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Because I did not have a girlfriend until I was 17, really. And video games lasted longer than sex anyway. Old School Video Games that bitch-slapped my peers and me. Because back then they made video games to resemble life. They got harder and harder and faster and faster until you were dead. 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I play games always. My opinion changes monthly, even daily, on whether games stand on their own as literature, or as social dialogue, or as true escape from the drudgery of life. 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