Time to talk about those things are supposedly a waste of time

     Video games are an oddly polarizing subject.  I for one am all for them and in turn they take up a good deal of my time.  I enjoy all kinds of video games if they are done right.  I'm an expert at Guitar Hero.  I've beaten all the Halo games on Legendary and all the Mass Effect games multiple times.  I have multiple level 80's in WoW and those are just the tip of the iceberg.

     Now I know as of late the stereotype has been eased and although I would consider myself a bit of a nerd I don't think I fit the stereotype too well.  I have been playing sports my whole life.  I have played football, baseball, basketball, volleyball, bowling, tennis, lacrosse, rugby, and I'm sure more I'm not thinking of at the moment.  I played tennis in college and I still play football today for a semi pro team.  So not to toot my own horn (which I know I've been doing all along), but I am pretty good at sports.  I also have a rather robust social life which mostly involves getting drunk on the weekends and some bar league sports.

     My point here is that the stigma of the gamer is overly exaggerated.  Of course most stereotypes are bred from truth and there are surely the gamers out there that personify the image.  Don't get me wrong I will make jokes all day about any stereotypes including gamers, but thats just what they are, jokes.  People get too caught up with what other people think and too often take what other people say to heart when it is only meant in jest.  I would just like to go on record that a person can be a jock, a drunk, a gamer and at the same not give two shits about what anyone else thinks about it.

Two for two with kind of depressing posts

     Greg Giraldo wasn't the most well known comedian, but anyone who has ever seen a roast on Comedy Central knows of his greatness.  He was never afraid to push the boundaries of what now constitutes for politically correct and every person who didn't have a stick up their ass was better off from it.  Well he is now dead and the reports are that it was an accidental overdose.  This brings up a serious topic that people seem to ignore.
    
     Some people have problems with addiction and some people have troubling issues with depression.  Both of these things can lead to very dangerous outcomes, but no one ever talks about the grey areas.  Everyone assumes people who drink or do drugs a lot are addicts and people are quick to assume a situation like this would be because of depression or a drug addiction.  Of course Greg didn't help the case against that assumption in an interview he had a while back where he stated that he was dwelling too much on his failures and had trouble embracing his successes.  When you look at comedians they are more often than not a self deprecating species so I do not find it difficult to see him saying those things.  The point here being that it is hard to really tell if this all happened as a consequence of depression or strictly a tragic accident.

     I like drugs honestly so of course I am not going to be a homer for the overdose theory, but at the same time I don't think it was strictly accidental.  From what it sounds like he was using the drugs to get away from the failures he thought so greatly defined his life and he succeeded in the most definite way possible, but with no intent on taking that far.  Using drugs is a dangerous thing and using in a situation where you are trying to escape is even worse.  It is hard for any person to control themselves and it is sad when things like this happen.  The real tragedy here is the fact that he only saw failures where every other person who has seen him perform and I'm sure every person who knew him, saw only pure comedic talent.  Even if that talent was purely to piss off a lot of  people who were too tightly wound.