Life in RL
Part Two: Interactive Discourse
Mar. 7th, 2010
By stealth_toilet

There are many observations I have made since I’ve given up videogames which I feel are essential to modern day gamers, both in and out of virtual landscapes, but I find it difficult to transmit all of them to you, the reader, in an expedient fashion. I’ve already attempted, several times, to sit down and write comparisons between real life situations and common videogame tropes. I’ve written extensively comprehensive analogies of real life situations that can be reduced to grinding for experience in World of Warcraft, performing tedious min/maxing in single player RPGs, and embarking on a variety of unrelated fetch quests. It is a shame I will not be showing you the product of those analogies because, well, real life can be a lot like a bad RPG in many ways, but I do not believe relating any of that to you is essential in any way. As gamers we already know life is tedious, repetitive, and full of mindless busywork, which is why many of us enjoy the fantastic and unreal qualities of videogames. I don’t need to prove that to you, because as a gamer you already know real life can be kind of boring. What I can tell you, that I believe is essential for you to know as a gamer, is what it is like to not be a gamer.

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