Living with ulterior gaming motives

It’s a funny thing being a gamer with ulterior motives. Normally we would spend hours each night playing our latest find, or maybe even forcing our way through something we hate just to say we did . But then comes the all-important bit of living life, the part that means we need to work, talk to people and complete a checklist of things society expects from us . Now, I’m not saying there’s anything bad about this. On the contrary I think it’s pretty great having more than just one part of your life fulfilled. It’s the others that make this life so funny, we all know that friend that grew up, he or she would be the front man in high school when we wanted to play games . That same person is now part of a family and hasn’t been online since this console generation got announced. Their friends sit in a corner and scoff, “they used to be so fun, now it’s all family”. Yet, from the other side it’s the gamers that are scoffed at, it’s hard to see at first. ...