now that nintendo has followed suit and announced a price drop on the gamecube, my dark desire to have one of my very own has begun to grow at an even more alarming rate. when those other price cuts started popping up, i was tempted, sure. i have no desire to own an xbox for its own sake, but eventually i’m just going to have to play jsrf, there’s no getting around that. and a ps2 is undeniably good fun. but a cube, now - only that inspires actual lust, as far as i’m concerned. i babysat colin’s while he was in london (and then some) and i got horribly, horribly used to having it around; i’ve felt very keenly my own lack of cube since his went home. i find myself craving pikmin late at night, and there are moments when i reach for ssbm only to remember the horrible truth when i see the empty spot next to the tv. my old dreamcast is lovable but just doesn’t cut it anymore, and i only bought it perhaps a year and a half ago, just after it went down in price (to $100, i believe). i’ve been distracting myself with serious quantities of q3 from thoughts of slick little jet black consoles that look like lunchboxes, but i know it won’t last. sooner or later - quite possibly before the summer is out - i must own a cube.

by the way, i hear there’s still time to order a shirt. maybe you should go take care of that right now!