Posted By Leon Thomas about 3 months ago
There are many motivations for playing video games. What keeps bringing you back?
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I think that my life is enriched by playing video games.
its a escape from my really crapy life into a world where
i get to enjoy myself and do anything its fun and keeps my spirits up i can also meet new people online and join a community to me its an escape
Great episode, probably my favorite.
I find that the episodes that are most hard to watch/depressing/reflecting shows how good your videos are.
I think you should be aiming for greater things Leon but you’re not me so keep on the excellent job
Great episode and I really enjoyed watching it. But I felt that there was an interesting opportunity you could have gone with. Since this topic is so similar to that one episode called Grandfather, I think it would have made a good continuation of that episode. The point of both episodes is how games enrich your life. In this episode you talked about raising a kid as a challenge in life. You could have talked about you own (hopefully fictional) childhood and how hard it was for your grandfather as a hilarious counter argument to your own. Similarly you could talk about how your grandfather interacted with people like screaming at the milk man for sleeping with his cat, and how it would have been better with video games. I’m not trying to say it was a bad episode, because it was a very good one and I’m not trying to tell you how to do your job. I’m just throwing out an interesting idea I thought up while watching it.
my Favorite video good work
Thanks very much.
Leon have you ever thought of making episodes other than heart of gaming?
Yes, I have scads of ideas for new shows. There are just two problems.
First, I simply do not have enough time on my hands. In addition to the part-time job that is Heart of Gaming, I have a full-time job and ANOTHER part-time job. I work seven days a week, sometimes both of my real world jobs on the same day. The idea of adding another project is not one that I can put into place right now.
Second, my other ideas are related to movies. I am exclusive to Blistered Thumbs. I don’t have access to TGWTG.com. My episodes are occasionally promoted there, but I can’t actually schedule shows there. That means that all my work is here, and since Blistered Thumbs is all about video games, I can’t post a new movie show here.
Presently, I’m happy with the way things are.
True enough. Maybe not all the things you have said are true for everybody but most of the people have if not this motivation, some that are similar to them.
I’m a scientist, so my work is definitely challenging and more awarding than working in a factory… still I cant deny that in video games I search something that I don’t have, I can’t do in life.
Social interaction is one thing. And “making the things right” but not in my life that It’s good enough, but in the word… the world is fucked up and I can’t do much even if I try hard (I’m a researcher in photovoltaic materials, so my work is to save the planet from my point of view, even in real world) but in video games I can save the word… and with little effort most of the time.
So you can add to the motivation that in video games idealism works most of the time. Reality instead is such a whore with idealist.
So true…
That was fun.