Honestly you should go to the party. You won't be young forever and you can play games at any time.
Poll: Gaming & partying & wasting time.
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Yes, I party on a Friday. Yes, I get drunk most Fridays because I am at uni and it is fun.
A lot more fun than playing games on a Friday.
Yes, I party on a Friday. Yes, I get drunk most Fridays because I am at uni and it is fun.
A lot more fun than playing games on a Friday.
"No time is wasted that is enjoyed." To put it another way, they're both fun activities, so neither are really a waste of time. Also, what is it with all the anti-alcohol opinions on this site? I understand if your parents are alcoholics or something, but most of you just come off as prudes. Sure, I /can/ enjoy myself without alcohol, and often do, but alcohol is a wonderful mood enhancer -- whatever you enjoy sober, you enjoy ten fold while drunk.
Plus, I'm sorry, but it really is sad if you never hang out with IRL friends. Now that can be at a party, a LAN party, a movie night, or what have you, but the point is if your only source of socialization is the internet, something is wrong.
Plus, I'm sorry, but it really is sad if you never hang out with IRL friends. Now that can be at a party, a LAN party, a movie night, or what have you, but the point is if your only source of socialization is the internet, something is wrong.
I prefer gaming. Big social events aren't really my thing, so just hanging out playing some Marvel Vs Capcom with a mate is preferable to going to a party for me. Not to say that parties or events can't be enjoyable, but I tend to stay away.
While I do definitely prefer gaming than partying (yes I did experience the latter which I don't see the appeal being in a loud enviroment, deliberately damaging your liver and being covered in sweat) but I don't see gaming all the time to be good either. All I can say is that I had missed out meeting some ladies. I suppose trying to go out every once in a while couldn't hurt (unless it did go wrong on the night you choice to go out).
Since there is no like button, I have to quote.. the images here are pretty bang on to how I personally feel.Smeggs said:I currently have a girlfriend, so the getting laid part isn't really any issue.likalaruku said:
I don't drink because I refuse to be like my father and I don't do drugs because fuck that.
MEANWHILE, IN SKYRIM...
Parties have never really been my scene anyway. Like the OP said, mostly they equate to boredom, sitting or standing around making awkward conversation with random strangers and assholes you never intend to socialize with beyond that point. I find it far more enjoyable to spend that time at home, just relaxing, or hanging out with my actual friends driving around aimlessly and just shooting the shit.
I enjoy going to a party, heading out to pub/bar/club with friends, but frankly, I only do that every once and a while. Where I game a significant portion of the time I am not at work.
Party's are time sensitive. They won't be there the next day.
Games are not time sensitive. They will still be there a decade from now.
Thus, the only logical, not-retarded, answer is to go to the party because that's the only way you can have *both*.
Games are not time sensitive. They will still be there a decade from now.
Thus, the only logical, not-retarded, answer is to go to the party because that's the only way you can have *both*.
I used to party every single weekend. Day after day, getting fu'd up and raising hell. This went on for some time.Ultramatic said:
But now... I grew bored of it. I have little to no interest in that sort of lifestyle anymore, and I believe I'm completely burned out on it. This is only my own feelings towards it, and having lived that sort of lifestyle for some time; I can say for a fact that I know and understand the appeal of it. I still, on 'special' occasions will attend a get-together, join a friend at a bar, or go fuck with sum hoes in tha club.
But on a personal level, I just don't want to party anymore because I grew tired of it. I was always an introvert, and parties quickly more and more tiring than fun, and all 'bad' things about parties started to become more and more grating. I don't want to be around all that drama, drunk ass fools starting fights, gunshots, and running away from cops anymore. I'm too old for that shit now.
These days, I'd much rather hang back with a group of friends and pounding a few casual brews while we all play a game together or watch movies. And I have no reservations about playing a game all night on a Friday than partying.
But hey, that's just me. I've had my fill of parties, but I never have my fill of games! Especially new ones!
