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Pretty much my stance on things, only replace work (my job was a joke) with school >_>
I did the college routine in the field of programming for a year, but that was when I was offered the full time position so I took it. In retrospect, I'm glad I did. I ended up with approximately $25,000 in student loans after a little over a year's worth of classes and a solid way to pay it off slowly, whereas had I continued with college I would have ended up with approximately five times that in loans and then the task of finding a position of employment, which would have meant a move (probably out of state). I'm comfortable living where I do and have been here all my life so it's a choice that I'm happy with, despite it being somewhat strenuous on physical stamina.
On the note of RPG's, I always loved my consoles as a girl and I have a good 40 or 50 I have stored away which I've played an hour or less of that I've wanted to play for a long time. There's a really neat-o site out there called
rpgamer that's an archive of all things RPG, console and mmo, old and new. It's got reviews of any RPG to ever hit any console, from the 8 bit era of the nes and genesis, to the new generation of the wiii and ps3 and 360. It has titles unreleased in america, and even stuff that never made it to completion (Like earthbound 64, a game I really wanted to play at the time. Sucks it got canceled.)
I'll always be able to find a game I want to play, and with e-bay you can find even the oldest games among them. So after I put down FFXI I'm looking forward to that. The story lines of some games I've played have been incredible (like the Lunar series originating on the PSX) and quirky games (like earthbound) and games with just hella fun battle systems (like disgaea). With all this (plus the fact that new mmos come out regularly) I'll never be starved for want of a new adventure, and consoles can take 40-100 hours to play through anyway. In addition to all that, as my screen name suggests I'm into anime! I can think of a good 8-10 anime series I wanna watch just off the top of my head, giving yet another venue of passtime beyond this game.
It's been much easier to enjoy my playtime in ffxi since I let go of my anxiety of getting hacked. I've set up the strongest security I can, adding not just noscript and adblock to firefox, but flashblock as well (preventing any and all flashes of any form from running without my ok). But no matter what I do there is never a perfect security, and S-E's customer service in the matter has downright sucked. If I end up getting hacked and am unable to recover my account I'll simply move on and remember all the memories of the good times I spent with friends. I'm also a consumer, and I'll remember this disservice next time I want to purchase a product from any company as well. No mmo lasts forever anyway, and in the end the greatest disservice of the hackings will be not to any one individual, but to the mmo genre as a whole. If the RMT have decided that from this day forward they will hack every mmo (as it seems they have) it's gonna be a severe deterrent to new MMO's taking off. As it stands, my interest in new mmo adventures is lost because I don't feel I'll ever be safe due to the nature of the cyber world and the fact that a perfect security is simply impossible.
I know that's a bit log winded, but that's my thoughts on the matter. The day I let my entertainment stress me out and eat away at my mind is the day I need to step back and rethink my stance on it. My gaming is my escape from the hassles of the world, I can get enough of that by logging out and going to work (or grocery shopping... or any other life endeavor for that matter).
Edited, Sep 3rd 2009 7:09pm by Melphina
