Gamers Guide: Why Video Games Truly Suck (2232 hits)
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Submitted by someone (View user info) at 2004-11-20 18:30:16 EST
What have I accomplished lately you may ask, and I will answer with this: This past week I have given up video games. Starting on Sunday and ending today, I have done the following: First, I gave my Nintendo Gamecube to my little brother, and sold all the games except for three, Zelda, Metroid, and Mario Kart, and these I also gave to him, as every growing child should experience these gems at least for a short while in their bleak and mundane school age days. Next, I sold my Gameboy SP and Dreamcast to local retailers and friends, making sure my copies of Soul Calibur, Powerstone 2, and Bust A Moove went to respectable caretakers. Today is Saturday. Three video games for my PC, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Battlefield: Vietnam, and Diablo 2 sit neatly in a small pile near the door of my room ready for bid on ebay, which I will accomplish in the next few days. All that is left are two items, a Nintendo 64 with Perfect Dark and four controllers, and a copy of Warcraft3 for the PC. I opt to keep the Nintendo 64, the Perfect Dark matches are great for pre-game drinking with old friends, and I know that I will not be tempted to play it otherwise.
I focus all attention on the solitaire CD sitting quietly beside me. The time has come, my computer is totally free of any traces left behind by gaming. This is the final step. I turn the CD over and look at my reflection into it, and then snap it quickly and throw its contents in the trash, and walk away with a bittersweet smile on my face. Next, I will you tell you the reasons for my actions.
Video games are a farce, a disgusting and pathetic waste of time, as comparable to watching Who Wants To Be a Millionaire and McDonalds commercials on a Thursday night, ie. "watching mind numbing, spirit crushing game shows stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth."(trainspotting). For what is the result of your actions? Building up a level 99 character or winning a shitload of games in Warcraft accomplishes absolutely nothing but taking off precious moments of time from our fast moving lives. I don't want to look back on my life and remember myself storming digitized beaches and winning wars and collecting fame and fortune in a world that doesn't matter, never has mattered, and most importantly, never will. This is your life, and its ending one moment at a time.(palahnuik).
Maybe for some people its not that big of a deal. They can turn on a video game system every couple of weeks and kill some people in Grand Theft Auto and replace digital persons with Boss or Wife or Husband or Best Friend or Etc. and blow their fucking brains out over and over again and sit there with a glaze in the eyes and a shit eating grin from behind two stiff lips, just to forget everything else for just one moment. It truly isn't any different then some shitty sitcom or game show. A few moments for people to forget whom they really are and who or what they should(have) become. See also: Red Ball Theory( I heart huckabees).
Fuck you video games, its been a great ride though. With love,
Someone.
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Submitted by someone (user info) at 2005-01-07 23:29:43 EST (#)
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I think this sucks that this is getting more ratings today alone then my newest post.
Submitted by Stabkill (user info) at 2005-01-07 21:51:16 EST (#)
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Yams had a good reply.
Submitted by Yams (user info) at 2005-01-07 21:36:47 EST (#)
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Video games are exactly what they were intended to be, and what they will be until the end of time. They are, as any leisure activity, a waste of time. They serve no purpose but to cause pleasure for the user, whether that be by finally getting that level 99 character or by watching Jesus get killed by Herpes in Halo. They are meant to waste time, and they are used to waste time. They are relaxing, but also aggravating when you just can't kill those damn marines. That's just how it is. You're saying video games are bad because they do what they are meant to. Just doesn't make sense. Sort of like Ethiopians on the moon. Boy, black people in space...that'll be the day.
Submitted by someone (user info) at 2005-01-07 21:22:30 EST (#)
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alysta- That was not my intention, the whole "holier then thou" rant. I'm sorry if it appears that way. Your right, it really comes down to moderation, and although I only played video games about three/four times per week, I thought (personally) it was an issue that I didn't want in my life. Nice retort, you are 100 percent right.
Submitted by alysta (user info) at 2005-01-07 13:27:28 EST (#)
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well sir newton ('for every up there is a down'..bravo) before you go getting your panties in a bundle in MY general direction, might i remind you that at present you are not riding a bike, reading a (fucking) book, sledding, or participating in any of the other non-gaming activities that youre touting as noble and superior to gaming. obviously anything in excess (and it sounds like you were in obsessive-excess-land with the games there) can amount to ignorance induction, even protesting ridiculous laws. however, playing video games does not an ignorant person make. you just need to face east and hum a mantra and get in touch with your inner chi and learn how to game (because you obviously enjoy it) in PROPORTION with the rest of your neurologically stimulating rendezvous, wheatgrass juice drinking, mountain biking and world-saving activities. hopefully you strike that balance before you go on any more 'i-made-a-new-years-resolution-that-im-not-going-to-keep-but-in-the-meantime-everyone-who-still-does-it-is-retarded!' rampages!