I love partying, I love drinking. I also love gaming, alone or with others. Personally the true waste of time is work. Unless you enjoy your work it is something that wastes your precious time on this planet. It is obviously necessary though, so I'm not advocating that you live off the social. Although, I suppose having to work does make the fun parts more enjoyable?
My usual circle of friends are all keen gamers. Thus, we combine the two.
Drunk Halo/CoD accompanied by music is very, very fun. And noisy. And just plain funny, too.
Drunk Halo/CoD accompanied by music is very, very fun. And noisy. And just plain funny, too.
yeah this is the truthpiinyouri said:
alot of close friends + a few new people at a place i'm familiar with and somewhat like at least? (i hate huge crowded parties, so that's why i said just a few.)
i'll probably choose the party, i tend to have alot of fun at those kinds.
however, if it is a new rpg that i've been drooling from the mouth over for a month or so, i'll definitely consider staying home and pulling an all nighter to play it.
Poll is too polar for me to answer, so I'll have to chose gaming.
And if your problem is alcohol, then non-alcoholic beer is even worse: the disadvantage of the taste with no advantage of the alcohol.
I have lost count on how many of my friends won't touch beer until they are completely shit-faced with vodka. Even Jim Sterling said in one Podtoid that he has to be under the influence to enjoy beer.
About the anti-alcoholic opinions:
- Some of them might have had bad experiences (read: "taken advantage of", take it any way you want to interpret it)
- It's hilarious when one or two guys are drunk in a group, but if you're in the middle of a group of drunk people it's terrible. Put a clean person in the middle of people tweaking on crystal meth, it's that awful. Don't forget designated drivers.
- Peer pressure: when other people want you to do it, it's probably wise not to
- People who hate it because of the portrayal of the "highschool" stereotypes on TV, realistic or not
- Hipsters (alcohol is too mainstream)
- Maybe they just don't like being under the influence/doesn't "do" anything for them, everyone is entitled to his tastes
- Alcohol is a depressant. I.E. you are not supposed to take it if you want your senses tuned in. If you have to walk back home at night drunk you won't even be able to avoid the muggers. Or you might get your ass kicked because you can't fight for shit.
- Again, maybe alcoholic drinks just taste horribly to someone, and they don't want to be seen with those girly drinks.
- Money. Adult drinks can be overpriced in the places around them. Probably it would be more cost-effective to just drink isopropanol at home and go party after that.
- Maybe the places suck and the "friends" suck, and no way alcohol is going to change that
- Concealed Carry - license holders in America are supposed to not have the gun before entering a bar/club and while under the influence they can't carry it anymore. Essentially turning the gun into an expensive hammer that must stay in the car while there are "nails sticking out the board", if you get what I mean.
To me alcohol is not like weed. I don't think that things get funnier. People don't become any nicer.
I can be a little hostile when sober, but drinking I doesn't make me any friendlier either. If you want a guy ruining the mood Max Payne 3 style and possibly headbutt others, make me hit the bar.
You're entitled to your opinion on alcohol and to enjoy it in the way you can, but there's no need to call people "prude" over the silliest thing ever - what they like to drink.
He's the funny part - you won't have to worry about it ever again about your reputation in highschool.ruedyn said:
Perhaps because the most common "adult drink" is beer, and beer is fucking awful in so many parts of the world. I feel sorry for Americans for that reason. In my country it's hundreds of times better than American beer, and it still sucks.Owyn_Merrilin said:
And if your problem is alcohol, then non-alcoholic beer is even worse: the disadvantage of the taste with no advantage of the alcohol.
I have lost count on how many of my friends won't touch beer until they are completely shit-faced with vodka. Even Jim Sterling said in one Podtoid that he has to be under the influence to enjoy beer.
About the anti-alcoholic opinions:
- Some of them might have had bad experiences (read: "taken advantage of", take it any way you want to interpret it)
- It's hilarious when one or two guys are drunk in a group, but if you're in the middle of a group of drunk people it's terrible. Put a clean person in the middle of people tweaking on crystal meth, it's that awful. Don't forget designated drivers.
