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Imagine if you did something SO terrible that the law took action and banned you ever from playing computer games again, and if you were caught handling a control pad or buying a game you were to suffer the death penalty (obviously this won't happen in England). I would go absolutely nuts and as a result, I would probably spend the whole day watching children's programmes and counting sheep on some farm. I don't think anyone would be motivated enough to go to work, or school.
AAAARGH!!! Imagine that! That would be absolute torcher!
You come into school the next morning after your sentence of "LIFE WITHOUT GAMES, WITHOUT PAROLE", looking like Borderick(from Blackadder) and you have one of those "rub it in" days. You coincidentally walk in on a convo:
"Oh, I got that new Medal of Honour: Frontline game for me PS2 yesterday. It's amazing, I've been playing on it all of last night."
"Nice one mate! Can I lend it off you when you're done?"
"Course you can. You'll love the multiplayer bit on it! It's wicked."
Tears start to trickle from your eyes as you think back to days you used to anticipate the end of school just to jump straight on your computer, but now you dread ever coming home to that boring and lonesome life without your console laying reassuringly on your bedside.
"You alright mate, you seem to have a bit of water coming out your eyes."
*in a hard voice*
"Course I am! Just a bit nackered that's all."
True, but only vaguely.
Now think, going into work - how the hell could you carry on living?! You spend an entire day full of stress working your behind off and all you want to do when you come home is have a relaxing game of Grand Theft Auto or something, but you can't! You have to force yourself to watch some crappy soap or documentary about how pigs cope in the winter. I'm being serious, this situation of life without games could be a matter of life and death.
You aren't even allowed to play on your friends computer. And imagine if you were given the sentence when you were in between completing a game like Final Fantasy - paranoia, skitsofrenia and insanity would be no option.
Just think about it for a moment. Everywhere you look, there's something related to games. There are adverts on TV/cinema screens, those huge signboards, football matches and just using your PC makes you think about games. Well, not necessarily playing them, but just games in general. The whole world has now accepted the fact that gaming is a part of life. Even yesterday, my Grandma was playing (well trying to) DOA2 with me, and if it was a couple years back she would be telling me stuff like "all your mates have finished uni".
Another thing, if you couldn't play computer games you would probably find yourself eating heavily and ending up on the Oprah Winfrey show, with the title 'Emotional Eating':
"We have our first writer today and his name's Goatboy. Let's take a look at his video and what he has to say."
"Everyone meet Goatboy!"
Crowd: *huge gasp*
CrowdPerson No.1: Oh my God, it's a monster!
CrowdPerson No.2: No, it's gotta be a plane!
"Welcome to the show. Have 10 seats. So tell us, why do you feel the need to eat so much?"
"Oprah, I miss the days where I could just come home sit and relax playing my computer. Ever since the judge took this privilege from me, I've got bigger and bigger."
"Here next to me is John Miller, a specialist in Psychiatry. John, would it be a fair gesture to say that Goatboy suffers from 'emotional eating'?"
"Yes, this seems to be the case. When something goes wrong on people's life they tend to turn to food, to redeem them or to pass time by, but all it does is make it worse. All their doing is making themselves uglier and uglier, fatter and fatter. Goatboy, what you must do is overcome this need to eat and instead find some other hobby like jogging or some beauty treatment. It may not be easy, but if you carry on like this people will start mistaking you for 'Poop Idol' Rick Waller."
"Thanks for that advice. I will."
İGoatboy - All rights reserved.
You may think I'm over exaggerating, but even try not playing your computer for a day and see if you can. Even I can't get myself to do that. It would be like forcing myself to having a marmite and cheese sandwich - YUCK!
Actually, if games were never invented then we wouldn't really be bothered because we would know nothing about them. But if your privilege of playing games was taken away from you, you would find yourself doing things you would never have dreamed of doing.
We all have computer games with us now, so I say take advantage, in case some crappy crisis comes out of nowhere and you can never play your games again.
Thanks for reading
'?' - thought of a crime bad enough for this punishment yet? (excluding crimes that are too serious)
AAAARGH!!! Imagine that! That would be absolute torcher!
You come into school the next morning after your sentence of "LIFE WITHOUT GAMES, WITHOUT PAROLE", looking like Borderick(from Blackadder) and you have one of those "rub it in" days. You coincidentally walk in on a convo:
"Oh, I got that new Medal of Honour: Frontline game for me PS2 yesterday. It's amazing, I've been playing on it all of last night."
"Nice one mate! Can I lend it off you when you're done?"
"Course you can. You'll love the multiplayer bit on it! It's wicked."
Tears start to trickle from your eyes as you think back to days you used to anticipate the end of school just to jump straight on your computer, but now you dread ever coming home to that boring and lonesome life without your console laying reassuringly on your bedside.
"You alright mate, you seem to have a bit of water coming out your eyes."
*in a hard voice*
"Course I am! Just a bit nackered that's all."
True, but only vaguely.
Now think, going into work - how the hell could you carry on living?! You spend an entire day full of stress working your behind off and all you want to do when you come home is have a relaxing game of Grand Theft Auto or something, but you can't! You have to force yourself to watch some crappy soap or documentary about how pigs cope in the winter. I'm being serious, this situation of life without games could be a matter of life and death.
