Reality vs Adventure

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It depends on what you play. Even violent games can have a story that helps you to understand something like the cause for the violence, the solution, and maybe even personalize characters that may be an enemy to see the world they came from. Or if the protagonist comes from a different background than what you are used to and whatever beliefs they have, you could become attached to that character and possibly change your perspective. It is hard to find a good game that can do that, but it is definitely possible to increase toleration especially if more games come out that challenge prejudice. There are more and more adults getting into games, so we should see an increase in 'smarter' games that can teach something. At the least, challenge the prejudice. GTA obviously wouldn't fit in that category. But let's say GTA had a backstory why someone became a car thief; it still won't justify the crime, but help in understanding why; then see the character evolve and rehabilitate themself somehow. Make it a strong touching story and GTA even with all the violence becomes something entirely different.

Just as you said. But also being able to interact with the environment is relaxing. Maybe sit on a bench and take in the views; pet a stray animal; take a dip in a pond; I like the camp setup in RDR2; or just do something to pass a little time. In Ghost of Tsushima, you can play a flute song whenever you want, where the protagonist busts out a flute and plays it. Another thing that game has is areas to find where you meditate and contemplate. Also having a photo feature where you can leave movement of the environment on and play music, so you can just stare at the screen as if you were there.

TLOU2; Whole new level of gaming

At this point, why care what they do. Let nature weed them out for this level of stupid. Biden has passed a vaccine mandate so if they refuse to accept it while other vaccine mandates have already been in place for decades, then from here on out it's on them. If they don't want to work because of it, then let those who care fill their job positions. Moving on, moving on.

No offense to rats I will add; Should have said get them roaches out since they are devolved to a state less intelligent than rats. Watch closely and you can actually see the republican's antennas wiggle. Biden had to fumigate and disinfect the WH after trump's nasty a**.

18 trump appointed unqualified people fired. "That's always a good thing." I like how he said that. Get them rats out. AOC is the only democrat with gall to stand up to republicans and call them out exactly what they are-FASCISTS

I'm glad. Screw both republicans and democrats. Republicans are evil and democrats are cowards. The only way to save democracy is a third party. The bad news is that Yang was a democrat and if he forms a third party it will siphon democrat votes. Maybe republicans feel the same too and want a third party. It is dangerous to break up democrat votes when faced against the hostile republicans who are over run by white supremacists. Because I doubt many republicans have a soul left and will stick to their cult which will make the third party mostly democrat values. I like Yang and I hope this works out. I'm done with a two party system. That s**t is over.

That looks like an interesting game. I didn't know Ghost Recon uses a drone. I actually have Wildlands and now I want to install it. It makes sense Ghost Recon would have a drone coming from Ubisoft. And I just looked up the release date and Ghost Recon came out just months before AC Origins. But the eagle took the drone to another level.

I watched it and I think one thing is spot on that I will get to. First, to hate your own blood I can sympathize with, but not for a dreamy nazi reason, but for actual historical reasons. Like what my Spanish did to Native Americans. Like what my British did to Native Americans. I'm part Native American. I hate myself. I hate you. I hate them. But the Jew Nazi said himself in the movie, that I believe is true: Why do they hate Jews? 3 letters-J E W; There is no reason for it. It's just that Nazis HATE. I have a real reason to hate back. What you dream of, I dream of doing to you. So lay your shaved heads down on a pillow while I fantasize about smashing it.

I think you can only improve yourself if you know what exactly needs improving. Everything else is holy poly

Prove me wrong that there is some other ingenuity in gaming that is greater than soaring over the entire map. Nothing beats it. Show me anything that compares. Debate it. I dare it. If you never played it, then you better. It's beyond gaming of its time. I don't know what other mechanics to compare it to. It is just amazing. Imagine yourself in a tv store. They are showing off how the picture looks and use Odyssey as an example. WTF is that? Looks badass! It's a game dude. Forget the f***k tv, I want the f**k game. So the dare is open. Can you find a greater ingenuity in games?

Self improvement is like a religion. If you keep telling yourself to be a certain way, say certain things then it becomes prayer like. Books become the gospel. Talking about it in front of others you become a preacher. Then you get brands and call yourself something. Organizations are born. Damn...and it all started because you wanted to find a date. Now you are killing people and getting multiple wives. You begin blood sacrifices of animals. Dooms day has arrived and everyone else are sinners and gonna vanish. Or you can just say YES to everything like that movie. I wonder what my life would be like if I started saying yes to everything.

