簡介:
This video reflects my real-life experiences with videogames
I offer the following as a lesson to all those willing to listen -BRIAN
How best to say this
Understand that I’m not the kind of person
to sit in front of a microphone and believe that
what I think will have any profound meaning to your lives.
But you see,
although what I have to say may upset a few of you,
a few months ago I had one of those life changing moments
that forced me to realize that I’ve made a lot of stupid mistakes in my life...
And you know what they say: "Make films about what you know."
The problem was, why should the thousands of you now watching this
believe me when I say that, videogames were to blame?
Understand that I’ve played videogames my entire life
starting with Atari+Nintendo right up still just a few months ago.
Over the years, I could only calculate that I've lost
1,000 of dollars and 10,000 of hours of my life to them!
But when i considered their effect on my life
I had to face the fact that years of gaming
had not made me smarter!
and button mashing had not improved my reflexes...
I was not a kung-fu master , I couldn't properly swing of sword!
And in a zombie apocalypse...I probably wouldn’t last five minutes!
We often forget that videogames are “entertainment”
That means beyond making you feel good
they have NO lasting value...
Regardless of how important they may feel to you,
there is NO place on a resume for X-Box achievements...
The real pain behind my years of videogames addiction
was that I never realized their TRUE costs
Sure, it was just a few hours here or there...
but over three decades
I'm not just sickened now by the amount of my life I've spent,
But , more-so by all the important stuff
that I willingly pushed aside to make time for games.
For the sake of entertainment, I was willing to
give up sleep, health, and ambition... for what?!
We fool ourselves into thinking that virtual achievements
and virtual friends are adequate substitutes for real-life ones...
To be blunt, video gamers seem to be fine
giving up their real lives for simulated ones!
full of depression and loneliness...
I now know the true cost of gaming
are all those lost years that i could have spent
with friends, creating art, or being a better husband...
Three months ago, I had to face the facts
that I was alone, overweight and divorced...
If there is a moral to this lecture,
it's that as much as we may want one,
life does not have continues...
For much of my life I was eager to trade away
countless opportunities, friendships and love
for experiences that don't really exist...
I guess what I'm saying is,
it took me a long time to figure all this out,
and along the way, I missed out on a lot of life...
At the risk of sounding like an afterschool special,
Don't allow something as stupid as videogames
consume the best years of your life,
at the expense of all the greatness you could achieve.
Consider this my promise,
That's a mistake I don’t plan to make again...
(MY RESOLUTION)
DO THINGS THAT CREATE VALUE
NOT CONSUME TIME
Here are the things you can do with the time it takes
to make one level 80 character in world of Warcraft:
Drive from NYC to LA 3 TIMES
Read "War and peace" AND "Moby Dick"
"Huckleberry Finn"
All 7"Harry potter" Books
Sleep 3 more hours a night
Run 12 Marathons
Cook 48 Turkeys
Write your grandmother 500 letters
Learn Spanish & French
Take 1 college class
WHY SO SERIOUS? !!!!!!!!!!!
the average player makes 2-3 level 80 characters
Now I know a lot of you are going to be
angry or confused over the things that I am saying
Call me whatever names you like...
Pretentious or not...
understand, that while I don’t hate videogames
or the people that make them,
I'm still worried about
their overwhelming negative effects
that they've had on my generation...
But, half-way through animating this film
I came across a documentary about the Penny Arcade con.
and, that's when it hit me...
healthy gamers do not dwell away on the games...
but instead, embrace the community!
while there may not be any value in the games themselves,
anything that brings people together
and builds communities that embrace who you really are,
can't be half bad...
As I scan through the images of very different people
all united by a common interest
it gives me hope that something good may still come out of all this
We are the first generation forced to find a balance
between letting technology improve our lives
or risk allowing it to dominate us...
In reality,
Does Warcraft or Facebook improve your social life...?
Or are you sitting at home along?
Either way
the only thing I know...
is that I will never find out sitting alone in front of my TV
and neither will you...
Whatever you choose, remember
In this game, you only get one life...
LIFE IS TOO SHORT
TO WORRY ABOUT
HIGH SCORES HAHAHAHA