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30-09-2014 05:06 AM
30-09-2014 05:06 AM
Games and other hypnotic activities
I love computer games, but unsure where to post this....
Do you have a favourite game? I enjoy the role playing genre, a left over from my very ill time. I am very much into " Skyrim" and the modifications one can graft onto the basic game. There is a lot of satisfaction walloping folk with a mucky great axe, although I would dearly love a character who could use a frypan like Sam Gamgee or from Terry Pratchett and the " Wee Free Men" tales.
Bioshock Infinite I also enjoyed but won't play the earlier games which seem potentially triggering.
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30-09-2014 07:10 PM
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30-09-2014 10:16 PM
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I reckon I am older than both of you. I remember playing Pong in the 70's. I didn't like it as much as I did pinball and air hockey. Is it something to do with my age that I don't get these new-fangled X-pod things?
3D graphics make me nauseaous. Nothing to do with age that; to do with my epileptic tendencies.
My hypnotic activity is drumming. That's when I forget about everything else except the beat. Focus and forget at the same time. And I get the hand-eye co-ordination improvement that you'll get from games. And that satisfaction of hitting things, not with an axe though, not on my beautiful kit.
Drums are a healing instrument, best played in company. Don't mention electronic drum machines. Evil.
Computer games as a source of fun. Not on your own? Really? Charades is fun. Not on your own.
Sorry Neb, I don't like computer games at all. I don't like them particularly for other people either. I think they might be too hypnotic. I see too many teenagers, too often, too obsessed.
Yours truly,
Disgruntled old man.
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01-10-2014 07:00 PM
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01-10-2014 07:23 PM
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01-10-2014 07:49 PM
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"...if left to their own devices." You mean your kids don't even have their own devices?
You are a Gruntly Mum.
iPads can be fantasic learning tools. I'd get one for 'Garageband'. If I didn't already have too many devices.
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01-10-2014 08:09 PM
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01-10-2014 08:52 PM
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Can't relate. Never married, No kids.
Just as well. I'd have gone to that workshop and been judgemental about the parents who didn't attend.
"Where are the ones that need to be here, it's their kids that are....." (Because they were bullied when..)
(And now too depressed to get out of bed.)
"Where are 'Johnny's' parents, don't they care?" (No, they were in bed, not depressed, 'ill').
I used to work with a young woman who had a 'learning difficulty.' Her mother couldn't keep her off Facebook. Understandable. Kids don't need to feel left out. Especially kids like her.
The three of us were all too often in the school principal's office because she was all too often duped into making Facebook 'boyfriends,' and these were kids at the same school. I felt so angry.
Just as well I don't have kids, I say, for now, who knows? Stranger things are happening.
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01-10-2014 10:09 PM
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Facebook..I love it but us oldies use it to share pics and stay connected overseas. The young kids however are responding to friends requests without hesitation. And that's after these kids have attended cyber safety workshops...which advised to Grade 5/6 only accept people you have met face to face in person. Yet many of the kids I know pay no need whatsoever... No doubt I am being a gruntly and a helicopter parent but seen lots of research that supports limited engagement online. Fine at school, let's switch off at home unless its study..