As a video game addict its easy to see how gaming is the second greatest thing in the world since the invention of indoor plumbing (the first is being able to see boobs on the internet in under two seconds). Gaming makes people smarter, funnier, more athletic, taller, and better looking. Last August I started a new feature called the "Top 5 Ways Gaming is Better Than (fill in the blank)" to illustrate how playing video games is more enjoyable than doing anything else. After a short 8 months, it resumes. Today its time to see how gaming is better than...work.
1. Save Points - There are no save points for when you screw up at work. If you die in a game, you go back to your last save. It may suck, but at least you don't have to start everything all over again and your boss isn't ticked off at you.
2. Key Cards - In a game you don't have to have your own key card to get into doors, just find one off a dead body. If doors with keypads aren't around, picking locks in a game is an easy skill to master. But in real life, you better just ask someone for the key to the storage cabinet. Getting busted trying to pick a lock with your credit card for extra paper clips isn't worth getting fired over.
3. Meaningful Repetition - In games like Tetris, repetitive tasks have a positive result and are rewarded. At work, doing the same thing over and over again is soul sucking torture and is the reason why the phrase "going postal" exists.
4. Battle Your Boss - You're encouraged to fight bosses in a game, in fact, most of the time you have to. In real life? It doesn't matter if your boss is a gas mask wearing nut job, just do what he says so you can get your two weeks vacation and keep your job in our crappy economy.
5. Better Dress Code - The only time you'll see anyone dressed like Lara Croft in real life is if you work at a placed called The Landing Strip or The Candy Store. In games, scantily clad babes are everywhere.
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