A sad but true story: I know at least 4 people (no names included) that play top clans on Xbox that broke up with their partner over Crossout and they still play Crossout - and not only do these 4 people still play Crossout, but they play it like a job.
Completely addicted.
I think sometimes you get people that their lives in game are better then in real life. In the game they feel like their accomplishments mater and view themselves as important in that game world. But in real life they are nothing.
Guys like this put “being awesome at a game” over “being awesome in life”
It’s hard to be awesome in life, but games are an easy out.
How about impossible? For some at least. Not everyone is born Leonardo da Vinci or at least capable of something. Most people can only afford to work a lot and make basic living… barely build a family… - even that thing highly dependent on luck.
So choice is regular routine life or virtual world.
Many people make children, try to live that regular life just to find there isn’t much to it, and it easily gets nightmare. Perhaps they would wish they never decided to have kids, but they can’t afford to torture themselves with such a thought. What a broken world… or is it so only if you actually think about it that way? Idk… does family life even works any more? Some say it does but I don’t really believe them.
I got five kids, 2 out of collage, 2 in collage and 1 in an International Baccalaureate high school program.
I find time to run my own bussiness, spend time on some games, and I have epic weekends every weekend.
I know that we are blessed, and I know most peoples life’s are not like mine. I believe in the American way, everyone can become something if they try hard enough.
Most people will just drag their feet, expect someone to do all the work for them, and wait for money to just fall in their laps. These types of people deserve to fail.
I think you missed my point… You can add that 2nd scorp… or a firebug to a scorp build - which would probably be completely stupid. Or build a one BigRam one Hover build. The freedom to build things that are absolutely META brilliant OR beautiful and functional art builds OR stupid looking art builds that barely work OR even something so completely broken it doesn’t work at all is what makes XO better than the rest. There are only a couple of games out there I know of that offer anything like it (RoboCraft comes to mind), but none approach the aesthetics of XO. Even with them sometimes venturing into styles I’m not fond of, it still looks amazing.
I reject that dichotomy.
Real life can cut you off at the knees and make everything a desperate affair.
No one I know who is struggling with a regular routine life is struggling because they were cut off at the knees… none of them had cancer, got hit by a meteor or whatever. They’re all there - at least in large part - by their own actions & inaction.
…and when I was 7 we didn’t have indoor plumbing. I’m no silver spoon snob saying that.
Delving into a virtual world to escape is kinda like drugs or alcohol. It’s fine in very limited quantities. The problem is that people find that shallow level of joy much more appealing than a larger joy that comes from actual dedication.
Ironically… people ask “where is the joy in this game…” Like… if you’re not getting joy from the game, why are you here? Go do something you enjoy & quit wasting your life.
Right, why obsess with that someone else it doing with their life, if they’re happy doing what they do then surely they don’t care about your thoughts on the matter.
Imagine being so obsessed with the life of someone else and how they live it lmao
Meh… I dunno, man. I have only ever known a couple of people who didn’t have a choice in life.
If you’re referring to me being obsessed, yeah no. I do get concerned and confused at how people live their lives… and genuinely concerned for their well-being.
These games are designed to be addictive. Literally. There’s plenty of science out there as to how it’s done and how crippling it can be.
If I see signs people are addicted to it, and they HATE the experience to boot, I do find that troubling.
It is just a forum for a game, and maybe Aladin is just playing a character on here. I dunno…
When I suggest people find something better to do with their time, I don’t mean that in a judgey way. I mean that in the way I’d tell a friend. Go have fun. Smile. Be happy.
Well, I know some of these people. Spent some time in a children’s cancer ward myself. When I did outreach for the homeless, I met a lot of fatherless men, abused women, and veterans of various wars with stories I guess only I heard and understood…because I can relate, I guess. Lucky me.
It’s nice that life for some of you has fallen well within your skill set and abilities, but I know what it looks and feels like to be overwhelmed with circumstance beyond your control (that is a thing). It can be so bad that some people don’t actually survive it. I guess nobody is around to tell their story, because they died in the field, or alone in the exhaust leaking car they were living out of, overwhelmed, I presume…or maybe they just weren’t trying hard enough? I’m sure it was all their fault, right? Boot straps and all that is Disney theater, IMO.
