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Computer games and real life: how to stay within reason?

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Not so long ago I was introduced to one of the plot computer games. I'm not a gamer, so I watched and listened very carefully. And here are the conclusions I came to.


Firstly, in such games you can try yourself in a variety of roles and work out, albeit at a basic level, a variety of skills for life. If you made the wrong decision and lost, you can start all over again, go the other way and continue going through various solutions and methods of action until you find those that suit you, will be in tune with you and acceptable to you.


Secondly, I am impressed by the fact that you do not look at what is happening from the outside, but participate in the process: you make this or that decision and see its consequences (true, this participation is illusory, and it cannot replace a live, real participation in events).



That is, roughly speaking, playing a computer game with a plot that interests you, you study danger from a distance and work out skills that can then be useful in life. It's like a training camp.


Unfortunately, in the modern world, things are such that many people (especially teenagers and people who are not psychologically mature) are absorbed by staying in this training camp, discourages the desire to live a real life and causes gambling addiction and psychological problems. And, alas, not everyone has the guts to go out with these skills acquired in a safe environment into an unpredictable real life, where you are not protected by anything, and replenish and revive the personal experience gained in a game situation by interacting with real people in real, not artificially simulated circumstances.


And more. No matter how well a computer game was thought out, no matter how high a level it was made, the options for the development of events in it are limited by the imagination of its creator. And the number of these options, no matter how many of them, at first glance, is also limited.


Life, unlike the game, is completely unpredictable. And it is impossible to calculate with mathematical accuracy how one or another of your actions will turn out. To make assumptions about this, based on facts, intuition, various versions gleaned from more or less reliable sources, as well as on the basis of what I encountered in computer games — yes, it is possible. To determine unambiguously, all with the same mathematical accuracy — no, it is impossible.


But that's what real life is good for, that's what its whole taste and color is, that it is full of uncertainty and unpredictability. And how much drive is in this! How much adrenaline! How the blood boils! How my stomach cramps! How it sucks in the pit of my stomach from curiosity and impatience — what will happen next. Can you do it or are you weak? How will that person react to your words? What will this one do as a result of your decisions and actions? What is the next step on your part that will be the most effective and successful? Is it better to do this or that?


Every day is like a riddle, like a mystery to be solved, like an adventure. Not a dot, but an ellipsis…


You can train some skill in computer games, but it's worth living in real life. No game can replace it, no matter how exciting it may be.


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