STOP PLAYING VIDEO GAMES - They’re like a drug, like smoking or alcohol. they’re addictive when you play them, but once you quit them for a month you’ll question why you wasted your adulthood on them in the first place. Video games are a children’s pastime, one they should be playing alongside their friends from school, but not by themselves alone in their room. A man’s pastime should be working towards something, whether that’s practicing for a marathon, building a playground for your kids, doing maintenance around the house, or saving up to buy a fun sports toy like a jet ski or a motorcycle. As a man you really shouldn’t be playing video games. The coping excuses I see from full grown men to justify their addiction to games is the same as a alcoholic or chain smoker justifying their addiction: “life is boring, I need to relax and unwind after work” “it makes me happy”. Bro, you are an addict. I guarantee every single person here who plays games could be doing something far more productive with their time and be much happier in the long haul. But I get it, you dumped $500+ games + tax + a pro controller on a switch 2, you dished out hundreds so you feel like you have to commit to playing it, I mean, the new DK game is coming out and you HAVE to play it, right? Right? That’s an ADDICTION you have, and you are mentally stunted in a childish mindset. I have 13 year old family members who would cringe at your man child asses for playing video games still. Even the teens in my family are growing out of games and realizing there’s better things to do with your time. I’m telling you, quit playing games, sell them all and buy a mountain bike or something else. Give up the gaming life style and pursue other interests. I know gaming is all some of you people know, but it’s not too late to start over with a new hobby.

>>76340137 (OP)
>people take waterworks grandpa seriously
ishygddt

Good message all in all but looking a bit red there

I just gotta get gold on all courses of super Mario kart snes on 150cc and then I will stop I swear.

>>76340137 (OP)
Kek

>>76340137 (OP)
Modern games are gachaslop so it makes sense. You're not quitting vidya. You're quitting gambling

>>76340137 (OP)
>Typed into a brightly colored screen with unlimited stimulus in it immediately after using said screen to watch porn.

>>76340137 (OP)
You eventually grow out of video games. I'm 28 and I rarely feel the need to game and when I do, I get bored after few minutes. I genuinely can't enjoy video games anymore, unless it's some extremely niche and autistic simulator which I can hyper fixate over for 2 weeks straight. But again, this happens very rarely.

At least with gaming, you get some interaction and use of brain cells.
I agree with what you’re saying if you actually spend that time on something useful.
99% of all adults these days are brainlessly scrolling their phones, and watching a movie is the new version of reading a book.

In light of how shitty today’s society has become, I don’t view video games as bad as I once did. At least if you’re playing something like RTS or something that involves thinking.

>>76340137 (OP)
>should
>justify
I shouldn't do anything, nor do I have to justify myself for my choices. Get fucked nigger.

>>76340137 (OP)
Why is he crying? Did someone insult Israel again?

>>76340137 (OP)
STOP READING BOOKS - They’re like a drug, like smoking or alcohol. they’re addictive when you read them, but once you quit them for a month you’ll question why you wasted your adulthood on them in the first place. Books are a children’s pastime, one they should be enjoying alongside their friends from school, but not by themselves alone in their room. A man’s pastime should be working towards something, whether that’s practicing for a marathon, building a playground for your kids, doing maintenance around the house, or saving up to buy a fun sports toy like a jet ski or a motorcycle. As a man you really shouldn’t be reading books. The coping excuses I see from full grown men to justify their addiction to games is the same as a alcoholic or chain smoker justifying their addiction: “life is boring, I need to relax and unwind after work” “it makes me happy”. Bro, you are an addict. I guarantee every single person here who read books could be doing something far more productive with their time and be much happier in the long haul. But I get it, you dumped $500+ on an complete commentated copy of Critique of Pure Reason, you dished out hundreds so you feel like you have to commit to reading it, I mean, the new edition of the Summa Theologiae is coming out and you HAVE to read it, right? Right? That’s an ADDICTION you have, and you are mentally stunted in a childish mindset. I have 13 year old family members who would cringe at your man child asses for reading books still. Even the teens in my family are growing out of books and realizing there’s better things to do with your time. I’m telling you, quit reading books, sell them all and buy a mountain bike or something else. Give up the reading life style and pursue other interests. I know reading is all some of you people know, but it’s not too late to start over with a new hobby.

