[quote=Brovo]So you called in sick to marathon a video game?... Hmm... No, sorry, I don't think I could really get this. I'd have never gotten away with this level of irresponsible behaviour. Two different lives, though, I'm struggling to comprehend why you would even want to ditch what is quintessentially free education for a video game you can play anytime.[/quote]

That was the case with me though, my parents were completely fine with it because I was already doing better in school than most people were. I technically could of done it later, but I was honestly just too excited to wait, I wanted to play it right then and there. But I also wanted to enjoy the experience of marathoning it for the first play-through, just cause all the narrative and story tends to be richer and more engaging for me if it's all done in one sitting and is the first time I'm seeing it. 

Hell last week I basically spent day and night doing nothing but marathoning Game of Thrones for similar reasons, though it's summer so I wasn't missing school this time. Also with the show I could of waited a bit, but Mass Effect was a series I played a lot of since I was 12, so there was years of enjoyment, loyalty and excitement all built up making me want to play Mass Effect at that very moment.

School was rather relaxed and not teaching much atm anyways, I ended up coming to school the next day and finding out I had missed absolutely nothing. Though my High School was rather shitty and ill-prepared in general.