Submitted by someone (user info) at 2005-01-07 12:41:05 EST (#)
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Submitted by Hadooken (user info) at 2005-01-07 12:26:10 (#)
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many have tried and many have been ran. i dont sweat you. you come off as some high and mighty, better than everybody else, pompous asshole. you are no better than anybody else here and you passing judgement on people based on what they like to do to pass the time is completely arrogant of you.
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I see your point as far as to each their own.
Submitted by big_wigger (user info) at 2005-01-07 12:26:49 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
I do try to play a couple minutes of Burnout2 with my wife once in a while...making huge pile-up wrecks is pretty stress relieving
Submitted by Hadooken (user info) at 2005-01-07 12:26:10 EST (#)
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Submitted by someone (user info) at 2005-01-07 11:26:15 (#)
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hungovermondays- I agree 100 percent. Work is the biggest fucking waste of time ever. Haddoken, I'm on this website TOPS maybe an hour a week, reading and reviewing, both of which are more constructive then video games. I could run verbal laps around you and belittle you with so many insults you would cry like the 10 year old pussy you look like. However, its a website, as you so obviously put it, and you are not worth much time, you pathetic, ignorant child.
many have tried and many have been ran. i dont sweat you. you come off as some high and mighty, better than everybody else, pompous asshole. you are no better than anybody else here and you passing judgement on people based on what they like to do to pass the time is completely arrogant of you.
Submitted by big_wigger (user info) at 2005-01-07 12:24:13 EST (#)
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I feel you homie. I used to game hard, having LAN parties and marathon sessions and at some point it just lost the thrill. Whats sad though is my friends that will flake on playing b-ball or doing any kind of "outside" activity because they are still playing 50 hours of Warcraft a week. I'm talking about 30 year olds that wear sweatpants all weekend and eat peanut butter out of the jar...no girlfriends, no prospects for girlfriends, no real interest in anything "organic"...they act like the end of the world already happened or something and have become so cynical and decpressed i can hardly stand to be around them anymore.
Maybe a little bit of it is resentment on my part too because i have a kid, wife, house & dog and i just dont have the time to do on-line gaming to build up a character. i get a little jealous sometimes because sometimes i would like to sit around all day and play in the pixel world instead of doing yard work or any of the other million little daily chores that go along with being a "responsible" adult. mostly though i feel sad for them because if they keep on going the way they are they will make up one day and realize that instead of getting laid or exercising or building relationships in the real world they spent their mid 20's to mid 30's (or mid 40's) playing fucking video games. I imagine that will be hard thing to deal with, knowing that you pissed away the cream of your life to chase little specs of red, green & blue across a screen.
Submitted by someone (user info) at 2005-01-07 11:45:32 EST (#)
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I'm hardly a environmentalist. Your argument is flawed, so let me break and down for you so maybe I can reach into those rotten crevices of your brain. No shit video games are a time waster, a time waster that causes no productivity, increases ignorance and decreases attention span, and posseses no skill beyond learning basic strategy and motor skills AT BEST. There are plenty of ways for the poor and middle class to entertain themselves without video games, and to be blunt it disgusts me that you think otherwise. Ride a bike, READ a FUCKING book, watch some good film, draw, do better in school, sure, even save the environment if thats your thing, protest against bogus laws, go for a walk, watch a sunset, hang out with friends, play catch in a park, go sledding. You want more or are you done looking like a braindead dipshit? Everything I just mentioned costs NO money, and is healthier and more productive. Also, I won't go back to playing video games, save for the occasional bout with friends which I mentioned in my post. I'm happy people play though, we need ignorance so us who care can shine. For every up there is a down.
Submitted by alysta (user info) at 2005-01-07 11:35:20 EST (#)
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sorry buckeroo but youre on your own here. of course it wastes time! thats the whole point! otherwise most middle class and poor people would be hmmm...watching the shit thats on tv, drinking, playing musical STDs, smoking crack, socializing, which could be good but inevitably leads to one of the aforementioned tasks, or oh wait, in your case, saving the world. then theres people who have enough money to actually entertain themselves or contribute to society in a positive way. they go scuba diving, fuck a prostitute, give money to the red cross, go back to their sleep number beds and play Dark Age of Camelot on their plasma TVs that suspend from the ceiling and respond to a voice commanded joystick. then theres people like you, who are out there, saving the world, maybe chaining themselves to a baby seal and snorting some cyanide when BushyPoo dumps a few more tons of oil into a pristine Arctic bay. or you could go film a documentary about corrupt politicialns and sleep better that night because you made a differency wifferency. but guess what, you didnt, you stressed another 10,000 people into a Final Fantasy binge and now half the country hates you.
