Thanksgiving and keeping life in perspective

Thanksgiving is at my brother Doug' s place this year, and it will be a great time to eat, throw the football around, watch television and appreciate family, faith and blessings, not necessarily in that order. Plus, Doug promised a Wii video game tournament this year. That reminds of a blog I saw recently about the six most "soul-sucking" video games, and it made me thankful our kids were never immersed too far in the darker world of computer/video games. Check out the link here and you will find the "Unreality" site pretty funny/tragic. A few excerpts:

It’s funny, but the thing is, people don’t realize exactly how much time it takes to play 10,000 games of Halo.

Later...

I came across a sad forum post while looking up info for this article. It reads:

“I’ve been addicted to Diablo 2 for the longest time, pretty much done everything you can do in that game, but I think it’s time to move on.”

I thought this would be followed by something like, “I’ve realized there’s a lot more to live than clicking a mouse 500,000 times,” but alas, it continued:

“Can anyone suggest something similar to Diablo 2 that still has the hacking/slashing and lots of different weapons/armors/etc? Must have free multiplayer.”

Later....

In Korea, Starcraft is like a religion, and one player, Lee Seung Seop sacrificed everything for it. He sat down at a PC internet café to play Starcraft, fifty hours later, he was dead. During the marathon session he didn’t sleep, barely ate or drank, and his body simply gave out. And so we have our first video game induced death, unfortunately, there are more to come.

TK: I hope your clan has avoided some of the emotional wreckage that technology and software have brought upon us. Meanwhile, I can't wait to get started with that Wii tournament....