I keep buying more crap. I know I shouldn't but I want a Nintendo DS lite so badly. I've basically stopped playing video games since college. I've always always wondered if it was because I was getting to old for video games, or were the games that were coming out were complete rubbish. I think I have my answer, the Sony PSP. My wife got me one last year right when it came out. It was great, she even got me 3 games for it. And after a month's playing. I realized most of the games for it were completely bland and I found out I could load old nintendo games on them. I rediscovered why I loved video games so much when I was a kid. They were actually fun! These days, they're really glitzy with 3-dimensional realism, but they blow hard chunks in terms of keeping me entertained. Its just a lot of repetitive crap dressed up in a nice outfit.

After reading about the games that Nintendo is cranking out for their relatively new handheld, I wanted one, then I found out they redesigned the system and its actually smaller, more svelte, and with a brighter screen, I really wanted one. Today, I saw the 3rd installment of the Cabel's funny review of his DS Lite and I am having to refrain myself from dropping 200 bucks on an imported version knowing full well that the US is going to get theirs soon enough and I'll feel like a complete ass for paying a 60+ dollar markup just because I can't be patient.

This could be the kid in me wanting to relive my nostalgia and simplicity of having some fun, or this could be the adult in me buying stuff to fill the unavoidable void we all have when we realize that life as an adult is nothing like it was when we were kids. I don't know, the optimist in me hopes its the former, the realist in me thinks its the latter.