Video game addiction.

i second that emotion

video games >>>> shoegaze

you all watch yourselves or I'll have this board deleted.

It's not so much an either-or, but i've had a low energy level for a while, and it's just too easy to stay inside and play too much of whatever game I'm on that week(Planescape, Fallout, HL2, VTM, KOTOR2, AOE3, Civ, etc) instead of doing anything else. I don't read as much, i've more or less stopped playing my bass, i don't go out for walks or bike rides as much as i should(tho the weather has something to do with this), etc.

It's like the hermetic sloth mode I chose when I first moved to Portland(was more economical this way) is no longer really working, and the low-level brain stimulation("oooo, my riflemen just totally knocked the FUCK out of those spearmen") is so addicting to my ADD-addled head and I can't tear myself away.

Don't have an answer tho. I get tremendous guilt pangs about the time I pish away playing games when I could be doing something more creative, or at least experiencing daylight and fresh air and human beings and stuff. I guess there has to be a way to moderation somehow. Why not try giving up those big, time-eating RPGs and Strategy games for a bit and playing a few quick pick up and put down blasters or sports games? Sort of wean yourself off like that? (nb I prolly won't follow my own advice)

I've got a cheat code that gives you unlimited slack off time.

Try acquiring another addiction.

Or, nip the thing in the bud and make it prohibitively inconvenient to access. Maybe every time you turn off your computer (you do turn it off, right?), detach your keyboard and mouse and stow it away someplace like a closet.

5 more months.

With that said, I really want to buy Elder Scrolls Oblivion, but I have a really busy month coming up (moving), so I'm going to wait on it until I have the time to devote to it.

I have a repeat exam in a couple of months and honestly I'll just HAVE to get the housemate to take away my monitor. Otherwise I'll just fail. Again.

Basically Kingfish I'm a lot like you (I think, I think!), I let my physical indolence and procrastination take over. This means that I don't take any kind of excersize which means my get up and go just goes and finally I just sit in front of the computer feeling guilty.

ILG:
lol no wai rofl just go plai

And GalCivII.
...and Winning Eleven 9.
...and Oblivion.

yay Amsterdam, leading the way once again

How's that for singularity of purpose?

i remember the first time i saw gta3, on my mates ps2, and of course was pretty blown away.
Then my house mate gave me a copy for the pc, but i had a shit pc at the time.

gta3 played at something like 1 frame per 2 seconds, worse sometimes, and i still played it to the finish.

I remember buying GTA1 for the pc a long time ago. It was considerably better than GTA2 and not even in the same league as GTA3 and beyond. Parking 20-30 cars in an alley and rigging a chain explosion to get millions of points is something I wish the new GTAs had. Specifically, I want the new GTAs to have more of an arcade feel. Call me crazy but I wouldn't mind being able to drive a motorcycle into a wall and being able to hit a button so that I can bounce off perfectly (or drive on the wall a bit) - never having to chase my motorcycle down the street after crashing it. Kill some of the realism for more happy arcade action.

But yeah, I think GTA3 blew everyone away at the time.

one of my good friends is a teacher in a rural school, I think grades K-8, and this is an exchange (posted on fb) between her and a student she was trying to teach division to (note she does not play video games):

so I teach this kid who is obsessed with video games, right?
sometimes, when I'm talking to him and he doesn't want to listen he will look down at his hands and begin to play his INVISIBLE DS.

one time he was shooting invisible arrows with his invisible bow. at the principal. during mass.

anyway

I had to teach him division, so I was trying to apply it to something he would be interested in. I chose video games.

I said, "you know in Zelda? is there something that you collect?"

and he answered, "pieces of the broken heart" (or something like that, I don't even rememebr)

so I looked at the math problem 736/6 and said, okay, say you collect 736 pieces of the broken heart and you have to put the pieces int0--

"there are only 4 pieces of the broken heart."

"oh. okay. well how about pokemon cards, let's say you have 736 pokemon cards and you have to put them into--"

"can they be pokeballs?"

"sure, fine. whatever. we've got 736 pokeballs, and you need to store them in 6 backpacks, but you have to have the same number in--"

"how about pockets instead?"

"okay, fine, you have to put them in 6 pockets, but you have to have the same number of pokeballs in each pocket. so here's what we're going to do. we'll start by---"

"oh I just remembered what they collect in Zelda. Rubies." (he had more description, think, but I don't remember)

*heavy sigh* "okay. you've got 736 rubies and we're going to put them into 6 pockets, so--"

"actually, the rubies go in wallets"

"okay. so we're going to sort them into 6 wallets, so--"

"there's only 1 wallet."

we never did learn division.

oh man, the threads i've started whether drunk or not

is it her or the kid that confused rupees and rubies do you think? either way it is a shocking indictment of the state of our primary education system imho

She obv should have gone w/DS carts and carrying cases.

Another example of why I'd make a horrible teacher. Pretty sure I would've throttled that little dude.

totally, what a noob. it's "rupees" you fool

it's probably her who confused rupees and rubies, because she has never played a Zelda game ever. hence the somewhat naive "in Zelda, do you collect anything?" question.