By TheFanboys.com |
Last updated: Sunday, May 14, 2006

There are two things you must know before we begin: 

1. I hate baseball. I hate almost everything about baseball. Scratch that–I hate everything about baseball. I won’t watch it. I won’t play it. My contempt for America’s pastime runs so deep, that in the long, hot months between the NBA Finals and the opening of the college football season, I can actually be found doing activities . . . outside.
2. However, I love Xbox 360 Gamerpoints. I love everything about them. I love the unmatched feeling of accomplishment I get when I see the little achievement indicator pop up–informing me that I am truly in a select group of elite and skilled gamers who have successfully spent four hours in front of their television, repeatedly pressing the “A” button in order to simulate 30 years of a Madden franchise and collect their 400 points. What a rush.

(more…)

CommentSubscribe

The Fanboys Lunchcast: Episode 9

A trio of nerds escape the office, go to lunch, and talk about their various geekdoms (primarily video games) over a chorus of annoying ambient

The Fanboys Lunchcast: Episode 32

Episode 32: Five Bucks? (52:53) Featuring casual Christmas shopping tragedies, Rock Band, risking young lives for the love of Bravia, Xbox Live outages and outrages,

The Fanboys Lunchcast: Episode 19

Episode 19: Socktoberfest (40:00) Featuring how to love yourself (and not get caught), more Forza, Call of Juarez, Planet Puzzle League, our earliest forays in porn,