Why do you play video games?

To feel alive

>>714840032 (OP)
Because I like stories in every medium and each one has a strategic artistic advantage to conveying theirs to their audience.

Unfortunately the biggest budget ones are all worthless 99% of the time just like modern Hollywood so it's playing indie games years after they come out and are tested to be good.

Live service monetization grift that are proud of their addicted whales and don't even hide their shit anymore ala gacha turned me off a lot of other options in gaming.

I don’t. I loaded my 100% save file of RDR2 looking to just relax but all I did was shoot up Thieve’s Landing and then I got bored.

>>714840032 (OP)
because I'm not afraid of revolutions

why not

>>714840032 (OP)
immersion

>>714840032 (OP)
It’s the best artistic medium clearly due to its layered complexity and free form nature. It’s also been with me since I was very young ans has helped me deal with some really shitty aspects of life.

>>714840032 (OP)
cause my boyfriend makes me

>>714840032 (OP)
I have nothing else to do. I did my anki for today. I ate some food. I applied to some jobs.

>>714840376
This is only 37 words. OP was looking for a 38 word response. Try again.

>>714840032 (OP)
to escape this nigger world with nigger values and nigger people (not necessarily of color)

>>714840032 (OP)
I play games to: masturbate, a good story, immersion, a world, to look at art, good color combinations, listen to good music, shoot things i hate, slash things i hate, up lift my soul, uplift my dick, girlfriend experiences, and to satisfy the faustian spirit

To experience beauty beyond what is possible in reality?

>>714840032 (OP)
I don’t even know anymore.

It allows for occasional stress relief and to a lesser degree escapism.
I will go months without playing and then binge a few weekends.

>>714840032 (OP)
because I'm a loser

When I play video games I jump around real excited and pace around my room and feel all good then the rush stops like the aftermath of caffeine.

>>714840032 (OP)
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I’m circumcised.

I’m circumcised.

I’m circumcised so masturbating isn’t as fun as it should be so I play video games so I can escape from constant thinking about how I’m circumcised.

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I’m circumcised.

>>714840032 (OP)
>>714840535
>>714840671
Why do you frogpost, faggot?

to get to the other side

>>714840032 (OP)
they are fun

>>714840843
frogposting is 4chan culture

>>714840032 (OP)
I enjoy it. For the same reason I enjoy reading, film, hunting, and shooting. It's an entertaining hobby where I can stimulate my brain playing strategy games and stuff.

>>714840906
Frogposting should be banned.

>>714840032 (OP)
At first it was competition. Then it was connection. Now it's perspective.

>>714840032 (OP)
Real life is drab and boring.
Video games and fiction in general are my escape.

>>714840864

I recently finished watching The Irresponsible Captain Tylor for the first time the other day, and there was a line that hit me like a ton of bricks in the second to last episode.

Commander Star looks down on Tylor as she asks him (after he acts like a drunken fool at his reward ceremony)
>Why won't you snap out of it?
Tylor looks up at her forlornly and responds
>When will you guys snap out of it?

Everything leading up to this one moment, this one scene, finally culminating in this revelatory breakdown, the protagonist laying bare his entire thesis for existence with one retort. I suddenly found tears welling up in my eyes. Because I knew exactly what he meant. This is a bit of a long-winded, roundabout way of answering the thread, and I apologize for the blog post but...

Just as with many others on this planet I presume, I play video games to keep myself sane and spirited in a wholly insane, unfair, and shackling world. I have long since given up on being the straight man in my own life. If must be the designated fool, outsider, pariah, or "heretic" wherever I go, then video-games shall be my one oasis. For only jailers inveigh against escape.

I'm tired of the rules, of the monotony of expectations, of the drab, dreary drollness of every day life. I have lived a markedly below average life in all respects. So if I can't reach above average in reality, I may as well achieve it in simulated, interactive entertainment. In Tylor's very own words
>Life is too short not to enjoy it
Others may say I'm wasting my life, but I see it as no different from others who spend their days watching sports, gambling, or glued to their smart phones.

>>714840032 (OP)
Because I don't like being around people

It's all I have.

When Im tired and stressed from doing other things, like working and working out or studying it is relaxing.. also, me and my gf play together sometimes.

>>714846727
you can have more

>>714846637
you are still better than a nigger for not being a pest bothering everyone anon, thank you man

>>714840032 (OP)
Mostly for the adrenaline rush. Hence why I mostly stick to shmups and fightans.

>>714841557
stop hating us

>>714840823
I'm circumcised but I fap 30-40 times a day.

it lets me satisfy my innate masculine desire to build a sweet factory, survive alone in frozen wasteland or conquer europe
can't have any fun in this world any more so video games are the only alternative