Video Games
From a random OkCupid profile:
"Things I'm really good at:
Video games, I hate to say it. You know how kids grow up doing karate, or they followed their dad around in his garage and now they can rebuild an engine, or they studied a lot and are now going to a nice school? Yeah, I played video games. Maybe I'm not the best athlete, or smartest kid in the world, but I will shoot 20 under in 18 minutes from the black tees in Tiger Woods 2008. I am willing to admit this."
While I thought this above was a clever way to explain the phenomena, and I appreciated the candor he displayed in saying it that way, it still bothers me...
Video games bother me. I've indulged rarely, only when I purposefully wanted to turn my mind off after something had completely gone to crap in my life. But really, I need to be at rock bottom to do so.
The vast majority of the complete video game addicts I know are highly intelligent people, capable of contributing great things to human knowledge....but they've taken the easy way out. Sure, it's hard to live up to the gift you have between your ears, but I think it's a cowards way out to hide in video games.
"Things I'm really good at:
Video games, I hate to say it. You know how kids grow up doing karate, or they followed their dad around in his garage and now they can rebuild an engine, or they studied a lot and are now going to a nice school? Yeah, I played video games. Maybe I'm not the best athlete, or smartest kid in the world, but I will shoot 20 under in 18 minutes from the black tees in Tiger Woods 2008. I am willing to admit this."
While I thought this above was a clever way to explain the phenomena, and I appreciated the candor he displayed in saying it that way, it still bothers me...
Video games bother me. I've indulged rarely, only when I purposefully wanted to turn my mind off after something had completely gone to crap in my life. But really, I need to be at rock bottom to do so.
The vast majority of the complete video game addicts I know are highly intelligent people, capable of contributing great things to human knowledge....but they've taken the easy way out. Sure, it's hard to live up to the gift you have between your ears, but I think it's a cowards way out to hide in video games.