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7/22/2025, 9:39:28 PM
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I don't think gaming is beneath me, but I don't really do it as often as I used to. When I was a kid (16 and below) I used to spend every moment I wasn't sleeping or studying in MW2 or WoW or whatever else. This was fun back then because I had a lot of IRL friends who wanted to play these games.
When I graduated HS and headed to college, I immediately lost access to most of those friends. My college friend pool was smaller and far more career focused than before. It was the same when I graduated college and got my first job: all my coworkers were 20-to-40-somethings who spent 50 hours a week working and most of their spare time doing shit outdoors like hiking or rock climbing. Even the ones who do nerdy shit prefer physical gaming like MtG or board games to vidya.
At first I hated that I couldn't find people to grind nolife games with me anymore, but eventually I just became one of these people. I might play a match of TF2 once or twice a week, usually by myself. My gf and friends usually want to play friendslop like REPO which honestly I've come to enjoy a lot. I spend much more time nowadays socializing, exercising, and learning, and honestly, I don't miss vidya at all anymore. I'd much rather live the life I'm living now than to sit on my ass all day grinding XP in a game nobody will be playing next year.
Vidya is like alcohol or pot: it's a lot more fun when you indulge in it sparingly with friends in social settings rather than doing it 8 hours a day every day by yourself in an unclean smelly studio apartment.
I don't think gaming is beneath me, but I don't really do it as often as I used to. When I was a kid (16 and below) I used to spend every moment I wasn't sleeping or studying in MW2 or WoW or whatever else. This was fun back then because I had a lot of IRL friends who wanted to play these games.
When I graduated HS and headed to college, I immediately lost access to most of those friends. My college friend pool was smaller and far more career focused than before. It was the same when I graduated college and got my first job: all my coworkers were 20-to-40-somethings who spent 50 hours a week working and most of their spare time doing shit outdoors like hiking or rock climbing. Even the ones who do nerdy shit prefer physical gaming like MtG or board games to vidya.
At first I hated that I couldn't find people to grind nolife games with me anymore, but eventually I just became one of these people. I might play a match of TF2 once or twice a week, usually by myself. My gf and friends usually want to play friendslop like REPO which honestly I've come to enjoy a lot. I spend much more time nowadays socializing, exercising, and learning, and honestly, I don't miss vidya at all anymore. I'd much rather live the life I'm living now than to sit on my ass all day grinding XP in a game nobody will be playing next year.
Vidya is like alcohol or pot: it's a lot more fun when you indulge in it sparingly with friends in social settings rather than doing it 8 hours a day every day by yourself in an unclean smelly studio apartment.
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