10 Things I Should Be Doing Other Than Gaming

By: swallow | January 8th, 2010

Hello Gamer Limit!

I stumbled across this little website during the Christmas break while I was bored at work. I was in the process of organising some sort of chair race since all the managers were away, but I gave up when I realised it was more effort than it was worth.

On one of the forum posts welcoming a new member one of the replies was: “Don’t forget to start a blog here.” Being the rampant narcissist that I am, and urged on by a post directed to someone else, I was well on my way to spend any time I wasn’t pointlessly surfing the net at work to draft my first post on Gamer Limit in my head.

A little bit about myself – I’m 24, a girl, from Australia and work in the tallest building in my city. I get paid a stupidly high wage to do very little and secretly wish to get fired so that I could do something more worthwhile. I don’t, however, actively try to get fired, because it’s the only way I might be able to afford one of the ridiculously expensive inner city apartments which don’t have one of those stupid beds you pull out from the wall. I also like to suit up sometimes. To anyone who would like to guess my employer, the CEO is an American who looks and sounds exactly like the evil preacher from Carnivale.

As far as gaming is concerned, at the moment I’m almost exclusively PC (for various reasons, though I do own a PS2), but will consider getting a PS3 in the future, for wait for it… possibly Final Fantasy XIII. I’m a fan of mainly RPG, RTS and racing genres. I’ve tried to get into some FPS’s but none of them have managed to really hold my attention. Gaming history goes back to the old PC days of Alley Cat, Commander Keen, Wing Commander, Star Control, old school Sierra, and a whole bunch of other stuff which I remember the visuals but not the titles of. What I’ve played the most of over the last year would have to be Fallout 3, I quite liked C&C Red Alert 3 for Tim Curry alone, and Empire Total War. At the moment I’m wasting too much time with Dragon Age: Origins. I also always cheat, partly due to my short attention span as I’m almost never just gaming – it’s gaming and reading, gaming and watching TV…

I should really be more thankful for what I have, but I’m not. I think of all the things I could be doing right now if I had tried just a little bit harder rather than not at all. Oh, the shame, the shame of it all…

So without further adieu… the 10 things I should be doing other than gaming:

1. Learning a new language.
2. Writing a novel.
3. Doing some sort of exercise.
4. Investing in the stock market.
5. Playing my guitar.
6. Getting into bar fights.
7. Starting an organised crime ring.
8. Joining the Ultimate Fighting League.
9. Improving my perfect pork crackling recipe.
10. Watching more HBO.

Uh… obviously I ran out of ideas halfway through and just wrote the first things that came to mind. I also seem to have anger management issues.