This video reflects my real-life experiences with videogames. I offer the following as a lesson to all those willing to listen.
本视屏讲述的是我与游戏的真实故事,下面这些算是我讲给大家的一堂课。

How best to say this...Understand that I'm not the kind of person to sit in front of a microphone and believe that what I think will have any profound meaning to your lives.
这么说吧,我自己都不觉得自己是那种坐在麦克风前就能让自己的思想影响到你们生活的人。

But you see, although what I have to say may upset a few of you, a few months ago I had one of those life changing moments that forced me to realize that I've made a lot of stupid mistakes in my life...
也许我下面说的话会让你们郁闷,几个月前我遭遇了一场生命中最为严峻的挑战,让我不得不意识到我犯过多少愚蠢的错误……

And you know what they say: "Make films about what you know." The problem was, why should the thousands of you now watching this believe me when I say that, videogames were to blame?
有句老话叫“电影记录人生”。问题是,现在坐在屏幕前看着这部短片的你们为什么要相信我所谓“游戏是罪魁祸首”的论调?

Understand that I've played videogames my entire life starting with Atari & Nintendo right up till just a few months ago. Over the years, I could only calculate that I've lost 1,000 of dollars and 20,000 of hours of my life to them!
要知道,我从雅达利和任天堂远祖时代玩到几个月前。我都可以算的出我在游戏上消耗了多少时间和多少金钱!

But when I considered their effect on my life, I had to face the fact that years of gaming had not made me smarter! And button mashing had not improved my reflexes...
但再看看游戏带来了什么呢?十多年的游戏生涯没让我变得更加聪明!机械的按键没有提高我的反应速度……

I was not a kung-fu master, I couldn't properly swing a sword! And in a zombie a apocalypse...I probably wouldn't last five minutes!
我不是李小龙,甚至一把剑都拿不好!如果僵尸入侵我大概活不过五分钟!

We often forget that videogames are "entertainment". That means beyond making you feel good they have NO lasting value...
我们时常会忘记游戏作为“娱乐”的本质,就是说它们除了让你觉得开心一点以外没有任何的后续价值……

Regardless of how important they may feel to you, there is NO place on a resume for X-BOX achievements...
不管你觉得它们有多么重要,你在X-box上所取得的成就在简历里一无是处……

The real pain behind my years of videogame addiction was that I never realized their TRUE cost.
我多年的游戏上瘾最大的痛苦是,我从未正确的意识到付出的代价

Sure, it was just a few hours here or there... but over three decades.
可能看起来不过是每天扣去的三五个小时,但是三十年下来呢?

I'm not just sickened now by the amount of my life I've spent, but, more-so by all the important stuff that I willingly pushed aside to make time for games.
我不仅错误的耗费了无数的时光,更因为游戏而失去了多少重要的机会和美好的时光。

For the sake of entertainment, I was willing to give up sleep, health, and ambition...for what?
为了这点娱乐我甚至放弃了睡眠、健康乃至抱负……为了什么?

We fool ourselves into thinking that virtual achievements and virtual friends are adequate substitutes for real-life ones... To be blunt, videogamers seem to be fine giving up their real lifes for simulated ones!
我们欺骗自己说虚拟的成就和伙伴可以替代现实……可以直言不讳的说,很多玩家愿意为了虚拟而放弃现实的生命!

Full of depression and loneliness... I now know the true cost of gaming are all those lost years that I could have spent with friends, creating art, or being a better husband...
生活满是抑郁和孤独……我现在知道我耗费在游戏上的其实是那些我本可以用来和朋友聚会、绘画和当个好丈夫的时光……

Three months ago, I had to face the facts that I was alone, overweight and divorced...
3个月前,我不得不面对这些事实:我孤单、肥胖而且孑然一身……

If there is a moral to this lecture, it's that as much as we may waht one, life does not have continues...
要是说这部短片有什么教育意义的话,那就是不管我们多么想要,生命,是没有重来功能的……

For much of my life I was eager to trade away countless opportunities, friendships and love for experiences that don't really exist...
我用无数机会、友谊和爱情交换来的是根本不存在的东西……

I guess what I'm saying is, it took me a long time to figure all this out, and along the way, I missed out on a lot of life...
我想说的是,我花了很长时间才意识到这一点,而我已经错过了不少重要的东西……

At the risk of sounding like an afterschool special. Don't allow something as stupid as videogames consume the best years of your life, at the expense of all the greatness you could achieve.
虽然这话听起来像是马后炮,但是请记住,不要让游戏这种东西耗费了你的黄金年华,以你可能获得的种种成就作为代价。

Consider this my promise. That's mistake I don't plan to make again...
就当这是我的承诺吧,这个错误我不会再犯一次了……

Here are the things you can do with the time it takes to make one level 80 character in World of Warcraft:
在魔兽世界中练一个80级角色所花费的时间你可以做的事情:

Drive from NYC to LA 3 TIMES!
从纽约开车去洛杉矶3次!

Read "War and Peace" AND "Moby Dick" "Huckleberry Finn" All 7 "Harry Potter" Books.
通读《战争与和平》还有《大白鲸》《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》以及全部7本《哈利波特》

Sleep 3 more hours a night
每晚多睡3小时

Run 12 Marathons
跑12趟马拉松

Cook 48 Turkeys
做48只火鸡

Write your Grandma 500 Letters
给祖母写500封信

Learn Spanish & French
学会西班牙语和法语

Take 1 colloge class
完成一门大学课程

Why so serious? The average player makes 2-3 level 80 characters.
那么严肃干什么?一般的玩家都会有2-3个80级角色。

Now I know a lot of you are going to be angry or confused over the things that I am saying. Call me whatever names you like... Pretentious or not... Undestand, that while I don't have videogames or the people that make them. I'm still worried about their overwhelming negative effects that they've had on my generation...
现在你们应该有人因为我说的这些话感到迷惑或生气。不管你们怎么说我,不管这算不算自负,我并不痛恨游戏和创造它们的人,但它们对我们这一代人的不可磨灭的消极影响令我感到担忧……

But, half-way through animation this film, I came across a documentary about the penny Arcade con. And, that's when it hit me...
在制作这部短片过程中,我看到了一部关于penny Arcade con的纪录片,那一刻我被触动了……

Healthy gamers do not dwell away on the games... but instead, embrace the community!
正确对待游戏的玩家不会沉溺游戏,而是敞开胸怀迎接同好!

While there may not be any value in the games themselves, anything that brings people together and builds communities that embrace who you really are, can't be half bad...
游戏本身可能毫无价值,但是能让大家汇聚在一起,建立一个属于自己的群体,并不是什么坏事……

As I scan through the images of very different people all united by a common interest, it gaves me hope that some thing good may still come out of all this.
我翻看着这些来自四面八方的人们,因为共同兴趣走到一起,这给了我希望,其中或许还有好的一面存在。

We are the first generation forced to find a balance between letting technology improve our live or risk allowing it to dominate us...
我们是首先要面对让技术改变生活,还是面临被它束缚的风险的一代人……

In reality, does Warcraft or Facebook improve your social life...? Or are you sitting at home alone?
在现实中,魔兽世界或者Facebook是否让你的社交变得更丰富?还是让你只能孤单地宅在家里?

Either way, the only thing I know... is that I will never find out sitting alone in front of my TV and neither will you...
不管怎么样,我只知道……我不会再一个人孤独的坐在屏幕前,而且你也不会……

Whatever you choose, remember
不论你选择哪条路,请记住

In this game, you only get one life...
在这个游戏里,你只有一条命……