Must...Play...Videogames...

A gamer on the Internet is a bad combination. The reason being that once he gets on said Internet, you will never get him off. You see the amazing invention of the world wide web is a great draw to gamers such as I. Once we are on, we act as if we are addicted to a drug, and someone's keeping us from our next high. Gamers will go "Must...play...online games", and "Must...google...self". And once they have gotten logged on, it's like you're going "Oh yeah..." like you just sparked a fatty (for those of you who don't know, that means smoking pot). The only thing that can stop a gamer from surfing the web is the connection's bandwidth. Bandwidth is the measure of how many megabytes you can load in a certain amount of time, and if you exceed it, the connection slows down to dialup speeds, which is really, really slow.

I used to have to have dialup, which mega-sucked since every time you tried to load a game that was larger than 1.5 MB, which is a large amount of them, then the connection would fail and the game would stop loading! Then I upgraded to satellite Internet, which was many, many times faster than dialup, but it still had its flaws. For example, it gets really slow during bad weather, since it's satellite Internet, and if it can't receive and send signals to the satellite, then it won't work. Plus, it does have a bandwidth, which means that if you watch 15 videos on Youtube since "I have fast Internet", guess what? It stops on you, and you won't be able to do any web surfing for the gross majority of the day.

Now there is the Internet at Purdue. Holy Crap it's fast!!! I mean, when you click on anything, BOOM, your there! That kind of shows you how back-water island I am. Now I play like 20x the games and 10x the Youtube videos and stuff, and that is awesome. Now these great things don't come without their price. I am constantly tempted to play hundreds of online games instead of homework. Thankfully I have resisted that temptation, and only have fun on the Internet after my homework for the day is complete.

Gamers have the problem of playing too many games when they need to do something else. I'm not being mocking, since I do that myself. It's just that you need to find that balance of gaming and school. School comes first, of course, but if you don't have fun, you going to lose your mind.