Balancing a life in gaming and outside.

Ryong · 03-12-2010, 12:01 AM

I only know English because of RPGs and Priston Tale. I guess I'm on a bad part of the oppotunity scale, but I'm in a great university and failing as many classes as basically everyone else. I guess gaming helped making me overweight, but I was never good at sports and I exercised a LOT a few years ago, trying to get in shape and it didn't happen. Maybe I lost romantic opportunities. I do not, however, accept the point of view that it is a "beast that's come up to destroy us". I suppose I can't parallel them to books in sheer amount of learning experience, but dang, you always get something. In the first link, I find it interesting that he mentions some books which are fiction, which serve to tell a story...As many games do.

I guess my view of the world would be pretty different had I not played games that led me to their respective gaming communities, as I ended up making friends in a MMO I used to play that, while I don't talk with them anymore* they have affected me a lot. More than a great deal of people I know in real life.

*= Some people don't seem to have time out of uni.

03-12-2010, 12:01 AM	#11
Ryong Professional Threadkiller Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Brazil Posts: 3,798	I only know English because of RPGs and Priston Tale. I guess I'm on a bad part of the oppotunity scale, but I'm in a great university and failing as many classes as basically everyone else. I guess gaming helped making me overweight, but I was never good at sports and I exercised a LOT a few years ago, trying to get in shape and it didn't happen. Maybe I lost romantic opportunities. I do not, however, accept the point of view that it is a "beast that's come up to destroy us". I suppose I can't parallel them to books in sheer amount of learning experience, but dang, you always get something. In the first link, I find it interesting that he mentions some books which are fiction, which serve to tell a story...As many games do. I guess my view of the world would be pretty different had I not played games that led me to their respective gaming communities, as I ended up making friends in a MMO I used to play that, while I don't talk with them anymore* they have affected me a lot. More than a great deal of people I know in real life. *= Some people don't seem to have time out of uni.