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40th Anniversary of Video Games
CFN writes "According to this article in the New York Times (free registration...), this month marks the 40th anniversary of Spacewars, the very first video game ever created!
It's very interesting to consider how quickly the popularity of video games grew, because, essentially, Spacewars was spontaneously generated. I guess there is something about blinking lights, flashing colors, and tinny sound effects that just appeals to the soul." Unfortunately, there was no violence before 1952,
because we all know that violence is caused by video games.
Oh, and I had a great version of spacewars that I used
to play on a portable PC (Compaq with like a 5 inch green
screen and a wopping 4 mhz!) when I was short. I loved
that game.
As such I'm currently making the same salary as each of my parents who have been in thier jobs for 25+ years each. And I'm only 24.
I've seen others who were the sports players and jocks working the counter at the local mini-mart. They are still single and still acting like they are in high school. I'm married with my first kid on it's way.
All that time *not* playing sports with other kids as a child means that you didn't realise that saying things like this makes you sound like a pompous prick.
You make several errors in your post.
Firstly, you assume that you have a better life that someone else because you make more money. There is more to life than money. Quite a lot more. I for one would rather have an enjoyable, exciting life, out playing football, getting into fights and taking drugs, than be rich and sat at a computer all day like a miserable little nerd. I bet those people are much more down to earth, more exciting and more sociable than people who spend all day staring at a screen.
Secondly, you assume you are superior because you are married. I notice you use the term 'still single'. That is an assumption that marriage is a goal everyone aims for, and is the be all and end all of relationships. That is an incorrect and rather narrow-minded assumption. You may be married, but how many relationships have you had? How many women have you laid? Being married at 24 is a terrible waste of a life. Think of all the hot, attractive women out there that you'll never get to sleep with. Think of all the women you'll never meet and be intimate with because you're married.
I suspect the reason you have this attitude is merely envy. The sports players you see working at the supermarket have probably laid dozens of birds, all attractive, with large breasts etc, whilst all you have is a single woman you've had to lock yourself to in order to avoid losing. Maybe you realise that while they're out having fun, shagging loads of fit women, you're stuck at home with your wife and kids.
There is more to life than being stuck in a bland, empty life with lots of money.