I previously mentioned that I have many close friends that I keep in touch with through online and during the week of no communication with each other, that all exploded today. I logged in this morning and we started playing through online video games nonstop. We started with a game called Dota 2( A game where it is 5 players vs 5 players with each player controlling a hero that attempts to change the course of battle as each team has passive armies marching towards each other in 3 lanes, to change the flow to favor their own team) where we yelled and laughed at each other for making mistakes or dumb moves. We jumped into World of Warcraft next, grabbing a whole bunch of our friends to come back into the game and start raiding (a term where players group in a team of 10 or 25 to kill monsters) and we spent hours just screaming and laughing at each other.

This whole experience today has made me appreciate that we have so much digital entertainment at our disposal. A lot of my friends live far apart from each other and because video games exist, we are able to hang out online and partake in online video games to enjoy each other's company. To be honest I don't particularly many video games I play with my friends ie: World of Warcraft, League of Legends, but they become so much fun when a group of us play that any game becomes instant fun. Our laughter and screams through voice programs and a group play in online video games fulfill the void to socialize and interact with other people. As much as I love to hang out with my middle school friends in real life, that is a near impossible in real life, and it's amazing how our technology has advance to the point where a bunch of guys living across the U.S. can hang out everyday by simply going on to their computers.