Reality vs Adventure

Gaming is something humans have always wanted since the beginning of existence. I'm gonna speak for the entire human population that ever existed then I'll say why I game. Humans have always wanted to visualize ideas, beliefs, expression, communication. We want to visualize Gods and religion and see it in architecture, statues, and images. We want to live in that world that was created and surround ourselves in the world we want. Everything being made as a reflection of our society. We want to conquer others and force our images into their world as we keep expanding. Art, craft, and language are all things used to immerse ourselves in how we want our world to look like. Then we develop more and more entertainment like shows and music performances. We are always trying to give people something to imagine and enjoy. Then came along TV and for the first time we can have entertainment from home. Our homes become more and more comfortable. More space, electricity, fridge, ovens, washer machines, just about everything is being provided in the homes. Then internet comes about, but we are still lacking something after all this entertainment, art, culture. We are lacking an interaction with fantasies, with scenery, with stories. Then came along 2D video games. For the first time ever, we can start interacting with a made up environment. Then games advanced even more to this 9th generation and VR. And now things look more real than ever and we can immerse ourselves even more in what it is we want. So now in a world where most people are different, we can surround ourselves in an environment we want. Interact in a story, the world, with others. Since the beginning when we developed written language and petroglyphs/hieroglyphs, we were always trying to interact with our world, with others, and honor a deity. We have tried to immortalize ourselves, play as the creator, and make our own worlds. We can see it in every culture. Video games is that never ending progression into the need to have our own world, the way we want to see it. No matter if it's fighting, sports, or horror, we are enjoying a far advanced evolution from our primitive days of drawing on cave walls. Oh yeah, I play because I'm tired of writing on the walls.

The more my government shoves religion down my throat, the more I rebel against monotheism. Ancient Gods, burn these bitches.

The 2008 recession never went away cause everyone hated on OWS who was trying to hold bankers and the FED responsible. Instead, they got police abuse. CEO's got fat bailouts. Then Covid; more fat bailouts to gangsters. Now inflation, more fat bailouts to the wealthy coming. They drizzle all over the economy. Black oil bitch is finite. Get off the damn addiction stupid parasite humans.

I wanna draw too!!! What kind of motivation would get you drawing cars again?

Happy birthday. The 4th for us is basically white Juneteenth blowing their fingers off because of taxes vs slavery. Damn, did I just go there?

There should be a game spoiler section where people are free to debate without spoiler restrictions. That is greatly lacking. How do we talk about games we love for fear of spoilers? When I played TLOU2 I felt all alone in my opinions. It's dead now, nothing matters. Time is over. But I think there could have been great debate when people have completed legendary games like that. Some sites warn you of spoilers before preceding. This is a big issue to be able to feel free to talk about games in full extent.

I can’t single out one thing. I did just get nostalgic thinking about all the plastic models I used to put together. You hate me now cause I was exposed to so much of that glue. 🤔 But my whole life I was always creative. But the way I feel now is to paint everything gold. You know why? Artists will tell you why. All art is a representation of society. Gold. We are in the dark ages. Let’s paint everything gold. Artists are historians.

Sorry to hear about that. There are also cases of death from vaccines that have been mandated for decades. Plus heavy metals in vaccines may have a correlation to ADD and autism. That's why I used to be hard lined anti vac and even got a religious exemption at one point so I can go to a university. But with millions dead from Covid, protection outweighs the risk.

Dump a bunch of tea in the harbor. 😆 Get this damn independence again

The vaccine decreases the seriousness of Covid which is why it saves lives.

Saints Row 3. You can walk around with a giant dildo bat and beat people with it; and run around nude and try to streak as many people as you can. There are other weapons that are just outright funny. You can drive a vehicle that sucks people into a cannon and then shoot them out all over the place. Launch them at building tops and billboards. You have a gun that launches bait at someone and a shark comes out of nowhere to swallow them. It's outright the craziest and funniest game I ever played. Another one is Destroy All Humans

I'm going with Layers of Fear series because the gameplay is basically walking through a house (1) or ship (2) and there are jump scares and psychedelic scenes which were awesome. But each scene you come across is a display of art that if you pay attention, you can try to figure out what message it's trying to give you. Each room you come across, everything is what it is for a reason. The color scheme, pictures, arrangement. It might not seem like fun, but look at it from a psychological perspective and you get some all out brilliance.

I agree. Only so much to say w/o getting political. But 20 years ago we weren't worried about democracy so much and a lot of rights that are now on the chopping block.

My dream home would have to have an outside upper floor big spacious balcony with a view--- that has a lake out there with a boat and my farm. And and and...See what I did? My one thing is a balcony to see 100 other things. 😃

I'd definitely go back to reading books and graphic novels. It's strange to think about life w/o video games now. it's who I am and what I like. Maybe look for some new shows to watch. I just don't feel that much into cable tv anymore. I don't spend as much time trying to win bids collecting anymore, so w/o games I'd probably do a head dive into ebay.

I was real young playing Atari so I can't say I remember much about it. I remember some games I played of course. I must have been 4-5 years old playing Atari.

Trust was normal before the pandemic. How many families, friends, coworkers, etc. knew they were exposed and still could care less about exposing it to you? The pandemic has brought about a lot of mistrust in relationships.

Gum should be free on every corner. That mouth is worse than an A hole.

GOOD LORD!!! hahaha

I've tried to be nice, but all that does is boost their hopes. So now I just walk away. It's just the easiest thing to do. I remember going to the grocery store on either memorial's day or veteran's day, can't remember. They wanted a donation and I turned them down. They were also handing out little American flags and I didn't take one when offered and they were in total shock and demonized me from that point on like I'm anti-American. Honestly, I didn't take it because I thought it was childish. They gonna give me a lollipop too? So I can skip a doodle down the aisles in the store? Is that how they measure patriotism? The flag also reminded me of my gymnastics days where I always carried a flag in my pocket, and it's just something I grew out of. So, no matter if it's a flag, or absolutely anything, people are going to get offended if you linger and don't take what they are offering. Just walk away.

I see where you are coming from. Making eye contact comes naturally when you love someone. But to judge someone by not holding eye contact sets that person up to deception by the simple act of depending on that eye contact and other body gestures. There are plenty of men/women out there that can lie their ass of right to another's face. But like I said, when love is true, it comes naturally. Not something a person should make a deciding factor in a relationship or they could find themselves getting cheated on as the guy maintained great eye contact with his mistress.

She probably forces him to stare at her in the eye while he's ravaging her too. How you like me now? I'm not lying. I'm not lying. Ohhh, muy muy grande. Look at me, oi oiii. I'm lookin, I'm lookin. I'm gonna...look. I'm oohhhhh loooooking!!!!

I think that probably contributed to my eye contact problem, because our mom would get right in our faces and scream like a mad person. It really did put us in a state of shock.

I absolutely hate that too. My mom used to scream at me and my sister like a complete lunatic while we were kids. And it just put us in a kind of shell shock. It's insane. So I'm extra sensitive to yelling. My sister too hates yelling because of that woman.

You are correct and that's a societal problem. That's why people need to understand other cultures, and know when somebody is uncomfortable. It goes both ways. Job interviews are more important to be able to hold eye contact. But people take those situations like that from a professional setting into everyday interpersonal communication with others and makes it uncomfortable.