You aren't even allowed to play on your friends computer. And imagine if you were given the sentence when you were in between completing a game like Final Fantasy - paranoia, skitsofrenia and insanity would be no option.
Just think about it for a moment. Everywhere you look, there's something related to games. There are adverts on TV/cinema screens, those huge signboards, football matches and just using your PC makes you think about games. Well, not necessarily playing them, but just games in general. The whole world has now accepted the fact that gaming is a part of life. Even yesterday, my Grandma was playing (well trying to) DOA2 with me, and if it was a couple years back she would be telling me stuff like "all your mates have finished uni".
Another thing, if you couldn't play computer games you would probably find yourself eating heavily and ending up on the Oprah Winfrey show, with the title 'Emotional Eating':
"We have our first writer today and his name's Goatboy. Let's take a look at his video and what he has to say."
"Everyone meet Goatboy!"
Crowd: *huge gasp*
CrowdPerson No.1: Oh my God, it's a monster!
CrowdPerson No.2: No, it's gotta be a plane!
"Welcome to the show. Have 10 seats. So tell us, why do you feel the need to eat so much?"
"Oprah, I miss the days where I could just come home sit and relax playing my computer. Ever since the judge took this privilege from me, I've got bigger and bigger."
"Here next to me is John Miller, a specialist in Psychiatry. John, would it be a fair gesture to say that Goatboy suffers from 'emotional eating'?"
"Yes, this seems to be the case. When something goes wrong on people's life they tend to turn to food, to redeem them or to pass time by, but all it does is make it worse. All their doing is making themselves uglier and uglier, fatter and fatter. Goatboy, what you must do is overcome this need to eat and instead find some other hobby like jogging or some beauty treatment. It may not be easy, but if you carry on like this people will start mistaking you for 'Poop Idol' Rick Waller."
"Thanks for that advice. I will."
İGoatboy - All rights reserved.
You may think I'm over exaggerating, but even try not playing your computer for a day and see if you can. Even I can't get myself to do that. It would be like forcing myself to having a marmite and cheese sandwich - YUCK!
Actually, if games were never invented then we wouldn't really be bothered because we would know nothing about them. But if your privilege of playing games was taken away from you, you would find yourself doing things you would never have dreamed of doing.
We all have computer games with us now, so I say take advantage, in case some crappy crisis comes out of nowhere and you can never play your games again.
Thanks for reading
'?' - thought of a crime bad enough for this punishment yet? (excluding crimes that are too serious)
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Imagine if you did something SO terrible that the law took action and banned you ever from playing computer games again, and if you were caught handling a control pad or buying a game you were to suffer the death penalty (obviously this won't happen in England). I would go absolutely nuts and as a result, I would probably spend the whole day watching children's programmes and counting sheep on some farm. I don't think anyone would be motivated enough to go to work, or school.
AAAARGH!!! Imagine that! That would be absolute torcher!
You come into school the next morning after your sentence of "LIFE WITHOUT GAMES, WITHOUT PAROLE", looking like Borderick(from Blackadder) and you have one of those "rub it in" days. You coincidentally walk in on a convo:
"Oh, I got that new Medal of Honour: Frontline game for me PS2 yesterday. It's amazing, I've been playing on it all of last night."
"Nice one mate! Can I lend it off you when you're done?"
"Course you can. You'll love the multiplayer bit on it! It's wicked."
Tears start to trickle from your eyes as you think back to days you used to anticipate the end of school just to jump straight on your computer, but now you dread ever coming home to that boring and lonesome life without your console laying reassuringly on your bedside.
"You alright mate, you seem to have a bit of water coming out your eyes."
*in a hard voice*
"Course I am! Just a bit nackered that's all."
True, but only vaguely.
Now think, going into work - how the hell could you carry on living?! You spend an entire day full of stress working your behind off and all you want to do when you come home is have a relaxing game of Grand Theft Auto or something, but you can't! You have to force yourself to watch some crappy soap or documentary about how pigs cope in the winter. I'm being serious, this situation of life without games could be a matter of life and death.
You aren't even allowed to play on your friends computer. And imagine if you were given the sentence when you were in between completing a game like Final Fantasy - paranoia, skitsofrenia and insanity would be no option.
Just think about it for a moment. Everywhere you look, there's something related to games. There are adverts on TV/cinema screens, those huge signboards, football matches and just using your PC makes you think about games. Well, not necessarily playing them, but just games in general. The whole world has now accepted the fact that gaming is a part of life. Even yesterday, my Grandma was playing (well trying to) DOA2 with me, and if it was a couple years back she would be telling me stuff like "all your mates have finished uni".
Another thing, if you couldn't play computer games you would probably find yourself eating heavily and ending up on the Oprah Winfrey show, with the title 'Emotional Eating':
"We have our first writer today and his name's Goatboy. Let's take a look at his video and what he has to say."
"Everyone meet Goatboy!"
Crowd: *huge gasp*
CrowdPerson No.1: Oh my God, it's a monster!
CrowdPerson No.2: No, it's gotta be a plane!
