The Solid Snake Buys a PS3 (and Saves his Sanity) Thread

[Solid Snake]

(...If and only if he survives three weeks of hell first...)

So I have four law school finals in the next three weeks.
...If you know what law school finals are like, you now have an intense amount of pity for my poor, spurned, devastated, emotionally traumatized soul.

(And if you don't know what law school finals are like, let me paint a picture for you. For the next three weeks straight, I will be getting an average of five hours of sleep each night. Maybe six on the occasional Friday night, which will be something of a reward. I will wake up. I will take a quick shower. I will throw something on and walk to the nearest Starbucks. I will order three drinks at Starbucks -- one to drink right away, and two more to keep handy for lukewarm booster shots for the rest of the day, because I will literally not have enough time to spare walking back to Starbucks.
I will study law. I will study law for approximately 80-90% of my day. The remaining 10-20% of my time will be spent taking quick breaks reading your comments on the internet, pretending I'm with a beautiful naked woman for regular several-minute intervals, watching an episode or two of LOST, and crying tears of agony. I will write more than 150 pages of outlines over this time period, if past habits carry through this semester. I will spend a total of fifteen hours writing exam answers. I will wish I was dead. Then I will laugh hysterically when all is said and done because once this semester is over, I will be volunteering at a non-profit organization for the summer...meaning, yes, I spent tons of money to put myself into debt to go to law school and put myself through this agony and it's not even improving my career prospects.)

At any rate: there is a silver lining over this horizon. Do you want to know what this silver lining is? It is right here, in this very topic. This very topic is the thread that will keep me going. It is the thread I will check every time I feel down and depressed and miserable and cynical and jaded. It is the thread that will restore my faith in humanity, keep me pressing forward, keep my eyes on the real goal.

Because the real goal isn't surviving a year of law school.

The real goal is surviving to 5/14/10, otherwise known as The Day Of My Last Final, When I Will Immediately Proceed To Gamestop, Pay Tons Of Money, And Spoil Myself With A PS3 And A Shitstorm of Games.

You think I am kidding? I have saved $800 for this. ($300 in a post-survival gift from a beloved family member, so actually "only" $500 is on my credit card.)
I literally not only fully expect but fully condone spending every last penny. (If you were a 1L law student, trust me, trust me, you'd understand.)

So this is the thread I will return to during my darkest days of Torts, Criminal Justice and Constitutional Law readings to reflect on the single most important question that won't appear on an upcoming exam:

WHAT THE HELL DO I BUY?
I literally don't even know. I've splurged before, but never quite this much. The PS3 alone is $300, or so I hear, though I may actually put down the extra money for the better one because what the fuck I am that insane why not. There are two games I definitely have to buy, and those games are called Metal Gear Solid 4 and Heavy Rain. Beyond that there are plenty of games I'm at least mildly interested in, but I'm not sold on nuttin'.

So, this thread serves three purposes. First, you can chat with me about how I should blow the mind-boggling amount of money I should probably spend on a trip to Europe instead, except Europe ain't half as cool. (Or on several Matt Speroni commissions, which would be cooler but involve far less interactivity.) Second, you can feel better about yourselves because you're not in law school and that automatically makes you a better and/or luckier person than me. Finally, even if you don't own a PS3, I'm going to also designate this thread as Solid Snake's Place to Bitch About The Next Three Weeks, because Lord knows otherwise I'd be making several topics pitying myself otherwise, and who wants to knowingly subject themselves to reading that anywhere else?

...I suppose you could also try convincing me that this is a terrible idea, except it's not, I've been waiting nine months for this, so there.