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Anyhoo I was playing Zelda: TWW the other day and my girlfriend walked in and watched for a while, she asked me why I spent hours of my free time on a video-game? To be honest i wasn't sure, for me it's just something I have grown up with right from the good old Commodore or even the Spectrum. What about you?
The satisfaction of doing something makes you feel happy (YeY endorphins!), so you want to play more.
Much like drugs only more healthy and you don't wake up the next day and feel like sh*t.
> You live a life in games that would never happen in the real world.
> Games are a form of escapism.
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> Much like drugs only more healthy and you don't wake up the next day
> and feel like sh*t.
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tht is pretty much it and beside from the fact you will have random quotes like "itsa ME MARIIIOOO" and " I'll be backkkkk" and s**tupid things like that in your head I think that it is perfectly healthy
It's a way for me to get away from everyday life. If I've had a bad day and I was to go out into the middle of town with a sniper rifle and pick off some randoms because they looked at me funny then I'd be well on my way to being locked up for a couple of months (life sentence, eligible for parole in three months).
That PSOne ad sums it up for me.
“For years I have lived a double life, in the day I do my job, roll up my sleeves with the ordinary people, but at night, I live a life of exhilaration, of missed heartbeats and adrenalin, a life of dubious virtue. You might not think it to look at me, but I have commanded armies and conquered worlds. And though I may have broken one or two rules, at least I can say, "I have lived."”
Oh yeah, it's fun too.
> “For years I have lived a double life, in the day I do my job, roll up
> my sleeves with the ordinary people, but at night, I live a life of
> exhilaration, of missed heartbeats and adrenalin, a life of dubious
> virtue. You might not think it to look at me, but I have commanded
> armies and conquered worlds. And though I may have broken one or two
> rules, at least I can say, "I have lived."”
Spot on