E-gaming.

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I don't know how many of you folk play games.  Consoles such as ps 4 or xbox, computer gaming, or the handheld units some of which are interactive with consoles now, sharing some games and usable as controllers, all offer various content with some overlap.  Oh, and not all of it is hardcore gaming.  They have created content for just about everybody.  Yes, your momma too!  No joke, if it is funny, at least to me.  Of course, what they play isn't exactly what true gamers play.  And, yes, there is a difference.

Some believe gaming is an addiction.  And for some people more than others, it is.  Though in truth, most gaming has some element of that.  Some of that comes from having very old aspects to our brain and a very new living paradigm.  Even fifty, but certainly an hundred, years ago, we were struggling to keep food on the table and a roof over our head.  We really were.  Today we have very little difficulty finding food.  Even at midnight, living in a berg that would have been consider the boondocks just thirty years ago, and I can drive in and by fast food or go to a store and buy less processed/ready foods.  It's a different life.

Without the push just to eat, stay moderately clothed, and find shelter, we look for something to fulfill that need and want for a driving factor.  Most of us realize we really can't change, certainly not fix, the world.  Socialists and communists believe that, which is why they are so driven for politics.  If they ever realized the truth, and that even if they do change the world, given who and what they are and how they do things, that change would definitely be for the worse, we might have a better world (and more gamers).  Many of us realize the only thing we might be able to improve is ourselves.  And, if that happens to make the world better, it is more likely to be through example.  Not quitting, not choosing the easy way, not taking what isn't ours, even if supposedly for someone in need.  And, actually, gaming offers considerations regarding self-improvement that civil socialism and communism can't offer.  Verified better scores, expanding a mind in order to explore ways to solve problems, both in game and life, that might not otherwise have been considered.

Of course, gaming can be taken too far.  So, too, can television/movies/reading.  As can even education.  Have you ever met those types who have half a dozen masters and ph.ds but who have never worked?  Further, much of the education is phony.  They just learned how to get the answers for the quizzes and tests, without actually learning the material.  There are those who stick so much to the real world, as well, that they know nothing else.  They are known as workaholics.  Everything can be taken to extremes, and most things will be, if they are satisfying and more available, or seemingly available, than other/better options.

For me, it is something I can do when all else fails.  It keeps me from dropping into a cavern of nothingness.  Medicine has been helping these last few years.  But without something to do, something that isn't to physically demanding, yet gives that feel, I would be sleeping a great deal more than I am.  Regardless what you may have heard, sleep is death.  So, for me, often, games are a lifeline, for the mind.  They even help the body, in some ways.

In any case, over the next week or three, I am hoping to discuss various topics related to gaming, at least for me.  Subjects such as open world versus small and linear, means for producers to raise or lower difficulty and which of those I prefer, among other topics.  To be honest, I don't think there are many who don't play.  Even my mother games!  And, yes, she takes her gaming seriously... if I chuckle at her choices.  Then again, to a degree, that is exactly what I started with as well.  Yes, gaming.  I will be discussing much.  Just... not until I return.  Hmm... I may take a notepad and, for when I'm not at the hospital, so as to work on some of these notions.

I have been considering taking a book of short stories.  I'm not sure if my friend would care to be read at though.  I'll ask him when I arrive.  I sort of wish I had some of the ebooks in physical form.  I meant to do that, but got lost in life and illness.  Some of those, even the end time ones, are pretty good and generally short enough, some of them, to be read in a fairly short session.  Perhaps I could just read off my smartphone ereader.  Reading to someone ill is a good practice, mind you.  Can't talk a lot, and have little else to really do.  Depends on if he can stay interested or at least enjoys the notion.

Later.