# I regret all of \_\_\_\_, except for \_\_\_\_.
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-regret-all-of-____-except-for-____/743898
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [January 22, 2016, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-regret-all-of-____-except-for-____/743898 "2016-01-22T19:31:44Z")
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### Author:  [@The\_Bith\_Shuffle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Bith_Shuffle)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2016, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-regret-all-of-____-except-for-____/743898/1 "2016-01-22T19:31:44Z")
Hopefully this thread idea isn’t too silly (or I’m not putting it in the wrong section). Simple: tell me what you regret almost all of, but also tell us the exception(s).
I regret almost all the computer games I’ve played. If I could have back all the time I spent playing StarCraft, that’d be great, n’kay? TF2 also. Having my Morrowind hours back would be nice, or at least all the hours I spent fighting cliff racers.
But I don’t regret Myst or Riven, and I don’t regret Portal 1 or 2. Those games had a beauty to me none of the other games had. I remember them as meaningful experiences rather than timesinks.
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### Author:  [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2016, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-regret-all-of-____-except-for-____/743898/2 "2016-01-24T06:28:14Z")
… all the beer I drank… the last one and the next one.
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### Author:  [@Sunshine\_and\_Smiles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunshine_and_Smiles)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2016, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-regret-all-of-____-except-for-____/743898/3 "2016-01-24T06:46:42Z")
I regret masturbating so frequently to Motherless. Given the time wasted, I may have been able to devise a unified field theory.
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### Author:  [@scootergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scootergirl)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2016, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-regret-all-of-____-except-for-____/743898/4 "2016-01-24T06:56:36Z")
i regret to tell you that I can’t play along. Sure, there are things (many probably) that I should have done differently, or in a smarter way. Good solid opportunities that I passed up on. Relationships that I shouldn’t have developed. Places that I shouldn’t have moved to. Drugs that I shouldn’t have tried… and tried again. But I’m getting tired of typing the words “shouldn’t have” already because all of those decisions and bad choices I learned something from. And, ultimately, they led me to where I am today. Not necessarily geographically speaking (though in part that’s true too) but to the person that I am at this moment. All of those things that I could easily “regret” were just part of the ride.
OK wait! There was that…one…guy. Yes, I do regret that, and him. Enough said.