If you think life can’t throw you a pitch fast enough to kill you, or destroy your life, you are dead wrong. If you think you succeeded in life all by yourself, and did it all on your own, by the strength of your own might, will, and determination, you’re full of schit. That’s the guy I’ve never met.
Well, like I said… Life can cut you off at the knees. I know that full well. Some folks are born into a situation worse than others will experience on their worst days.
Most folks who are struggling, though, especially in America or other 1st World Nations, aren’t there because they were cut off at the knees or dealt a crippling blow.
It doesn’t help that we have a tendency to try to tear down our peers when they do better than we do. The “crabs in a bucket” mentality is brutal.
My two best friends are one guy with a crippled right arm (got hit by a truck when he was 9), and a Desert Storm veteran, who had his career stolen from him while he was away serving as a Medic…which is basically a doctor/priest called to give last rights to those overwhelmed by gross reality.
I myself have a child born disabled, so maybe you just need to get out more? There’s an America that you have no idea exists. Count your blessings, and pray you don’t join their ranks.
We humans are subject to addicts. We all have some kind of obsession. As long as the obsession is NOT on the extreme level and/or it causes harm to people around us.
I have been a tabletop gamer way before all this computer and console games.
Unfortunately, many tabletop gamer like to gain upper hand over others with whatever they can get away with. Same as some players on computer games.
For me, playing games as a hobby would be a far better choice than gambling or drug using. As long as we are NOT being too extreme about it.
I would like to say my opinion, to be able to maintain a long-lasting happy way to get, just to achieve their own feeling good things, but not how much money spent, or other in accordance with the theory to support things should be good, such as in the game with dawn children’s parts to design a high-tech vehicles, or cannon overbearing firing process, rather than simply how much victory and in accordance with the recognized relic powerful ideas to get the relic, if you want to find happiness in the game, then give up some inherent ideas, just feel the content of the game, and then ask yourself what you really admire in the game
I’m working today.
My birthday is on the 5th of July, so I’m playing a little catch-up to have extra time.
Also, i have posted on the forum drinking a mix drink in a cabana poolside many times on this forum. But, My version of relaxing, even on the forum, is not really your business.
Oh, I’m aware of exists. I could recount own tales.
The point I’m making poorly is that the people I see complaining about how hard life is typically aren’t even really trying. Heck, that aren’t even really struggling.
The people I have known who have been cut off at the knees typically - miraculously recover in time and don’t complain.
Thanks to my empathy I can’t spend more than half an hour in that kind of a health care. But I’ve had to go to the children hospice. I barely can make myself lie to the children that they are gonna be fine and all. And they probably know it.
That makes me respect one of my friends who comes there regularly with his wife and his pets for children to play with… respect even more, aside from what that man has had accomplished already.
Maybe it’s because they realize quickly that nobody actually gives a schit. My friends don’t complain about it either (not to outsiders anyway), but I’ve known them long enough to be familiar with their travails. I do hear their stories, and watch them unfold in real time. I knew my Army friend before he went to Iraq, and I’ve seen the devastation that came to him…after he got home. What happened to him while he was over there is understandably unspeakable, and he doesn’t share it with just anybody.
My father did 11 years in Vietnam. People couldn’t stand it when he told his story. It was usually coupled with violence I’m sure was mild by his standard, but nonetheless traumatic to bystanders who would not only not give a schit about his travails, but usually put him behind bars for expressing it.
I have my own story, but I too have learned that nobody gives a schit.
People are often liars (“I’m fine how are you?”), and often surprise their “loved ones” with their own suicides. I have a list of those people too; people who surprised their loved ones, because they didn’t talk about it, and just said, “Oh no, my life’s great.” So at this point when I hear people bragging about how grand their life is pool-side, I take it with a grain of salt. I’ve heard that schit before. Been to the funeral.
I like you, kid. I’m not saying you’re an ass-hole or anything. You’re not. As far as I can tell you’re in a good place, and work hard to keep it that way. Good for you and your kids. But, you have to know, or will inevitably learn that life is a bitch, and it isn’t ever something people overcome by themselves, merely by their own wits and wisdom, ever.
