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I am glad that the Buddha said nothing against Sniper Elite 4.

Can you build your life and friends around that? Then it's a real game, the kind people play seriously.

Buddha talked about the games that put you in a magical forest of your own, using your mind to trip for the play of it. Buddha wouldn't play recorded music.

Recorded music is not happening. Buddha would take up a flute and jam with a band though.

So is your gaming more like recorded music listening activity, or more like something to bring people together and organize your life around?

That you know. I don't know.

I enjoy playing Sniper Elite 4. I think the Buddha would have been intrigued by it, too. It is a meditation on the impermanence of existence. If you play it enough you wake up to the futility of endless struggle.

I’m sure Krishna would have approved, in any case. He said “one imagines he is the slayer, the other, the slain. Both are deceived.” Yes. Because it’s all virtual. It’s all a journey.

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