jaklumen
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How do I love gaming? Let me count the ways..
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Jul 7 11:28 UTC 2002 |
Because gaming, at its core, is imagination and experiencing alternate
reality--
--you can sink in all your talent, dreams, efforts, whatever have you
into it. All can belong, so to speak, although not everyone is a
part. The desire to imagine is the unifying thread. But you can take
any interest, any hobby, any pasttime-- and find a way to plug it into
gaming. Hard science, social science, the arts, academia, sport
(granted, it's usually of a medieval era nature), etc. can fit in.
..and I'm biased somewhat towards LARP and such because you can do
that. If you want to play a character and play a guitar at the same
time-- for real, you can. Are you a writer? Many conventions have
workshops to show you some ways to get published.
I don't know.. I just see it as a rich pasttime because it is comprised
of so *many* pasttimes. I also hope, somehow, that I ultimately never
outgrow it-- though my participation may wane, I intend to be the old
gamer who comes around once in a while to see what the kids are doing.
I need not lose touch with reality, for my reality can be as structured
and as urgent as it needs to be. But gaming, ah, gaming, that is where
I know I can put forth any creative flight I fancy.
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Jul 9 15:36 UTC 2002 |
Now that I get a gaming fix often enough . . .
I too wish to be a gamer for my entire life, and will probably have ups
and downs throughout.
Since I am a member of an Action Theatre troupe, I might do better at
LARP than I used to.
And my last thing to say is: The only way anyone ever stops role
playing is to die.
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