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Author: Mael |
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Date Posted: 10:28:25 10/06/04 Wed In reply to: Sage 's message, "Re: SWG" on 12:09:31 10/01/04 Fri No, Im not going to try it out(swg). And my sister has my ps2.... has had it since we got out here. Aside from that, I probably won't buy the game because, like every other game, we will get to a point where it will become boring and we won't want to play anymore. And all the hours I would have spent playing the game I could have been expanding my mind or resting. I don't want to look back in 20 years and realize the wasted time, like I look back 10 and realize the wasted time. I said the only coop games anymore are rpg's....Meaning you have to spend alot of time in them. The only coop games I was referring to that I would play would be games that I didn't have to spend 100 hours on. Short coop games with immediate goals. Enough to say, it was fun....not too much to say, why did I spend all that time playing a game that will absolutely no effect on my future. If I planned to die tomorrow, yes, I would probably enjoy today by playing video games. But, like I said, I would rather look back to these years and say," I learned valuable information that makes my life more enjoyable today.", rather than," I wasted over 40 hours of my life on something I can't even remember.". The game may hide its pointlessness for awhile by giving goals to fullfill,"I just have to beat the next monster!", but I don't look for time consuming obligatory fun anymore that I will regret later. I am in the future now. I see how I would feel. I look back on my life at this moment and wonder how much smarter, wiser, happier, etc. I could have been if those thousands of hours of games I played had been spent studying. I would be a fool to see the wasted time and yet continue on only to wait another 5-10 years and say the same thing at that point. I refuse to let my life be stagnant any longer. I refuse to live a pointless life any longer. This year is the year my life is changed not so I am happy now, but so that im happy for the rest of my life. And, you know whats ironic about it? Because I work now to make the rest of my life enjoyable I am happy now, because I see a happy future, not an uncertain one. With spending my time on video games, I can't even see my future. The video game is my future, and my happiness only lives untill the game ends, and then uncertainty comes after that. Video games are like an addictive drug where happiness only last the duration of the high and you can only see into the future as far as your next high. Like a drug, the future I see in playing video games is only untill the next level, or the next monster, or the next game....there is always something to fill the void with but im going to fill it with something useful, something that takes it away, not something that hides it for awhile. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] |
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| Re: "Breaking The Habit" | Sage | 15:59:57 10/06/04 Wed |
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