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Muckraker  Posts: 275 Joined: 21 Jun 2008     | |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1679 Joined: 2 Jan 2008     |
That's awfully judgmental of you. You didn't know his grandfather-- he could have been a total asshole. I wouldn't go to a total asshole's funeral. And even if he wasn't a bad guy, I doubt the man will hold it against him. |
On the Record  Posts: 6849 Joined: 23 Dec 2007     | Nothing comes to mind that I skipped to play games... |
Paperboy  Posts: 36 Joined: 21 Jun 2008  | I missed a kidney transplant when I got Halo 3... |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2848 Joined: 12 May 2008    | I denied my friends EXTREMELY enthusiastic request to go to a concert. That would be the last time I heard his voice. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 4204 Joined: 20 Dec 2007     |
Wait does this count? I mean, you sacrificed gaming for gaming....I think we found a loophole in the thread. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2618 Joined: 10 Nov 2007   | Slept on the floor* for a year because I had a poky student room that could only fit a bed or a computer in... *Well, a roll up futon, anyway. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3235 Joined: 8 May 2008 |
or just a loop I skipped putting my dog down to play games...I'm not syaing I just didn't take her I just couldn't bare to and watch so I stayed home and played mario |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1542 Joined: 11 Jul 2008  | Dont think you did really, more that you couldn't handle taking him yourself, I'm sure you would have if you'd been the only one that could, I was the same, I felt like I should, he was 'my' dog, but I was fairly young still, and my parents stepped in and took him. I can't remember what I did while he was there, but I can understand trying to involve my mind in a game to block out the thoughts...damn this is a downer of a topic. |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 120 Joined: 27 Jan 2008  | I'm not sure if this will count, but I put all $700 inherited from my dead Grandma, a full paycheck, and some extra cash from my parents into building an excellent gaming pc. Also, I have to mention my prom night because everyone else brought it up. I didn't go my Junior year. Instead, I had a gaming party over at my house with five close friends. I called it the anti-prom and it was badass. I decided to go to my Senior prom because I figured that I'd regret not going in like 50 years or something. I wore a tuxedo t-shirt, and a suit jacket borrowed from my dad over it (because there was a dress code of sorts) jeans, a spike collar, and a pink cowboy hat. I drove my friend and his date, but his date got along much better with me because he's apparently scared of women. We stayed for about an hour, left because it sucked, and spent a few hours at a local console LAN center playing Halo 2 (yuck!). Still it was more fun than the prom, in mean no one was even dancing. What a load of crap! |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1667 Joined: 8 Apr 2008     | Nothing. I may like gaming, but I appreciate the finer things in life even more. In fact, just recently I simply gave up LotRO partially because it was the source of many fights between myself and my girlfriend. Although, when I think about it I'm sure I skipped a Christmas party or two to try out new games. |
Anonymous Source Posts: 9 Joined: 9 May 2008  | i've skipped losing my virginity (earlier) more than once.......family parties......work........school.........dates........ a rave...........and random army shit that i just didn't want to do...... on the plus side before i started gaming i had worse than 20/20 vision.... now it is better than 20/20 (yes) it is possible look it up lol |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 884 Joined: 9 Jan 2008   | Nothing of any importance, but thats because nothing of any importance really happens, hence more time for me to game. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1208 Joined: 2 Mar 2008   | Meals, the ability to sleep properly (Now I have full blown insomnia), though that might just be 'cause I detest sleeping, and, in 10th grade, for about 4-5 months, I completely destroyed my ability to properly feel emotions. Not freaking joking. Now, instead of being emotionless, I'm just kind of emotionaly messed up. Unless I'm playing video games, any emotion I feel becomes anger. If I am playing games, then emotions are what they are. |
Beat Writer  Posts: 188 Joined: 11 Jan 2008  | nah i can't say i missed anything important because of games. to be quite honest, i don't game much anymore. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 2848 Joined: 12 May 2008 |