I think remade movies are worse. The movie industry has gone through its remake period the last 20 years. There is no excuse anymore for not having unique creativity. The gaming industry is at its early stages of remakes. And with more people being drawn to gaming, that will open the door to a long wave of remakes to come for the next 20 years.

Here's a link to watch it. I'm gonna watch it tonight https://www2.zoechip.com/watch-movie/the-believer-10865

I would go with the best projector system out there with great speakers. It would be like playing a game in a movie theatre. I would turn a one story into a two story room just to have bigger wall space.

I would be hoppity skippin mountain to mountain getting contracts to, oh damn, me too? Yep kill kill kill. But is it wrong to kill bandits? They are people too. I guess if their camp has dangling bodies stuck on pikes, I assume they are open season. I do have standards.

You mean like survival apocalyptic games? That's my favorite genre. To be put in a situation completely out of your control, and your only means of control is what you find to survive and protect yourself is raw human emotions in every way. To see the world of what we are so used to, and to see how vulnerable we really are, everything we depend on just crumbles; there's nothing like it.

It seems Ubisoft was listening because there was just a new update that fixes 'Data Corrupt' error on saves. Guess I wasn't the only one. But all this reinforces my belief to never buy new games ever again. I'll wait a couple years when everything is fixed with included DLC. I don't need BS in my gaming experience.

That’s a good point. But humans are meant to look for external things to make them happy. We aren’t built to reach enlightenment. We are a species that needs entertainment/crafts/art/talent/athletics. We need those things like food, especially teens who are eager to find their talents. In a society where most activities require a vehicle to get you there, money, and the busy life cycle of parents who are more self indulged, younger people find easy access to fun in video games. Same goes for the older folks and nostalgia adds to it. And if the older population embraced games, then that is less time plotting or acting out in rage or yelling racist comments at the tv. Gaming naturally makes people happier. Any fun activity does, but especially games because of the easy access in a smothered society.

There is nothing like a person in the pool of the oppressed, supporting those that want nothing more than to genocide them and go back to enslaving people of their skin color. A system that will tarnish your livelihood and your children's livelihood, that you toss the driest wood into the fire so you can burn down by your own making. Do these people drink gasoline? And to watch these two converse about it with the guy trying to make a ridiculous point while the female's response sounded like she was excited, is all just really sickening to me. Have they sold their souls? Almost like it's some sci fi with brain implants making them animatronic. This is all downright SICK! I didn't even hear about this news because I haven't really been paying attention to California's recall. The recall itself is legal and all, but still makes no sense that an elected governor that had the majority votes can possibly be replaced by a candidate with just a small fraction of votes. And I wonder what has the governor done so bad as to have a recall. Why not Texas or Florida have recalls? They are deliberately neglecting the lives of everyone in their states by preventing any safety measures in this pandemic as well as sitting on government funding and not distributing it that is meant to help hospitals. Why California and not those two states?

For some reason the realism in guns seem to be more important than a lot of other things that could be made more real. But nope, we will always be reminded to reload, as if that itself makes the whole thing real. They should do the GI Joe approach and use lasers with unlimited ammo (joking). But damn, give me a shotgun with a damn gattling attached on the side to hold 100 shells. If that is too heavy, then throw down the bazooka hidden under the shirt, grenades, machine gun, food, med kits, and everything else. Some games it does work out though like survival games where you count bullets.

Most games have some sort of villain and I can't think of a villain that stands out that is more evil than others. To say evil has layers kind of loosens what evil is. One murder is no less evil than 100 murders. But the multi-murderer is more dangerous. So evil can have layers of danger. Torture is more evil than murder and more amounts of it and the longer it lasts would make it more evil. Is one tortured person worse than 10 quickly murdered? Or even one tortured compared to three murdered? Or one tortured compared to 2 killed in front of family members? Or one tortured compared to one hacked to pieces in front of family? I don't have an evil meter for that. What about the game Destroy All Humans where an alien goes on a human genocide. But the alien is so cute and fun, how can it be evil? What about demons or devils that torture victims for eternity? Are they evil if the souls have done evil? They would be evil if they stole innocent souls. Is torturing 100 souls for eternity a greater evil than torturing a million people back on Earth? What if a God wiped out planet Earth, but by doing so saved the universe from the parasitic humans? Would that be evil? What if a researcher made a zombie virus to wipe out humanity because they thought it would save all other life on Earth including the planet itself. Would they be evil even though they can't predict what a God can see? But what if the God only predicted too, does status make them immune to evil? If you have some games in mind, all evil deeds have to be compared. That's kind of a tough question.