No Television

As incredible as that may sound, this has been the state I’ve been living in for over three years now. I have a television set, obviously, but it has never been tuned to an actual channel in all these years, and has been reserved entirely for the viewing of DVDs and playing video games.

Partially this is the result of local televison; it’s pretty bad, and I don’t feel any loss in not watching it. Yes, they do import American shows over, but when the DVD season compilations are available at–or sometimes sooner–than these shows finally start broadcasting here, it seems kind of pointless. I mean, what would you do if you presented with A) Watch a possibly censored Buffy The Vampire Slayer series (Since excessive drug use or acknowledging the existence of homosexuality is a local no-no) which will likely show at 2 or 3 in the morning anyway… Or just buy the DVD season set and watch them all at once commercial free?

When local TV sucks and shows from North America don’t always survive the trip intact, this one is practically a no-brainer.

Of course there’s also the other side of it as well. From a professional perspective, if you write scripts for television, then watching television feels a little too much like work. Movies of course, are something that I have yet to be involved with, so I don’t feel that same sense of weariness and ditto for video games.

I’ve often wondered if working in the games industry (As a developer not as a journalist) would ever dampen my enthusiasm towards games. Writing about games certainly hasn’t put out the flames of my love for gaming, but if I were to wrestle with development issues every day, actually get stressed out by them, would I actually look on the latest GTA or FF installment with a sense of cynical dread? Or could I still get all excited like a little kid at the thought of it, the way I do now?

Oh well, enough of this. Time to bash more skulls in with The Warriors…