Anti-Gamers= GRRRRRRRR!! !

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I suggest we all cool down, this is getting out of hand.

I smell troll sweat...

Funny, I think that's the smell of white knights.

Video Games are used as a scapegoat for all the problems in the world. Just like the Devil's Rock n Roll and uncensored TV shows and movies. People blame them for all the problems in the world in order to distract themselves from the real issues that they feel powerless to change, so they think that by trying to get rid of this stuff and all the people who enjoy it that they will succeed in fixing all the problems in the world. Of course it never works, and they always find a new scapegoat to blame.

After my birth-father died I played 007 GoldenEye and Command & Conquer: Red Alert the Aftermath for about 3 years, until my mom and stepdad determined I was wasting too much of my life and forbid me to play. I think that video games are a great escape from depression; they serve as something to distract your focus from difficult things. As of now I don't get as depressed about my dad's death, but since I've been in college I've become disillusioned to the whole glorification of "higher education" which has turned out for me, at Rasmussen at the least, to be more about financing the college and less about actual education. As such, video games have become an escape for me here as well, and at no cost to my education since the assignments are so lame and easy to perform even without reading the textbooks

Initially I had tried to do all the reading assignments for the first quarter, but there's just too much to actually read within the given timeframe allotted so the opportunity cost of time for just reading all the vacuous fluffy material of such textbooks as "The universe and beyond", "The art of being human", "success strategies", and "sustaining environmentalism" competes against the more, GPA-wise, important opportunity cost of time for just completing the essays and spreadsheets and research papers and other busywork.... (it takes approximately 20 to 45 minutes per written assignment/spreadsheet versus 5 to 10 hours per day each week if I were perform the voluminous reading assignments for each class.) I do read the relevant material to the assignments, the latest one being about "adventures in literature" for the humanism class and about Malthusian prophecies of overpopulation doom in my environmentalism class. I wish this lousy college had a physics or chemistry program, both of which I was good at in high school, but instead I'm taking an accounting program due to the potential job market for it up to 2016 and possibly more time than that also.

But, since the opportunity cost of time of completing the busywork for Rasmussen isn't so prohibitive, I can play video games to distract myself from the annoyance of being a student for a cost-college. I think that video games provide a nice, and sometimes needed, break from contemplating crappy situations which a person may find themselves in, and are thus good for allowing some time to breathe rather than feel suffocated by depression.