While playing video games, I've noticed how similar it is to DnD (In the RPG sense). How a table top game can do so much and a yet video cannot do. In DnD, your imagination was your limit. The look on people's faces as you made your actions. The excitement that you feel in the air as one of your friends rolls a 20 on a d20. The round table bickering over the dumbest thing. Not being able to use media left a void in myself that I tried to fill with books and DnD. Now I'm left with a void for not being able to sit around a table and play a game with my friends all right there to talk and have fun.
I play online video games to interact with others by playing with them and socializing with others. However, online interactions cannot compared to face to face interactions. Online interactions feel very impersonal, and the Internet being a wild place with the cover of anonymous, it is a very volatile area with people not caring what they type. Face to face interaction forces you to to engage with the people around you in a meaningful way. I'm actually bored of video games now, I've only really played when a group of my friends are asking me to play competitive online games like (Dota 2, League of Legends, etc). I've noticed the online interaction of playing a video online helps fills the void left by playing DnD face to face, but it isn't enough to fill it all. I'm already trying to plan another DnD session.
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