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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GMforPowergamers" data-source="post: 8825379" data-attributes="member: 67338">Okay, so the guy was in okaish shape (for one of us) but he smoked and had a good job getting out with a big degree. So I pointed out that if you looked at everything in real life you could at age 16 plot the 'optimal' path to the best outcome... you would still go to college (like he did) but you would never start smoking, and you would do casual light work outs through out your life... but all that video game TV and later RPG time, man that would have been better learning some kind of psychology... interpersonal skills.  Then as he aged he would find his better health and better people skills would have moved him even farther in the job he had and wanted... so why didn't he do that? Maybe at 16 that wasn't in his mind, but today, if he wanted the better longer life he would most likely start down that path... do you want to?and it wasn't just "i don't want to" or "that would be hard" he realized "I'm just not built that way... I don't care to be 'nice', i hate working out, and time in RPG and computer games are how I destress""But those aren't optimal choices are they?"he swore alot before coming to the conclusion that people DON'T do the optimal thing... (Funny thing he started going to the gym with us and walking on the treadmill and cut WAY back on smoking and drinking over the months that followed)</blockquote>