>>76340676
Kek

>>76340676
Chinese hands typed this

>>76340137 (OP)
>>>/v/

>>76340455
yeah I'm 25 and I genuinely have not enjoyed video games in at least 10 years back when my boys and I used to jump on after our highschool day ended.

how other grown men genuinely get sucked into the trap of gaming aggressively in their 20's is bizarre to me, I cannot force myself to play video games.

As long as boomers stop watching sports and roasties stop watching Netflix.

>>76340137 (OP)
There probably was a point where I would feel defensive about what you’re saying. But you’re right anon.
Hollow Knight is fantastic (judge me all you want fags) but at the end of it all I do wonder where the hell all my time went. Slumped on a couch in a dark room staring at the TV for hours mesmerized because a game is so tight and well designed and fun “just like when I was growing up’”. A harrowing thought really.
>>76340676
Unironically I agree. Reading anything but the occasional novel is gay. Would the ubermench sulk around reading Nietzsche, or participating in the world?

>>76340137 (OP)
This is true, I spent thousands of hours playing games and spent my entire teens indoors and now I’m a bitter mid twenties incel ready to commit war crimes

>spend teens building relationships
>spend 20s partying and building career
>spend 30s playing vidya
it's that simple

I think Peterson is a clown, but I agree with him on this. Vidya is the most useless thing someone can do with their time.

>>76341709
did you do all those things anon

Yes goy you NEED to be working and paying taxes, how else will Achmed support his 4 wives and 16 children? YOu expect him to work?? After what your people did to his people??

>>76340137 (OP)

>>76341722
yes, now I'm done working and got a small family. try it out

And to think /pol/ used to look up to this guy lmao

>>76340137 (OP)
the raped

>>76340455
Factorio... starsector... crpgs

>>76340137 (OP)
>just work harder anon!
>you'll be rewarded with more money, not more work
>it worked in my boomer generation
>I never worked a manual job and leeched off the government in a female dominated field
>even though im a psychologist i can talk about politics
>yes, my child is half white, half slavic and slept with andrew tate, but she is still trad
I fucking hate this annoying crybaby. He is also an extremely bluepilled tradfaggot, who constantly blames men for everything wrong in society.

>>76341742
>Believing the gulags existed
SHYGGYDYGGY

>>76341775
he sounds like the exact genius who has profited off the internet grifting culture, especially those focused towards right wing incel boys and men. good for him.

>>76340455
That’s funny because I felt that way at the same age. I didn’t start enjoying vidya again until last year when I was 30/31. And at that point I had been reading and playing guitar for a few years. Also got into fitness last year as well.

I don't play video games. Never have. Made no difference, I still grew up to be a complete loser faggot retard with no life whatsoever. I just do jack fucking shit. At least if I had been a video game addict I would have something to show for the years of my life that I've wasted.

>>76341777
Worse than this parasite Mike Rowe. Being a fancy academic, then pose as a blue collar worker and encouraging young men to destroy themselves for minimum wage so that they can buy a house in 100 years. Fucking hypocrite grifter. Instead of changing the abuse system he sells it as tradition. But some idiots let themselves get fucked hard by a dildo if tradition is written all over it. When boomers talk about duty and responsibility you should laugh at them, because they were the worst when they were young.

>>76341782
It's not your fault. More young men realize that the whole system is anti-men and pro women and pro boomer faggots. But they still need young men, but what if we don't show up because we don't care anymore? Why should we destroy ourselves for a system that thinks of us as incels and losers anyway?

>>76341782
>f I had been a video game addict I would have something to show for the years of my life that I've wasted.
No, you'd still have nothing.

>>76340137 (OP)
Meh.
How much of a waste of time and how bad videogames are for you depends on what you are playing and how much time you are devoting to it.
I'll go months without video games during the semester but then I'll binge a weekend playing civ.
Nobody would say that chess is bad for you and there are many games that require the same amount of cognitive effort/ability if not more and I would argue those games aren't bad for you.
Again depends on how much and what.

There's a new Donkey Kong game?

>bro just ride your mountain bike for 16 hours a day

>>76340137 (OP)

>>76341816
I don't even think that Peterson is capable of independent thought. Instead of trying to suggest we fix the system he just strawmans young men and calls them lazy losers. His only solution is to just le work harder and never question authority and hierarchy structures whose top is occupied by incompetent irrelevant old people. This dude just hates young men.

>>76341842
i unironically will just bike around on my road bike for hours, aimlessly. got nothing else to do anyway

>>76340455
45. It's starting to get boring...
Oh well guess I've nothing to prove?

