A Summer Of Ns...my Fall
escooler
Join Date: 2003-02-28 Member: 14123Members
Join Date: 2003-02-28 Member: 14123Members
I have been of ns a year now......it hard i got cold turkey. hear at bradford uni england we cannot play games. it was tough but i did it. i opened my eyes to the world and was converted....i got myself a girlfriend (8 months now) a social life and have really enjoyed myself....just the odd game when i happen to be at home...(york). now summer comes i have no plans and fast internet at home. i will decend into my old ways i fear...when i come back in september i am livign in a new house with fast internet. i am scared of neglecting the rest of my life again. its ever that ot i do the ns graveyard shift (1am to 3 am). Why does ns have this effect on me...untill i was forced off it.
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We gamers joke about not having a life, as if gaming was a less legitimate hobby than, say, collecting stamps. It's not, though. It's a hobby pretty much like any other. It's not sport. You don't exercise while playing NS. You don't get less flabby from reading either, so how is gaming less legitimate than reading?
Be proud of being a gamer. I am.
<span style='font-size:7pt;line-height:100%'>The author is currently into his fifth month of cold turkey himself, and can't wait to get back to proper online play.</span>
*EDIT* I would just like to point out that im not as nerdy as ive just made my self out to be.
The guy's right you know.
I see this as a way to kill an hour.
My uni (Sheffield) won't let Steam run, I spent a few days trying to get it to update, but I gave up and it doesnt bother me.
With Summer just around the corner, sure I'll play NS again, but I never have, and never will, choose a game of NS over somethig social.
No hackers in the real world <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
but yeah if cant really join a clan cause I would prefer to go down the pub than play a clan game.
I've been interested lately in wondering how real the internet is.
And find a good girlfriend like the one that made this <a href='http://www.xs4all.nl/~marcone/geekdudes.html' target='_blank'>http://www.xs4all.nl/~marcone/geekdudes.html</a>
Thou art past the tyrant’s stroke;
Care no more to clothe and eat,
To thee the reed is as the oak:
The sceptre, learning, physic, must
All follow this and come to dust.</i>
You ever think that maybe... just maybe... that most of the real world shuns gamers because they are jealous of the fun we have?
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I do not whether the numbers are correct (13-15 times?), but proteines in the endorphin family is produced. You actually get naturally/chemically high on succeeding.
Can you get addicted? Of course, but there are more ways to get endorphines than playing computer games. Yawning, sugar, exercising, listening to certain music etc.
Oh, and yes. I've disappeared from NS too .. not intentional <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif' /><!--endemo-->
the thing that i find good about internet friends over real people, is just that. People online that you play with alot, you become friends with. There is no REAL discrimatory action online, there are racists and stuff that only use the n-word, and they get banned mostly. there, just like that, youve gotten rid of an idiot. In real life that is much harder to do, you cant just give a racist a note saying "you're banned" and he'll disappear, no matter HOW cool that would be. In games (at least where i play) people are all equal.
I love my life. ^^
Not everyone who can be classified as a 'geek' is a fat, introverted star trek fan.
I'm pretty thin, outgoing, and I hate star trek. I'm into automotive technology, engine building and autocross racing as much as I am electronics and Natural Selection. Her assumptions about geeks being insecure, introverted, and socially maladjusted are as bigoted as any racists view of other cultures. You can find me, and others just like me just as easily at the race track as you will at a LAN party.
Just because there are a few people that fit her description of a geek dosen't mean they're all the same.