Youll be back to video games, too bad you wont even have Solitare to welcome you home.
I think im going to go download Ducktales for my emulator now.
Submitted by someone (user info) at 2005-01-07 11:26:15 EST (#)
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hungovermondays- I agree 100 percent. Work is the biggest fucking waste of time ever. Haddoken, I'm on this website TOPS maybe an hour a week, reading and reviewing, both of which are more constructive then video games. I could run verbal laps around you and belittle you with so many insults you would cry like the 10 year old pussy you look like. However, its a website, as you so obviously put it, and you are not worth much time, you pathetic, ignorant child.
Submitted by hungovermondays (user info) at 2005-01-07 11:16:14 EST (#)
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I support having a strong opinion. However i think working is the biggest waste of constructive time. It just seems like video games suck up a lot of hours because after pulling a 40 of 50 hour work week their just are not that many fucking hours left. Fuck Work.
Submitted by TimeCop (user info) at 2005-01-07 11:08:00 EST (#)
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Video games amuse me, and as such I cannot give you a +2.
However, video games are terribly addicting. They are a lot of fun and can kill some boring time.
Good luck with it.
Submitted by apollo88 (user info) at 2005-01-07 11:02:06 EST (#)
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Submitted by ckoewing (user info) at 2004-11-20 18:48:37 (#)
Ranking: -2
getting laid maybe, but it is scientifically proven that you get more satisfaction from masterbating than from someone else doing it for you, man or woman.
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AAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAAHAHAHAAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
Says the voice of a virgin!
Submitted by TheSpook (user info) at 2005-01-07 10:54:22 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
You'll be back, they always come back...
Submitted by Hadooken (user info) at 2005-01-07 10:47:08 EST (#)
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yes, nothing like doing something to waste our times and entertain ourselves. damn you video games, damn you for not having a positive impact on my life. maybe you should swear off other things that are in the same class, like spending time on this website you fucking twit.
now if you excuse me i gotta go buy another cell phone, one that hopefully plays video games.
Submitted by someone (user info) at 2004-11-21 11:52:01 EST (#)
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NO! I refuse to look! I'm so pissed because the new World of Warcraft is out tuesday, as well as that awesome new Nintendo system. Look, I'm not that into video games, I play around 10 hours Max per week. However, even if I were to take that 10 hours and read, or write, or play guitar, I would be using my free time more constructively. I will play the new Zelda when It comes out, I made that deal with my brother :).
Submitted by Jesus_Loves_TwEE (user info) at 2004-11-21 10:09:14 EST (#)
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Oh come on man, they're just games, just a harmless way to relive stress, don't take them too seriously. I bet you where one of those rent a game and stay glued to the TV playing it for hours, not eating not sleeping, gotta beat that fucker before you take it back type person, a trooper, but now look at ya! Donkey Kongs rolling in his grave, why must you upset Donkey Kong?
Videogames are electronic crack, I mean look at all those old NES video games, everybody I knew played them for hours, the most repetitive, ugly, difficult crap, just to beat them, and what did we get, a crappy still picture and some lousy text, but nobody could turn away, and they where always back for more. You'll be back, and you know it, someday after a long day of work, tired, stressed out and nothing to do, your thumbs will start to itch, your will is not strong enough.
Can you really resist the new Zelda game?
http://nintendo.neopages.net/ngcgames/newzelda.html
Look at it! Loooook...
Submitted by macadamia (user info) at 2004-11-21 01:24:21 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
You're right.
Submitted by someone (user info) at 2004-11-21 01:05:21 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Hehe, I love that last review.
Submitted by macadamia (user info) at 2004-11-21 00:59:12 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
someone's new post should be "why I stopped writing on ubersite" where he tells us all that there's a life outside posting messages to strangers, as if no one knew.
I'd write more but I gotta go play halo 2.
Submitted by domenad (user info) at 2004-11-21 00:43:29 EST (#)
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I can't stop! I got a problem, man... Please.....just one game of Halo 2....I need to gets well.
Submitted by someone (user info) at 2004-11-21 00:33:34 EST (#)
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Lone Stranger- You could be my alter, cause that is EXACTLY how I feel.
