This is just the intro... for now

Taken from Dictionary.com :

hard-core

   /ˈhɑrdˈkɔr, -ˈkoʊr/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [hahrd-kawr, -kohr] Show IPA –adjective

1.	unswervingly committed; uncompromising; dedicated: a hard-core segregationist.

2.	pruriently explicit; graphically depicted: hard-core pornography.

3.	being so without apparent change or remedy; chronic: hard-core inflation; hard-core unemployment.

I choose to start my first blog with a definition of hardcore. There are multiple definitions as you can see, and I am referring to the first, not the 2nd (although there is a lot of that on the internet already and I'd make way more money with that... well, maybe not me). My blog name refers to how I am no longer among the group labeled as "hardcore gamers." I thought about making it "X-Hardcore" or "XXX-Hardcore" to make a joke... but is it worth renaming for one joke to make in the first post? I know everyone is blogging now, most of which that have nothing important to say, but a lot of things have come up in conversation with some friends lately. Are these things important? No, but oh well, who cares. These multiples conversions of me as a gamer. Not just any kind of a gamer, but a HARDCORE gamer. I have become a measurement among friends and family for various things gaming related because I am the "hardcore gamer." But I'm not anymore. I was, but now not so much. I recently lost my job and have been gaming a lot more than before, but still cannot consider myself hardcore. I think that I'm in between a hardcore gamer and a casual gamer (does that make me a tween?). These people in my life want to know my opinion on things, and I plan to use this space for just that. I will mostly do review for games (and movies, my other love in life) so now I can just tell them "go to my blog" instead of repeating myself to them all.

Why do you care? Well, I think this is an ever growing group of people. See I used to be the guy that had to buy every system as it came out (I may still own them all, but I don't rush like I used to). I used to be the guy that would import tons of games from Japan even though I have no knowledge of the Japanese language (I still import, but not anywhere near as much as I did before). I used to be the guy that would buy games that no one had ever heard of, and then praise about to them to anyone who would listen (OK, I'm still that guy). But now I'm a guy that finds himself closing in on 30 and engaged to be married, and wanting to take the time to do other things. We all have to grow up, but not totally, right?

I still have a massive game collection and will still continue to play them until my arthritic hands no longer let me (I pray that mind controllers come out by then), but which I play are changing. I know this is getting long winded, but hey, it's my first post, and things will pick up from here, I promise. Feel free to leave comments and let me know what you think. Hate it, love it, suggestions, what you want to see more of, less of, ANY of. Let me know, I can take it.