>>513540988 (OP)>>i play strategy vidya all day in my moms basement and im 23Son, I am your future. I'm 38 years old and I've lived that exact same life since I was basically in junior high, Played Age of Empires and Total War for probably close to 50,000 hours before hours were even logged, and another 20,000 hours since Steam started logging hours. That's damn near 8 solid years of fucking turn-based strategy, not to mention anime, manga, and more porn than you can shake a stick at.
So many people have told me I was making a huge mistake and I was going to regret it and I was going to be sad one day when I looked back on a misspent youth and how I would wish I could get all those years back of wasted life and how I was digging a hole for myself, etc, etc, ad infinitum.
It hasn't come true yet. I don't regret any of my life choices so far, I regret the hours I wasted on a few sporadic part-time jobs I got shackled with, but I have never even once regretted my free time. I'm still playing the same games and I still enjoy it all, too.
Everybody I ever knew who extolled the virtues of hard work and ambition, I've seen all of them slowly die inside from their loveless marriages that end in divorce, and from finally realizing it was all a rigged fucking game and they spent their whole lives working hard to make somebody else rich and they have nothing to look forward to but more of the same, only worse.
They all shook their heads at me and now, even as dumb as they are, so many of them must realize now that I was actually fucking right all along and they should have followed my example, not tried to fucking lecture me about life.
Don't listen to ANYBODY telling you not to spend your time how you want, they are full of shit, and the only reason they want you to stop playing games in the basement is so you can slave away like they do and have nothing to show for it except a long string of bad choices and failed relationships and debt they'll never pay off.