Submitted by the_lone_stranger (user info) at 2004-11-21 00:23:56 EST (#)
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As someone who has been a hardcore gamer in the distant past, and is now an occasional gamer, I agree with you.
I simply get more enjoyment out of things like exercise, outdoors, sex, reading, writing, and helping people when I can.
I even got rid of TV.
Submitted by someone (user info) at 2004-11-21 00:09:51 EST (#)
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Kitchen- well, what would it be? Im not a ratings whore, give me a shot.
Submitted by kitchens_closed (user info) at 2004-11-20 23:51:13 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
i'm high right now, and I found this amazing. but for the whole time i was reading it i was thinking about what my -2 comment wpuld be
Submitted by someone (user info) at 2004-11-20 23:39:47 EST (#)
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CodeBlue- Hows that level 22 dryad coming along? Sucide is also an option champ, keep that in mind.
Submitted by CodeBlue (user info) at 2004-11-20 23:31:59 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
I escape by shooting poor unsuspecting pumpkins, pop cans, targets, trees etc... Video games are just something to do while my friends are at work or asleep.
Fuck you.
Submitted by someone (user info) at 2004-11-20 23:27:45 EST (#)
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Submitted by Ingsoc (user info) at 2004-11-20 23:06:54 (#)
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Dude, you're totally full of it
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Good sir, please explain yourself. If you think I'm lying on result of my actions, I can email you a picture of the broken Cd and my empty entertainmnet console showing only a 64. If you are talking of something totally different, make it known, instead of witless comments such as the one above.
Submitted by Ingsoc (user info) at 2004-11-20 23:06:54 EST (#)
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Dude, you're totally full of it.
Submitted by someone (user info) at 2004-11-20 22:07:13 EST (#)
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Just trying something new, kind of like an essay type form with an ubersite twist. Sorry.
Submitted by Genko (user info) at 2004-11-20 22:03:52 EST (#)
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I liked it, but your citations pissed me off.
If the opinions of others help you form your own thoughts, great, but you don't wear a shirt with the bibliography of your worldview on it in the real world.
Why do it here?
Submitted by Nomad (user info) at 2004-11-20 21:43:19 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
Yeah I know how you feel.
I used to be heavy into gaming. Like spend my entire weekend playing on my computer. And the funny part is that I'm paying for it now with a shaky social confidence.
No, I'm not fucking kidding.
Video games acctually fucked me up to the point that it had a serious adverse effect on my life. It was like a drug. Escape my world for a bit and be something better. Go figure.
Now I can't play more than a half an hour before I get this sick feeling inside of me. It's like anxiety and regret.
No more wasting time.
Video games might just be a minor little recreational thing. But so is alcohol. Get where I am going?
I've heard of people dying in Korea because they absolutely CANNOT stop playing everquest.
Submitted by Demolocke (user info) at 2004-11-20 21:27:10 EST (#)
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I generally agree w/ your assessment here. I haven't been really into games at all since Goldeneye (though the last few days I've been getting some Halo 2 in). Games are great in moderation; sometimes you've gotta kick back and relax. But you're right, too many people consider beating a level an accomplishment, which of course it is not.
Submitted by ckoewing (user info) at 2004-11-20 21:10:40 EST (#)
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Submitted by someone (user info) at 2004-11-20 21:05:03 (#)
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I think that is a fair arugment ckoewing. I just think there are more constructive ways to waste time, thats all. Good film and literature are two examples. Spending hard earned money on traveling, or helping people, or whatever is far more edifying then 50 bucks for a digitized world. But again, I see what you are saying.
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thanks for the consideration.
hehe, now did i say i was paying the 50 bucks....... 0;-)
anyway, see why my point makes so much overwhelming sence is just what you said: "I just think there are more constructive ways to waste time, thats all." read that back over again, and think, long and hard. lol.
but then again, i love to help people, and i've never gotten more satisfaction out of anything more than that. so we should all help people, go get out, go!
Submitted by someone (user info) at 2004-11-20 21:05:03 EST (#)
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I think that is a fair arugment ckoewing. I just think there are more constructive ways to waste time, thats all. Good film and literature are two examples. Spending hard earned money on traveling, or helping people, or whatever is far more edifying then 50 bucks for a digitized world. But again, I see what you are saying.
Submitted by ckoewing (user info) at 2004-11-20 20:40:56 EST (#)
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Submitted by someone (user info) at 2004-11-20 20:27:10 (#)
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ckoewing- Why do you think I, or anyone for that matter, cares about what kind of computer you have?
