Sometimes I permit myself to play some video games. I'm rather
restrictive on myself, lest I let myself get “out of control”
with them. I grew up playing video games, my father owned a computer
store, and with two older brothers whom I felt it would be difficult
to compete with in “sticking out” in about any other area, I
chose to focus on video games. I excelled greatly at them. My
father loved playing me games because he loved the challenge of
trying to beat me. Most games I'd win, but sometimes he would and he
felt like he accomplished something when he beat me. There's a lot
of background history about how heavily I was into video games. In
short, I say “aside from school and homework, video games were my
life” before my mission, and after my mission, my father went as
far as threatening suicide if I didn't play him games (lots of
pressure). Also, video games are very addicting for me, and I have
difficulty playing them and/or thinking about them in appropriate
moderation. What do I mean by “thinking about them” too much?
Well, if I go from not playing any games (several times now I've
banned myself from them for awhile) to playing just a little bit of
strategy games, my mind will spend over ten times as much time
thinking about the game than actually playing it. So one hour of
play time equals over ten hours of time used up, because my mind is
occupied thinking about game strategies. If I'm not really careful,
games can easily keep my mind preoccupied from paying attention to
spiritual things.
All that being said, I've spent several
hours total this week playing a game (in closed beta) called The
Mighty Quest for Epic loot. It got advertised as humorous and that
got my attention. It's quite a bit of fun, there is very little
commitment (easy to pause or leave at any moment), the strategy isn't
so in-depth that I spend tons of time thinking about it, and there's
a competitive aspect that I like. In the game, you attack other
castles (I usually attack other players' castles) and loot their
resources. You also build your own castle and put defenses (various
monsters and traps) in it, trying to make it difficult for attackers
to loot your own castle. So far, you can play a knight (“smash
city”), an archer (more reliant on skill), and (currently costs
money) a mage. (The game announced it will change to open beta
before the end of February.)
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