I've seriously considered just dropping computers as a hobby, selling my new computer (going back to my P4/TNT2) and getting a drum set or putting the money towards a car, but then other days, I'm thinking about building my Quad-Core + SLI build and putting down well over a grand. I've only got like about maybe $2500 saved up atm... (I'm an 18-year-old student), yeah, it is a bit of an addiction, like, I got such a high from ordering my parts, then got an even greater rush when the parts came in and I got to feel out the parts in their shiny virgin boxes, and then I put it together and played some games and that rush instantly took a backseat to feeling very much underwhelmed.
Maybe games just don't do it for me anymore? Games were amazing when I was a child of 6-14 years old, like it was literally magic for me, now it's just, bleh, objects moving on screen, must complete objectives, argh, that's actually pretty depressing now that I think about it, all that wonder I had as a child, that magic, is gone forever, my young adult days just seem rudimentary and predictable, with only drugs, sex and alcohol to give me some kind of escape from the grayness that has become my life [/emo]
seriously though, this thread makes me think