Re-finding a Friend Long Gone

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I've said it before here, and I'll say it again: I'm a huge game geek.

I've been looking to re-obtain a 360 for a while now, since I have a stack of games for it and the original Xbox I've acquired over the last couple of years via yard sales and thrift stores because they were too good of deals to pass up, even if I didn't have the console at the moment.

That all changed last night, when I traded a friend of mine at work a spare NES I had lying around plus a few carts for his old 360 he doesn't play any more. Now I can play all those games, horray!

Though that's only the tip of the iceberg. Curious, I set out to see if I could recover the games I had once owned digitally on my old console, and lo and behold, it took little work for me to recover my profile and game rights. I immediately set a few old favorites to downloading, and started updating settings and the like....

Then I looked at my friends list.

I never had a lot of people friended on Xbox Live. Zoe is on there, of course, and another old friend of mine from Hot Springs I haven't talked to in over half a decade, but it was the third and final friend in the list that caused me to pause for a moment.

Delayra, AKA Edeyn Blackeney.

Edeyn might never have been as big of a video game geek as I, but she still had her fair share of vices in the realm, and seeing her profile gave me the briefest of chances to re-explore some of the times I remember watching her indulge them. There were a lot of times when we were sharing an apartment I'd never get to touch my 360's controller. I remember sitting there for hours, watching her play Dragon Age or Mass Effect, and seeing her old avatar standing there, sheep gently loping around her head -- merely sleeping, not gone -- made those memories that much starker, and though a little painful, I can't help but feel incredibly glad to have seen it again.

There's a lot of complaints you can make about video games and their affect on people and our world... but right now, they've given me back just a little bit of a lost friend, and how, I ask you, can you fault them for that?

Melanie E.

Comments

I know the feeling.....

..... I get it as well every time I switch my pc or PS3 on, they were left to me by my best friend when he passed from the big C. The PS3 has even still got his profile on it :-).

Hugs
Sammi