Gaming as part of Life, the Universe and Everything
Now I’m bored.
This is pretty much when I like to play games, but instead here I am writing this blog, which I’m pretty sure no one is going to read, and in the end, doesn’t really serve too much purpose after all.
I mean for all the amount of actual ‘positive’ it will add to the world, I may as well be playing a game. Though that implies that while playing a game, I’m not doing any thing remotely constructive or ‘positive.’ I’m not sure that’s too accurate.
Of course playing single player games is not really positive, for example winning the last race of NFS carbon, will not in any way add anything to the world, beyond the cost of the game, and if like I usually have, it’s a pirated copy I’m playing, then not even that, really!
But when playing online games, that’s kind of cool, and might actually pass of as true social interaction after all, you make fun of people, tell them they’re loosers, etc. and then you win. And in all of this, you’ll probably never see the person you’ve just called a looser again. And for what? Some immaterial little cyber blue ribbon? Does it really matter in the world.
Okay now I’m flirting with the much more dangerous philosophical questions of life the universe and everything, and all I know about them, is the answer to the question is 42. Now go figure.
Till I figure out the rest of the book!
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