Wow, when I think of my 48 days of killzone, 27 days of soul calibur 4 and 15 days of cod4....
Oh well, entertainment has a purpose in human existence as well as it has existed one way of the other since the dawn of time. At least we entertain ourselves in safer ways nowadays. Videogame addiction is pretty bad but nowhere near alcohol or other issues.
Frankly if one sat down to make lists of the things they blew money on, it probably wont be pretty no matter what the subject is. In my earlier days in college, I used to go to Night clubs 2-3 times every week and spend $50 average every outing. Thats the cost of a new game each one of those days (back in ps2 era). I on the other hand came to the realization that it was far cheaper to play games on fri and sat night than to keep clubbing/socializing all the time.
Before my rant gets out of control I'd say this: "the idle mind is the devil's workshop". There's no way to tell what he would have done if he hadn't played those games. He might have gone out to sleep with another woman instead of his wife. He might have gotten high instead. We really can't tell. It's best to take it easy and realize that we still have "extra lives" as long as we are still alive instead of falling into despair like this guy. If he's fat, he needs to get his gym on and find another wife and just make sure to find the balance this time.
"Dr. Tenma, according to you, lives are equal. That's why I live today. But you must have realised it by now...the only thing people are equal in is death"---Johann Liebert (MONSTER)
"WAR is a racket. It always has been.
It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives"---Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler
