Thread 718150856

I feel like video games made me a junkie. I was hooked up on them since I was like 8, played a lot until I was 26.

Right now I’m a recovering gamer, I rarely play, only if I really feel like it.

As I stopped playing it dawned on me how much life I wasted on this shit, and how retarded (life wise) video games made me.

Do you think video games are good? I feel like they are cancer stealing your precious life away. They disable your mind, they make you weak.

>>718150856 (OP)
Everything in moderation.

>words words words
>no examples
>no studies
Maybe gaming really turned you into a retard?

>>718150990
They did

Video games are really the marhiuana for losers

It's the exact opposite for me. I have a solid career, socialize quite often and I had a few relationships. Most anons would call themselves "successful" if they had my life. Yet all I want is to retreat to my home and play video games all day. Video games are far more exciting than real life.

>>718150856 (OP)
What else is there to do in life? Life is mostly boring
>inb4 muh travel
only so many places in the world actually worth traveling to. Going to Paris makes sense, going to some random shithole in France doesn't really
>inb4 muh romance
great for young people, for us old fucks it's over

>>718151448
You want to lose it all and lock yourself in a room and play video games? Maybe you are unhappy deep down about something and you want to escape it

>>718151516
You have to go deeper in life, these are just surface level activities

>>718150856 (OP)
If it wasn't games you would be addicted to something else. You are just blaming anything but yourself for your poor decisions.

>>718151806
You might be right, I often think if It wasnt video games what would it be? But maybe I would be addicted to some sport?

>>718151621
Thanks for the armchair analysis, Dr. Freud. What makes me unhappy is the fact I can't spend more time playing vidya. I don't feel fulfilled by activities most people chase all their lives. I feel most alive when playing video games.

>>718151880
Is being one of those guys who throws riots when their team loses any better?

>>718151741
Okay give me your amazing ecstatic hobbies that are better than playing games. Doing sports? You can do that in VR, 11 table tennis is just actual table tennis. No sneed for the real thing. Hanging out with friends? You can do that in a game, same thing basically. Doing art? Not that fun honestly, it's mostly just hard work and frustration, only romanticized by people who never seriously did art.

>>718152114
I cant think for you. Only you know whats good for you. But video games, man this is just an escapism. Give me one example of video game making you a better person in life and actually improving your life
>inb4 i had fun
Selfish and non improving

>>718152224
>But video games, man this is just an escapism
That's what they're for, yes.

OP strikes me as a dude in his early 20s who just realized how much time he pisses away on the regular.

>>718152224
>video game making you a better person in life and actually improving your life
nobody said that
please list your superior hobbies that meet these criteria

>>718152224
>Selfish
It's my life, so I'm spending it the way I see fit.

>>718152438
I can only think of sports and creating art

video games destroyed my life

>>718152429
>OP strikes me as a dude in his early 20s who just realized how much time he pisses away on the regular.
not OP but yeah I piss my life away all the time, I'm kind of stuck because I don't want to work a normal job, that's for total losers

All forms of entertainment media are designed to turn you into a jewish puppet.

>>718150856 (OP)
>blah blah blah I'm a boring normalfag, thanks for reading my blog
Die nigga

>>718150856 (OP)
I dropped out of high school because of wow. I'm okay now but it made my life much harder than it had to be
I don't regret it much because everyone is coping in their own way. Even the most "successful" people I know seem to post drivel on linkedin and otherwise seek validation (as if trying to fill a void) or are drinking/drugging themselves into an early grave
Seems like modern society is just about everyone filling their time by doing things that are fake and gay. Maybe the ones that are actually healthy are the ones who throw themselves fully into a meaningful career? Most hobbies and jobs just seem to be cope

>>718150856 (OP)
i had a few years in my 20's where vidya just made me feel bad, and by the time i was 30 it was back to being hooked

good luck

>>718152224
>I cant think for you
I didn't ask you to, I asked what YOUR amazing ecstatic hobbies that are better than playing games are. Seeing how you can't name them, my guess is you have none
>improving your life
Having fun improves my life. If I wasn't having fun, my life would be worse. And by that metric Onirism with porn mods that I just played recently made my life better

>>718150856 (OP)
I been playing since I was 7
Video games are the most loser hobby of them all, and video game addiction destroys you
Movies & shows & documentaries and so on alike get a slight pass because often times they can be genuine kino, while not really taking up that much of your time

But how many people do you know that have spent more than 5000 hours Minimum on a game? For me it would be a 5 digit number atleast. Gaming also has a negative impact every single part of your physical body in negative manner. Your muscles will start to get weaker from lack of physical activity, your eyes will worsen, your ears will get worse, your posture will be ass, your brain will get rotten, chances are you will forget to eat and drink most of the time, your hands & wrists are always at risk of injury, your legs & feet survive a little but again they will just be weak and weaker. I really dont have much anatomical knowledge to go in depth but in essence your body will rot if you stay on your chair all day and dont control yourself and take care of yourself properly.

If you manage to keep yourself healthy physically, you will still have the side effect of putting in too much in vidya and too little in life. While you are off gaming into your fake worlds, your peers are out there making connections, gaining life knowledge, improving social skills, putting in work and so on. All things that you will have to catch up with eventually, assuming you care of course

For how much time you spent in gaming you could have spent it on anything more productive and interesting to help you out in life, with way better results and rewards.

Despite all the yapping I still love gaming and honestly I couldnt see living my life any different way the past 15 years, but you shouldn't treat gaming as anything more than a tool for fun and to relax and enjoy. They should be the lowest priority, something you do at the end of the day. Again assuming you care of course

>>718150856 (OP)
Video games can be as addictive as any other vice, the only difference is that it's also the easiest one for a kid to access. The only thing I can think of that's similar would be the internet/social media, kids just aren't meant for this shit.

>>718155023
Thanks for sharing, brother.

>>718150856 (OP)
if you didn't play video games you would spend time on some other dumb shit, not having time management, discipline and consistent routine are an actual issues than video games

>>718155659
I wonder who should I blame for that? My parents I guess

>>718150856 (OP)
Threads like this should be banned.
This is the VIDEO GAME BOARD
We like VIDEO GAMES and PLAYING THEM

>>718155841
And yourself.

>>718156101
I couldn't do shit at 8 years old

>>718155659
my family is full of alcoholics and one of the reason my dad told me he drank was because there's "nothing else to do".

>>718156805
based dad.

>>718156805
its like saying
>you should kill yourself
because there is nothing else to do

Jesus these small minded people

>>718150856 (OP)
You're just weak. If it hadn't been video games, you'd have found something else to escape life with.

>>718150856 (OP)
Objectively speaking, it's the least enriching entertainment form after being a TV zombie out there. Unless you count drug abuse as entertainment, then it's in 3rd place, no matter what some enlightened LSD hippie might tell you.

>>718157080
yeah video games kind of saved me, might been doing drugs

>>718156258
Are you 8 anymore? Start changing shit and get some accountability.

>>718150856 (OP)
The truth is literally anything and everything is as you describe in the hands of a subhuman. We cant decide things are good or bad by how they effect gen z phoneposting faggots.