So, Aw man, silly life

[Prpl_Mage]

So yeah. I still haven't finished Xenoblade chronicles and I'm not getting as much better at SC5 as I wished. I got both the last story and ffxiii2 for my birthday laying around and I'm getting this crazy urge to play Phantasy star online again.

BUT

Life.
It might be something all psychological like "You're running away to your comfort zone when life is getting tough" or something. But life keep preventing me from playing them games, studying and teaching eats a lot of time and then there's the relationships to family and friends as well as special friends.
I get home, look at the wii. get this feeling like "man, I wanna play something today." But then I realize that I have to make dinner and after dinner I got to open up those books and read some. Or there's a paper to be written or even a class to plan.

I just get this crazy urge to procrastinate everything that's actually important and play games instead like I used to in the past. Y'know when life wasn't all complicated and full of responsibility. I kinda wish I had spent more time doing those kind of things back then.
But I suppose I'm doing okay since I'm not procrastinating too often. I usually get stuff done rather hastly to play games though. All the motivation I need. (Although It's kinda hard to motivate yourself to write before you play since you know that you could play and then maybe write).



So how much are your lives getting in the way of your inner geek who wants to spend the afternoon with a controller in your left hand and a bottle of coke in your right? How do you make life work?

[Moosetroop11]

I have almost nothing to do right now and yet I still don't get round to doing those sorts of things. It's weird, sometimes.  I need to get around to making more music; I haven't written any in a while.

[Archem]

I'm more like this: I see games, want to play them, but don't. I end up having some little nit-pick that keeps me from playing. Or, my large library keeps me unable to pick one. I don't play games, not because I have a busy life, but because I'm fighting myself over what to play, and when. Almost like I'm a gamer-poser who doesn't want to play, but wants to keep up appearances.

Then I end up playing Battlefield 3 for six hours, and I'm confused about why I didn't just start up some other game I wanted to play more.

[Razor]

I have almost nothing to do right now and yet I still don't get round to doing those sorts of things. It's weird, sometimes.  I need to get around to drawing more anything; I haven't drawn any in a while.

Fixed for me

[Zerlina]

I'm in the same boat. I go to class in the morning, go to work, go home and write papers or study/finish readings. On the off day where I don't work and have extra time, I just end up cleaning my apartment because it gets neglected and gross otherwise. If that gets finished, then I have post on Terra to work on for the DVDs, as well as writing and pre-production meetings for season 2. And this is a week without auditions. My parents miss me and I never get to visit them, my friends hate me because I don't see them.  I want to play PS3 but it's just staring at me, taunting me. If I ever do play I feel guilty about it because it's like I'm not doing what I should be doing, and if things end up taking a long time I just feel more guilty because I spent that half hour playing games instead of working. And if there's free time I just feel like I have to learn something to make use of it- I work on music, or practice fighting. It's starting to wear on me I guess...to be honest I feel pretty lonely because this kind of life becomes solitary after a while.

5 weeks and I graduate, though.

[X_marks_the_ed]

I'm more like this: I see games, want to play them, but don't. I end up having some little nit-pick that keeps me from playing. Or, my large library keeps me unable to pick one. I don't play games, not because I have a busy life, but because I'm fighting myself over what to play, and when. Almost like I'm a gamer-poser who doesn't want to play, but wants to keep up appearances.

Then I end up playing Battlefield 3 for six hours, and I'm confused about why I didn't just start up some other game I wanted to play more.

Ditto here. I don't have many responsibilities, leaving plenty of time for video games, and after contemplating for so long, I just wanna do something more productive instead, like read a book. Even after finally obtaining Popeye and Mighty Bomb Jack, my NES has been sitting for a whole week now. What few moments I am playing Video Games, it's Brawl.

[drenrin2120]

I... don't really play video games anymore.

[HackersTotalMassLaser]

The main complaint: i can't play video games cause of life.


Really?

Isn't this to be expected? I play video games like 3 hours a week now. All splitted up in sessions of like 20-30 minutes. We grow up. We get old. And die.

Or like Squidward said: "We do that for 40 years, and then we die. That seems like a good deal to me, what do you say? "

[drenrin2120]

Yeah... I'm imagining most of you are too busy to play video games because you're busy working towards life goals.

That's a good thing guys.

[A Forgotten Legend]

haha drenrin.

If I have time to play anything, then that usually means I'm forgetting something and I'm going to regret it later.  I really should spend more time practicing my instrument and writing music, but there's only 24 hours in a day and I don't sleep for at least 8 of them bad things happen and I end up late to things...

[MissingName]

Schoolwork.  Damn does that get in the way of fun stuff.

[Grandy]

It might be something all psychological like "You're running away to your comfort zone when life is getting tough" or something. But life keep preventing me from playing them games, studying and teaching eats a lot of time and then there's the relationships to family and friends as well as special friends.

But life keep preventing me from playing them games, studying and teaching eats a lot of time and then there's

studying and teaching

  teaching

i'm legally obligated to hate you now.

[Archem]

What are you, some kind of lawyer?

Because I think we have one of those around here somewhere.

[Prpl_Mage]

i'm legally obligated to hate you now.

Now now grandy-boy. I'm one of those cool teachers who are all cool with their students. I mean who doesn't want to talk about damage calculations during math class when you're trying to learn about equations? It all makes perfect sense after that.
And learning goes a lot better with a good teacher. That and fun classes. University is all boring though. Y'know with them professors just talking for an hour then giving you assignments and never answering your mails.

[Uberpwn_w00t]

It's scary to hear about how your lives are progressing, being that I'm not too far behind most of you. Then again, I'm sort of an unmotivated fuckup already and haven't really set myself up for anything nearly as challenging as you folks have.

My friend threw a grape soda can at my new laptop a while back and fried my hard drive, so there goes gaming. I was in the middle of Assassin's Creed II and I was playing quite a bit of DC Universe Online before that. But I'm gonna have to agree with a few of you here and say that I don't really miss gaming when it's gone. Come to think of it, I was never much of a gamer to begin with. There are a few games here and there that I adore for one reason or another, and I'll go through phases with new games every once in a while. But I've never had a console or a nice computer, so it's always been more of an "I do that sometimes with my friends" sort of thing.

That being said, I'm getting my driver's license in September, and I'm waiting to see what the community college here says about my awful grades and above average standardized test scores. If I'm lucky I'll be dual enrolled next year. After that, god help me, because I have no idea what I'm going to do with myself.