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Birthday Recount, Hello 23!
My Birthday was on the 30th of April and I have to say that this was a pretty awesome Birthday! Well I guess it didn't start out so well I will admit that. That's right Zephyi got broken up with the day before her birthday :( BUT it's okay! I am over it! We decided that we are better off as friends. :p
Anyways! On with the most amazing things! A few of my in game WoW friends got together and helped me get the last few achievements I needed to get the final Achievement Glory of the Hero! just after Midnight on my Birthday. Which worked out amazingly. They spent a total of about three hours helping me get Abuse the Ooze, My Girl Loves to Skadi All the Time (in which Skadi dropped Reins of the Blue Proto-Drake and Killerpalli won the roll but gave it to me as my birthday gift :D) Ruby Void, The Incredible Hulk and just after midnight on my birthday it's self we got Zombiefest! Winning me my achievement and my Reins of the Red Proto-Drake! Yay! I have the most amazing friends sometimes!
Anyways! On with the most amazing things! A few of my in game WoW friends got together and helped me get the last few achievements I needed to get the final Achievement Glory of the Hero! just after Midnight on my Birthday. Which worked out amazingly. They spent a total of about three hours helping me get Abuse the Ooze, My Girl Loves to Skadi All the Time (in which Skadi dropped Reins of the Blue Proto-Drake and Killerpalli won the roll but gave it to me as my birthday gift :D) Ruby Void, The Incredible Hulk and just after midnight on my birthday it's self we got Zombiefest! Winning me my achievement and my Reins of the Red Proto-Drake! Yay! I have the most amazing friends sometimes!
Zephyi on her Red Proto-Drake
I got the normal gifts from family, you know new converse, jeans, and girly stuff from the mother and sisters :p The greatest gift ever came from the Best Friend Luella! She got me a watch with World of Warcraft Logo in it *giggles* she was so excited to have it sent all the way from Hong Kong! Which I find absolutely amazing personally. Along with the watch she got me the hunter pin from J!NX, the ultimate stop for all gamer/geek/nerd ware! So that I can represent my class of choice!
Luella's Gift To Me
Speaking of Luella and Birthdays! For her birthday this year I came up with the idea of making her Hearthstone Brownies! I figured that she would love them and she did. I also got her the first book of the Warcraft Series Day of The Dragon, that way she can start to work her way through the lore herself instead of turning around and asking me :p I joke! She can ask me at any time, I love her questions because she makes me think more about the lore and what is going on in the world!
Hearthstone brownies, made by yours truly!
Alright! Enough about Birthdays! Recently well reading through a one of my favorite sites The Jace Hall Show I was shocked to find a two posts on two different news casts done by CNN, attacking gaming and more specific on one of the World of Warcraft it's self.
This kind of stuff really upsets me. As Jace so nicely put it:
"It is my opinion that human beings are capable of creating destructive relationships and associations with almost anything. Seeking pleasure and avoiding pain is a fundamental trait of the human condition. This trait can occasionally direct people toward the use of escapism. Sometimes this can be a necessary mode of survival and very healthy – other times is can lead to counterproductive personal and social behavior."
Meaning that anyone can addicted to anything that holds a place of interest in their world. Be it drugs, gambling, reading, drinking, sex, working out, watching movies, and even eating. Yes, video games can be among those things but to right attack World of Warcraft and blame it for all this kids problems is WRONG! Obviously there was issues there before hand. His parents even said that he was what we would refer to as a "nerd" and often times, high school and society can be hard on people who tend to fall under that label. Now I am the first person to hate labels but the reality is that yes people are treated differently depending on their "social tag". As his mother states Ben was "far more animated then we had seen him in years." Is there something so wrong with a game allowing someone to find themselves in the world?? And the fact that the people here are stating that he had become "anti-social" is wrong. To play and to actually excel in WoW you must be social. Just because you aren't sitting there talking to the person face to face doesn't mean you aren't being social. In fact for people with social anxiaty disorders it is a lot easier to talk over a voice system then to sit there in an uncomfortable position and have a face to face conversation. Here they can be themselves without having to worry about a panic attack or stuttering or so many other things. And eventually it gets to be easier to talk and helps build that self esteem you need to function in society.
What's the difference between talking to someone on the phone and talking to them in game?? A lot of people in today's world want to sit here and say that games are so bad because they stunt social abilities but the reality is that they actually help. To get something done in any online game where you are playing with others you need to be able to explain it to the fullest and allow everyone to understand what is going on and for that you need social skills!
Now yes, Ben did get addicted to the game, but like I said before there is something else that needs to be looked at here. Addiction is not because of the game itself, the depression is not brought on by the game. There is a larger factor here, you need to step back and take a look at the family and the life around the person. As the report itself says, most people in this case use the game as an "escape hatch" here they are in a fantasy world where people look at their stats and what they can bring to the game, not at their apperance, not at if they can sit there and talk to you face to face without having a panic attack, and it offers all these people a way to relax and function. And yes some of these people do get addicted but I reiterate it is not the game causing these people to get "addicted" it's something else going on in there life and with them as a person. To out right attack the game and EVERYONE that plays it is wrong, and a poor choice on CNN.
The problem that most people in society have with video games and the like is that they don't understand how someone can sit there and play for hours. Now here is my point, I don't understand how someone can sit there and watch a mindless TV show for hours and hours a night. At least with gaming, I have to think. I have to react. My mind is functioning. And specifically with World of Warcraft I have to be social. Not just sit and stare a box that lights up feeding me information, that mind you tends to be very bias. But I don't attack you for watching the TV do I?? No, I smile and I let you have your TV shows well I sit there and play my video games.
Another issue to look at here. There would have been no issue in the parents eyes with Ben had he gone to school gotten the grades and came home and did his homework and then sat in the sollitued of his room for hours on end depressed as can be. The fact that he was affected by a game and for once in his life was "animated" well doing something caught their attention. Ben was one of the unlucky few who couldn't find a balance in playing and life itself. In all honesty I feel bad for the kid because for those few months he was something! He had self esteem and a social life, and made memories that will last him the rest of his life. Had he just found that balance.....he would have been okay.
Now onto the third and final thing of the day! CNN's second video on Gaming!
Luella's Gift To MeSpeaking of Luella and Birthdays! For her birthday this year I came up with the idea of making her Hearthstone Brownies! I figured that she would love them and she did. I also got her the first book of the Warcraft Series Day of The Dragon, that way she can start to work her way through the lore herself instead of turning around and asking me :p I joke! She can ask me at any time, I love her questions because she makes me think more about the lore and what is going on in the world!
Hearthstone brownies, made by yours truly!Alright! Enough about Birthdays! Recently well reading through a one of my favorite sites The Jace Hall Show I was shocked to find a two posts on two different news casts done by CNN, attacking gaming and more specific on one of the World of Warcraft it's self.
This kind of stuff really upsets me. As Jace so nicely put it:
"It is my opinion that human beings are capable of creating destructive relationships and associations with almost anything. Seeking pleasure and avoiding pain is a fundamental trait of the human condition. This trait can occasionally direct people toward the use of escapism. Sometimes this can be a necessary mode of survival and very healthy – other times is can lead to counterproductive personal and social behavior."
Meaning that anyone can addicted to anything that holds a place of interest in their world. Be it drugs, gambling, reading, drinking, sex, working out, watching movies, and even eating. Yes, video games can be among those things but to right attack World of Warcraft and blame it for all this kids problems is WRONG! Obviously there was issues there before hand. His parents even said that he was what we would refer to as a "nerd" and often times, high school and society can be hard on people who tend to fall under that label. Now I am the first person to hate labels but the reality is that yes people are treated differently depending on their "social tag". As his mother states Ben was "far more animated then we had seen him in years." Is there something so wrong with a game allowing someone to find themselves in the world?? And the fact that the people here are stating that he had become "anti-social" is wrong. To play and to actually excel in WoW you must be social. Just because you aren't sitting there talking to the person face to face doesn't mean you aren't being social. In fact for people with social anxiaty disorders it is a lot easier to talk over a voice system then to sit there in an uncomfortable position and have a face to face conversation. Here they can be themselves without having to worry about a panic attack or stuttering or so many other things. And eventually it gets to be easier to talk and helps build that self esteem you need to function in society.
