What happened to America?

First off I found this video very disturbing on many levels. The film was an inside view to the life of a video game and cyber world addict. Whenever someone logs 12-18 hrs at a time and also willing to spend vacation time just to play a game is wrong. The weirdest thing to me was the personal relationships these people create while playing these games. The film shared a stat that 1 in 3 female gamers will develop a relationship with a fellow gamer. For every female there is 10 single males. To me its strange to start a relationship off when the only thing you know about each other is the made up character. Wanting to fly that person out to you and let them stay with you is wrong.  They make movies and TV shows off of what happens when you meet people offline. Also anyone can lie and be whoever they want when a computer screen is what you really see. Yeah you can say its no different than meeting on an E-harmony or other dating site but these sites show the real person face, interest and push the personal aspect while these games just promote your fantasy cartoon.  When you spend most of your first date hundred of miles away bonding over slaying a dragon I feel could be done and more satisfying going to a movie face to face.  The book and the film hit upon a lot of the same  topics. When the father spoke at the end of a film and said hes a broke father of two but when he logs onto that game it doesn't matter hes not broke and no one  knows that.I feel a quote from the book sums up the future of this, "Eventually..there lies a world where most human beings are simply incapable of experiencing what life ought to evoke" pg46. People who spend all their time in these dream fantasy worlds lose their connection to the outside world. They all seem to not have many friends outside their game worlds, and most of their personal relationship fail because of these games make them use to showing or sharing their emotions through their fingers and not their mouths. Don't get me wrong i play my video games just like many other but I would never let it consume my life.

Another way the books and film linked together is through consuming. For the first 24 hrs of sales,WOW made $96 million and the for the top movie grossed only $60million. Annual WOW makes $1.2 billion. In the last two years video game sales  have gone out the roof. Call of Duty MW2 made a record $310 million in 24hr and $550 million in 5 days.  A year later Call of Duty Black-ops came out, almost the same game, made $360 million in the first 24hr of US and UK sales. Its just creepy how these companies can get us to buy the same product every year. A lot has to do with wanting the new crazies but these developers have discovered a way to keep our mind habituated for hours. From a psych view i wonder what future research shows us with people who suffer from living in a cyber world and will there be some of the same stresses that soldiers feel when they leave one hostile situation and head back to the real normal lives?

One of the lasting thoughts about the film other than the creepy cyber/ live wedding was when the addict talked how a gamer doesn't have to more or interact with anyone to get their fix and that at least a crack head has to socialize  to get their drugs.
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All About Me

My name is Kyle Krebs; I was born and raised in York, Pa. I graduated in 08 from West York High School. My high school was small for most of the other schools in my area. There was only 106 students in my class at graduation. My school was more known for their sports team. I'm a Psychology major and a Criminal Justice minor. I hope one day to work in law enforcement for the FBI.  The reason I came to Ship was because its only an hour away, so its far enough for my parents to have to call to visit and close enough to get home if i needed.  I'm a huge sports fan. I played on 3 different varsity teams, baseball, soccer, and ice hockey. I love hockey and I'm a huge Washington Capital and Hershey Bears fan. I've played hockey since I was 8.  I'm not a huge PA fan when it comes to sports. I love being outside. I find nature amazing. I love to hike and camp. A newer hobby of mine is photography and taking picture whenever I go somewhere new.

I never really liked to read until this summer. I sat down this summer and really read a book from front to cover. In high school we were forced to read the same old books that just got old and I was never interested. To me literature is someone thoughts or feelings about something this could be someone’s true story about an event or someone’s wish about a topic. My 12 grade year we were given the chance to read any book you wanted. The book I picked was The Catcher in the Rye. It’s probably my favorite book. The plot of the novel got me hooked. The latest book I read was The Road by Cormac McCarthy. It’s a father and son novel about survival and doing anything to protect your child. There was a movie made after the book that doesn’t do justice! 

I listen to music all the time. I listen to almost everything. My mood plays a huge factor to what i listen too. My favorite artists are Cartel, Yellowcard, Lil Wayne, Billy Joel, and Journey.  I love comic book movies; I also watch a lot of survival and sports movies. For TV shows i watch a lot of history and discover channel. If i could be in one show it would be American Pickers though. ESPN is on my TV religiously, if I'm sitting on my computer the TV is on and sports are in the background. I think it would be fun to travel around and explore for hidden gems. I like real life stuff, nothing that’s too far fetched. I play my share of video games when at school. I have a PS3 and play Call of Duty and different EA Sports games. I’m not too big into paintings and sculptures but more into architecture. I would love to travel to Europe and others to see some of the world wonders. If I could go anywhere it would be Italy. A close second would be Egypt. Both of these places have world marvels that have been around for hundreds of years and are built without modern tools. I hope one day I can see the world because there is so much out there to offer