I tossed things out. I moved furniture. It made room in my apartment. This activity is kind of like combining Tetris along with hippo juggling along with deciding which hippo you can get along without.
But it worked: I made room for an XBox. So I bought an XBox (with Kinect, though I probably don't actually have enough room in my apartment to take advantage of the Kinect, but anyhow). You may recall that this is not my first XBox. I played a bunch of XBox when I was helping to program the mediocre game "New Legends." More recently, I bought an XBox so that I could play the excellent game Psychonauts; then I gave that XBox away so that I could reclaim the floorspace in my teeny-tiny apartment. And besides, I was done playing Psychonauts, and that was the only worthwhile XBox game, right?
Well, Psychonauts was the only worthwhile XBox game right then. But. But then the Sam & Max games came along. And Brütal Legend. And Costume Quest. (Want to know what the Ghost Patrol BANG GC was talking about while assembling puzzles? Looking forward to playing Costume Quest, that's what. Except I wasn't because I didn't have an XBox.)
So I now I have one. I spent most of the weekend playing on it. I wore my Infinite Machine jacket because Infinite Machine was the XBox game company I worked at and because I'm scared to turn on the heat in my apartment again after what happened the last time. Infinite Machine's probably why I wanted to play these games—folks I'd worked with worked on these games. I didn't think I'd worked with anyone who helped make the first Sam and Max game for Telltale; Chuck Jordan didn't start working on the series that early. But after I finished that episode, I watched the credits go past: Max, voiced by Andrew Chaikin. Oh, wow, I should have been wearing my Geoworks t-shirt with my Infinite Machine jacket.
Ah yes, my gamertag is lahosken, though as near as I can tell that doesn't mean much if I'm not playing multi-player games? Maybe? I dunno. Back in my day, XBoxes didn't have these "gamertags" or go out on "the internet". You kids today with your downloadable content... Oh man am I still writing this stupid blog entry when I could be playing another episode of Sam and Max? I gotta go.
