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> The worse part was that after going through the motions, I had absolutely nothing to show for it. That empire I built, gone. The world I "saved", disappeared

• egypturnash 12y ago
  Most people aren't capable of taking quite that long a view. It is very unlikely that anything you do in a video game will persist more than a few years, let alone beyond your death. If you do things in the real world, there is some chance of a legacy that persists past your life and affects people after you're dead, whether it be kids, a house you built, a book you wrote, or whatnot. Ultimately, yes, all our works are but tears in the rain. But if you take that view too long and too hard it's easy to sink into ennui and just let yourself wither away; why bother?
• shenanigoat 12y ago
  "I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand, Half sunk, a shatter'd visage lies, whose frown And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamp'd on these lifeless things, The hand that mock'd them and the heart that fed. And on the pedestal these words appear: "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" Nothing beside remains: round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, The lone and level sands stretch far away." -Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley