“I want to play, but I can’t.” – “I can’t play with these guys.
Well yeah, that’s the whole point of gaming. To escape.
A game is a game. A game is a game. If we’re actually playing a game, then we’re in control of that game. If we’re not, then we’re playing that game. We can’t stop when we play, we just have to escape.
We can escape, but we have to escape with the best gear and the best weapons we can find. We can find the best weapons, but what about the best gear? That stuff is one of the few things that we can’t get by ourselves.
A game is a game, but when you play a game, you are not in control. You are in control of your character, and that character is just a representation of your mental state. In games, there are two states of mind that players can enter, and these two states are very different.
The first state is called “mind-set” and is the mental state that most people spend most of their time in. The second state of mind is known as “attention” and is the mental state that most people spend most of their time in. We’re in the mind-set state for the purposes of escape.
In the mind-set state, your character is an automaton. That means your actions are controlled by the game. In the attention state, your mental state is largely independent of the game. The game is a conduit for your character’s thoughts – that’s what makes you an entity on the game’s mind. You can control the mind-set state by deciding what you would like to be when you get out of prison and deciding what you want to be when you’re playing the game.
One of the interesting things about games in the attention state is that they are still games. You are still playing with your character, but you are also playing with your character. The game is more about you and your character than it is about the game. Also, it’s a little more pleasant to play a game in a state of serenity (the mind-set state) than a state of anxiety (the attention state).
This is a big one, one of the more interesting things that I’ve found about the game. When I played a game in the attention state I always had a sense of “I can’t really control this, I can’t stop this thing or I can’t change what this is happening.” If I were playing in the attention state, I wouldn’t be able to stop a story from happening, I would just be playing.
In the attention state, the feeling of control is very, very real. You can create a plan and set goals and even make a decision, but when you actually go and do it, you don’t feel so much as part of the game.
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