- Peer pressure: when other people want you to do it, it's probably wise not to
- People who hate it because of the portrayal of the "highschool" stereotypes on TV, realistic or not
- Hipsters (alcohol is too mainstream)
- Maybe they just don't like being under the influence/doesn't "do" anything for them, everyone is entitled to his tastes
- Alcohol is a depressant. I.E. you are not supposed to take it if you want your senses tuned in. If you have to walk back home at night drunk you won't even be able to avoid the muggers. Or you might get your ass kicked because you can't fight for shit.
- Again, maybe alcoholic drinks just taste horribly to someone, and they don't want to be seen with those girly drinks.
- Money. Adult drinks can be overpriced in the places around them. Probably it would be more cost-effective to just drink isopropanol at home and go party after that.
- Maybe the places suck and the "friends" suck, and no way alcohol is going to change that
- Concealed Carry - license holders in America are supposed to not have the gun before entering a bar/club and while under the influence they can't carry it anymore. Essentially turning the gun into an expensive hammer that must stay in the car while there are "nails sticking out the board", if you get what I mean.
To me alcohol is not like weed. I don't think that things get funnier. People don't become any nicer.
I can be a little hostile when sober, but drinking I doesn't make me any friendlier either. If you want a guy ruining the mood Max Payne 3 style and possibly headbutt others, make me hit the bar.
You're entitled to your opinion on alcohol and to enjoy it in the way you can, but there's no need to call people "prude" over the silliest thing ever - what they like to drink.
To be honest, it really depends on the circumstances. If I've spent most of the day playing Battlefield 3 and my friends (who are really really cool people, no really, no peer pressure to do anything, you can do what you like and nobody will get at you for it) ask me if I want to come out to the beach and have a little party there, or go to an open-air bar and hang about and generally have a good time, you bet your ass I'll go out!
If, on the other hand, the people who invite me out want to go drinking then dancing in loud pubs (which I absolutely hate, except for if I'm dancing with my "good" friends) then there really isn't anything in it for me. I'd rather stay at home and play a game.
Truth be told though, my favourite parties are the sort that combine both that a friend of mine hosts whenever he visits Portugal, where I live (a few times a year for a few weeks at a time). He basically hosts a house party, guys and girls invited along, where we'll dance in his roomy basement to some good music for a bit, play Just Dance 2 on his Wii, hang around, chat, laugh, and generally have fun. After that, the girls leave (as well as the guys who don't want to stay the night) and the rest of us play videogames until about 4-5 in the morning, upon which we'll all sleep over and go home in the morning.
It's all a matter of perspective. If there's any wisdom I can share from my experience (I'm only 17, mind), it's this:
1. Make sure the people you're partying with are genuinely your friends and won't harass you if you want to leave early or don't want to do what they're doing.
2. Make sure they're doing something you want to do.
3. If you don't want to do it, have you tried it a couple of times before? If no, go try it a few times, you never know. I never thought I'd enjoy dancing in clubs but it's a LOT of fun with friends, I was very surprised. If you have tried it and don't like it, then don't go. Simple as. Stay home and do something else you enjoy.
4. Don't feel like you have to get drunk or laid to enjoy yourself. It's a common mistake. I have another really great friend who doesn't drink and doesn't worry about getting laid, and he always says, when people ask him why he doesn't drink, "sobriety is a LOT more fun if you do it right". It really is. If nothing else, you can sit and laugh at all the drunk people, can't you?
So yeah, that's my opinion on the matter. Hope someone decides to take my advice and ends up enjoying themselves. I'm off to a party with my friends at the beach in Cascais in an hour or so, and I know it'll be a lot of fun, even though I don't drink and aren't in it to get laid. (of course, if I can get in on the latter than cool beans!)
