Gaming >>> American Idol

Tek7

Tek7

CGA President, Tribe of Judah Founder & President
Staff member
The bad news: American Idol is now in its eighth season with no sign of ever ending. Aside from the show itself being painful to watch, it's also a symptom that the medium of television is nearly completely bereft of intelligent and creative endeavors. American culture is officially circling the drain. For final proof, see Rock of Love Bus.

Now, for reasons completely beyond my comprehension, my wife--who is a doctor and who I often argue is smarter than me--watches and enjoys American Idol. It doesn't make any sense.

More bad news: The video display on my notebook computer recently bit the dust, leaving me to browse the web, chat, and check e-mails on an antique desktop computer with a 750MHz CPU and 256MB RAM.

More bad news: American Idol is on three times this week: Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.

The good news: My wife is letting me borrow her notebook computer, which is capable of running Team Fortress 2 and Left 4 Dead at decent framerates, during American Idol this week.

That means I'll be online and looking to pack as much gaming as possible into the following time slots:
  • Tuesday, March 3 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Central
  • Wednesday, March 4 from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. Central
  • Thursday, March 5 from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. Central
Yes, that's right. Three episodes of American Idol in the same week, from the same network that canceled Futurama.

/facepalm

Anyway, I'll be on during the times listed above and hoping to play some TF2, L4D, or Quake Live. (I can play Starcraft even on this antique desktop machine, so I'm saving my gaming time Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday evening for games released after 1999.)

Watch for me on Steam, send me an invite if you get a gaming going, and, if you're a member of Tribe of Judah's Team Fortress 2 chapter, don't hesitate to send invites to a few other ToJers and get our TF2 server hoppin'.
 
You shouldn't have much of a problem with those time slots Tek Tuesday 8:00 pm central is our regular TF2 game night and Thursday 7:30 central is our TF2 practice night. "IF" I am around I certainly won't mind showing up earlier either just PM me when you get on.

The important question is are you going to make the scrim on Saturday!?!?!? O.o XD

...I don't like American Idol OR Futurama but then the only shows I watch at all are a few kids shows on Saturday and Heroes. Then again most of the time I am watching those I am making fun of them :p.

I do watch some Netflix stuff though.
 
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wOOt unbelievable hehehe thats when I play ahahaha the greatest show ever for me and my gaming opportunities!
 
The Mighty Gerbil said:
The important question is are you going to make the scrim on Saturday!?!?!? O.o XD
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I'm planning on it.

I hope to have adapted to the controls of my wife's notebook and wireless mouse before the scrim.
 
Odale said:
Tek you sound stressed out, perhaps you should go watch some Tv....

:D
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Watching TV live just makes me more stressed since I loathe commercials. It's one of the reasons I watch anime as often as I do: there are no commercials in fansubs.
 
You don't mute them or visit the little CGA/ToJ President's room or go get a drink or ... well you see what I am going for here.
 
Odale said:
You don't mute them or visit the little CGA/ToJ President's room or go get a drink or ... well you see what I am going for here.
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If I don't want to wait to download an episode and I watch it when it airs, I usually flip channels during commercials.
 
I agree with you Tek about hating commercials, and you know flipping channels use to work great, but without cable it's gotten to the point now where the commercial breaks are all at the same time on every channel.
 
I used to get in a lot of my Warcraft time while the wife was watching TV. I don't care for almost any of reality TV shows. I prefer a good story of real life dramas anyday. So I watch Heroes and Lost, and that's about it besides some news.

But now I play a console, and have to share the TV in order to play that. Oh, how the tables have turned...
It works out because she's a busy student and I'm just a full time worker = I play while she's at school late or doing homework. And we both have the weekends off to spend with eachother. So I layoff the games more then.
 
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