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where did i say that? well i didn't. and i don't care, why would i care what anyone thinks lol, it's a pointless endevour that everyone sets out for and fails misserably. who has tried and 100% of the time pleased your parents? try is the key word. or for that matter who has tried and 100% of the time impressed anyone? it's immpossible.
my point is really that everything is a waste of time, i'm seriously doubting you'll find anything that will be worth while.
and the moderation thing is very true.
someone was quoted as saying, do "everything in moderation, including moderation"
maybe i actually agree that VG's are a waste, for the plain fact that nothing isn't.
Submitted by someone (user info) at 2004-11-20 20:27:10 EST (#)
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ckoewing- Why do you think I, or anyone for that matter, cares about what kind of computer you have?
Submitted by someone (user info) at 2004-11-20 20:25:46 EST (#)
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Life is what you make of it, to use a cliched quote. If your life is boring and you feel like video games satasify that need, go for it.
Its still a waste, and denying that is futile. One of you said moderation, and was one of the only people that made any sense out of these incoherent ramblings called ranks.
Submitted by Schwarzes_Glas (user info) at 2004-11-20 20:02:48 EST (#)
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Submitted by TheMidnight12AM (user info) at 2004-11-20 19:07:22 (#)
Ranking: -2
\/1|)30 G/\|\/|3Z r0><orz.
GeForce FX 6800 pwns your consoles.
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I puked after reading this reply.
Submitted by CoachMagirk27 (user info) at 2004-11-20 20:01:55 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
this post is a bigger waste
i PwnED u l337lY!
Submitted by Freakmagnet (user info) at 2004-11-20 19:45:13 EST (#)
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I play video games for the same reason I write, because my life is so horrendously boring that I have to create a new one in the writing, or put myself into one with a video game.
You probably suck at your games anyway.
Submitted by ckoewing (user info) at 2004-11-20 19:18:33 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
i don't play games to escape, i play cause i really enjoy them and shit, though sometimes i play gta kinda games to blow off steam. But my real escape is music and acting, listening to it or singing and playin my guitar, whatever; and Acting's the best cause you are totally pulled into the other person's life, or atleast that's what i do.
vidoe games kick ASS!
my PC:
Asus P4C800-Deluxe
Thermaltake 560W(600PK) PSU
P4 2.8E w/HT at 3.5Ghz
Gainward 6800GT GS (430/1130)
Corsair 1024-3200XLPT 2-2-2-5
1 40GB 100WD (main)
2 60GB 133's (RAID 0)
1 Memorex DVD+R+RW
1 LITE-ON SOHR-5238S
7 Zalman case-fans
Logitech MX1000
crapy:mon,kb,spks
take that bitches!
(call me a fucking nerd, do you think i care? lol, I am a fucking nerd! i am, i won't deny it, but atleast i have other thimgs in my life, and atleast i'm not a scrony little prick with glasses, thank goodness. I don't live my life to please others, i don't do things so people think highly of me, i live my life to get through the fucking trash)
Submitted by TheMidnight12AM (user info) at 2004-11-20 19:07:22 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
\/1|)30 G/\|\/|3Z r0><orz.
GeForce FX 6800 pwns your consoles.
Submitted by darko (user info) at 2004-11-20 19:02:14 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
But the point of playing videogames is to escape from a world where nothing matters and nothing makes sense into a world where there's clear cut right and wrong, and everything always comes together to make sense at the end. (except final fantasy 7, seriously what the hell?!?!)
Submitted by Dead_0hi0_Sky (user info) at 2004-11-20 18:58:31 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
videogames have truly died out. now, its all about comercialism within them; making them gigantic advertisment traps for little impressionable kids to fall into. but, there is hope. some developers are still making games that completely blow your mind the way they did when you were younger. for example, Half-Life 2.
Submitted by CJRipley (user info) at 2004-11-20 18:51:36 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
moderation
Submitted by ckoewing (user info) at 2004-11-20 18:48:37 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
yeah well, yer right but what really do you think you can do in this shitty ass life is TRULY better than just playing some vidoe games, in all seriousness?
getting laid maybe, but it is scientifically proven that you get more satisfaction from masterbating than from someone else doing it for you, man or woman.
getting lots and lots of money, yeah thats funa and all but you gotta buy shit, and eventually you'll buy vidieo games again, cause once you buy everything else, what else are you going to buy, really.
there TRULY is nothing more satisfying that anything else, really isn't.
Submitted by someone (user info) at 2004-11-20 18:31:12 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
MY LEVEL 99 WILL PW3N YOU NOOBIE!!!!111!!!