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My brother's cat Mo Mo. He brought her home for Thanksgiving.
She is either super active crazy or sleeping. There seems to be no in between. Image taken when she was frisky.
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I frequent a forum (reddit.com) where a user posed the following question: "Has anyone recently woken up to discover (with horror) that they don't really enjoy video games as much they did in the past?"
My response:
I think it has to do with imagination. At least for me. Just like when I was a little kid, making those laser and explosion noises while I played with toy army figures and legos. My mind made it almost real in a sense, kind of like having an imaginary friend. You almost believe its real.
Enter video games -- It was more of an enhancement for my imagination. I used to have so much fun playing single player. I could play for hours on end pretending the AI mapped to some other dimension where another human was actually controlling the AI. I would create custom worlds/maps in Shadow Warrior, Half Life, etc and load them up with loads and loads of enemies on the other side of the map and pretend I was in a real war. When I unloaded machine gun ammo across the map I would imagine how the enemy felt like when they saw tracer bullets and heard them going over their head. I would fire grenade launchers like machine guns randomly across the map and again imagine the enemy terrified of me as their world shook with explosions and shrapnel. I knew in the back of my head they were programmed non-emotional AI, but my imagination over powered that thought.
How I wish I could still get that same enjoyment, but I cannot. At 25, my imagination has definitely waned. Life (money/work and women) took over. Now when I play video games, especially single player, it feels way too repetitive for me no matter how many glitzy graphics they incorporate, no matter how much they dress it up with a storyline. I cannot immerse myself as much as I did before. Now? I play mainly FPS games online, and I feel I play to satisfy my competitive urge to win win win. It is fun to win, but it will never compare with the imagination I used to have, which added so much more depth and enjoyment I used to get out of a video game.
Growing older sucks.
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For those that do not know what reddit is, think digg. Except with far far less morons.
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