a rant on reading, and "hobbies" as they are called. i would like to get two things established before i start:

1 you could still say i have a life, just not an incredibly large one. i have minor hobbies

2 no, i am not on crack.

i wish to start with my smaller topic of hobbies, so i can go out with the bang. Its defiently not bad to have a hobby, but what i truely can't understand is why things like gamespot and in all honesty, games themselves aren't considered hobbies. many things, such as reviewing games, arent considered hobbies, or even productive, because they are in front of a computer screen. this goes for games, today, even though many, if not most people are becoming at least casual gamers.

But lets think about this.

Thousands of schools (i know this is gonna sound crazy, just read it!) do points for reading books. yeah, i admit learning reading is DEFIENELY good. you gotta know how to read! and the way they teach it is just right. but after, like 5th or 6th grade, everyone knows how to read. so why must they read 150 pages a quarter/trimester?

know whats true? books can take you places. but where? to a far off land. thought of by someone else. with no visuals. SO THATS WHERE IMAGINATION COMES IN RIGHT?! no. you are to be VERY discriptive while writing. if not, your book is usually critisized. so thats like discouraging other people to be creative? hm...

i still encourge writing though. that flexes creativity to huge levels. i have written a hundred page novel myself, and let me tell you, your creating, so your working your crativity and imagination.

now lets caompare books to games:

books are creativity... but the creativity is someone else's.the creativity.has already come and passed, and has been laid out for you to take in THIER ideas, not your own tocome up with.

games: also somebodys imagination; but theres room for yours too. because its limitlessly interactive. you can do side stories, or even think of your own ministory while playing. one game that really gets you thinking is morrowind, or any open ended game like that.

gamings not a hooby, just like reading isnt. but why do people not consider gamestop reviews hobbies. many people consider book reviews hobbies... its just because thier reviewing video games isn't it?

also, as i said before writing flows creativie and imaginative juices. surely writing reviews gains you bits of writing experience?

they even make you write book reviews in school. so what would be wrong with writing game reviews?

so at this point i challenge someone to try to tell me why writing game reviews is not a hooby, and not "good." cause its on a computer screen? get with the times. my only "hobby" is on here, which is making youtube videos.

Bring it on last genereation people. bring it on.