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Answer in 3 words or less: What is the point of video games?
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Answer in 3 words or less:

What is the point of video games?
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Entertainment.
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See those mountains?
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Social Justice
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checking this 4
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>>318371935
They just work.
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There is none
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fun
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>>318371935
SHITS AND GIGGLES.
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>>318371935
It Just Works
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Having fun.
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Who's laughing now?
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Discuss on /v/
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It just works.
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real life escapism
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Tell Me Lies
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PLAY THE GAMES
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>>318371935
Suspension of disbelief.
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To be played
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>>318371935
Entertain human mind
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>>318371935
WHO
LAUGHING
NOW
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To have fun
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Run away
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Skillfully apply imagination.
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are ya winning?
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>>318371935
Delay my suicide.
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>>318371935
being great fun
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To git gud

Ez game ez life
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To make money
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To imagine goals.
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Complain on internet
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Mental exercise.

> To have fun
Anything is fun if you're drunk enough, children.
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Hate todd howard
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>>318371935
To be entertained.
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simulate real life by practicing valuable skills such as resource management and balancing long and short term investments
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Go to mountains.
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political agendas
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>>318371935
Escapism.
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>>318371935
To make shekels.
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hiding from sadness
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>>318372453
/thread
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for the memes
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>>318371935
The point is-

Shit. I fucked up, my bad.
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>>318372102
This
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>>318371935
TO WASTE TIME
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>Answer in 3 words or less

This is what Todd Howard told his dialogue writers.
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To have fun.
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>>318371935
to have fun
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waiting for death
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Yee eee ees.
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>>318374039
Keke

Also I realized how closely Todd resembles CIA
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>>318374039
Hate dialogue.
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nigger horse plague
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to enjoy yourself
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hiding from reality
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>>318374039
HEY, I'M CIA.
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WEISS, YOU DUMBASS
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don't suicide yet
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>>318374279
this to bee honey
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>>318374334
this desu
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WHOSE

LAUGHING

NOW
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To be bought.
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Not kill myself.

>>318374334

Beat me to it.
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>>318371935
Simply put: Entertainment
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>>318371935
escape from reality
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>>318371935
Kill youre self
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Interactive Entertainment.
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>>318371935
forgetting your life
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Friends
U-&-Me
Nywhere-and-anytime-at-all
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Distraction from feels
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>>318371935
Entertainment, you fag.
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FILL THE VOID
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awake all night
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>>318375171
>>318375605
>>318377482
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>>318371935
play for entertainment
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Art *tips fedora*
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rule thirty four
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>>318371935
fun, kills time.
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To ignore reality
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>>318372046
This. Video games are not about anything else.
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>>318371935
Watch cool explosions ;^)
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To have fun.
People playing for escapism please kill yourself. You're just as bad as sjws and art fags
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>>318371935
what's the point of doing anything that doesn't contribute directly to your survival?
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>>318371935
describe OP in three words or less

A huge faggot.
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>>318371935
JUST BUY IT
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>>318371935
Providing interactive experiences.
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>>318371935

fun escapism kekolding
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Suck my cock
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>>318371935
who's laughing now?
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>>318379553
You don't want to have culture?
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>>318373754
why does he have such a midget-like voice?
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Escape my life
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>>318371935
Fodder for shitposting
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shitpost on /v/
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>>318371935
Forget the pain
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BECOME ONE WITH RAGE
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>>318371935
42
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>>318380004
Because he's like a foot tall manlet
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>>318380253
Thats four words faggola
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Enjoy Feminine Penis
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>>318379970
video games=culture
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>>318371935
Fun and Entertainment
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>>318371935
Life purpose = vidya
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>>318371935
Tons of fun.
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>>318371935
super epic fun
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to have fun.
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>>318371935
What is the purpose of any art?
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just fun
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>>318372453
>>318381154
/thread.
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bought and sold
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Why do the game Todd makes feels like an even bigger waste of times than your average vidya?
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escaping with fun
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>>318371935
Temporary suicide prevention.
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>>318371935
It just works
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To kill time
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I hate fun.
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Not playing Fallout
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Vocal Chord Parasites
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>>318371935
Fuck you, Todd.
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F

