Comments on: The Mythical 40-Hour Gamer http://www.forevergeek.com/2006/09/the_mythical_40_hour_gamer/ Nerds are for Dorks Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:14:48 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Elementalist http://www.forevergeek.com/2006/09/the_mythical_40_hour_gamer/comment-page-1/#comment-30921 Elementalist Tue, 26 Sep 2006 09:18:14 +0000 http://forevergeek.com/?p=3450#comment-30921 It's easy to maintain a 40-hour gaming lifestyle. Don't get married. Don't have kids. Don't be a slave to your career. Eat simply (and so don't spend hours cooking). The adult gamer is the modern zen monk. A simple life of comtemplation and meditation (over WWII warfare and hacking dragons). By the way, I still go on bike rides and play in an orchestra and go to the pub and have a girlfriend ;^D It’s easy to maintain a 40-hour gaming lifestyle.
Don’t get married. Don’t have kids. Don’t be a slave to your career. Eat simply (and so don’t spend hours cooking).
The adult gamer is the modern zen monk. A simple life of comtemplation and meditation (over WWII warfare and hacking dragons).
By the way, I still go on bike rides and play in an orchestra and go to the pub and have a girlfriend ;^D

]]> By: Onno http://www.forevergeek.com/2006/09/the_mythical_40_hour_gamer/comment-page-1/#comment-30920 Onno Tue, 26 Sep 2006 08:27:14 +0000 http://forevergeek.com/?p=3450#comment-30920 Yep. The problem though is not that I don't have the time to game non-stop, but that the games do not really support incidental players. A lot of games are very complex, with multiple storylines and huge maps, so if I haven't played for two weeks it really takes a lot of time to get back into it. Why not provide info on storylines and let people add notes to the map for example? Yep. The problem though is not that I don’t have the time to game non-stop, but that the games do not really support incidental players.

A lot of games are very complex, with multiple storylines and huge maps, so if I haven’t played for two weeks it really takes a lot of time to get back into it. Why not provide info on storylines and let people add notes to the map for example?

]]> By: Marc http://www.forevergeek.com/2006/09/the_mythical_40_hour_gamer/comment-page-1/#comment-30919 Marc Mon, 25 Sep 2006 19:19:30 +0000 http://forevergeek.com/?p=3450#comment-30919 You got me.... i still try and play as much as i can, but alas, the weekends, evenings and long summer days in front of the computer/TV are long gone, but now i can teach my children (they are 10, 8, and 2) to play all the new games, and it makes a good excuse to have all the newest game equipment ;-) You got me…. i still try and play as much as i can, but alas, the weekends, evenings and long summer days in front of the computer/TV are long gone, but now i can teach my children (they are 10, 8, and 2) to play all the new games, and it makes a good excuse to have all the newest game equipment ;-)

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