Do you remember high school? I sort of do. There were knights and dragons and princesses and towers and the wrong towers and fireballs and turtles and the wand of seasons and fairy-holes and enchanted forests.

There weren’t any save-points which made playing the game pretty hard. The purists said that this was what made the game great. Casual gamers were put off by this and subsequently the game bombed.

I guess what I am trying to say is that life is pretty confusing. We don’t know the meaning of life, just like we don’t know why people lie about having cancer. These things are all pretty challenging to deal with, so that is why we spend Saturday nights trying to get our party on.

One way people choose to deal with this is by drinking too much. This is kind of OK to do in your own house when you can pass out on your own floor and get laughed at by your own flatmates. But if you do this at someone else’s house, perhaps your half-bottle of passionfruit vodka will disappear when you decide that you are going to stumble around the streets to your ex-boyfriend’s house at 2am.

Another way people try to deal with this is by playing video games. To some extent we have all done, or all do, this. Video games are a lot of fun and educate more than they harm. Video games never made me kill a hooker, but I learned how to skate from Playstation and that is how I got signed to the Zenetti Chrome Rims team.

What have you learned from video games?

This 11-year-old girl knew to pull her family from their upturned car because she had been playing GTAIV. I found this here.

Written by: Zach.
Tags: games, GTA, life lessons.