tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post112889648611140865..comments2024-03-28T16:19:45.131-05:00Comments on Althouse: "The energy you consume (while playing) is immense. The degree of concentration and absorption is so great that you lose yourself."Ann Althousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630636239933008807noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-1128981172141900792005-10-10T16:52:00.000-05:002005-10-10T16:52:00.000-05:00I'm younger than msot people here. When I was a pr...I'm younger than msot people here. When I was a preteen and a teenager I would play video games everyday for 6-8 hours after school. I would focus on beating a game for hours on end. Then I would beg my parents to buy me more games. Christmases and birthdays were new game days at my family.<BR/><BR/>I still play viedo game, but I don't have the patience to sit there for hours and hours. After 2 hours I can easily get sick of it. Its frustrating, Back then I wanted to play video game so badly but I had no moeny, now I have plenty of money but not as much time or interest!Jimmyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00297287845126922575noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-1128954581127002612005-10-10T09:29:00.000-05:002005-10-10T09:29:00.000-05:00You know, I can believe it, because I had a friend...You know, I can believe it, because I had a friend almost drop out of life completely stuck playing a game. <BR/><BR/>A few years back, some college classmates and I noticed one of our friends stopped showing up to classes. <BR/><BR/>His close friends went to check on him at home, and found he'd been playing an online game nonstop for 2 weeks. Like a drug addict, he'd neglected just about everything else, and was suffering from exhaustion when his friends showed up. He was supposedly relieved when they unplugged his computer - it was really an intervention.<BR/><BR/>The guy came back to class after that, but he had to keep himself from playing the game for fear of relapsing.MGOhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02114115991661021328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-1128953751801143422005-10-10T09:15:00.000-05:002005-10-10T09:15:00.000-05:00Life, as usual, imitates William Gibson.Life, as usual, imitates <A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0441012035/ref=sib_vae_pg_8/102-0944529-7486569?%5Fencoding=UTF8&keywords=tank%20war%20europa&p=S00K&twc=3&checkSum=U%2FifUj0ndpIxnUcQJq64tXinl1HdtxHzRMoANkITRmQ%3D#reader-page" REL="nofollow">William Gibson</A>.L. C. Stapleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16418057685847546408noreply@blogger.com