Atilla

Live for the day. That day you always wanted. That day that rocks your world, that day that the smile never goes down from your face.

Go out. Out with the people you have as friends, the good ones, the ones you care about.

To smile, to have fun. To see the better side of life and live for it, while it's there. To have the joy, the freedom, the exitement. To have the chemistry (your own, you junkies) rushing through you, have the body and the mind take you to the place you want to be.

To listen, to enjoy. The music, the one that makes you go wild, the one that uplifts you. The one that resonates within you and drives that hidden engine of entertainment. The one that makes you live.

To live, to roam, to see, to be the city that you live in. The one full with all those strange people. The one full with all those cool people. The one where you can go out any day and know where you'd be at home. The one that fills up your current "home".

To meet, to love, to enjoy the people around you. To feel and enjoy the crazy diversity around, without spite, without bitter sarcasm. To have fun.

To laugh, and be laughed at. To smile and create smiles. To see humour appreciated and to be able to appreciate humor. To live a life of joy.

To know - all that, and to see what you have, in spite of it being temporary, a passing moment, a year, a day, even a second. And to love it till the end.

To go home in the middle of the night, while it's light outside. To see the sun rising slowly at 3AM and to smile and enjoy.

To listen to the best of music all night and still be able to enjoy even more, while at home. To know what you're looking for and to have it power you up. (Right now that's Miika Kuisma, with Intelligent Design, again, in the middle of the night, and - oh man - is he right at the spot as always).

To see and to believe. To live and to forget. To sieze and to let go.

To be what you want to be. To know what you want to know. To control everything that deserves to be controlled but at the same time go with the flow.

To have life, as it should be.

How awesome is it?

There are just a few *very* good games ever made. It's not the most popular ones, not the most visually impressive ones, not the most technically advanced ones. For me the games that are truly good are the ones that manage to capture your mind and lock it in a word where it really wants to exist. A digital fantasy - abstraction, imaginative. Not a representation of the real world. A game is a combination of arts and crafts that manages to acheive what a single one cannot - sink you into a world powered and fed by your imagination. Your imagination, not that of others, because without your desire there, no external effort would help.

The *very* good games out there combine artistic creativity with brilliant technical execution to create your virtual reality that sinks you into your addiction to this virtual world. No matter what the genre of the game is, without your imagination engaging you deeply within this fantastic universe, it just won't work. The ones that manage to achieve this combine the power of all senses to provide you with that experience.

Deep, detailed environments, moody music, elements planned and layed out carefully. Engaging, captivating and intriguing stories, charming characters, ruthless villains and amounts of content that will etch in your brain for a long time. Very rarely a game has achieved splendour without a good mix of all of these, creating an environment that lets you submerge your mind in.

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