Regrets

I got to a point when I was in, I think, grade nine, where I went through something similar with video games. I was actually obsessed with some girl at the time and I started pursuing her interests instead of mine, only to have my heart broken when she ended up getting impregenated by a pig farmer...anyway.

I started to feel that video games were a complete waste of time and that they were childish and useless. The image of a controller, like a bright coloured soda can, became reminiscent of juvenility. I stopped playing video games altogether even when I wanted to. The entire video game industry pulled ahead of me. At the time, it was quite lame to say the 'gaming' industry, that's how long ago I fell off.

I missed out on Devil May Cry, the post-VIII FF titles, Halo (and all other X-box titles), the sequal to Shenmue (which I was very interested in), the Smash Bros sequal...the only thing I didn't miss out on was Vice City. My best friend, he never stopped playing and he would still continue to try to talk to me about video games, and what's coming out, and after about a year or two of dry conversation, he realized, in horror, my stance on the subject, and he said, with a broken heart, "Dude...you don't like games anymore, do you?"

And I remember reading this in Gamepro magazine: People don't stop playing video games because they get old. People get old because they stop playing video games.

In even a Tyler Durdenesque way, isn't it fucking pathetic to stray from what you like because you want to conform to an idea of what a person should be?

Television is the same, but my breaking away from it was different. I genuinely fucking fucking hate television. Commercials put me into a commotose state where pieces of my love for humanity etch away. Every time I see an actor being fake to sell a product of any kind, it makes me feel ill. Any time I see a car or a piece of furniture or some electronical equipment being advertised as something cool, it quite literally heats up that spot on my head where my hairline is receeding. I hate talk show hosts. I don't find any sitcoms funny. I can't stand 9/10 comedians. Adult swim's random, pseudo-edgy humour seems to me like a clever format for making jokes without any sort of real work imbedded within, and I have a hunch that offensive humour only works half the time because people are laughing to prove they're not offended.

I got away from television before these hour long shows had any real effort put into them, and I know of many people with good taste who fiend on these shows, so maybe they're good. I don't know. I can't sit still anyway.

Don't know if this is appropriate but well.....LMFAO

A pig farmer? There's a story there.... =)

Regrets are the beginning of our life.

I wonder...does she have any regrets getting impregnated by a ham head?

We need a thread that consists entirely of Nightrious talking about beauty. 

My regrets are average and I don't have the interest or the ability to make them fascinating.   

Nightrious, u still got de hots for her. Bro (assuming yer not a lesbian) you need lye

 haha

 i regret wasting money on "shit we don't need"

but then what would i have done with the money i didn't spend?

hmm

i regret a lot. i feel like changing my whole lifestyle, but i'm only 16 and living with parents so what choice do i have. when i was 10 or whenever i used to think, "when i grow up i'm gonna get all my clothes from the gap." how sick was i?

 thanks =) i'm thinking of that cliche that goes something like don't look behind you and look ahead of you, lol

haha, well i was a hs football coach, so i rattle off motivational cliches automatically when i hear a teenager sounding negative.