Costs and Efforts of Entertainment
(semi-ramble and brainstorm)
Going out to a Club: Have to dress up (nice shirt and shoes for man, nice dress or outfit for woman), have to smell nice and look nice, find a ride to Toronto (drive, carpool, public transportation or cab). Get there, dance, be all hot and sweaty (and tired feet from dancing), bump into random people. Dance with girls and guys. Buy beer and/or shots and/or other drinks. Overall a lot of preparation, physical discomfort, and expensive, but you might touch a girl, but probably not in a particularly sexual way.
OR
Stay home and play games/movies: Umm… wear what you are wearing now or less, maybe go out and rent a movie, or turn on the computer and play World of Warcraft. Almost no preparation, very comfortable, cheap, and probably still a lot of fun.
So, these are among the extremes of entertainments, both of which normal people do on Friday nights. There’s the group that goes clubbing, and the group that stays home and plays games. I used to be the guy that stays home and plays games on Friday nights, 100% of the time. Nowadays It’s still like that 75-80% of the time, but I try to go out a lot more often… but is it worth it?
Then there’s another conversation we could do, which basically compares one person playing WOW for a year (Duy), and me, who requires variety and while Duy pays maybe $180 per year to play WOW, I’d probably buy 7 different games to keep me entertained, which is much more than the $180 that Duy pays.
But going back to the first comparison… is it worth it? For me, it might be another Variety issue, since I don’t want to just stay home all the time. It might also be a social-networking thing, which I won’t get if I stayed home. I am, after all, looking for a girl or wanting a girl, and just being near girls in clubs or anywhere-outside-my-home is a step in the right direction. As I said, it’s a lot of money and hassle, but sometimes it’s worth it.
Then a third conversation I’d like to have, which might not be about the cost, but it’s about people getting drunk. At first, I would think an undrunk person would have as much fun as a buzzed or tipsy person, which would have as much fun as a totally drunk person, maybe more. Is it just an experience to be drunk and not know what’s going on, or be totally uninhibited? As an undrunk person watching drunk people go crazy, it’s hard to see why you’d want to be drunk – it’s easy to see why you’d want to watch drunk people be drunk, but to actually be drunk?
Well, as I said, when you’re drunk you let go of your inhibitions, and you are more open… but isn’t that just a psychological thing? Nope! It’s not. I remember reading a debate or a thread on the Internet a few years ago, where it starts with one kid saying that ecstasy doesn’t make you happier, it’s just a drug and it causes weird psychology with you, but doesn’t really make you happier, just crazier.
And then another kid responds and says that ecstasy DOES make you happier, because scientifically, ecstasy releases more endorphins, and thus, through science, it makes you happier, which is a fact about endorphins. So like alcohol, by science, it would do something, which would make you less inhibited, which is scientifically true, so you can’t really argue with that.
So I think I understand why people get drunk… well, I do like to get buzzed and a little tipsy, and the more you drink the more buzzed and tipsy you get, until you’ve crossed that line into drunken-ness. It’s a slippery, dangerous slope/game you’re playing, if you’re trying to get as buzzed and tipsy as possible without slipping into drunkness. But the feeling when you’re all uninhibited and happy while you’re drunk is actually pretty nice, so I think I understand now.
It’s a lot of money to get drunk, but sometimes it tastes really good, hehe. So I think I understand that now.
NOW, BACK to the first comparison… well, I think I already talked about it enough. The entertainment values are different, but I’m guessing the utility is different too. Duy might think it’s just as fun to play WOW, if not funner, than going out partying or clubbing, if he doesn’t like clubbing and dancing with girls and stuff. I do like dancing with girls, so I will continue to expend more effort and money to go out and do that, and maybe I’ll get drunk more. But I am liking the buzz… and I do remember that other time I got drunk, the first time, and the throwing up and all that, and I’d rather not go there. But maybe it’ll be worth it one day…….. huh?