If, on the other hand, the people who invite me out want to go drinking then dancing in loud pubs (which I absolutely hate, except for if I'm dancing with my "good" friends) then there really isn't anything in it for me. I'd rather stay at home and play a game.
Truth be told though, my favourite parties are the sort that combine both that a friend of mine hosts whenever he visits Portugal, where I live (a few times a year for a few weeks at a time). He basically hosts a house party, guys and girls invited along, where we'll dance in his roomy basement to some good music for a bit, play Just Dance 2 on his Wii, hang around, chat, laugh, and generally have fun. After that, the girls leave (as well as the guys who don't want to stay the night) and the rest of us play videogames until about 4-5 in the morning, upon which we'll all sleep over and go home in the morning.
It's all a matter of perspective. If there's any wisdom I can share from my experience (I'm only 17, mind), it's this:
1. Make sure the people you're partying with are genuinely your friends and won't harass you if you want to leave early or don't want to do what they're doing.
2. Make sure they're doing something you want to do.
3. If you don't want to do it, have you tried it a couple of times before? If no, go try it a few times, you never know. I never thought I'd enjoy dancing in clubs but it's a LOT of fun with friends, I was very surprised. If you have tried it and don't like it, then don't go. Simple as. Stay home and do something else you enjoy.
4. Don't feel like you have to get drunk or laid to enjoy yourself. It's a common mistake. I have another really great friend who doesn't drink and doesn't worry about getting laid, and he always says, when people ask him why he doesn't drink, "sobriety is a LOT more fun if you do it right". It really is. If nothing else, you can sit and laugh at all the drunk people, can't you?
So yeah, that's my opinion on the matter. Hope someone decides to take my advice and ends up enjoying themselves. I'm off to a party with my friends at the beach in Cascais in an hour or so, and I know it'll be a lot of fun, even though I don't drink and aren't in it to get laid. (of course, if I can get in on the latter than cool beans!)
I think you have the wrong idea here, getting high or drunk isn't because people are dependant on them to have a good time, it's because while under the influence of certain substances certain things are magnified, which can vastly improve your experience, it's when people go overboard or develop an actual addiction that it becomes a dependancy.likalaruku said:
Also if you're totally against the recreational use of substances to improve your current situational experience, you're generally not going to fit in with most people, are unlikely to have fun in most social situations involving people with an opposing viewpoint, and why the fuck are you even at that kind of party in the first place?
Also the "guaranteed to get laid" part... NOBODY IS EVER GUARANTEED TO GET LAID, but if you think you won't you won't, getting laid is generally much, much, much harder to do when you've got a pessimistic outlook.
Also have you ever been high? Have you played games while high or drunk? I find that certain games feel so much more satisfying with a bit of a buzz from downing some whiskey, or smoking a bowl, but hey to each his/her own I guess.
But this all comes down to depending on the game, whether I had it pre-ordered and have been waiting a year or not is the real defining thing here, but I almost always would rather go out and hang out with friends, possibly have an adventure to give me more funny stories to tell, than sit on my ass alone and unloved in my home playing video games, which I can do any time I feel like it, as long as I'm not at work. Parties and gatherings aren't as conveniently available 100% of the time so I would generally do the party thing instead because I know I can always just game tomorrow.
Funny thing is, I used to be a reclusive and totally insular person... Now I hate that kind of life with a passion... why? Because I've seen the other side, I've been all over the board, and I know that while gaming is fun, if you go and experience and learn and grow socially, life outside gaming becomes SOOOOOOO much better than sittin in front of a screen.
First step is, stop taking yourself seriously, life is one big fat retarded joke, and if you take it, or yourself too seriously, you become the punchline, not one of the people laughing.
Second step, do not take heed of fear, social anxiety, though sometimes requiring medication(because sometimes it's a medical condition), mostly just stems from the prior, and from letting past experiences tint your view of how people see you, truth is people see you how you present yourself, they don't see you as awkward or laughable, unless you present yourself in such a way that they see that rather than who you are...