I think your using games a scapegoat here, to mask the truth and avoid getting to the root of your problem. |
Paperboy  Posts: 18 Joined: 14 Jul 2008 | I almost missed the birth of my son to play morrowind |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 60 Joined: 14 Nov 2007  | I've skipped or given up too many things to list; so here's a few. Skipped my Junior and Senior Prom. I've ran my eyesight into the ground (I use to were 24 hour contacts but after having fallen asleep with them in time and time again I had deprived them of oxygen for far too long.) I also have skipped out on making "normal" friends I guess lol, Everyone I'm friends with now are pretty much full fledged geeks. (I don't care but others seem to notice.) |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2475 Joined: 1 Nov 2007   |
wow...thats bad. Thank god its an "almost" |
Paperboy Posts: 37 Joined: 4 Jun 2008 | Sleep, food, school, friends and my 9th grade graduation (I didn't give it up, I just didn't want to go, so i played games and spammed the forums) |
Paperboy  Posts: 32 Joined: 28 May 2008  | i skipped school because tf2 launched at 10 pm xp think i skipped a test some time |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 2848 Joined: 12 May 2008 | I also took a week off work because I had "GTA Fever." |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 1208 Joined: 2 Mar 2008 |
What problem? This is how I am. I'm comfortable like this. |
King of the Yetis  Posts: 2530 Joined: 15 Jul 2008  | I guilted my mom into buying me my first gaming pc the day of my granddad's funeral. |
Beat Writer  Posts: 155 Joined: 15 Jun 2008  | Whoa...what's with the death and funerals and stuff :( I give up the traditional stuff: food, sleep, work, "friends" (note: my closest friends seem to understand the way I am and rather just accept it...but also, the majority of the close few are gamers too...) But I've done nothing to jeapardize important relationshps..(well, actually, I've had someone break up with me, but w/e, that doesn't count) nor academics or career recently. |
Paperboy  Posts: 29 Joined: 18 Jul 2008 | Back in Vanilla WoW i used to skip parties/birthdays to go raid BWL/AQ40/Naxx. :D |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1485 Joined: 20 Jul 2008  | Pretty much gave up any and all efforts to go outside and meet new people outside of work and threw away any hope of losing my virginity anytime soon. But then again I'm rather bitter by now so I don't think it would happen anyways. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 4365 Joined: 22 Jun 2008   |
Lol, gaming isn' always a mojo-restricter. Try and get a girlfreind play halo 3 online she might even like it and her views on games might change. Then again getting a girlfreind is the hard thing in the first place. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 1485 Joined: 20 Jul 2008 |
Thanks for the nice thoughts and effort but by this point in life I've pretty much given up on dating and what not. Just do my job, go home, play games, eat, shower, sleep and then do it all over again come morning. |
Copy Clerk Posts: 109 Joined: 23 Jan 2008  |
Well if you're gunna be like that.... no, but seriously, cute girls aren't that bad and if you get into the CORRECT mindset it can be the most fun 'game' you'll ever play :) |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1324 Joined: 26 Mar 2008  | Work. On quite a few occasions. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 1485 Joined: 20 Jul 2008 |
I don't follow you, what you do mean by cute girls aren't that bad and what "correct mindset" do you mean? |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 653 Joined: 27 Jun 2008 | Work, food, sleep. Skipped out on prom, mostly 'cause my girlfriend turned out to be a total psychopath, and because I really didn't want to waste a lot money on shit I'd regret buying the next day. I went out and bought The Boondocks box set that night. Good times =). Skipped out on the funeral of some great-aunt of mine to play Fallout 2 again. Thankfully, my Mum was never mad about it, seeing as how I didn't know the aunt at all. I dunno, mostly just stuff I'd skip anyway, even if I didn't have a video game to play. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1363 Joined: 16 Jul 2008 |
Am I the only one reading this comment and thinking "get out of his business"? He is an adult, he probably already knows. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 1485 Joined: 20 Jul 2008 |
Well I am wondering about that whole "correct mindset" crap because I can read most women the same I can read a book that's printed in Latin. |
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Like a few have said- eyesight
You disgust me.