burnout: Paradise last night though, and it’s pretty awesome. I had actually pre-ordered Need for Speed: Bro Hugs Undercover, but the horrible reviews it’s getting scared me off. It’s a shame – I genuinely like the NfS series, but the last few offerings have been just awful. B:P has everything I look for in a car game (outside of Mario Kart, I don’t play racing games because I cannot drive in a straight line) with the added bonus of no people. That’s right – there’s no crappy plot, no terrible but hot actresses hamming up my TV, no extended cut scenes of thugs with barbed wire tattoos and pixelated sneers. All there is to do is drive, jump off stuff, drive through stuff, knock other cars off the road, and break billboards. I love it. Destruction is awesome.