I absolutely hate people telling me what defines my set of friends. I have social anxiety, and I find it very hard to hang out with more than 4 other people in a social environment without feeling like I need to slip into the shadows. Online gaming has allowed me to do something that I like with much more than 4 people at a time, and carry on intelligent conversations.
The friendships that I have created in some of these games have lasted longer than many of my work friendships, and I feel that I know many of these people much better than those that I would call "friends" at my work places. We keep in touch via email outside of the game, and also meet up with each other if we happen to be in the area traveling.
Who are you, or ANYONE for that matter, to judge what constitutes legitimate friendship? Perhaps online clans offer more companionship and friendship and acceptance to your friend than you do, and therefore he felt a stronger bonding with them.
Instead of pointing your finger at your friend for how much time he's spending/spent online, perhaps you can be happy that he's having a good time and maybe getting a void filled in his life.
I think that it would be pretty cool to see location-based games on PDAs with GPS-enabling on them. People who play RPG games and are of the "explorer" type would be a good target for this game. I'm partly in the explorer sub-section, and I could see myself taking my PDA out to collect a special something or to go to a certain location to fight a location-specific monster.
Not sure I'd want to use the phone, though...would much prefer the larger screen and arguably better processing of a PDA
Don't have pics, but I did this back in 92 as my science project in H.S., although I used balsa wood for the track and the train both, and used a little electric motor/prop for sending it down the track.
The wood tended to cause quite a bit of friction between the car and the walls, but other than that it was pretty cool to have the thing fload down the track. Plexiglass would definately work better as a surface.
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I absolutely hate people telling me what defines my set of friends. I have social anxiety, and I find it very hard to hang out with more than 4 other people in a social environment without feeling like I need to slip into the shadows. Online gaming has allowed me to do something that I like with much more than 4 people at a time, and carry on intelligent conversations. The friendships that I have created in some of these games have lasted longer than many of my work friendships, and I feel that I know many of these people much better than those that I would call "friends" at my work places. We keep in touch via email outside of the game, and also meet up with each other if we happen to be in the area traveling. Who are you, or ANYONE for that matter, to judge what constitutes legitimate friendship? Perhaps online clans offer more companionship and friendship and acceptance to your friend than you do, and therefore he felt a stronger bonding with them. Instead of pointing your finger at your friend for how much time he's spending/spent online, perhaps you can be happy that he's having a good time and maybe getting a void filled in his life.
I think that it would be pretty cool to see location-based games on PDAs with GPS-enabling on them. People who play RPG games and are of the "explorer" type would be a good target for this game. I'm partly in the explorer sub-section, and I could see myself taking my PDA out to collect a special something or to go to a certain location to fight a location-specific monster.
Not sure I'd want to use the phone, though...would much prefer the larger screen and arguably better processing of a PDA
Don't have pics, but I did this back in 92 as my science project in H.S., although I used balsa wood for the track and the train both, and used a little electric motor/prop for sending it down the track. The wood tended to cause quite a bit of friction between the car and the walls, but other than that it was pretty cool to have the thing fload down the track. Plexiglass would definately work better as a surface.