Sounds immature, bizarre and somewhat nerdish, doesn't it? What kind of nonsense can one possibly learn from staring at a TV and buttonmashing?
Quite a bit, actually. Follow me across the jump, and I'll show you.
From the protagonist of the role-playing game Skies Of Arcadia:
"Impossible is just a word people use to make themselves feel better when they give up"
and
"If we challenge ourselves, and never give up, our own horizons will broaden,"
words we can all take to heart as we push to better ourselves and the world around us.
From Harvest Moon: Save The Homeland, one could take away the lesson that we could help save our own homeland by practicing sustainable agriculture, treating the environment and living things with respect and being diplomatic to others, alongside the overall themes of fending off an abuse of imminent domain and protecting the ancestral lands of people who have no voice of their own.
Courtesy of the Cheshire Cat in American McGee's Alice, we are reminded to treasure that which makes us unique:
Only the foolish believe suffering is just wages for being different.
And finally, from the character Celes, in Final Fantasy VI:
You want to live in this world the way it is? No? Then do something about it!
* well, not
everything, but like any art form, there may be useful messages one can take away from them - and if you can think of a better way to explain matrices, plane geometry and transformations, I'm all ears.
** second attempt at a partially-unserious diary (first was a failure); please let me know if I've made a mess of it.