doubleofive said:
How much does one have to drink before thinking Warb would want to play an FPS? Isn't he antigun? ;-)
Well, I had about a shot glass' equivalent of wine, so not much. I have other friends who are anti-gun and enjoy a bit of Halo or COD. He has never complained about the depiction of firearms in film, or other entertainment media. Just the fact that a lot of people are killed every year by firearms.
So, in all seriousness, I am thinking a 360 could do Warb a lot of good. It can be really fun going online and interacting with people. Video games have traditionally been considered anti-social, but with things like Xbox LIVE and being able to chat with other players it is actually a far more enjoyable social experience to me than many things traditionally considered overly social, such as hanging out at bars, going to a ball game, watching televised sports on TV in group gatherings. I feel like there is far more interaction with others going on when I play with them online than I do when I am at a Super Bowl party or making small talk with some sad desperate woman at a bar.
So, yes, I am entirely serious in my "Buy Warb a 360" movement, and becoming more serious about it the more I think about it. If many of us as a community came to the conclusion that Dayv needed money because he was in a bad place, cancer or not, then I think Warbler needs a 360 just as much. For under $200 we could get him hooked up with a year of LIVE, a couple of games that he might like that we can play with him online, and of course an actual 360 itself. I think it could be a very positive thing for him, and still being one of the mass number of American who are unemployed at the moment, he obviously doesn't have money to buy one himself.