The Golden One - Marcus Follin - The Gaming Question. Also, Will I Play Assassin's Creed Valhalla? Aired: 2020-11-15 Duration: 10:48 === Why Not Assassin's Creed? (04:39) === [00:00:01] Hello Laddingtons, admire the aesthetic background Absolutely comfy. [00:00:08] It's raining here in this November forest, but I like it. [00:00:14] It's a nice fresh walk in nature. [00:00:18] An enlightening wisdom walk to talk about the gaming question. [00:00:22] Now first and foremost, will I or will I not play the new Assassin's Creed game featuring Vikings? [00:00:30] I will actually not, even though I'm a great fan of the Assassin's Creed series. [00:00:36] And the primary reason is I don't really feel like I have the time to play it at the moment and I'm not excited enough to take the time. [00:00:50] But I will say though that I've had a very hectic autumn as you all know. [00:00:56] So I will schedule in some downtime soon. [00:01:02] Maybe sometime in December for Christmas or something. [00:01:07] But then I will actually play the best game ever which is Warhammer Total War 2 and I'm waiting for the Wood Elf DLC. [00:01:17] But I don't really feel like starting a new game or anything even though I need downtime to keep to be productive. [00:01:25] I've talked about this before, talk about it again. [00:01:28] It's the same thing. [00:01:29] Sleep or deload weeks in the gym. [00:01:34] You need to have downtime. [00:01:37] You need to have time where you do not constantly focus on whatever it is you're doing. [00:01:43] So sometimes you have to force yourself, you have to force yourself to take a deload week in the gym. [00:01:48] If you train hard or if you are some sort of entrepreneur, you have to have downtime as well so you can be even more productive later on. [00:01:56] So that's my position currently with the gaming situation, I don't want to play Assassin's Creed enough to actually take the time, but I have looked forward to playing more Total War Warhammer, so I will do that. [00:02:12] Later on I might make a look at video when a new DLC comes out, but that's just my personal take on it right now. [00:02:22] Maybe, if you are in a different situation, you can definitely play the new Assassin's Creed game. [00:02:28] I just hope they don't make a mockery out of Viking culture and make it completely cucked. [00:02:36] I don't know, Assassin's Creed is a bit, can be a bit, problematic. [00:02:41] In that sense, I would say that Assassin's Creed Odyssey was a bit too much, was a bit too much sex etc. [00:02:49] And I'm not saying this because I'm a prude, because I'm not. [00:02:53] You know I talk a lot about pornography, but that is hardcore pornography. [00:02:58] If you have some erotic elements in a, in a film or a game, I don't really mind, but when it goes, but when it gets too much in your face all the time yeah, it's not so good. [00:03:12] But anyway, that's the answer to to the first question. [00:03:17] So, moving on to the gaming question at hand I've talked about it before, I'll talk about it again. [00:03:24] I want to have a video named the gaming question, in case someone searches on the channel. [00:03:28] Also, of course, I write about this in Dauntless. [00:03:30] If you haven't already read Dauntless, you have oh, I don't know where to begin you have committed a terrible sacrilege. [00:03:39] You need to redeem yourself first. [00:03:41] Link in the description box below. [00:03:44] Also have a lot of epic new releases on LADY Gloria, so have a look there as well. [00:03:51] Anyway, a lot of guys, when they hear gaming, they think about a fat guy or a skinny guy or a skinny fat guy sitting in front of the computer wasting his life away. [00:04:03] You know, skipping the gym, skipping school, not really having any ambition, not any ambition to meet a woman, not any ambition for anything. [00:04:15] Just want to play all the time. [00:04:17] Now, of course, that is problematic, but I would like to bring some nuance to the discussion. [00:04:25] For me, on a personal note, I am supremely thankful for having grown up with Age of Empires, Age of Mythology, Rome Total War, and then in later years, you know, Oblivion, Skyrim, The Witcher 3, etc. === Gaming Through the Ages (04:03) === [00:04:40] Super thankful for having that instilled in me in an early age. [00:04:45] And it's the same thing with such a thing as Nordic mythology or Greek mythology or Roman history or Swedish history or English history or epic stories such as Lord of the Rings. [00:04:58] I've talked about this before. [00:05:00] I'll say it again because it is important. [00:05:02] It is important to have those sort of positive and inspiring feels that you have with you from an early age. [00:05:14] So if someone had magically removed my experiences with gaming since I was younger, I would have felt a