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Video games and the next big step on humankind

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Musi c : You can hear the cry of the planet by David Dockery W h en video games started to become more popular, they were accuse d of causing people to be more aggressive and even they have been blamed on some murder s . I remember a story of a boy who thought he was the protagon ist of Final Fantasy VIII and killed his parents. I've no idea if that story is true or not but even if it's true I wouldn't blame video games, I would arise awareness about mental illness and other important issues instead of blaming whatever is easy to do at the time. Metal music was the target before video games and this trend will repeat with new media. Well, I've been playing video games since I was really young : I remember the green screen of one of the first computers we had at home and being scared of passing through a slicer o f prince of Persia . I had to tell my brother to pass through those because I was scared the slicer cut my character in two , which I found it ...

The beauty in repetition

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Music :  Make Room by  Jonathan McReynolds The alarm o n the phone starts ringing. I try to reach it with my eyes closed , moving my hand over my head where my bedside table is located. I feel something like plastic thinking it's the phone but something falls to the ground: the glasses again. At this point, the hand becomes a spider and crawls on the bedside table until it reaches the phone. I have to put it almost touching my eyes so I can possibly read anything, after all the glasses are too far now . ' Snooze ' , that's the button I want to press. The weird thing is that I have 3 more alarms so it doesn't really matter if I press snooze or not but I do it anyway. What really wakes me up is the time: 7:10am? Too late already. Up to this point everything is done so quickly that it's hard to believe a second ago I was practically a zombie. I go to work, come back home tired, try to do something productive, fail at it and go to bed... The next day in...