I gained patience after I got my Iphone. Whenever I have to wait for something, someone, I busted the Iphone out and I no longer paid attention to how people are wasting my time, whether it is the gas station, my favorite restaurant, or even traffic.My life was exactly, well not exactly, the way I envisioned it in one of my novels I worte years ago, people are connected, the world is connected. We no longer leave the interenet while we are away from our computers. And for the most part, I am quite happy with it.

And we have entered an age when people no longer have privacy, they choose to not have privacy. People updating their facebook profile daily, hourly, on what they are doing. People on Iphone’s Loopt telling others where they are, sharing their pictures, comments. People on Xbox Live sharing the data of what they have played. I went the other day to profile.mygamercard.net and took a look at my own Xbox Live gamecard, and I saw each achievements I got. It brought back memories of me being stuck in a hotel room in Ohio with my PS2 browsing through my memory card to see what saves I got, it brought me back to finished Lost Odyssey, a game I stopped at the final boss fight but was too weak to defeat it, but didnt want to grind anymore levels — my missing end-game achievements bugged me, it was a living testament of me not completing this fictional piece of art (and yes, sometimes this game’s pace was slower than your grandma dragging a dead orangutan) The 360 has won the race of this new era of non-privacy gaming, because of a better foundation of online network, and achievemnts. It has become the PS2 in the last era.

While I patiently await for Little Big Planet (which they called the web 2.0 of games), probably the only exclusive left for the PS3 (well for a long while), I tried out Dead Space and Castlevania Order of Ecclesia. Dead Space brought up good memories of System Shock and movies like Event Horizon, while Ecclesia reminded me fondly of Castlevania 2. It feels like a new gaming era has begun, no not the golden age of gaming, but something new, maybe we can call it the age of community gaming (seen the penis creature others made on spore?)