clean loss. [00:05:24] So I'm very thankful for having had those encounters with gaming or rather a certain type of been exposed to a sensation rather. [00:05:37] So that is my own personal perspective. [00:05:40] Now related to this, when I was around 14 years of age, there were a lot of guys, a lot of friends I had who played World of Warcraft. [00:05:51] I never played it for the reason that I knew I probably would get addicted to it. [00:05:56] So even at a young age, quite proud of myself in retrospect when I say that I didn't play it for that simple reason because I didn't want to be addicted to play it all the time. [00:06:09] And I probably would have become addicted because you know most guys they played it, they spent a lot of time in it. [00:06:17] And you know when you are younger you of course have a lot more time. [00:06:20] It's worse if you are in your 20s and you skip the gym and stuff because you game. [00:06:28] But if you have everything in order it's something different. [00:06:31] So anyway that was just my backstory about gaming, my own relationship with gaming. [00:06:38] Then of course you have different sort of games as well. [00:06:40] If you have a game such as The Witcher 3, you play through it once, maybe wait a few years, play through it again. [00:06:49] Yeah that's not a lot of time. [00:06:51] However if you have a game such as Counter-Strike or Call of Duty or Duta 2 where you know you have matches that are continuous you there isn't really any end that is of course much more dangerous because that's more of a time sink. [00:07:09] So distinguish between games where you have a start and a finish. [00:07:14] Same thing with Total War. [00:07:15] You know you start a campaign then you finish it. [00:07:19] Yeah you might replay a campaign later on as well but it doesn't take as much time and it isn't as addicting as something like Dukta for example. [00:07:30] So distinguish between games. [00:07:32] Not all games are equal that's something an important thing in life to keep in mind. [00:07:40] So anyway should you game? [00:07:42] Can you incorporate gaming in an otherwise good lifestyle? [00:07:47] It depends. [00:07:49] Do you keep up with training? [00:07:51] If you are in school, do you keep up with your schoolwork? [00:07:54] If you are in already working, are you working? [00:08:00] Are you keeping up with your duties towards your company, etc? [00:08:04] Yeah, good. [00:08:05] Are you taking care of family life? [00:08:08] Or if you're a younger guy, do you also try to maybe find a woman? [00:08:14] Okay, can you combine it? [00:08:15] It's good. [00:08:16] But if you know yourself that gaming decreases your performance in other areas of life, then it might be a good idea to not game too much. [00:08:30] Something else that is supremely important: do not confuse your achievements in game with actual real-world achievements because they're not. === Emulate Aesthetics Wisely (02:04) === [00:08:43] Don't trick your brain into feeling a sense of accomplishment. [00:08:48] You can do it, of course, temporarily in the game, and I understand it's one of the charms of gaming that you get that kick of, yeah, you know, you have leveled or something. [00:09:02] But don't let that reward in your brain substitute the reward of getting your bench press up in the gym or getting done with schoolwork or something like that. [00:09:15] Now, last point: when you game, when you play Skyrim, do you feel like you're escaping into an alternative reality because you are in a bad position yourself in your own life? [00:09:27] Or can you draw motivation from the game? [00:09:31] That is the most important question. [00:09:34] Of course, if you use gaming as motivation, not escapism. [00:09:38] I've actually made a very old video on this, but it bears repeating because it's extremely important. [00:09:44] Do you use it as motivation? [00:09:45] Do you play Skyrim as a big Nord warrior? [00:09:49] Do you want to go to the gym to emulate the aesthetics? [00:09:53] Do you play the Witcher and see him being jacked? [00:09:57] Do you want to emulate his aesthetics, also being jacked, powerful, physically capable? [00:10:02] That is good. [00:10:03] But if you are a weak nerd, a weak skinny fat nerd who you know you escape into that reality, you escape into a reality where you are powerful. [00:10:17] Yeah, that's not good. [00:10:18] It's not good in the list. [00:10:20] So be mindful. [00:10:21] Do you use it as escapism in the sense that you are in a bad position in your own life? [00:10:27] Then it's not good. [00:10:28] But if you're actively trying to emulate the ideals seen in the game, that is very good indeed. [00:10:36] So anyway, I hope that made sense and was inspiring and informative for you to watch this video. [00:10:46] So thank you for watching. [00:10:47] Exactly.