Goodbye & Farewell

[finarvyn]

Gaming is not a lifestyle, it's a hobby. So, it's not something you give up. It's something you take a break from.

Rafe -- I both agree and disagree with this. I agree that gaming is something you take a break from sometimes, but I'm not sure about the "not a lifestyle but a hobby" part. I say this because even when I have stretches of my life when I'm not actively gaming, my mind is always thinking about that stuff. For me it's a lifestyle and a hobby. Just picking a small nit.

Having said that, it always saddens me when someone decides to walk away from gaming or walk away from message boards. Gaming is something that makes me happy and the opportunity to communicate with friends and fellow gaming spirits online is a huge part of that. (Sometimes folks get so angry on boards that they delete their account and purge their posts. That makes me even more sad, since those posts represent hours of conversation and thought and debate about something we all enjoy.)