Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-26829117-20160830161137/@comment-28753807-20160830182407

Happy? Isn't that what you feel when you have accomplished something? There must be a governor on happiness, so the game will go on. If it is accomplished, it ends. We are not rats on a monkey's wheel. We choose. To play. To decide what winning is. Not to play. And we also choose to (sometimes) blame the makers of the game for the way we react to what they did.

All they are doing is trying to give us something that we want to do  -- so they can have the opportunity to sell us insurance, salads and other games and to sell us in game resources.

I play. It entertains me. I record videos and post them on Youtube and very few people watch them. I get a comment, once in a while and I feel good about having made a connection with someone who shares my passion for playing the game. I post on this wikia. Very few people read them and respond. Once in a while I feel good when someone does respond. I enjoy another connection....

There is another opportunity that Real Racing 3 give me, too. A mirror to see what I am. At times, it seems the bots PIT me off the track. When the heat of the race dies, though, rationally, I remember. It is a pretty amazing feat to get a car to appear to be racing on a track. I've make computers do things, before and game apps are pretty amazing feats. As amazing as they are, though, they are NOT intelligent. They don't adjust to forces from moment to moment. They use algorithms set long before this particular race. If I don't notice their patterns and I allow them to get near my hind quarters at the wrong moment, their car is going to push mine off the track. It's on me to work around the parameters that the bots are a slave to. In other situations I use those parameters to my advantage. It all comes down to me being able to use what I learn about bot behavior more to my advantage, than being subject to it. If the game developers WERE able to make a bot intelligent enough to use a PIT maneuver to win a race at the last minute -- rather to make me lose a race at the last minute -- it would be so big it wouldn't fit in the memory of any phone available on the market today. I daresay it would crash the space shuttle's computers! So, it boils down to perspective.

I saw a cartoon earlier. Two 'toons were facing each other looking down at a number on the floor. One is yelling "9", the other "6". The caption read, "Just because what you see is different doesn't make you wrong."

Real Racing 3 allows me to look at myself and how I relate to my perspective. I can use that experience in all aspects of my life. But, then again, I got that experience years ago from Farmville on Facebook, too. Next year, it might come from some other game. Who knows?

Am I happy? At times. Most times I have more happier times than not. I'm fine with that. Expecting more sets me up for disappointment and bitterness. That wouldn't be happy.