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With Lent just here, I was wondering how many of you actually thought of giving up playing games for the duration, because I'll tell you something, I didn't. It's so much easier to sacrifice eating specific worthless bits of food and activities than the ones you really enjoy doing. So many years now, I've done just that and gave up the smallest and meaningless of things, plainly because I just know I would break my oath to Lent if I gave up my games for a couple of weeks.
It would be the same sort of scenario of smokers trying to give up, but constantly getting the urge and being tempted to light another one up. I get the vision in my head of me sitting on my bed, staring at my PS2 with the neat collection of games and looking like something that should be in a mental institution - veins popping out of my eyes, my upper body involuntarily twitching and so on. It just seems like a very hard thing to give up, and it's especially harder if you consider Lent as a thing not worth giving up your games for.
Now, I always try and do my best to raise funds to help charities and helpful organisations, so this is the really tricky question. Would you give up your games for charity? I would obviously have to look deep into my heart, think this through thoroughly and then decide. Actually, it depends how long I have to sacrifice my games for. If it's up to two weeks then..okay, but up to four weeks then I wouldn't do it because I know for a fine fact I'll give in to the temptation. Four weeks without clutching a single pad or switching on my beautiful console!? No way! It would be absolute torture, even if it's for a good cause. But, if I'm being sponsored a phenomenal amount for doing so then I obviously cannot waste the opportunity to make an impact in the lives of the less privileged.
I'd tell you what I would do for a charity though instead, I would hold a little gaming competition somewhere, explain the good need for an entrance fee to the competitants and raise money to help. It would be so much easier! The longest time I've not played a game for is about six days, but that was only because I had completed them all and was searching for some new ones. And those six days were one of the most boring of my entire life. I resorted to watching daytime television like Through the Keyhole and also Coronation Street - that's just how bad it was.
So what would you give up your games for? I have a vision of most saying money at this precise moment, and I don't blame you. I blame the government for the highly exagorrated tax rate they enforced, which apparently goes to good causes around the country. But if you had to, like if your conscience played a part, could you give up your games or even just one game for a good cause like helping a charity? Some people nowadays just don't think helping charities is important, until one of them ends up needing that exact support. Plus, it's a unique feeling to have, to know that you've done your bit for society, even if it's something that appears so little an issue to others as giving up games. But obviously, it isn't so easy when you've practically grown up with videogames.
Lent is passing and gladly, my wrists are still firmly intact with my control pads. My games are my heroes of boredom, the relievers of social stress and they take me to places unimaginable. How.. just how can I let them go just like that? I couldn't. If I did, it would be as if I wasn't fully complete and psychologially, things could go wrong.
Now where's that Soldier of Fortune ...
It would be the same sort of scenario of smokers trying to give up, but constantly getting the urge and being tempted to light another one up. I get the vision in my head of me sitting on my bed, staring at my PS2 with the neat collection of games and looking like something that should be in a mental institution - veins popping out of my eyes, my upper body involuntarily twitching and so on. It just seems like a very hard thing to give up, and it's especially harder if you consider Lent as a thing not worth giving up your games for.
Now, I always try and do my best to raise funds to help charities and helpful organisations, so this is the really tricky question. Would you give up your games for charity? I would obviously have to look deep into my heart, think this through thoroughly and then decide. Actually, it depends how long I have to sacrifice my games for. If it's up to two weeks then..okay, but up to four weeks then I wouldn't do it because I know for a fine fact I'll give in to the temptation. Four weeks without clutching a single pad or switching on my beautiful console!? No way! It would be absolute torture, even if it's for a good cause. But, if I'm being sponsored a phenomenal amount for doing so then I obviously cannot waste the opportunity to make an impact in the lives of the less privileged.
I'd tell you what I would do for a charity though instead, I would hold a little gaming competition somewhere, explain the good need for an entrance fee to the competitants and raise money to help. It would be so much easier! The longest time I've not played a game for is about six days, but that was only because I had completed them all and was searching for some new ones. And those six days were one of the most boring of my entire life. I resorted to watching daytime television like Through the Keyhole and also Coronation Street - that's just how bad it was.
So what would you give up your games for? I have a vision of most saying money at this precise moment, and I don't blame you. I blame the government for the highly exagorrated tax rate they enforced, which apparently goes to good causes around the country. But if you had to, like if your conscience played a part, could you give up your games or even just one game for a good cause like helping a charity? Some people nowadays just don't think helping charities is important, until one of them ends up needing that exact support. Plus, it's a unique feeling to have, to know that you've done your bit for society, even if it's something that appears so little an issue to others as giving up games. But obviously, it isn't so easy when you've practically grown up with videogames.
Lent is passing and gladly, my wrists are still firmly intact with my control pads. My games are my heroes of boredom, the relievers of social stress and they take me to places unimaginable. How.. just how can I let them go just like that? I couldn't. If I did, it would be as if I wasn't fully complete and psychologially, things could go wrong.
Now where's that Soldier of Fortune ...
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With Lent just here, I was wondering how many of you actually thought of giving up playing games for the duration, because I'll tell you something, I didn't. It's so much easier to sacrifice eating specific worthless bits of food and activities than the ones you really enjoy doing. So many years now, I've done just that and gave up the smallest and meaningless of things, plainly because I just know I would break my oath to Lent if I gave up my games for a couple of weeks.
It would be the same sort of scenario of smokers trying to give up, but constantly getting the urge and being tempted to light another one up. I get the vision in my head of me sitting on my bed, staring at my PS2 with the neat collection of games and looking like something that should be in a mental institution - veins popping out of my eyes, my upper body involuntarily twitching and so on. It just seems like a very hard thing to give up, and it's especially harder if you consider Lent as a thing not worth giving up your games for.
Now, I always try and do my best to raise funds to help charities and helpful organisations, so this is the really tricky question. Would you give up your games for charity? I would obviously have to look deep into my heart, think this through thoroughly and then decide. Actually, it depends how long I have to sacrifice my games for. If it's up to two weeks then..okay, but up to four weeks then I wouldn't do it because I know for a fine fact I'll give in to the temptation. Four weeks without clutching a single pad or switching on my beautiful console!? No way! It would be absolute torture, even if it's for a good cause. But, if I'm being sponsored a phenomenal amount for doing so then I obviously cannot waste the opportunity to make an impact in the lives of the less privileged.
I'd tell you what I would do for a charity though instead, I would hold a little gaming competition somewhere, explain the good need for an entrance fee to the competitants and raise money to help. It would be so much easier! The longest time I've not played a game for is about six days, but that was only because I had completed them all and was searching for some new ones. And those six days were one of the most boring of my entire life. I resorted to watching daytime television like Through the Keyhole and also Coronation Street - that's just how bad it was.
So what would you give up your games for? I have a vision of most saying money at this precise moment, and I don't blame you. I blame the government for the highly exagorrated tax rate they enforced, which apparently goes to good causes around the country. But if you had to, like if your conscience played a part, could you give up your games or even just one game for a good cause like helping a charity? Some people nowadays just don't think helping charities is important, until one of them ends up needing that exact support. Plus, it's a unique feeling to have, to know that you've done your bit for society, even if it's something that appears so little an issue to others as giving up games. But obviously, it isn't so easy when you've practically grown up with videogames.
Lent is passing and gladly, my wrists are still firmly intact with my control pads. My games are my heroes of boredom, the relievers of social stress and they take me to places unimaginable. How.. just how can I let them go just like that? I couldn't. If I did, it would be as if I wasn't fully complete and psychologially, things could go wrong.
Now where's that Soldier of Fortune ...
It would be the same sort of scenario of smokers trying to give up, but constantly getting the urge and being tempted to light another one up. I get the vision in my head of me sitting on my bed, staring at my PS2 with the neat collection of games and looking like something that should be in a mental institution - veins popping out of my eyes, my upper body involuntarily twitching and so on. It just seems like a very hard thing to give up, and it's especially harder if you consider Lent as a thing not worth giving up your games for.
Now, I always try and do my best to raise funds to help charities and helpful organisations, so this is the really tricky question. Would you give up your games for charity? I would obviously have to look deep into my heart, think this through thoroughly and then decide. Actually, it depends how long I have to sacrifice my games for. If it's up to two weeks then..okay, but up to four weeks then I wouldn't do it because I know for a fine fact I'll give in to the temptation. Four weeks without clutching a single pad or switching on my beautiful console!? No way! It would be absolute torture, even if it's for a good cause. But, if I'm being sponsored a phenomenal amount for doing so then I obviously cannot waste the opportunity to make an impact in the lives of the less privileged.
I'd tell you what I would do for a charity though instead, I would hold a little gaming competition somewhere, explain the good need for an entrance fee to the competitants and raise money to help. It would be so much easier! The longest time I've not played a game for is about six days, but that was only because I had completed them all and was searching for some new ones. And those six days were one of the most boring of my entire life. I resorted to watching daytime television like Through the Keyhole and also Coronation Street - that's just how bad it was.
So what would you give up your games for? I have a vision of most saying money at this precise moment, and I don't blame you. I blame the government for the highly exagorrated tax rate they enforced, which apparently goes to good causes around the country. But if you had to, like if your conscience played a part, could you give up your games or even just one game for a good cause like helping a charity? Some people nowadays just don't think helping charities is important, until one of them ends up needing that exact support. Plus, it's a unique feeling to have, to know that you've done your bit for society, even if it's something that appears so little an issue to others as giving up games. But obviously, it isn't so easy when you've practically grown up with videogames.
Lent is passing and gladly, my wrists are still firmly intact with my control pads. My games are my heroes of boredom, the relievers of social stress and they take me to places unimaginable. How.. just how can I let them go just like that? I couldn't. If I did, it would be as if I wasn't fully complete and psychologially, things could go wrong.
Now where's that Soldier of Fortune ...