The Gamer's Quarter

dhex · Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 9:57 am Post subject: the heart is a lonely rpg'er

i liked mr. gillen's essay in this week's escapist.
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Nana Komatsu · weak sauce Joined: 17 Jul 2006 Posts: 1293

"Nihilistic in Northampton"

"Simply Suicidal in Sheffield."

Okay this is worth reading just for the fake names.

"Catastrophically Cut-up in Cardiff"
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Mike · . Joined: 14 Feb 2007 Posts: 7 Location: UK

I guess the linearity of JRPG's and the illusion of choice in American sandbox RPG's can provide a kind of percieved structure to your life in lieu of the retraction of the structure of a relationship.

Nah, actually it's just pathetic.
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dhex · Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 11:28 am Post subject:

pathos takes many forms.
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Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

It's an interesting article if only to point out the place this form of entertainment is taking in our lives.
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dhex · Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 6:34 pm Post subject:

i'm usually the first in the hole with the cry of soul cancer and a woefully outdated sense of time and place, but is this really much different than throwing oneself into any other pursuit following a failure of love?
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Nana Komatsu · weak sauce Joined: 17 Jul 2006 Posts: 1293

dhex · Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 7:23 pm Post subject:

rpgs are uniquely obsessive, i guess would be the overlying point.

which they are. especially western ones. (i will get back into baldur's gate 2 at some point, eventually...)
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Scratchmonkey · . Joined: 02 Mar 2005 Posts: 1439

Part of the point is that RPGs and videogames in general seem to be excellent time-sinks, which is a real bonus in the post-breakup world where time goes slow, anything remotely emotional has the risk of being painful and all you really want it is something to distract you from how much things suck.

dhex · Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 8:06 pm Post subject:

i always went with the methods suitable to my heritage; drink a lot, write bad poetry, drink, write, drink, write, cry, repeat.

man, i lost all that bad poetry (from three breakups) about four years ago now. thank goodness. that shit was blackmail material (literally hundreds of pages worth of blackmail material) it was the livejournal from hell if livejournal was a text document.

shit, do people even write private journals anymore?
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