I can honestly say that I've been asked a million times

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I can honestly say that I've been asked a million times why I play games and I normally just shrug and say it's a hobby, but that's a lie – because when I’m in game, I’m at home.

From the flames of Cataclysm, to the icy mountains of Tamriel, anywhere I venture is the place I love and know.

My entire life, people preach that I could be anything that I wanted to be, but when I told them that I wanted to be the captain of a ship, a spaceship, the spaceship that saves humanity, that I wanted to be Commander Sheperd? They told me I needed to get a grip on reality.

And to them, a grip on reality means the American dream – working 9 to 5, crammed up in a tiny cubicle, having 2.5 kids, a two-story suburban house, and a white picket fence. I divorce once and I have debt into my early thirties because I took some bullshit university degree that’s supposed to help me in the end.

This isn’t reality! This is just a dull outlook on it. Now I understand it’s human nature to achieve greatness…but I can do this as Commander Shepard. I don’t need a degree, and if I want to go on and venture, I don’t ever have to leave the comfort of my own home!

Yet people spend an entire salary to travel, and I can’t help but LAUGH – I’ve single-handedly stopped a reign of ancient wyverns from destroying a nation!

But before I could do that, I had to learn their language, become a master in swordsmanship, smithing, archery, defence, magic, speech, hunting, and thieving, not to mention I had to take down an entire fleet of assassins along with a brigade of smugglers before I could even start my lessons in dragonspeak.

I’ve always enjoyed an adventure, but I hated pawning my limbs to afford an 18 hour car ride, and aside from being told that I can enjoy a white picket fence at the end of my career. All my years as a student was a balance between fractal formulas and believing I’d never be able to love, which is literal insanity.