The Game

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Video games aren't just something I enjoy myself either, obviously, there are plenty of gamers out there like me, enough for there to be a whole community of us. These games aren't just influential to individuals, they are influential to the world itself, just look at conventions and events like Comic Con, although video games and comics are not the same thing you will still see a lot of gamers there, or E3 where gamers and comic fanatics (often one in the same) get to celebrate what they love among each other. Video games effect all of our lives, or at least it effects the 183 million of us in the United States (trust me, I googled it), whether we know it or not.

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Not to mention, these games have insane lore (story lines). For example, most Legend of Zelda games can be summed up within a sentence: You are Link, you must defeat Ganon or Ganondorf before he assembles all three pieces of the Triforce and covers the world in darkness. But, Legend of Zelda has a story so much deeper, like the three timelines, one where the main character, Link, stays young, one where he grows up and the world is basically flooded, and one where he dies. I could go on and on about this, but the point is there is so much to these video games. There is a certain kind of people out there who call themselves Game Theorists (click on that link... hehehe, Link like Legend of Zelda... anyways, it's a good Youtube channel for gamers), and these people try to find the hidden meanings in games that we often overlook. It's insane to think about how simply a string of codes can influence our world in such a way.

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Alright, time to diss. I have been told by a lot of people that I am wasting my time, that what I'm doing is worthless, and that it is "turning my brain into mush." First of all, to me, I'm not wasting my time, I am escaping a flawed world where I can do nothing, to a world that I can save, where I can do something, where I have the abilities to defeat those who are evil. People may say that "It's not real so why does it matter?" When you're watching a movie, does it not feel real? No, you are immersed in the movie and you take an experience and a moral from that movie. That's how video games are, but us gamers get to experience it firsthand, and we get to make memories as we continue to play. Second, video games are not worthless, through playing video games I have become more intelligent, more creative, and even a better human being. I have formed relationships with others in games, both good and bad, and these relationships have taught me things, things about people that I could never learn through simple small talk. Finally, if anything, these games are doing the opposite to my brain, I'm learning so much as I play through these games and studies show that there is a multitude of the positive effects of playing video games, just google it. I'm stimulating my brain with impossible problems that I would never face in the real world, teaching it to think outside the box and consider every possibility.

Great show right here, called Video Game High School, 10/10
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In the end, as a great man once said, "It's all about the game."