well considering my entire job is based solely around computers, and really i've grown up entirely around them ... they're a very important part of my life.
but then i don't usually play a game for like 4hrs in a single time - i used to when i was younger and didn't have a job, but now thats like 4hrs for a complete week of playing ... and thats if i'm lucky.
sorry but if you can't understand the value that can be gained from actually feeling you've achieved something, be it getting past a difficult puzzle in a computer games, finishing an extremely complex section of code and having it work finally without bugs, or just adding finishing touches to a model you've been working on for the past 24hrs striaght ... then quite frankly i feel sorry for you.
i never have been one to go out all the time, and ya know get pissed off my face just to have a "good time" or crap - personally i prefer to like do something where i feel like i'm achieving something.
or something that will captivate my interest, without repeating itself over and over and over and over.
i don't take this attitude to simply computer games or anything, this is my attitude for everything ... i don't see how someone can have fun going out and not even remembering the evening they had.
i don't see how someone can have fun doing the same repetitive task day in day out - i mean christ look at what i work as!
i'm a 3D Artist and i'm quickly becomming a pretty good programmer to boot ... and really there is no such thing as monotomy in this kinda job. It might be the exact same tasks over and over, but each time you do it you have to take a slightly different POV - different problems to solve, the same task suddenly has infinate possiblities.
when i'm being entertained i want something that isnt predictable, i want something that will peak my interest and make me think about whats going on. I don't mean like watching bloody stupid subtitled french film crap which has subtle nuancies all throughout as that is just stupid and boring - I mean things that really make you not just think about the there and then of what is going on, but what else could come from it.
a reason i like the Matrix and Ghost in the Shell movies so much is because each time you watch them, there is something there that will make you have a different take on the story. you could watch them 1,000 times and each time you'll see the same story but be given a slightly different view of it.
You grasp a little more of what is truely going on.
yeah sure once in a while i'll go out and watch a bond film which you know will have alot of dropdead gorgous lasses in it with some good explosions and such ... but i'm likely to only watch a bond movie like once every so often, and i have to be in the mood for it.
with the Matrix or GiTS i can be in any kinda mood, i pop it in and give it 5mins i'll just get into the film.
sure i like going out and getting pissed with my mates... but if i had to do that everyday - i don't think could do that. I know mates who do, but most of them are the ones who are really unhappy with thier lives. They have a beef about everyone and everything, with attention spans similar to a newt.
they call me a sad old man because alot of the time when they ask me to go out i'd rather stay at home and do something with one of the girls ... like ya know have a bbq on the beach or something. Nothing major just kickin' back an relaxing.
its funny really, i grew up in an environment where we had bugger all to do - but we'd always find something ... but when we were finally old enough to do things around town, we all started to become more intravert playing more computer games, staying in more and just hanging out round each others houses.
wasn't like we couldn't afford to go out (but soemtimes it was cause we didn't want chris to get into another fight) most of the time it was just cause we wanted to just hang out.
probably would've gone down the locals more but our closest was an unfriendly irish pub, and the rest were more older guys who wanted to talk bollocks to you all nite.
take that or leave that how you like, but at the end of the day - my computer plays a BIG part in my life... they always have, i'm not addictied to playing games, if i didn't work on it all day then no doubt i'd use it less and the less i used it the less i'd be want to be on it and doing something on it.
i'm perfectly happy using it 24hrs a day, i have mates online i talk to, i have mates here who i talk to and hang out with who also use thier comps almost all the time - we're all tech junkies, so anything new that is released that has any microchip in it, we're likely to have it.
and we know how the hell to have fun without a bottle in our hands
