[ being the sequel to It’s Only a Magazine! ]
Okay, here’s the thing… yes, I miss my OPS2, but I think in a deeper sense, I miss what it represents. Or perhaps more accurately, I lament what its demise implies.
Get over yourself! – some of you might be inclined to cry; You are a 35 year old man who is about to become a dad, for God’s sake!
Well yes, there is that… but there’s no denying the weird and disproportionately intense feelings this turn of events has dredged up… feelings which I want to sort out, hopefully through the means of my writing, a.s.a.p. So may I please beg your indulgence and patience a little while longer?
I thank you! 
So like I was saying, I lament what the demise of OPS2 implies…
I like technology and gadgets and what-have-you – I wouldn’t have a PS2 if I didn’t! – but I am questioning more and more these days the inexorability of the march towards increasing complexity and hi-tech-y-ness. I’m probably fighting a loosing battle here, but can’t we/society slow down a bit, have a look at what we’ve got and stop wanting more and bigger and shinier and games machines which are approaching levels of realism which are becoming indistinguishable from reality itself? Because we will never be satisfied. We will always want more and more. How much more of our wanting more can the world take?
The illogicality of it, in relation to PS2/OPS2, is that, as far as I can tell from the information I am privy to, the PS2 is still the most popular, most-owned games console, for which it seems that the production of new games, although it has inevitably reduced since the emergence of PS3, doesn’t look to be stopping any time soon. So the PS2, which is not the latest, shiniest, most hi-tech console, still occupies the largest section of the games market… and yet the only magazine which caters solely for such had to end! Why? It seems to me that the push towards bigger, shinier, more hi-tech is so engrained in our culture, that the economic powers-that-be were inclined to push towards these things even against what seemed to be the economic facts of the matter. Am I wrong? If anyone has evidence to the contrary, I’d be happy to hear it!
On a more general point, it’s about the inexorable (yes, that is my word of the month) marching forward of time… Tempus fugit! and what-have-you. Is it inevitable that as one gets older, one resists change?! Whether we become more hi-tech, less hi-tech, it becomes the height of fashion to wear items of office stationery on one’s head or whatever, change will happen… in light of The Biggest Change Ever happening to me at the mo, I think perhaps I need to work on being more accepting of such.
Tempus, as I said, fugit! – and by way of my attempt to positively affirm my acceptance of such, let’s end with a few smileys…
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nb. For more words on the concept of tempus fugit, see the following…
