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In my quest to simplify, I have started to rummage through all my crap, and put it up for sale on Amazon’s Marketplace. I have been selling old books on Amazon for about a year and a half now, and really enjoy its ease of use, even though the commisions that Amazon takes out seem a little high. The point is to get rid of the stuff, not make a living off of it, so I can look past that.

On Monday I shipped my cd + manual for Counter Strike, which I would give you a link for, but since Steam still sucks, the website is all screwed up. Here is the best I can do. Basically Counter-Strike (CS) is a round based shoot-em-up between two sides: the terrorists and the anti-terrorists. The one with the most people standing, or who completes their objective first wins the round. Rounds are typically short (3-5 minutes) which was one of the biggest problems for me… I could very easily tell myself “just one more round”. This game was an addiction for me, and as such it was kinda strange to see it leaving my life for good.

While preparing to ship this game, I reflected back on how much time I wasted playing that game. The best estimate I can come up with is about 1000 hours. About half a years work. This is over an approximately 4 year period, but still, that is a ton of time to put into a game. Especially for a game where violence is how you win. There were many nights where I would be going to bed at 4AM just to get up again at 7 to go to work. I haven’t played a video game in about a year now and am very happy about that. Now I need to get back down to the basement and sell all the rest of my crap.