2013-01-26, 08:37 PM
FrozNlite Wrote:All of these posts simply underscore my point that this game has evolved into exactly what Americans want these days: entertainment with instant gratification.
Yeah, training for 12+ hours a day for three months straight is boring at times, but you know what made it not? Talking with friends on Ventrilo/Skype. Watching T.V. or movies while cycling and OHKOing a map. Yeah it would get repetitive, but there's a certain peacefulness in the humdrum of routine.
Welcome to life, kids. Life doesn't give you a job for two hours, upon the completion of which you'll earn thousands of dollars and be able to go on a vacation for a week. Life is all about dedicating enormous amounts of time doing much of the same tasks so you can survive, and if you're smart enough, work hard enough, know who you are and what you love and are ambitious enough to get it, you'll find a career and a life for yourself that, while perhaps boring and repetitive to others, are engaging, interesting, and worthwhile to you.
So in addition to meeting some incredible people I'm beyond glad to still call great friends today, grinding to 200 on MapleStory when it actually took time and effort taught me a few other indispensable life lessons: patience, resolve, and the humble understanding that to accomplish something truly great and impressive in this world, be it on a virtual pedestal or worthy of a Nobel Prize, it takes tremendous amounts of time, effort, and dedication. You can't just call it "boring" and give up after two hours, unless your desired destination is nowhere.
So, in summary, "kids", life is work 100%, and if you desire anything outside of the feeling of being at work or doing something that has no joy in it, you're a fucking immature piece of pomegranate and you need to learn FrozNite's life lessons or you're not ready for life, bro. LIFE. MAPLESTORY IS LIFE.