edit - Yeah I play video games with violence too, my point is that video games are a mirror that exposes a less brutal image of ourselves than we are convinced of. The truth of what we desire is as often silly or altruistic as it is selfish or violent, even in the realm of fantasy where the violence is unreal as everything else.

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    I’d be a min-maxing hoarder that never used stuff. In all honestly, I should probably try to be more like that minus the hoarding.

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    What I get from simulation video games is that if I didn’t have to worry about working to live and the daily grind of life, I’d work to get real-world experience doing stuff I may like.

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      I never understood how “vitality” refers to not any type of armor, but instead an inheret "unkillable"ness until I started looking into wild boars.

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    And I’d be eating readily available street pizza all the time!

    “Hey look, someone left a full ham roast here on the sidewalk! I’m bleeding pretty bad, so I’ll go ahead and chow down! Let me just squat over it real quick, I can usually eat a roast ham in like 0.06 seconds (assuming I’ve lost enough blood).”

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    In my case the bodies of my enemies would fuel my armies of the undead leaving a trail of blood and destruction behind me. If the first boss I encounter doesn’t take me out.

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    “Video games don’t affect our behavior! If Pac-Man had an effect on us, we’d all be running around darkened rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive electronic music” - Raver’s favorite shirt

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      I always liked that one…*old ex raver, still love the music for sure. Actual shirt I owned was ‘I said no to drugs but they didn’t listen’

      Edit, I always thought raves was my generation’s summer of love. Diluted but I think the idea for many were the same…of course not for all, but it’s how I felt it sometimes. The best people to be around were always so positive, and I so wished the millennium ushered in more positivity than how it happened. But … yeah we all know what happened early 2000s.