Going out to a Club: Have to dress up (nice shirt and shoes for man, nice dress or outfit for woman), have to smell nice and look nice, find a ride to Toronto (drive, carpool, public transportation or cab). Get there, dance, be all hot and sweaty (and tired feet from dancing), bump into random people. Dance with girls and guys. Buy beer and/or shots and/or other drinks. Overall a lot of preparation, physical discomfort, and expensive, but you might touch a girl, but probably not in a particularly sexual way.
OR
Stay home and play games/movies: Umm… wear what you are wearing now or less, maybe go out and rent a movie, or turn on the computer and play World of Warcraft. Almost no preparation, very comfortable, cheap, and probably still a lot of fun.
So, these are among the extremes of entertainments, both of which normal people do on Friday nights. There’s the group that goes clubbing, and the group that stays home and plays games. I used to be the guy that stays home and plays games on Friday nights, 100% of the time. Nowadays It’s still like that 75-80% of the time, but I try to go out a lot more often… but is it worth it?
Then there’s another conversation we could do, which basically compares one person playing WOW for a year (Duy), and me, who requires variety and while Duy pays maybe $180 per year to play WOW, I’d probably buy 7 different games to keep me entertained, which is much more than the $180 that Duy pays.
But going back to the first comparison… is it worth it? For me, it might be another Variety issue, since I don’t want to just stay home all the time. It might also be a social-networking thing, which I won’t get if I stayed home. I am, after all, looking for a girl or wanting a girl, and just being near girls in clubs or anywhere-outside-my-home is a step in the right direction. As I said, it’s a lot of money and hassle, but sometimes it’s worth it.
Then a third conversation I’d like to have, which might not be about the cost, but it’s about people getting drunk. At first, I would think an undrunk person would have as much fun as a buzzed or tipsy person, which would have as much fun as a totally drunk person, maybe more. Is it just an experience to be drunk and not know what’s going on, or be totally uninhibited? As an undrunk person watching drunk people go crazy, it’s hard to see why you’d want to be drunk – it’s easy to see why you’d want to watch drunk people be drunk, but to actually be drunk?
Well, as I said, when you’re drunk you let go of your inhibitions, and you are more open… but isn’t that just a psychological thing? Nope! It’s not. I remember reading a debate or a thread on the Internet a few years ago, where it starts with one kid saying that ecstasy doesn’t make you happier, it’s just a drug and it causes weird psychology with you, but doesn’t really make you happier, just crazier.
And then another kid responds and says that ecstasy DOES make you happier, because scientifically, ecstasy releases more endorphins, and thus, through science, it makes you happier, which is a fact about endorphins. So like alcohol, by science, it would do something, which would make you less inhibited, which is scientifically true, so you can’t really argue with that.
So I think I understand why people get drunk… well, I do like to get buzzed and a little tipsy, and the more you drink the more buzzed and tipsy you get, until you’ve crossed that line into drunken-ness. It’s a slippery, dangerous slope/game you’re playing, if you’re trying to get as buzzed and tipsy as possible without slipping into drunkness. But the feeling when you’re all uninhibited and happy while you’re drunk is actually pretty nice, so I think I understand now.
It’s a lot of money to get drunk, but sometimes it tastes really good, hehe. So I think I understand that now.
NOW, BACK to the first comparison… well, I think I already talked about it enough. The entertainment values are different, but I’m guessing the utility is different too. Duy might think it’s just as fun to play WOW, if not funner, than going out partying or clubbing, if he doesn’t like clubbing and dancing with girls and stuff. I do like dancing with girls, so I will continue to expend more effort and money to go out and do that, and maybe I’ll get drunk more. But I am liking the buzz… and I do remember that other time I got drunk, the first time, and the throwing up and all that, and I’d rather not go there. But maybe it’ll be worth it one day…….. huh?
Labels: clubbing, entertainment, WOW
posted by Unknown at 12:25 PM
2 Comments:
Why do I get the feeling that it would've been a lot more interesting having a conversation with you on the subject than just passively reading about it? (That was semi-rhetorical question.)
There's waaaaaay more you can do besides clubbing and playing games...although almost everything costs more than playing games, especially if you just play one game all year.
It just depends if you're interested in any of the other things...
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