So now I'm dividing my time between the two games and allotting time for little else.
With my unemployment checks running out next week (gulp), I really should be spending at least some time looking for a job. But through my slick money management wizardry, I've stepped out a budget that only requires additional income after mid-December. So, at least according to plans, I don't need to start work until late November or so.
Money doesn't buy happiness. Freedom from needing money does. And even though computer games like the two new ones I'm devoting all my time to cost about $50 a pop, it's a one-time fee. After that, life is just the low cost heaven of mearly paying rent and buying just enough groceries and sundries. Everything else is superflouous.
Many would call my lifestyle a waste. But I say being a mindless drone day after day toiling away at a despised job only to be constantly living in fear of not being able to "get ahead" and failing to "make ends meet".
Here in the Wasteland, the ends always meet...
When I log off the computer at 5 am, catch a few hours of z's and prepare to do it all over again when I wake up. Thus is the life of a super slacker like me. Fighting through virtual battle after virtual battle, struggling to accumulate wealth, status and honor. But only in a video game.