Generally I am of sound mind, and I am usually of sound body. Lately I have become disgusted with myself over the lack of gaming being done in my home. I have a child on the way(4 weeks) and I am knee deep in school. I am working towards a software engineering degree, which I will put to good use in about 2.5 years. On top of these life changing events, I am working about 48 hours a week just to keep ahead of the curve. Can someone provide an employer that will let me stay home all day with my new son and just play games?

I won't take anything less than 80K per year.

(Hope is an eternal flaw of mine.)

However much fun being a rabid fanboy is, it pales in comparison to the actual games we play. I've delved through Gamespot and the web in general, and I have found that the people that bash other systems have a severe lack of common sense. The narrow mindedness of their opinion is so fervently biased that any modicum of rationality drives them insane with rage. I understand the demographics of the average gamer, I also understand the allegiance that one may have to a product that gives them so much enjoyment, but the simple truths are that every one of these products is designed to provide some level of enjoyment.

I have seen many blogs extolling the virtues of owning every system, and I have become accustomed to them falling on deaf fanboy ears. Manticores are demographically more intelligent and affluent and that lends itself well towards understanding that blogs like this one must be written. The pain that fanboys believe they are inflicting on opposing sides are severely less than the pain they refuse to acknowledge; fear and jealousy of someone else. This drives them to unbridled attempts at intelligent recorse shrouded heavily in their bias.

I am now vigilant in my position that i see all of the flaws and all of the virtues of all machines. There is no reason for me to stand idly by and watch the destruction of my hobby due to the ignorance of a slowly dying breed. So I call on the manticores, or just the unbiased to speak up and out often against the silly judgement of these weak minds.

Open minds lead to open discussion, and sound judgment opens minds.