Poll: You must spend a year locked in a room.

[Richardplex]

Video games for sure. Although the psychological damage with the skewness of reality is significant, I play games as an escape so it shouldn't get bad for me, and since IRL is just a really boring game, as with sonic the hedgehog maybe giving IRL a year break will make it less boring. The ethical issues of the latter choice though overwhelm the psychological problems of the former, from the choice, what I (and everyone else) would be doing with that person and being with another person for 365.25 days would leave me and that person more unable to return to society than endless video gaming, and ruin my psyche a lot more than non-stop gaming.

I'd question the lack of the size of the room for multiple reasons though. 1, If it is just 4x4metre room, a year is a long time, and well... my body releases a lot of matter regularly, more so if I'm with another person of my choosing, so it would probably become very uncomfortable to be on the floor very quickly. reason number 2, it's not even enough for gaming. After I play a vehicle section, I would have barely any room to pretend I'm an air-plane, given the state of my psyche.

All in all, I'd go for video games, as I prefer myself as someone to talk to in any time slot, let alone a year, and my reasoning for gaming wouldn't destroy my psyche as much as most.

Also, if I'm using the word psyche in the wrong way and am making you twitch from it, my bad.

 

[RaNDM G]

I think I'd rather stay outside. Most video games tend to bore me, and I'm pretty sure I wouldn't last a week without the other person trying to kill me.

 

[The-Epicly-Named-Man]

Definitely the games, spending a year in a room with anyone would end with murder, no exceptions.

 

[Lord_Nemesis]

Two words, one name:

Megan Fox.

That is all.

 

[Nouw]

I take videogames.

At least when I go insane and eventually die I'll die happy!

 

[SoranMBane]

Video games seems like the best option to me. Having every video game ever made at my disposal offers a great deal more variety in terms of experiences and stimulation than a single person could offer, plus I'm fairly used to just having myself for company for long stretches of time. Also, doesn't the single person option strike anyone else as being kind of petty and selfish? I mean, forcing someone to spend a whole year with you in a 4x4 meter room just because you can't stand the thought of being alone? It certainly wouldn't do their sanity any more good than it would yours.

 

[Kris015]

Videogames will bore me at some point, a person probably wouldn't. I'd choose my girlfriend.

 

[CrashBang]

Oh god this is harder than I thought it'd be. I can think of friends who I'd end up killing after a week and friends I honestly think I could stick it out with. Then there's the opportunity to be locked in there with Kat Von D...
But the games are guaranteed to occupy me for a year so they're, like, the safe option
Gah, this is tough!

EDIT: My current post count is the best year in music history. Awesome

 

[Uber Evil]

A person. It would give me a reason to try and make something out of the experience.

 

[Irony's Acolyte]

My first thought was to choose the person. Having someone to be with for a year would be pretty fun especially if we're really close (sexy time all the time). Thing is, I don't really have anyone now that is really that close to me and anyone else would probably be at my throat after a while just like I'd be after theirs. So instead I'd choose the video games. Sure my psyche is bound to take a hit from such prolonged isolation, but at least nobody ends up dead. Plus, I can actually go without social interaction for quite some time as I'm pretty isolated IRL for the most part.

 

[Seives-Sliver]

I would spend a whole year with one of my best friends, he and I are almost like brothers, who cares if we don't have any games?

 

[WaysideMaze]

I get annoyed by people very easily, so would probably have to take the games. However I'm altering the room size to accomodate so many games.

 

[jonyboy13]

A person will get boring after a year. Porn game are infinite.
Consider I don't have PS3\Xbox I can burn more than a year playing games.

 

[JoJo]

It would be a difficult choice, but I'd have to go with the games. I'm a tolerant person with a number of good friends to choose from but I really can't see it working in such a small space with nowhere-else to go and nothing-else to do. I would probably start going insane in the games option as I love human contact but I think I would survive it.

 

[Gitty101]

Wow - what a choice! That is a hard one... Spending an extended amount of time with someone you really like can be straining sometimes, not sure I'd be able to physically spend non-stop time with somebody for a year...

Then again, if I had access to every video-game ever made I may get bored faster then somebody might expect. If I lose the motivation to play because it's all I have to do, that'll be a sucky year...

Tough choice, but I'd say the games. I might be able to extend my period of enjoyment with a couple of lengthy RPGs, but either way I'll get bored at some point.

 

[Dogstile]

The games. I mean, talking to someone else is good and all, but can you imagine how much their little character flaws would piss you off after a year?

 

[DarklordKyo]

If there's enough for two people to spend the year, I could spend it with my sorta-kinda girlfriend.

 

[TheAceTheOne]

*calls girlfriend*

"Hey, you and I should spend a year together in this room here. We can talk and do stuff and hang out."

Her: "OMGOMGOMGOMGOMG YES!"

Seriously, thats basically how it'd go.

 

[OuroborosChoked]

As Sartre once said (by way of one of his characters), hell is... other people!

Logistical problems aside (what about a toilet? shower? food supply? exercise? etc.), I'd choose the video games.

Though I would like to be able to go outside once in a while...

 

[HandfulofWolf]

Just one room. With one toilet. Even without thinking about cabin fever I'm going to go with the video games here.