"Welcome... to the wooorrrld of tomorrowwwwww!"

[batskeets]

Yes, in spite of everyone and their mother's attempt to derail me with Things I Have To Do yesterday, I successfully found time to make friends with the ol' XBox again. I'm finally out of freakin' Lothering! Yes, I'm the slowest gamer on the planet. Morrigan disapproves. But, I intend to have more free evenings at my disposal in the near future, so I *will* get through this freakin' game. I have others I need to play!

Also, I don't think I've mentioned it here, but should you want to be friends on XBox Live, leave me your screen name, and I'll add you! (probably better that way, given my sporadic console gaming endeavors)

I also had a sort-of-date via Skype, earlier this evening. It was stunningly awkward for the first couple of minutes, just by virtue of the fact that it was on Skype, and you can thusly see each other, but not completely. My wild gesticulations went outside of the webcam's view more than once, and we had a couple instances of one of us pointing at something in the background, and then realizing that the other couldn't see what was being pointed at.

Other than that, however, I wound up having a great time, and I didn't want it to end, when it came time for me to log off and leave for the evening's activities. And just, wow. I had what was, more or less, an extended, face-to-face interaction with a person in another city. Realizing that blows my mind a little.

It's official: I live in the gorram future, people. And I think I may be spending a fair bit more time on Skype in the coming weeks.

Comments

[freyis.livejournal.com]

I'm Freykin on xbox live, feel free to add me! I haven't been on in quite some time, though, as if a game comes out for both 360 and PS3 I tend to get the PS3 one. I like the controller and the UI slightly more, so it's an easy pick.

It's weird to think that the main people I game with aren't even in this state, or in a couple cases, this country. I spend a lot of time on Ventrilo while playing League of Legends, and recently have been using Skype for when it's just me and one other person (it's quality is far superior).

[archmage.livejournal.com]

Agreed, MUCH prefer Skype to Ventrilo. Even now that I have a phone again, I use Skype when I can. Loves me the Skype.

[daemonwise.livejournal.com]

I'm daemonwise on XBL, too (I think you might already have a friends request pending from me, not sure).

Happy to hear the Skype date (skate?) went so well!

[skeets.livejournal.com]

I did have a request from you pending, so I've now *finally* responded to it, heh. :)

[skeets.livejournal.com]

Also, calling it a "skate" would only endear this practice to me even *more* right now. XD

[daemonwise.livejournal.com]

Heh, I'm sure the guy at the other end of the of skype would totally hate that, too.

[amberleigh.livejournal.com]

My name is amberleigh325 on the xbox. Yay another friend (bringing my total to 2! :P )