After spending the better part of my life playing video games constantly, if not addictively since my childhood, I have comes to grips with something that sometimes is my darkest fear....what is gaming?
Now before you start badgering about your definitions, its not really to figure out the pure identity of gaming, but why are we so infatuated with things that aren't real that are hooked up to a controller?
Why do we suggest or praise a form of entertainment that is merely a mix of pixels, computer generated images, and quite clearly, is so interesting to stare at a 2D-screen for hours on end?
It's the same way with computers, while we can be out walking, working, doing charity work, signing papers for a higher cause...we just sit on our butts and stare at a screen with stuff moving around it?
Is it true that most of us don't see it that way and our brains suggest that we are watching or playing is actually a form of an internal two-dimensional psuedo-reality, similar to that of the film industry where our eyes and ears are suspended in disbelief even though logically there's nothing really there?
The people who binge-online games like Call of Duty, Battlefield, and Uncharted seek excitement and reward in a world that has no ties to reality, but somehow our brains process these set of images, movements, dialog, and such as a theoritical "hobby"?
Why is it so easy to become enthralled in a game like Pokemon when it's just a bunch of pixel characters or backgrounds moving from one side to the other, colliding with each other, doing battle movements on a flat screen that somehow tricks our mind into thinking something's actually there?
You can say something similar about books, how does several lines of text somhow switch on a button in your brain to where the story becomes alive through your supposed imagination?
Logically it's almost unexplainable but somehow our brains are almost toys, puppets to whatever visual concosion man has devised to sell or market as something sensual as "entertainment".
What do you think is the reason our bodies can find "reality" in a "world" for of "fakeness"?
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