Is anyone else severely disturbed by the gaming lifestyle and community as a whole? I've been thinking about this shit a lot lately because of just how much it has affected my life and the lives of others'.
I feel like a lot of us get roped into gaming from a young age, and for many it becomes their ONE hobby and defining personality trait. A lot of people I knew in middle and high school were like this. Somewhat academically rigorous, maybe even smart, but thoroughly unambitious and passive. And every person I've met who fits this descriptor was depressed.
Think about how long it takes to beat a single player game. It'll take you anywhere from 15 to 90 hours on average. A lot of games are over 20 hours in playtime at least. That is an astounding amount of time for just one video game. No other medium demands as much time from you as games do, and they aren't even enriching. The stories, music, and aesthetics might be, but the interactivity? No.
I don't know about everyone else but I'm tired of turning my mind off. I can't stand it anymore. Every time I pick up the controller I just think about the years left I have on this planet and how my youth will eventually pass me by. I'm tired of the entertainment industry. I'm tired of being overstimulated. I don't want to be entertained. But most people I meet are just into video games or anime or YouTube or something. I feel completely alone in this. I don't understand how people can enjoy being pacified when their lives are burning around them.
Gaming is not art, it does not enrich people's lives. A person who commits himself to reading will gradually become a better person. A person who commits himself to games will gradually deteriorate. There is no "in moderation." Gaming is a disease.
>15 to 90 hours what games you fucking playing my good man? Games are like 3-8 hours average from what I play. I don't play many games though. Still though I can try answering your question. People play video games, watch mindless youtube vids, and movies, and look at paintings, or read books for roughly the same reason. They want to pass the time, they want to be allowed to be unconscious for a bit. The world is a scary and loud and painful and dangerious place and most people are oversocialized, over medicated, over worked, and yet have zero good way to actually fucking relax. They aren't allowed good drugs, just shit pills. They can't drink because they have the shit job the next day. So what do you to, to pass the time, instead of feeling that disgusting feeling of realizing just how shit life is, you play a fucking video game.
And by the by, video games are in fact art, just as much as a painting or a musical composition. And I recall a time in my life where I read book after book on various things, I don't think they improved my life though really, just saying. I don't think books are all they are cracked up to be. I mean I've read classics of literature and I just never felt like I got anything out of it.
Jason Green
I think if there was one thing I could chalk up my failures to it would be gaming. Became thoroughly addicted to it around 10 and it pretty well led to me being an asocial shut-in throughout all my teens.
Owen Bennett
>log in into Deadside server >walk into some abandoned farm, comfy collecting stuff >hear footsteps outside, suddenly some obnoxious Brit accent is blaring into his microphone "Oy can her ya, lad!" >the door opens and I'm getting shot and killed >instantly log out and go back to playing Aoe II
>Gaming is not art, it does not enrich people's lives. Some games have artistic merit, just as some movies do. A lot of them don't, obviously, but that doesn't negate the ones that do.
>A person who commits himself to reading will gradually become a better person. There's plenty of shlock literature that does nothing to enrich a person. Consider all the shitty romance novels at supermarket checkouts, for instance. There are women who read nothing but those bodice rippers and they're not better people for it.
>A person who commits himself to games will gradually deteriorate. There is no "in moderation." Gaming is a disease. You think every single person who plays video games is an addict or on their way to becoming one? This is a "you" problem, my guy, not a "the entire medium" problem.
Mason Fisher
You know you can play games and do other things, right? I was 'roped into' gaming from like age 9, I still went outside, played sports, had friends, travelled, lost my virginity, started a business and got married. Through it all I played a lot of games and to this day play at least 3 hours even if I have something to do.
If all you do is game then obviously you don't become a well rounded person, but I have met people who spent their entire lives in books and the same is true for them.
Cooper Bell
>jrpgfag has a lucid moment
Dominic Cooper
I immediately thought the same thing lmao. I saw '90 hours' and thought this guy's a Persona addict.
Austin Gomez
>controller lol consolenormie, not gonna make it
Kevin Foster
Imagine thinking gaming turns your brain off, and then you happily go use tiktok or watch TV like a brainlet.
Noah Allen
There's literally nothing else you can do retard, what is this shit? One hobby is exactly like any other hobby, it is just a way to pass the time until you die. It doesn't matter if you watch anime, play games, play a musical instrument, go on hikes or be a windsailer or whatever the fuck, it's all the same. People who read do not become better people, that's a delusional thing you're clinging to because, presumable, you struggle to accept the fact that life is just passing the time during your existence for the most part. Society is not going back to how it used to be, communities will not be high trust or close knit, people will not care about you, you will likely not get a wife that is a good person and will stick around, or a house to call your own. The only people negatively affected by people giving up are jew employers and your societal rulers as they lose 'valuable' disposable slave labour that is used to prop up the shitshow of a society we currently live in
Henry Sanchez
>Think about how long it takes to beat a single player game. It'll take you anywhere from 15 to 90 hours on average. A lot of games are over 20 hours in playtime at least. That is an astounding amount of time for just one video game. No other medium demands as much time from you as games do If you sat down and watched game of thrones it would take you 70 hours Seinfeld is 66 hours. A 400 page novel is about 11 hours for the average reader
If you told someone you watched TV or read in your spare time no one would find it remotely strange or worrying.
I envy people who are into video games this much. Aside from playing through an old favourite for nostalgia here and there, I haven't gotten really immersed in a video game since I was 15, and I'm 32 now.
And I've tried. I often remember how much I used to love playing video games. They were my obsession. And I feel the urge to recapture that. But every time I sit down and try to seriously play a new game, after a short time, an overpowering sense of boredom and frustration overcomes me and I have to switch it off.
My point being: at least you have something you always enjoy.
Andrew Thomas
>A person who commits himself to reading will gradually become a better person.
I'm on the high end of literature consumption, e.g. I've read most of Greek tragedy, I've read the entirety of Proust, etcetera; take it from me: this is bullshit.
Andrew Watson
Check out healthy gamer video game addiction on youtube
John Anderson
>Be me >Play Yakuza >Wow, Kiryu is so cool. I want to be like him. >Get fucking shredded dude Without video games this wouldnt have happened. Now tell me again why video games are bad.
Xavier Thomas
You're likely using gaming as a procrastination/escape from the rest of your life. If you wake up in the morning and there's a point where you get onto the PC and don't really come back off it, then one strategy to try is delaying that happening as much as possible each time you wake up.
Isaiah Martinez
Iove how much op is getting btfo in this thread. >the gaming lifestyle and community as a whole tHe gAYmInG cOMmUniTy hurr Durr. Not a thing faggot, any more than the film watching community or the reading community. People playing games runs across several spectrums from soccer moms playing peggle on smartphones to hardcore milsim faggots to amateur devs to once-a-weekend-for-1-hour casuals. Offline players and multiplayer sweats. Retro shitters and AAA chasers. There's certainly a pipeline for kids to withdraw into gaming and fall behind in the real world, but painting the medium as some kind of inherent evil makes you sound like a massive retard trying to drum up some kind of spooky demon witch to burn because you're weak willed and looking for an external thing to blame for your failure. But it's you and your choices, always has been.
William Hill
Games. Porn. It's all just cope. If you had good shit going on in your life you wouldn't be picking up that controller every day. People lash out at these threads because the pain of admitting they fucked themselves up over something so stupid is too painful.
