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Open Letter To All The People Who Play Games On The Internet. And PC Games Generally

All of you people – boys and girls, men and women, who play games on the internet and PC games generally for hours every day: get a life! Stop wasting your time. Because time is money. Big money. Because if you would have spent the time you’ve wasted on all those stupid PC games on something worthwhile, like getting a new qualification, or learning a foreign language or reading a good book, you would have been able to earn more money. But that is not all. Some people, who get hooked on the virtual world of PC games, start to lead their lives as if they are themselves living in a virtual reality. They get weird  names for themselves, talk in a strange way, experience random fits of rage and even become aggressive and violent. Because PC games mostly generate bad vibes and bad vibes... 

PC Games Imitating Life? Or Taking Over Real Lives?

Alex Nekrassov jnr writes: The recently released The Sims 3, the third part of the trilogy brought to us by the giant games publishing house, Electronic Arts, once again allows the player to ‘construct’ a life of an individual or a of whole family. You build their lodgings, you create their personalities, you choose the clothes they wear, the food they eat and you pick friends for them. You mentor them through every stage of their lives, including their school years, their first job, marriage and even their death. You can understand Electronic Arts’ reason for releasing the third title in the series – the game has been a cash cow for the company and is one of the best selling PC titles in the world. The developers have targeted the game at a universal audience: its content... 

Reaction To My Article On Internet And PC Gamers Was Varied. Very Varied Indeed

We have received a lot of comments regarding my article about Internet and PC gamers that was written in the form of an open letter and dedicated to my son, Alex. It appears that many of our readers feel strongly on the subject and some were even genuinely offended by my suggestion that playing PC games for hours often amounts to a waste of time.The most amusing commentary came from one of my son’s friends, Al, who wrote that, obviously, I was exaggerating when I wrote that my son did not play PC games at all. Al wrote that he knew of cases when Alex did actually join a group of Internet gamers, although he accepted that my son was not a fanatical gamer. Several women readers actually expressed their strong dislike to the whole practice of unlimited gaming and complained that their children... 

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