Just as well.
There's this member's feature on Runescape that informs you of your play time.
Till date, I've played around 300days of Runescape. That means 300*24hours = 7200hours.
And counting.
If I had used 1/10th of this portion of life spent on Runescape on other fields in Life, I might have:
1) become the next chess champion of Singapore
2) gotten scholarships
3) invented 103 different kinds of light bulbs
4) impressed teachers with my brilliance instead of sleeping in school due to lack of sleep
5) become some musically-inclined person
6) become some artsey-fartsey guy
7) passed maths instead of failing it by 6/100.
8) achieved all the aforementioned stuff instead of thinking that I might have been able to achieve them.
But I play on anyway, because I don't want to be reminded of the fact that I don't have any of those aforementioned qualities, because I want to think that I could've achieved those, because I know that I haven't tried and thus my potential hasn't been realized/activated at all. This is a rather uncomfortable, but still present, boost to my otherwise battered ego(battered due to a certain Jermaine), and this masturbation for my ego kinda really keeps me sane.
It's quite sad at times how I don't want to work, not because I'm lazy but because I'm scared of failing, because I want to get away thinking that I didn't put in at all so I'm good enough as it is, a force to be reckoned with because I haven't been touched at all, etc.
Years down the road I'd look back and realize that perhaps I should have at least tried to right a few wrongs in my life instead of sweeping them under the carpet(though I don't actually have one at home but it's a figure of speech) and carrying on leading a fruitful but ultimately pointless virtual life.
Games should be played for the fun of it and not because you want to escape from something. But human nature dictates human to use it for its otherwise unintended purpose, and it fits the bill perfectly. Just as well.
However, a virtual life isn't as pointless as it seems. I've learnt how to mindrape people(kinda), and how to interrogate/get things out of people.
It's all about confidence, and if you sound more confident about your friend than your friend is about himself, your friend would be forced to take a step back and reassess his life.
When he does that he's vulnerable. You've learnt from empirical observations that people are normally interested in asking others 'Um do you find me a nice person?', 'What do you find nice about me?', 'How should I improve myself?', etc. That's a very malleable state for a human to be in, and as the mind-rapist it is your job to configure your prey to how you want him to be.
So, let's say that there's a certain moral issue involved, like, sex with a hot girl your friend met off the streets. It could go something like:
You: You sure this is your final answer?
Victim: Yea.
You: Think about it, is 1 + 1 really 2? Would we really be asking such a simple question?
Victim: It's kinda unbelievable but logically speaking I can't think of any other questions.
You: There are many variations to how you put 1 + 1, so what makes you think it's 2?
Victim: It was the first thing that came to mind.
You: The first thing that comes to mind doesn't mean that it's the correct answer, that's why teachers tell you to double-check your answers.
Victim: Yea, but so? If not 11 meh?
You: I'm not saying that it's 11 or 2, but think about it really. Good luck.
That's already throwing your victim into a state of confusion, because you know the answer and he doesn't. K it's kinda crappy but as long as your foe is easily shaken and your acting skills don't suck, it makes for a good entertaining moment for 2.
And when your victim gets tired of such mind games he'd give up and probably tell you what you want to know, such as
1) who he likes
2) his financial status
3) virginal status
4) credit card pin
You can get rich this way.
Which reminds me of a friend who managed to scam money off horny adults by acting as a teenage girl willing to give blowjobs for PIN numbers.
He went about it in a very cool manner, like , or 'It's ok if you don't trust me, we'd just end this conversation here and I can move on to my queue of more business-worthy people', or something like 'It's your loss, you know you want a teenage mouth wrapped around your hotrod'.
Making assumptions and acting like you know it's right helps alot, it's unnerving to see a person trying to read your thoughts, and it makes you think whether you subconsciously want the blowjob or not.
Yea.
G'night.
-- 3/04/2010 10:55:00 PM
