The Fine Art of Time Wasting: Video Games
Created | Updated Oct 20, 2010
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Once thought to make a child lethargic and sluggish, it has now been proven to make a child lethargic and sluggish. <BR/>
Video Games are computer generated time wasting programs that are controlled by way of some sort of controller, or by that rectangularish thing in front of you with the buttons on it, also known as a keyboard. The player controls a graphical representation of a person or thing, trying to proceed to a creature, or challenge, often called a <b>Boss</b>. Once the player has destroyed (they're quite bloodsports, Video Games are.) a set number of bosses, the game is over. Often, the game has the option of two or more person play, thus prolonging the wasting of time.
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The beginning of mind numbing for the masses began, like most forms of entertainment, when some slacker in a govenrment operated nuclear power plant got bored and decied to do something other then what he was paid to do, which, thanks to modern technology, was sleep and drink excess amounts of coffee. An aspiring programmer, said slacker took to his unsactioned work like a hormonally challenged teen take to his father's playboy. In other words, like a shot. After some semi-coherent assembly he managed to make the world's first computer game: <b>SpaceWar</b>. However, unlike most slackers, he showed off his project, and was promptly fired for being a time-wasting moron.
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Video Games are an appropriate waste of time for mind numbing enjoyment, and considerably cheaper in the long run then other forms of entertainment, like having unprotected sex or drinking grossly enormous amounts of alcohol. Despite this, many hitchhikers won't find time to do this unless they plan on an extended amount of time in one area. And if they do plan on staying an extended period of time in one place, it probably would be advisable to pursue the aforementioned pastimes, instead of becoming a pale, acne ridden techno-geek like so many afflicted with this horrible time waster.
Once thought to make a child lethargic and sluggish, it has now been proven to make a child lethargic and sluggish. <BR/>
Video Games are computer generated time wasting programs that are controlled by way of some sort of controller, or by that rectangularish thing in front of you with the buttons on it, also known as a keyboard. The player controls a graphical representation of a person or thing, trying to proceed to a creature, or challenge, often called a <b>Boss</b>. Once the player has destroyed (they're quite bloodsports, Video Games are.) a set number of bosses, the game is over. Often, the game has the option of two or more person play, thus prolonging the wasting of time.
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The beginning of mind numbing for the masses began, like most forms of entertainment, when some slacker in a govenrment operated nuclear power plant got bored and decied to do something other then what he was paid to do, which, thanks to modern technology, was sleep and drink excess amounts of coffee. An aspiring programmer, said slacker took to his unsactioned work like a hormonally challenged teen take to his father's playboy. In other words, like a shot. After some semi-coherent assembly he managed to make the world's first computer game: <b>SpaceWar</b>. However, unlike most slackers, he showed off his project, and was promptly fired for being a time-wasting moron.
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Video Games are an appropriate waste of time for mind numbing enjoyment, and considerably cheaper in the long run then other forms of entertainment, like having unprotected sex or drinking grossly enormous amounts of alcohol. Despite this, many hitchhikers won't find time to do this unless they plan on an extended amount of time in one area. And if they do plan on staying an extended period of time in one place, it probably would be advisable to pursue the aforementioned pastimes, instead of becoming a pale, acne ridden techno-geek like so many afflicted with this horrible time waster.