U

N
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>>318380312
>toddpoleon bonaparte
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>>318371935
have fun
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>>318371935
forget you suck
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JUST BUY IT
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>>318371935
Entertainment, escapism & relaxation.
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To get away
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>>318371935
To kill time.
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>>318371935
BLANKITY
BLANKITY
BLANK
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Fun
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Helps me escape.
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Anime boy pussy
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Fun through escapism
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profit from fantards

like teens and preteens to justin bieber
FALLOUT FALLOUT FALLOUT FOOOOUUUUR!!!
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I shoot people
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to gas kikes
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>>318371935
Art, fun, socialization
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Keeping me sane
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>>318388338
>>>/pol/
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fun and entertainment
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>>318375436
One of those words is a conjunction. Well loopholed anon>>318375724
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>>318371935
FRIENDSHIP AND THE HEART OF THE CARDS

ANCIENT EGYPTIANS N SHEEEIIIT
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it's just fun
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Ultimately, time wasting.
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Provides wank material.
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simulating
criminal
activities
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>>318371935
>>318372095
there is none
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>>318371935
Stimulation in general.
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If the point of video games is to have fun, and everyone has their own version of what fun is, then how can one game be "objectively" better at anything than another game?
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>>318389347
>something you do in your free time
>time wasting

>time enjoyed in your free time
>time wasting
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>>318386506
This
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>>318371935
to escape reality


>regards 10y of geemus :^)
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>>318389546
There's a standard for everything, baka.
You're still allowed to enjoy bad games if you acknowledge that it doens't meet the standard
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no gf escapism
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>>318371935
Fuck the pain away
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>>318389682

Yes but those "standards" change depending on who you talk to.

That is not the definition of "objective".
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>>318389682
Doesn't* woops
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>>318371935
waste of money
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distraction from nihilism
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>>318389752
The standard for video games can only change if a new game comes out that's so amazing that it sets the bar higher
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Unique experiences
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IT JUST WORKS
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>>318389993

Yes, but the people who determine whether a game is "amazing" or not all have different opinions of what is and is not amazing.
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casuals, bugs and
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>>318390094
Well, normalfags are mouthbreathers
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>>318382486
Have you ever been so insecure you self insert into another people into your own product.
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>>318371935
depends

which

videogame
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TO

HAVE

FUN
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>>318390494
This. You cant generalize with "the point of videogames as a whole is___". Different games have different points.
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Having fun, sober.
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>>318390747
oops. meant to reply to >>318390572
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>>318371935
Buying Todd's Game
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>>318389682

WE WUZ KINGS
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>>318371935
To have fun.
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>>318371935
To have fun
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>>318390968
>>318390971
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HATE FUN
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Distraction from Death
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>>318371935
To have fun
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>>318390968
>>318390971

These fellas.
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>>318371935
To entertainment myself.
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Wait for death.
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>>318371935
>Answer in 3 words or less:
>What is the point of video games?

THERE

ISNT

ONE
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Interactivity
Fun
Immersion
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Like everything else, they're a distraction from the ever encroaching darkness of non existence that comes with oblivion
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>>318371935
To die alone.
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overcome
a
challenge
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>>318371935
Fun money makers
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For Valuable Morals
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What's the point of anything
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>>318391620
Now, now anon. We only ask that question about the things YOU like.
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Have fun lads
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To have fun.
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>>318371935
make big money
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MAKE HUGE PROFITS
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Pleasure my dick
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>2015
>buying games
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>>318371935
immersion and entertainment
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>>318371935
to explore yourself
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checking this five!
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>>318371935
fun
distraction
hobby
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>>318371935
It just works.
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>>318371935
to have fun
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>>318371935
Passing the time.
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to have fun
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>>318372072
>>318372119
>>318392848
This
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Because it's 2015
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>>318371935
Waiting for death
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>>318371935

Death angst anesthetic
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