"Welcome to the show. Have 10 seats. So tell us, why do you feel the need to eat so much?"
"Oprah, I miss the days where I could just come home sit and relax playing my computer. Ever since the judge took this privilege from me, I've got bigger and bigger."
"Here next to me is John Miller, a specialist in Psychiatry. John, would it be a fair gesture to say that Goatboy suffers from 'emotional eating'?"
"Yes, this seems to be the case. When something goes wrong on people's life they tend to turn to food, to redeem them or to pass time by, but all it does is make it worse. All their doing is making themselves uglier and uglier, fatter and fatter. Goatboy, what you must do is overcome this need to eat and instead find some other hobby like jogging or some beauty treatment. It may not be easy, but if you carry on like this people will start mistaking you for 'Poop Idol' Rick Waller."
"Thanks for that advice. I will."
İGoatboy - All rights reserved.
You may think I'm over exaggerating, but even try not playing your computer for a day and see if you can. Even I can't get myself to do that. It would be like forcing myself to having a marmite and cheese sandwich - YUCK!
Actually, if games were never invented then we wouldn't really be bothered because we would know nothing about them. But if your privilege of playing games was taken away from you, you would find yourself doing things you would never have dreamed of doing.
We all have computer games with us now, so I say take advantage, in case some crappy crisis comes out of nowhere and you can never play your games again.
Thanks for reading
'?' - thought of a crime bad enough for this punishment yet? (excluding crimes that are too serious)
AAAARGH!!! Imagine that! That would be absolute torcher!
You come into school the next morning after your sentence of "LIFE WITHOUT GAMES, WITHOUT PAROLE", looking like Borderick(from Blackadder) and you have one of those "rub it in" days. You coincidentally walk in on a convo:
"Oh, I got that new Medal of Honour: Frontline game for me PS2 yesterday. It's amazing, I've been playing on it all of last night."
"Nice one mate! Can I lend it off you when you're done?"
"Course you can. You'll love the multiplayer bit on it! It's wicked."
Tears start to trickle from your eyes as you think back to days you used to anticipate the end of school just to jump straight on your computer, but now you dread ever coming home to that boring and lonesome life without your console laying reassuringly on your bedside.
"You alright mate, you seem to have a bit of water coming out your eyes."
*in a hard voice*
"Course I am! Just a bit nackered that's all."
True, but only vaguely.
Now think, going into work - how the hell could you carry on living?! You spend an entire day full of stress working your behind off and all you want to do when you come home is have a relaxing game of Grand Theft Auto or something, but you can't! You have to force yourself to watch some crappy soap or documentary about how pigs cope in the winter. I'm being serious, this situation of life without games could be a matter of life and death.
You aren't even allowed to play on your friends computer. And imagine if you were given the sentence when you were in between completing a game like Final Fantasy - paranoia, skitsofrenia and insanity would be no option.
Just think about it for a moment. Everywhere you look, there's something related to games. There are adverts on TV/cinema screens, those huge signboards, football matches and just using your PC makes you think about games. Well, not necessarily playing them, but just games in general. The whole world has now accepted the fact that gaming is a part of life. Even yesterday, my Grandma was playing (well trying to) DOA2 with me, and if it was a couple years back she would be telling me stuff like "all your mates have finished uni".
Another thing, if you couldn't play computer games you would probably find yourself eating heavily and ending up on the Oprah Winfrey show, with the title 'Emotional Eating':
"We have our first writer today and his name's Goatboy. Let's take a look at his video and what he has to say."
"Everyone meet Goatboy!"
Crowd: *huge gasp*
CrowdPerson No.1: Oh my God, it's a monster!
CrowdPerson No.2: No, it's gotta be a plane!
"Welcome to the show. Have 10 seats. So tell us, why do you feel the need to eat so much?"
"Oprah, I miss the days where I could just come home sit and relax playing my computer. Ever since the judge took this privilege from me, I've got bigger and bigger."
"Here next to me is John Miller, a specialist in Psychiatry. John, would it be a fair gesture to say that Goatboy suffers from 'emotional eating'?"
"Yes, this seems to be the case. When something goes wrong on people's life they tend to turn to food, to redeem them or to pass time by, but all it does is make it worse. All their doing is making themselves uglier and uglier, fatter and fatter. Goatboy, what you must do is overcome this need to eat and instead find some other hobby like jogging or some beauty treatment. It may not be easy, but if you carry on like this people will start mistaking you for 'Poop Idol' Rick Waller."
"Thanks for that advice. I will."
İGoatboy - All rights reserved.
You may think I'm over exaggerating, but even try not playing your computer for a day and see if you can. Even I can't get myself to do that. It would be like forcing myself to having a marmite and cheese sandwich - YUCK!
Actually, if games were never invented then we wouldn't really be bothered because we would know nothing about them. But if your privilege of playing games was taken away from you, you would find yourself doing things you would never have dreamed of doing.
We all have computer games with us now, so I say take advantage, in case some crappy crisis comes out of nowhere and you can never play your games again.
Thanks for reading
'?' - thought of a crime bad enough for this punishment yet? (excluding crimes that are too serious)