>dude games are as addictive as cocaine
>dude I can't stop playing games and wasting my time
>dude do not play games, you will ruin your life
>*look at the games in question*
>LoL, Valorant, CS:GO, PUBG
How are these people even real?

I'm not even angry at them any more. Maybe a little jealous, because it takes so little for them to enjoy themselves, but that impotent rage is no longer helpful to me in any way

>>715350954 (OP)
They are people that bited the ADs and playercount based value when it comes to choosing their vidya. They just never got out of that mindset for some reason. (Say, they just look up the most popular games and decide to stick with the pile, like some humans like to do since group security etc etc.)

>dude a subhuman did or said something stupid
Dude I don't fucking care stop making posts about retarded people

>>715351072
Most of people that play these games over longer periods of time are actually very miserable and that enjoyment is passing after a very short of time once you get that initial hit, everything after that feels like a chore and only numbs your brain. Kids however can play these games and stay entertained and focused for longer which is an entire thing on it's own.

>>715351154
It's not like I haven't played these games(at least tried CSGO and LoL), but I genuinely do not understand how can people play them for more than 100h top. Like, idk, if a game doesn't pose some overarching, difficult goal to accomplish to consider it "beaten" or some plot/world that I can immerse in and try to figure it all out, I really do not understand what drives people to keep playing same thing over and over again. What for? Endless grind for global elite? If they are so motivated to compete, at least do some speedruns so you can claim some world record and move to something different, instead of this matchmaking eternal slop.

>>715350954 (OP)
Once you join the online community for a game like that, it becomes part of your “identity” and you play it even when you don’t like the game anymore. Because it fulfills a psychological need to fit in to that community.
You also start replacing things in your life with it, so instead of using your college weekends to go out and make friends you used it playing some dumbfuck game like World of Warcraft. Now even if you wanted to quit, you have nothing to replace it with so a relapse is incredibly easy.

>>715351658
Competing for the sake of competing has always been a part of human nature desu. Obviously we may try to seek a goal, but as long as we are making progress (specially agaisn't other humans, in the form of winning the match with your group of fellow humans), we are compelled to keep going with it. (And game design is already kinda made for that, to appeal to human psychology to hook a human for as long as possible).

Also, technically the will is infinite and always striving (according to Schopenhauer). Which means that you don't really need to get tired of doing it, humans always try for something...

Retards don't understand that the things that affect one person don't necessarily affect everyone the same way, not everyone has the same obsessive personality as them.
I envy them a bit though, I really tried to get deep into fighting games, and then noita and other roguelikes, after a while I just feel like doing something else.

>>715352845
>I envy them a bit though, I really tried to get deep into fighting games, and then noita and other roguelikes, after a while I just feel like doing something else.

Envy is a waste of energy. The only thing you need to "try to get into" is trying new things, which you sound like you do. People sucked into the endless rank grind of those competitive games aren't trying new things because they put value on their skill investment forgetting how their siills initially developed from having fun with a new activity.

>>715352845
Noita is really interesting. I also stopped playing it after over 200h, without ever even reaching NG+. Rougelikes are often too repetitive for me as well, but Noita is unique even among these games by how much emphasis there is to learning how this heavily emergent world works over grinding typical arcade skills. I would hold much much more respect to someone who spent thousands of hours turning it into his own alchemical sandbox and designed incredibly complex wands than someone who just got to highest rank in LoL or something.