>>76340137 (OP)
I haven't watched TV for a couple of decade now (since I left the familly house). It's always funny to have people watching 20 hours + of TV each week telling me the few hours per week I spend gaming could be better used.

>>76341899
>>76341899
>hasnt watched tv for 20 years
sure bro

>>76340137 (OP)
It's not that video games make you lazy. It's just that young men don't even know why they should work hard for a society that shuns them and pays them worse than women who do things way easier than them. But men are competitive, so video games provide an easy outlet. Also, boomers are retards who watch 40 hours per week their shitty FAGGOT News and other psyop slop.

I went no vidya from January until mid April and after breaking up with my gf I went back to playing sc2 like an addict because I wanted to feel something, I played 600 games in 1.5 month and at 20th of June I decided to quit vidya again, some of my friends will play WoW MoP but I don’t think it’s a good idea. But a good reset for anons here who think they are addicted is a 1 month novidya + NoFap and you will build a good resistance baseline from your addictions, then choose accordingly

>>76340167
Goated game.

>>76340455
>eventually grow out
this doesn't apply to video games only. Like any hobby, you grow disinterested and lose skill if you don't partake in it for a long time.

>>76340137 (OP)
Counterpoint

>>76340137 (OP)
He Is not wrong, but he's skipping over everything we know about drug rehab.
Games are a drug. Yeah, they can be, the mechanics are similar, but any psych worth their degree would then go
>And what do we do to stop a client from doing drugs?
Telling them to just fucking stop, until you're red in the face, is not the approach suggested by modern literature.
Drugs are a coping mechanism, What's needed to let out go, healthily, without fear of falling back in, is social connection.

>>76340137 (OP)
sorry, we live in 2025, every grown adult has a fated path. There's nothing to lose from sitting down and enjoying a videogame.

>>76340137 (OP)
tl;dr playing Prototype right now to make you seethe
>>76340676
tl;dr reading Gravity's Rainbow right now to make you seethe

>>76342183
Gayming is not a skill

Sorry, cant relate. I lift more than you, play more video games than you, and am more successful than you

I lift for Eve

>>76340137 (OP)
FOOBY FOOBY FOOBY

>>76340137 (OP)
i agree that work and your purpose is more important that video games but your hobbies of riding bikes aren't superior in anyway to video games

>>76340137 (OP)
STOP LIFTING WEIGHTS - They’re like a drug, like smoking or alcohol. they’re addictive when you lift them, but once you quit them for a month you’ll question why you wasted your adulthood on them in the first place. Lifting weights is a children’s pastime, one that should be done alongside their friends from school, but not by themselves alone in a garage. A man’s pastime should be working towards something, whether that’s working so you can have pay the government to send missiles to Israel, building a playground for black kids, doing maintenance around your ex-wife's house, or saving up to buy nice jewelry for your mom. As a man you really shouldn’t be lifting weights. The coping excuses I see from full grown men to justify their addiction to lifting is the same as a alcoholic or chain smoker justifying their addiction: “life is boring, I need to relax and unwind after work” “it makes me happy”. Bro, you are an addict. I guarantee every single person here who lifts weights could be doing something far more productive with their time and be much happier in the long haul. But I get it, you dumped $500+ on a gym membership, you dished out hundreds so you feel like you have to commit to doing it, I mean, a new gorilla is coming to the zoo and you HAVE to break in and fight it, right? Right? That’s an ADDICTION you have, and you are mentally stunted in a childish mindset. I have 13 year old family members who would cringe at your man child asses for lifting weights still. Even the teens in my family are growing out of lifting and realizing there’s better things to do with your time. I’m telling you, quit lifting weights, sell them all and buy a mountain bike or something else. Give up the lifting life style and pursue other interests. I know lifting is all some of you people know, but it’s not too late to start over with a new hobby.

This guy has some nerve.
Gets addicted to pills, spergs out after lecturing for years about accountability.

Then he gets into a debate and because he's either a closet Jew or some weird cope version of Christianity he wont say if he's Christian in the debate. Storms off when some liberal zoomie calls him out on his bs.

Utter tool, should have stuck to lecturing.

>>76343215
Yes they are. They are demonstrably better in the physical fitness gained from cycling. You get nothing from vidya. Zilch.

>>509637203

>>>/pol/509637203

>>76343542
Your the best example of bitch think ever.

DUH ONLY fitness or games.
Idiot.

>>76343536

The best part are the drones who somehow try to spin that as a win for Peterstein.