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dmxratedLast night at dinner, I told everyone about Cracked.com, and Mom and Dad told me that Cracked is this spinoff magazine series from MAD Magazine, and that I shouldn't believe stuff I read off of it because it's sarcasm. However, a lot of what I learned from that site matches stuff I read in other sources. Too many examples to list, but I did show this article to Chelle in a comment I left on one of her blogposts. #6 on that list had also been confirmed in Mistakes Were Made (But Not By Me).
Anyway, just last night, right before we started eating, I had come across one titled 6 Slacker Behaviors that Science Says are Good For You. Well, I don't plan on ever smoking pot, although that would explain why many people advocate that medical marijuana be legalized. I'm not obese (yet), but I can't help but notice my own gut whenever I lie on my bed and play anything on my Nintendo DS. Sleeping isn't really that relevant, although the writer did mention that making your bed actually increases health risk. (I only bother making mine so that it's easier to lie or sit down on when I'm playing a game.) And, spoiling myself? Well, I only have around $600 in the bank right now, no source of income, and I don't really desire a whole lot anyway.
Yeah, I skipped two of them, so as to save the most notable ones for last. #4 says basically that the more you crack down on your schoolwork, and the more education you have, the more likely you will actually be unhappy in life. I mentioned that one as an example when I brought up the whole topic during dinner. No surprise that the hippies, the ones who rejected college entirely, felt more fulfilled with their lives than most people in mainstream society. I'm also glad I went out of my way to do leisurely things instead of working my ass off for multiple uninterrupted hours a day when I went to college, took undefined breaks from class to pace around in the halls, settled for B's and C's instead of striving for A's, and refused to continue going to school after I graduated from Dowling. Chelle is lucky she never even had or will have to deal with any of this, even though she does say that she wished she could have continued her formal education after high school.
And then, there's #2: Wasting Your Life on the Internet May Stave Off Dementia. Agreed upon by Everything Bad is Good For You (not sure if I mentioned that book before). So, I'm wasting my life away by playing video games, watching anime, and listening to VG songs on YouTube. Am I really?
Guess what? From what I read before towards the end of that Atlantic Monthly article about preserving video games, novels were said to be the same kind of waste of time a few hundred years ago that video games are currently known as. Nowadays, people regard them as an important activity for the brain, lest one get brain atrophy and lose their ability to read.
Anyway, just last night, right before we started eating, I had come across one titled 6 Slacker Behaviors that Science Says are Good For You. Well, I don't plan on ever smoking pot, although that would explain why many people advocate that medical marijuana be legalized. I'm not obese (yet), but I can't help but notice my own gut whenever I lie on my bed and play anything on my Nintendo DS. Sleeping isn't really that relevant, although the writer did mention that making your bed actually increases health risk. (I only bother making mine so that it's easier to lie or sit down on when I'm playing a game.) And, spoiling myself? Well, I only have around $600 in the bank right now, no source of income, and I don't really desire a whole lot anyway.
Yeah, I skipped two of them, so as to save the most notable ones for last. #4 says basically that the more you crack down on your schoolwork, and the more education you have, the more likely you will actually be unhappy in life. I mentioned that one as an example when I brought up the whole topic during dinner. No surprise that the hippies, the ones who rejected college entirely, felt more fulfilled with their lives than most people in mainstream society. I'm also glad I went out of my way to do leisurely things instead of working my ass off for multiple uninterrupted hours a day when I went to college, took undefined breaks from class to pace around in the halls, settled for B's and C's instead of striving for A's, and refused to continue going to school after I graduated from Dowling. Chelle is lucky she never even had or will have to deal with any of this, even though she does say that she wished she could have continued her formal education after high school.
And then, there's #2: Wasting Your Life on the Internet May Stave Off Dementia. Agreed upon by Everything Bad is Good For You (not sure if I mentioned that book before). So, I'm wasting my life away by playing video games, watching anime, and listening to VG songs on YouTube. Am I really?
Guess what? From what I read before towards the end of that Atlantic Monthly article about preserving video games, novels were said to be the same kind of waste of time a few hundred years ago that video games are currently known as. Nowadays, people regard them as an important activity for the brain, lest one get brain atrophy and lose their ability to read.