Video Games verses Reading

Started by Rubberbandman December 30th, 2004 12:41 PM
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Which of these would you prefer to do?

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Depends... If I'm in my house and I get bored the 1st thing I'll do is head over to my r00m to play games and as a last resort read my manga's. If it's a road trip I enjoy reading the most. Though, lately I've been into my games more every since I was hit up with new games.

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I refer to read because it just lets me relax and drift away to antoher place but video games get me frustrated. I having beeing play Halo alot these days though.
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I voted for video games, but reading is cool, too. It kinda depends on what type of video game or book or magazine or whatever.......
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It depends, really. I honestly can't seem to find any books that I actually like enough to sit down and read, though, (with the exception of the Tokyo Mew Mew manga books...) so I'd have to go with video games.
Even though I don't play them too often, I still enjoy having them, especially on road trips! I carry my Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town game and GBA in my purse all the time, and whenever things get boring I just start playing it, lol. It's fun, and my mom even agrees that those games are pretty educational.

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Aside from the fact that I DON'T have any video games ^^; I'd usually end up reading, manga is about the only thing I read in book format. They give me more most of the times, and I only enjoyed a few games that I'd pick over reading a manga. So ya, whenever I'm bored I'll just pick up a manga and start reading.
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It depends, I think that I vote for video games becuase I enjoy playing them so much. Though video games can become extremely frustrating and don't do wonders for your eyes. ^__~ With a good book I can travel to a entirely different world, and at the same time enjoy myself like when playing video games. I guess its even to some extent. XD

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I love to read. I've loved it ever since I knew how to read. It's not that I don't like video games, they're just not as fun as reading. Partly because I can't win any of them...
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I love to read, but I have read very very little because I read in the weirdest way known to man. No matter the size of the book, even if I could finish it in a day...I will not read more than one chapter a day. It's an odd bad habit that I want to lose. I'll treat a chapter like a book. I'll read it and close it, I won't even put a bookmark in. And since I only read a chapter, that gives me plenty of time for other things to come up and therefore I don't ever end up getting back to the book. Three times I've started reading Lord of the Rings and never get back to it. This summer was actually going good, I started the week before school started up...but then when school came along...blah...didn't get back to it.

I was like that with video games too for a long time. I'd only do a level/world a day. I've broken free of that habit, thankfully.

Until I break my bad reading habit, I'll have to go with games sadly. Readings fun but my odd way annoys the heck out of me. @@

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I'm a bookworm, and have been reading since two. Besides I'm no good at video games and don't wish to improve. Reading forever. XD
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Well i like both, but lately i've been reading more than i do playing video games and sometimes i get stressed out when i get stuck on a game a good book usually calms me down...
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Meep! o.o This one's hard for me, both things are awsome. I adore reading fictional novels like Watership Down, The Last Unicorn, and the Hobbit. But then I am a total game freak too. o____o Hmmmmmmm...well, then. I guess I like video games with a lot of words in them. !!! Like the Pokemon games! XD I can read and play games at the same time! W00tness! XP

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