I like to play video games in my spare time. I feel comfortable saying that knowing I am not in the minority. I am 33 years of age and I am the average age of a video game player. Video games are not for just kids anymore. The video game industry is a multi-billion dollar industry. And it continues to grow every month. It was even put into the Patriot Act that the government can listen into the conversations on XBox Live without a warrant for fear of terrorists using the platform to organize and plan attacks against us. It is a cheap way to communicate all over the world. For the price of an XBox360, a broadband connection, and a recurring $50 yearly charge, you can talk to people all over the world as long as you and the person you are trying to connect to are signed in to XBox Live. And you can have up to 8 people in your "party." When I was in Rhode Island, this was my saving grace. Because I could still sign in and hangout with my brother and friends on Long Island when I wanted.
I usually play video games with a core group of guys that all went to High School with me. I know this might sound funny to the non-gamers but the competition can get, whats the nicest way I can put this.......heated. A lot of yelling and screaming at each other. Some cursing I wont lie. Arguments between friends can carry over for a few days. It can even carry over to the golf course. And the bragging rights are really what it is for. So you can talk trash to each other.
And this is the ultimate trash talk. For everyone to see. So on that note, me and my buddy Face, we don't call him Face because of the A-Team just a nickname given to him high school, have been playing this hockey game. We are the only two out of our friends that play it because we beat everyone else. Very old school Nintendo style with the fat, medium, and skinny guys. Great game. But we have Mastered this game so much that the competition gets very, very heated. I'll give him credit, we played a best of seven of seven tournament. Which is we play a best 4 out 7 tournament and count that as one game in a best 4 tournaments out of 7 tournaments. And he won. Beat me 4 tournaments to 2.
But then things have changed. I have beaten him 14 straight at one point. The only thing we had to play for against each other is that neither one of us had shut the other person out. And that is the main reason why I posted this. We played a few weeks ago and we were having connection problems. The service kept booting us in the middle of the games. The last game we played that night, I was winning 8-0. Never got that close to shutting him out. I scored my 9th goal, and the game crashed. Thankfully I live alone so nobody could hear me scream. He swore he didn't do it and it was the game. I knew he did. And I was pissed. It took us about a week before we really talked. He kept saying he didn't shut the game off and it was XBox Live. So I let it pass.
I got home from work last night about 7pm. Wasn't planing on going out as I had to be in my office early this morning. Face and I were going to play a game of hockey and then play Tiger Woods Golf on Bethpage Black. I called it before the hockey game that I had figured him out and he was going to get shutout this game. Again, I had him 8-0. And just as I scored my 9th goal, he shut the game off. I wasn't pissed this time. I laughed. Now I know, I shut him out............
Twice!!!!
So I took a picture of the final games stats for all to see. Face quit. Face got Shutout. Twice. Look at the Hits. 50-16. Ouch.
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