Folks,

Two reasons video games are bad for you:

1) Last I was at a friend's house, talking to his 10 year old son Nick.

Me: So, do you have Halo 2?
Nick: Yeah, I love that game!

(one minute of us both confirming we love that game)

Nick: What's your favorite weapon?
Me: Well, I like the plasma sword
Nick: Yeah, that rules
Me: Do you know how to get it on the Zanzibar level?

Oh lord. It was then that I realized what the XBox has made me, a ten year old in the shell of a middle aged adult LOSER who sits around wondering how he got here. Damn.

2) I was playing this golf game I bought which is narrated by Dave Attell and features lots of scantily clad animated figures. The game is pretty raunchy and definitely for the adult crowd, but nevertheless I was more than a little repulsed at myself for looking forward to the animated sequences featuring the girls I was attracted to. Attracted to, people! God damn cartoons!

What have I become?