Poll: Gaming & partying & wasting time.

[manic_depressive13]

You're complianing about people who criticise your past time while denigrating theirs. Most people consider things they don't personally enjoy to be a waste of time. Others consider things which are not directly beneficial to their future career to be a waste of time. As far as I'm concerned if someone is doing what they want to do they are not wasting their time.

 

[Auninteligentname]

I don't go out and party and drink, so if thats the kind of party I'm invited to, I would stay home and game.
If I however was invited to a social gathering with my friend or some people from my LARP group,where we watch movies or play video/board games, then I would skip my new game, and join the social gathering. The new game could wait for a day.

I am sorry but if larping is your idea of a party I must of skipped a generation. What about going to a micro brewery and trying some smoked dark ales and half a roasted pig. Some hot girls and strip monopoly where you can get more money with discarding clothing is my idea of fun.

What? Larping =/= partying. Could you point out where I implied that Larping=Partying? (So that I don't make that mistake later)

Keep the Ale, I'll take the pig.

 

[Vault101]

I don't go out and party and drink, so if thats the kind of party I'm invited to, I would stay home and game.
If I however was invited to a social gathering with my friend or some people from my LARP group,where we watch movies or play video/board games, then I would skip my new game, and join the social gathering. The new game could wait for a day.

I am sorry but if larping is your idea of a party I must of skipped a generation. What about going to a micro brewery and trying some smoked dark ales and half a roasted pig. Some hot girls and strip monopoly where you can get more money with discarding clothing is my idea of fun.

I think you missed the point

the point being it doesnt matter "what" your doing but who your doing it with and if you find it enjoyable

 

[Vault101]

It's good to have variety.

I think the reason people are so hostile is that we are told constantly that the absolute best thing to do in exisatance ever is party/drink/do srugs and all that...when it simply isnt true for alot of people

so people get all reactionary..much like if you acuse somone of being sad for liking games or imply games make you a psycho

 

[Brandon Logan]

Last Friday I finally got a Steam copy of Borderlands. Played that Friday with some bros. Was good. Made noise. Bought Ginger root beer cause we wanted to see how it would taste. And generally had a fun time. A party is what ever you make it.

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

Most of my good friends are gamers.

When we have a 'cocktail party' we are usually setting a tank on fire.

 

[Techno Squidgy]

I've been out of highschool for 11 years, & I'm sure this hasn't changed much, but teen logic dictated that parties = fun & if you did not party, you had no life. My experience with parties was boredom, my observation was that you had to either be high, drunk, or absolutely guaranteed to get laid to actually enjoy them, & if you're dependent on a drugs & alcohol to have fun, then exactly who is the one with no life?

I can actually see going on a raid in a game with a bunch of friends, or having 1 or 2 buddies come over for classic multiplay being a far more enjoyable & constructive "waste" of time than anything you can do at a party (short of getting laid, which isn't likely for most of the attendees). & exactly how is gaming a "waste" of time? Should be be out farming, cooking, cleaning house, & building cat trees to take up our free time?

So it's Friday night & you have a new game & were invited to a party. Whcih are you going with?

As a fan of drinking, dancing and good company, I'd go to the party. However, most of the parties I go to I know at least half of the people there if not 75%+. That said they aren't usually massive affairs. I think only once have I skipped out on a party to play games and even then I'd had a pretty big argument with someone else going, who I simply couldn't be bothered to deal with.

 

[Doclector]

Depends what party. For example, right now, I'd say no because I'm stuck in a town for the summer in which there's nowhere good to go. My "friends" here who I am beginning to tire of, often insist that "it'll be fun" and it won't be.

However, if I had somewhere good to go, I'd party. I can play games any time, although I go out regularly when I can, I'd rather not miss out.

Ultimately, it depends on two things; Where I'm going, and who with. Some places are more or less guaranteed good, and some people have a habit of dragging you to parties that are basically horrible, and most annoyingly, trying to convince you it's fun, like they need you for some reason, and are trying to convince you to change what makes you happy so they can hang out more.

 

[Padwolf]

Gaming for me! Parties are not really my thing. I'm 21 now and all parties I have been to include all the girls getting off with some guys, everyone getting drunk and smoking weed or just plain smoking. People getting drunk I don't mind, I've been drunk before. I don't see the appeal of it. I do more crazy stuff when I'm sober than I do when drunk. I don't need that stuff to have a good time. The smoking I can't stand because people keep doing it indoors and it turns the rooms into smoke. I don't drink much because I can't stand the taste, aside from berry cider. I don't do drugs because screw that, I'm perfectly healthy and I'm not going to ruin that to sit looking like an idiot for an hour when I could be up and about having a good time.

I like to meet up with my friends in a pub or something on the rare occasion, but partying and clubbing just isn't my thing. Especially clubbing. Just don't like dancing with a bunch of other sweaty people I don't know.

I'd prefer a night at home, a couple of bottles of cider and a great multiplayer game and food with my real friends. Or on my own. I do love the days and nights I spend playing league of legends with my boyfriend. That game is so much fun.

 

[Lilani]

Because everyone who drinks does all of the above, which is exactly why 90% of the adolescent population is in prison.

Honestly, the fucking people in this thread.

I think everybody needs to stop making absolute statements in this thread, because that is where the arguments are coming from. It's basically becoming "the people who think alcohol is always good" versus "the people who think alcohol is always bad," because the two like to make blanket statements and the people they miss get offended and cry out.

Personally, I don't like alcohol in a party situation. Maybe one or two with a meal, as long as I have a designated driver, or when I'm at home by myself where I'm nobody's problem but my own. But if other people want to deal with alcohol and all the problems it could possibly come with, more power to them. I just ask them to make sure they aren't putting everyone else in danger. Be as irresponsible as you want when it comes to what an how you drink, but don't you fucking dare get behind a wheel. I don't care if you're the most clear-headed drunk in the world. Stay off of the fucking roads.

 

[major_chaos]

alcohol is a wonderful mood enhancer -- whatever you enjoy sober, you enjoy ten fold while drunk.

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.

Because everyone who drinks does all of the above, which is exactly why 90% of the adolescent population is in prison.

Honestly, the fucking people in this thread.

First off I have nothing against drinking, its people who start with the goal of getting wasted off their ass that bother me, second I have encountered very few drunks who weren't destructive in one way or another, and the few "fun drunks" I have run into are just as bad because they tend to either spew a constant stream of increasingly incoherent nonsense, or completely lose any sense of personal space, and odd as it may seem i'm almost bothered less by the times I have been punched out of nowhere because someone has consumed so much Yeager that they cant remember their own name, than I am by having someone stick their face so close to me that our foreheads touch and then proceed to "talk" to me compete with a constant stream of alcohol breath.

 

[Delsana]

Well let's think about this.

At mostly every gaming party I know of it's just Halo and immature banter, CounterStrike which I stand by as being a terribly balanced and designed game as well as immature banter, and possibly DotA, LoL, or some other crappily designed game.

These don't seem very interesting or desired. I'd much prefer to go to a game party where we watched someone break into a new RPG, while enjoying fine wine and cigars or some similar situation.

Sometimes a party can be big or small, some involve things like getting drunk and all that, other times there are more niche interest gatherings (like a cigar one for instance), and other times it's just about watching a movie together and eating. Hell sometimes it's about a board game and there are some great board games. So yeah... I think people have different concepts of both what a party is defined as and what it consists of / is enjoyed at them.