What's the difference between talking to someone on the phone and talking to them in game?? A lot of people in today's world want to sit here and say that games are so bad because they stunt social abilities but the reality is that they actually help. To get something done in any online game where you are playing with others you need to be able to explain it to the fullest and allow everyone to understand what is going on and for that you need social skills!
Now yes, Ben did get addicted to the game, but like I said before there is something else that needs to be looked at here. Addiction is not because of the game itself, the depression is not brought on by the game. There is a larger factor here, you need to step back and take a look at the family and the life around the person. As the report itself says, most people in this case use the game as an "escape hatch" here they are in a fantasy world where people look at their stats and what they can bring to the game, not at their apperance, not at if they can sit there and talk to you face to face without having a panic attack, and it offers all these people a way to relax and function. And yes some of these people do get addicted but I reiterate it is not the game causing these people to get "addicted" it's something else going on in there life and with them as a person. To out right attack the game and EVERYONE that plays it is wrong, and a poor choice on CNN.
The problem that most people in society have with video games and the like is that they don't understand how someone can sit there and play for hours. Now here is my point, I don't understand how someone can sit there and watch a mindless TV show for hours and hours a night. At least with gaming, I have to think. I have to react. My mind is functioning. And specifically with World of Warcraft I have to be social. Not just sit and stare a box that lights up feeding me information, that mind you tends to be very bias. But I don't attack you for watching the TV do I?? No, I smile and I let you have your TV shows well I sit there and play my video games.
Another issue to look at here. There would have been no issue in the parents eyes with Ben had he gone to school gotten the grades and came home and did his homework and then sat in the sollitued of his room for hours on end depressed as can be. The fact that he was affected by a game and for once in his life was "animated" well doing something caught their attention. Ben was one of the unlucky few who couldn't find a balance in playing and life itself. In all honesty I feel bad for the kid because for those few months he was something! He had self esteem and a social life, and made memories that will last him the rest of his life. Had he just found that balance.....he would have been okay.
Now onto the third and final thing of the day! CNN's second video on Gaming!
First of all let me say that those people that walked by, even the lady he helped are all the scum of society. How hard is it to pull out a cell phone and call nine-one-one?? Not hard at all. You don't even have to stick around just give them a point to arrive at and leave.
Now here is my problem with CNN. Why attack video games over this?? What the hell does video games have to do with this at all?? You want to look at something where violence is being pumped into society, look at the news! It's not often that I see a "nice" news report anymore. It's all this person killed this person and this person raped and pillaged the land, and so on and so forth. I mean I turn on the News today in the middle of the day when children are normally getting off of school and what do I see?? A sex act happening in the class room and the teacher doing nothing to stop it! A husband murdering his wife in cold blood. A male teacher raping a child. And to top it all off a MOTHER raping and killing her daughters playmate and then burying the child's body off somewhere so no one will find it. And yea video games are the spawn of the devil that makes perfect sense to me, what about you?? (please note sarcasm :D)
Alright for all you gamers out there one last thing! We need to support the fist amendment rights in games and sign the petition to protect them! There is no way this is fair to allow them to sensor what goes into our games and what we can or can not play as a society! That would be like them telling us what we can or can not ready! That is called Book Burning and I don't know about y'all but last time I check we do not live in Fahrenheit 451.
Zephyi
Now here is my problem with CNN. Why attack video games over this?? What the hell does video games have to do with this at all?? You want to look at something where violence is being pumped into society, look at the news! It's not often that I see a "nice" news report anymore. It's all this person killed this person and this person raped and pillaged the land, and so on and so forth. I mean I turn on the News today in the middle of the day when children are normally getting off of school and what do I see?? A sex act happening in the class room and the teacher doing nothing to stop it! A husband murdering his wife in cold blood. A male teacher raping a child. And to top it all off a MOTHER raping and killing her daughters playmate and then burying the child's body off somewhere so no one will find it. And yea video games are the spawn of the devil that makes perfect sense to me, what about you?? (please note sarcasm :D)
Alright for all you gamers out there one last thing! We need to support the fist amendment rights in games and sign the petition to protect them! There is no way this is fair to allow them to sensor what goes into our games and what we can or can not play as a society! That would be like them telling us what we can or can not ready! That is called Book Burning and I don't know about y'all but last time I check we do not live in Fahrenheit 451.
Zephyi
