09-06-2010, 07:53 AM
Video games:
When I was in a college, I totally feel for Fallout 2.
I went to study its manual.
As I am from a foreign country, I did not know the English enough.
But fallout had so many great conversations and in-game stories, that I sat down with a dictionary and went with it through the whole bloody game and its manual.
A week or so later, we did an official English test in the school.
Previously being an average English student, I scored best in the whole damn year this time.
It kicked me in the butt to prove something to myself.
And I went on to study English on my own and in language school till I achieved a General State Exam in English (which is a really professional degree mainly for translators and language teachers).
Some years later I turned this qualification into a translator carrier, which has been my source of decent sustenance ever since.
So, one of these video games literally changed my life...
Hail to Fallout 2
I will always love that game. It is intelligent, smart, funny, entertaining and charming, old as it is.
Yet, I do not play games any more neither, they take too much of time and I had always have problems getting my ass away from them.
But you see, there are no good or bad things as such, as long as you survive, you never know what good will come into your life...
Enjoying your jurnals, guys.
Keep it up.
When I was in a college, I totally feel for Fallout 2.
I went to study its manual.
As I am from a foreign country, I did not know the English enough.
But fallout had so many great conversations and in-game stories, that I sat down with a dictionary and went with it through the whole bloody game and its manual.
A week or so later, we did an official English test in the school.
Previously being an average English student, I scored best in the whole damn year this time.
It kicked me in the butt to prove something to myself.
And I went on to study English on my own and in language school till I achieved a General State Exam in English (which is a really professional degree mainly for translators and language teachers).
Some years later I turned this qualification into a translator carrier, which has been my source of decent sustenance ever since.
So, one of these video games literally changed my life...
Hail to Fallout 2
I will always love that game. It is intelligent, smart, funny, entertaining and charming, old as it is.
Yet, I do not play games any more neither, they take too much of time and I had always have problems getting my ass away from them.
But you see, there are no good or bad things as such, as long as you survive, you never know what good will come into your life...
Enjoying your jurnals, guys.
Keep it up.