In reality, all these people striving so hard just to be "successful" are missing the point, and those who hide from life in an escapism driven state of fear and self loathing, are missing out.
Life is short, real experiences trump the fuck out of fake ones, success is a lie, and once you die, unless you do something so astoundingly good or horrible that you become an object lesson to people on a global scale, people including your family will forget you ever existed anywhere from 2-4 generations down the line anyway, so have FUN while you can.
Anyhow this is not meant to antagonize anyone, but to open your eyes, I game as a hobby, it has it's place, but I would far rather be camping with friends, or at a party, or other social gathering where I can share life and generate real positive connections with the world around me, whenever possible, than stay locked in a little room behind a screen, paralyzed by an irrational fear of the unknown(social success)... I was bullied all through school, I was suicidal for years, and developed a major self hate complex, why? because everyone in my peer group thought I was different and constantly made me feel less than human with a constant string of negative commentary and turning me into the butt of all their jokes... only later did I see that if I had taken myself less seriously, and been less of a stiff, I probably would've had a much easier time of things, y'know aside from being the poor kid(you can never escape bullying completely if you're poor and in school in a rich neighbourhood), and having family problems at home constantly(cuz seriously when your house is a warzone it gets kinda hard to do homework, or sleep propperly.), but if I hadn't been anti-drinking anti-smoking and anti-marajuana at least I could've had a social circle to support me and may not have fallen into the circle of depression lonelyness and suicide attempts...
And y'know what? I'm still geeky, have a quirky sense of humour, and I watch MLP, but because I don't take myself seriously, and laugh off most negativity, and tend to use comparative example to make people who TRY to make me feel shitty, feel pretty stupid themselves, I have no problem making friends, having fun, and generally just enjoying what I can.
Sorry for the text wall, it just saddens me to no end seeing people with (for all intents and purposes) the same view I held at the least healthy least happy point in my life, limiting themselves, or just plain missing the point to the point of missing out on great fun and good times.
After all, studies have shown that human beings tend to rely on social interaction to remain healthy psychologically, and that removing yourself from those situations for long enough can cause major negative neurosis to develop over time, crippling you as a human, and causing shit mental health... But hey, gaming all the time is fun right? And nobody ever has regrets in their later years over all the stuff they missed out on... No... nobody ever does...(heavily inferred sarcasm)
But yeah, feel free to call me stupid, crazy, wrong, or an asshole if you wish, I'll be busy hanging out with friends, celebrating life, and enjoying every minute of it.
Just wanted to point out that while you might be enjoying yourself the people you punch/throw up on/ destroy to property of/ crash into in your car don't enjoy it, and that is why I am against getting drunk. Just a thought.Owyn_Merrilin said:
OT: Game with friends. IMO the best way to do that is with split screen or a LAN party, but if that doesn't work out there is nothing wrong with playing with friends over the net. The parties I have been to were nothing I enjoyed, and some of the things that go on where downright awful, and yet I was told that's just how it was supposed to happen, so I gave up on that scene very fast.
Meh, I don't see the appeal of parties. It's just a collection of people either drinking heavily or dancing incomprehensively (most often the former begets the latter). I've gotten some flak from my friends in that regard, but understand that, since I don't drink, nor do I like being in public, the party scene is not for me.
ElPatron said:
Beer tastes awsome, you just have to get the right stuff. Even in America, there are some amazing beers being made. You're makin' me want to go get a bottle of Old Rasputin, a nice imperial stout.
If you're getting into fights while drunk, that's because deep down you're the kind of person who gets into fights. Driving drunk, same deal -- alcohol is not as bad for your judgement as the D.A.R.E. program and its imitators would have you believe. There are some things people just won't do, no matter how drunk they are. What those are depends on the person, and some people are just idiots who have no qualms about driving drunk. As for throwing up, if you're drinking to the point of puking, you're doing it wrong. You can be drunk off your ass and still not wind up vomiting. You just have to know your limits.major_chaos said: