Originally Posted by
Gigabitch
At the risk of offending people, I must confess that I find playing video games to be a completely pointless endeavor. It is NOT the same thing as going out to lunch with your friends, because that entails interfacing with other people. Playing video games does not, even if you're playing with friends, you're not paying attention to them, you're paying attention to the game. I've never been able to play a video game for any length of time without starting to feel that it was a huge waste of my time, my attention and myself.
Hey! I play Wii with my family and its a lot of fun... we also sometimes play a strategy game against each other over the internet (we each have our own laptop). Its a riot with the 3 of us sitting in the room beating on each other.
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