07-21-2005, 12:00 AM
I also play alot of computer games although don't watch much TV and for sure the computer gaming makes it hard for me to communicate with others. What I mean in essence is that I can barely hold a conversation with someone standing next to me while I am engaged in the game, but that I find it to be excelent mental exercise to do so.
For exmaple here is a screenshot I took a few days ago of my world of warcraft character Devilsweed who was aptly named after datura stramonium of which I ate 5 times over the past 5 years of my life.
There are three icon bars full of spells and abilities and a seperate icon bar simply for control of my demon of which I have 4 and can use one at a time each with its own special abilities and functions.
I use control plus a # to control my demon and 1 - = keys to utilize my main icon bar and the mouse to control the camera angle and zoom as well as utilizing constantly the two other icon bars(of which I need to create hotkeys for some to increase by microseconds some of my counter abilities).
This creates an incredibly complex character to character environment and the only thing I do in the game anymore is play capture the flag ten vs. ten.
So bla bla bla etc. etc.
The game deifinitely tunes my mind out of its immidiate environment and makes it a sort of machine procesor of response times strategies and maximized potential. Needless to say very few people can beat my character in a one on one duel although the game is not perfectly balanced due to blizzard becoming a corporate sell-out company.
It was hard for my fiance to learn to give me the space I need to tune out of our lives and into Devilsweed at will but she instead found things to do with her time like myspace.com and doing poetry biographies at oldpoetry.com .
When we can both occupy ourselves on the web what could have been a thing that pushed us apart allows us to come together stronger when we expire form our web use and combine, again, physically.
I must say, though, I am excited to leave the house this weekend and go to nevada city for a kundalini yoga teacher training retreat with my fiance and our little yoga group that is like family.
For exmaple here is a screenshot I took a few days ago of my world of warcraft character Devilsweed who was aptly named after datura stramonium of which I ate 5 times over the past 5 years of my life.
There are three icon bars full of spells and abilities and a seperate icon bar simply for control of my demon of which I have 4 and can use one at a time each with its own special abilities and functions.
I use control plus a # to control my demon and 1 - = keys to utilize my main icon bar and the mouse to control the camera angle and zoom as well as utilizing constantly the two other icon bars(of which I need to create hotkeys for some to increase by microseconds some of my counter abilities).
This creates an incredibly complex character to character environment and the only thing I do in the game anymore is play capture the flag ten vs. ten.
So bla bla bla etc. etc.
The game deifinitely tunes my mind out of its immidiate environment and makes it a sort of machine procesor of response times strategies and maximized potential. Needless to say very few people can beat my character in a one on one duel although the game is not perfectly balanced due to blizzard becoming a corporate sell-out company.
It was hard for my fiance to learn to give me the space I need to tune out of our lives and into Devilsweed at will but she instead found things to do with her time like myspace.com and doing poetry biographies at oldpoetry.com .
When we can both occupy ourselves on the web what could have been a thing that pushed us apart allows us to come together stronger when we expire form our web use and combine, again, physically.
I must say, though, I am excited to leave the house this weekend and go to nevada city for a kundalini yoga teacher training retreat with my fiance and our little yoga group that is like family.