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Reading 3: Hitting roadblocks

Okay we talked about How I'm doing my research, now let's talk about the ACTUAL research God if you exist and want to prove it then kill me now.

So First off, the Tudublin library can go f--- itself, I'm sorry but when I try to use the website, it would tell me: "this IP is busy.", I tried on Monday through Thursday and I still can't get in ! How can the IP be busy at 1am in the morning ?!

So it was to Google/Google Scholars, which thank god, I had better luck. I found this: Understanding Digital Gaming By John Kirriemuir, I've had a read it and even started filling out the excel sheet. I also found this article as well: A Brief Social history of Game play by Dmitri Williams, which is has a section about the history of Games.

Too be honest with you, I've been hard time looking for articles for PC Consoles, nevermind Home Consoles. I've been looking for over three hours and have been doing the excel sheet, it may look like I'm not working but I am ! I think once I get access to the TUdublin Library then I'll have better luck, I'm hoping that I won't have to go into TUDublin City center campus, though I know I a mate that goes there so I might get them to rent out the book and buy them a pint to say thanks . 

So Researching hasn't gone well so far, guess I'll just have to push through!
Working on the Excel, it's going slow, screenshot taken by me





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