Happy Singles Awareness Day!

Ah yes, February 14th. The holiday to commemorate something involving Saint Valentine, the patron saint of lovers. Women use it as an excuse to dress up and go out with their boy toys of choice and guys use it as a socially acceptable time to try and get in the pants of the fairer sex, be it with a significant other or with a lonely barfly too hopped up on anti-depressants and cheap vodka to say no.

And since I’m a stereotypical hard-gaming man-child, you probably don’t have to be my friend on Facebook to guess that I’m not in a relationship. Unlike a lot of my gaming brethren though, I harbor no ill will to you lucky folks who are in love; go out and make the most of it, just don’t suck on eachother’s uvulas in front of me in line at the grocery store.

To my fellow single player extraordinaires, just because we are resigned to be loved merely by our hands doesn’t mean we can’t enjoy this Valentine’s Day. I propose we take this most Hallmark of holidays and enjoy not having to pay ludicrous amounts of money on dinner and flowers. Rather than moping about in our isolated apartments or parental basements and feeling sorry for ourselves, let’s celebrate being single gamers!

I was planning on sitting inside, still stationary despite not being tied down, and playing video games for as long as my eyesight and need for sustenance will allow, and I’m going to go ahead and guess that you (whoever you are) were probably going to do something similar, unless you have a ball and chain who frowns upon that kind of stuff.

So, I submit to my fellow free nerds this call to action! Whether your platform of choice is Steam, Playstation Network, or Xbox LIVE, I propose we make this Valentine’s Day not about some futile attempt to impress the opposite sex, but rather a day to hop online and game with the masses of single players everywhere.

My Xbox LIVE gamertag is HamHocks42, shoot me a friend request if you don’t have plans for Saturday.

-That Guy

PS: To those of you I won’t see online, remember to wrap it before you tap it.