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Joined: May 29 2010 Posts: 168

I haven't played any video games for a good 2 or 3 months so I'd think I'd do pretty well. As long as computers and internet don't count as videogames, which my parents seem to think they do.

Joined: Dec 06 2007 Location: Connecticut Posts: 11244

I could live without video games for a year with little to no problem. I would have a very hard time without a computer though.

I haven't been playing many games lately due to the large amount of time I have been dedicating to physical exercise.

Posted: Jun 13 2010 11:40 pm

Maybe then I could get on with the drawing and the writing that I so easily postpone.

Also, I'd save a considerable amount of money. That can't be bad.

Joined: Mar 01 2010 Posts: 126

I've never spent that much money on video games, until recently.
I bought 8 Gamecube games over the entire lifespan of the console, the last of which was Twilight Princess. On Xbox360 I bought 6 games from January 2008 to december 2009. But since December, I bought 11 games and a PS3. But that's mostly because of my new job taking up so little of my time and that it required me to move to a tiny rural town of about 900 people.

Also, I wasn't earning my own money until 2000, so the Gamecube is the first console I actually bought my own games for, and I only started making good money in mid-2008.

But the job I have now pays very well and I'm getting off in February 2011, so I'm taking some of the money I earned and making it last twice as long by living elsewhere.

Joined: Dec 06 2007 Location: Connecticut Posts: 11244

Grover wrote:

Also, I wasn't earning my own money until 2000, so the Gamecube is the first console I actually bought my own games for, and I only started making good money in mid-2008.

But the job I have now pays very well and I'm getting off in February 2011, so I'm taking some of the money I earned and making it last twice as long by living elsewhere.

What field do you work in?

Posted: Jun 14 2010 09:27 am

My problem is is the internet....

I desperately want to start playing Fallout 3 again and complete it 100 percent yet I can't stop endlessly refreshing facebook, this site, and ebay. I seriously check those and like 3 or 4 sites every 10 minutes or so like I am on a crack binge.

Posted: Jun 14 2010 11:02 am

jerking off for a year.

Joined: Mar 01 2010 Posts: 126

I do contract work for the town I live in, mostly just garbage and recycling, but I've helped with mail delivery and fixing potholes and stuff.

Title: Kenka Bancho Joined: May 05 2010 Posts: 227

I'd like to say I'd get something productive done. but I imagine it'd take a month or two to get myself motivated again.

Posted: Jun 14 2010 12:20 pm

I think I've played 1 game in the last 6-8 months and that was Super Mario Bros Wii, So i suspect I would have no problems going without playing video games for a year. Give me a piano and a decent amount of sheet music and i'm cool.

Posted: Jun 15 2010 03:23 am

i'll_bite_your_ear wrote:

jerking off for a year.

You can do that while playing video games.

Posted: Jun 15 2010 03:55 am

slapolakinkaido wrote:

i'll_bite_your_ear wrote:

jerking off for a year.

You can do that while playing video games.

Exactly!

Posted: Jun 15 2010 07:38 am

I'd get to work on my game.

Title: General jackass Joined: Jul 29 2010 Posts: 182

I'm an RPG fan, so i would be forced to act like an RPG hero to stay sane.
The more people I kill, the more powerful I become! Twisted Evil

Posted: Jul 31 2010 04:03 am

Blackout wrote:

slapolakinkaido wrote:

i'll_bite_your_ear wrote:

jerking off for a year.

You can do that while playing video games.

Exactly!

Either way, you'll still have to deal with carpel tunnel syndrome.

Posted: Aug 03 2010 07:33 am

id buy smirnoff stocks then single handedly (bottle by bottle) raise the price of them.

Posted: Aug 03 2010 10:21 am

Grover wrote:

So what would you do if you had no video games for a whole year?

Posted: Aug 03 2010 02:43 pm

Catch up on TV shows, movies, and animu I missed out on, build Gundam models from time to time, work out and maybe learn a martial art, expand my musical tastes even more than it already is, ponder my future more, and hunt for a job more aggressively.

I'd still read news about games and talk about them, but playing them isn't as irreplaceable in my life as it was about 3 years ago.

Posted: Aug 03 2010 03:22 pm

All work and no games make Tako something something....

Gallery 2 · Posted: Aug 03 2010 03:58 pm

I've done it long time ago, so I dunno why it should be a big deal.

And that happened before the Internet became a big deal, so yeah.

Posted: Aug 03 2010 08:56 pm

I'd get to work on my programming project that I put aside two years ago.

Joined: Feb 16 2010 Posts: 130

The piano thing, the programming thing.
But mostly online poker.

Posted: Aug 05 2010 10:46 pm

Does video poker count as a game?

Joined: Jun 29 2010 Posts: 1818

Plan the perfect murder

Posted: Aug 09 2010 12:52 am

If I didn't have video games for a year I would do better in school, run every day, win state XC, make it into MIT and fulfill all my hopes and dreams. BUT THANK FUCKING GOD I HAVE VIDEO GAMES TO KEEP ME OCCUPIED! I would also probably try and find all the different kinds of porn.