Heimdall_Xtreme
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The idea isn't that video games make you worse, the idea is that you could be even better without them.
In fact it is a balance of everything Also videogames have helped me in different ways.
The idea isn't that video games make you worse, the idea is that you could be even better without them.
Yeah, and they were right. Maybe not theater and radio, but certainly with TV and movies.
And now you can add video games to the list. But video games are more insidious than all of those put together because of the time it takes.
Games at their heart are aimed at kids. It's what children do as much as possible growing up. Playing games. So if adults want to too, it's kiddie like.Steven Kent’s “Ultimate History of Video Games” points out that video games are easily associated with children. It is easy to write it off and without proper knowledge, the general public does this without batting an eye. I personally don’t think people respect games. A lot of this is exposure. It would be ok if a grown adult reads a book, watches a movie, or listens to an album. If they decide to play a video game, it’s seen as the childish thing to do or people compare them to basement dwellers (recluses).
I also think you have people who believe this, work in the industry. People want to make money. I’m reading “Console Wars” by Blake Harris and something stood out to me. Sega stood out by not having a target consumer, while Nintendo mostly geared towards children. I feel like Nintendo has changed that by the appeal of the Wii and the Switch in their marketing. When someone commits a crime or uses gaming as association of their behavior, the general public starts to assume gaming is part of the problem.
Recently my wife’s boss asked her “so do you allow your husband to play video games?”. She asked this because her boyfriend just started showing interest in playing. I feel like my next point of view is going to sound bad, but I feel like there’s a lot of spouses out there that force an anti gaming household. They want their spouse to not play video games. This adds up if you’re only associated with people like this just because they’re your spouses friends. People don’t respect video games because they decide they don’t want to care about it. It’s just something their kids do.
True. I forgot to write that above.It's because it's an activity that is completely useless that makes you sit on your ass, get out of shape and develop anti-social tendencies and addictive behaviors, and you end up with nothing in return for your time spent.
Champion.I think it is a stigma of today's society.
Like everything in life, addiction is bad, but it is a healthy hobby.
It is easy to blame video games, cinema or any other medium for human behavior.
I am a gamer, but I also dedicate my life to other things such as seeing the world, philosophizing, traveling, learn the world.
Have video games hurt me?
No, because I exercise daily, I am slim, I am surrounded by people.
I can say that I am a professional with a specialty, that I get to advance in life and even in my country they named me Hero Covid, because I risked my life to heal patients and stay with the patients at the time when the pandemic began.
So, video games hurt? If that were true, my destiny and my life would be totally different.
Both are true, ask any prolific reader about how much they truly get out of reading, and any truthful person will say it's little.'Stop reading those books all day, you'll rot your brain.'
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'Get off the computer and read some books, you'll rot your brain.'
You are putting it on the edge, I'm not saying all media for all time, but a person who grows up in an environment where they work a lot as teenagers and spend time out with other people is gonna grow more healthy mentally and physically.Sure buddy, you are going to be a better person just by not consuming all art media forms.
I expect you to be in da farm all day working the crops.
Yeah, but other things could have helped you too. Video games help me relax and take my mind off things, but there are far better ways to relax that don't take with it all the negatives of sitting still for hours every day and getting programmed to live like that.In fact it is a balance of everything Also videogames have helped me in different ways.
In life, improvement is always continuous and you never stop learning.Yeah, but other things could have helped you too. Video games help me relax and take my mind off things, but there are far better ways to relax that don't take with it all the negatives of sitting still for hours every day and getting programmed to live like that.
because they basically think that gamer are "adults with children's minds"I will never understand why gaming still has a stigma.
People will sit in front of a TV and binge watch stuff like Netflix but give you crap because your doing the same thing but with a controller in your hand lol
At my old work back in the 2000s when Harry Potter got big, one coworker in a different office used to have the whole family do dress up Harry Potter parties. She was almost 50 years old.I think many adults over 30 think games are still the same thing it was when they were kids. They think atari, platformers like Mario or sonic. When they see a grown-up adult talking about video games that's what they imagine.
I have coworkers who make fun of me for playing video games but they love shit like superhero movies, harry potter, star wars.
Who doesn't get a bad rep?
I'm a self-identified gamer. What a hilarious and cringe-hot take.Because self identified gamers are insufferable and the scum of the earth. I say this as someone who's played video games since the 2600
The idea isn't that video games make you worse, the idea is that you could be even better without them.
It's because it's an activity that is completely useless that makes you sit on your ass, get out of shape and develop anti-social tendencies and addictive behaviors, and you end up with nothing in return for your time spent.
I agree 100%. I was anti-social, and gaming made it worse. I don't look like Francis or Jim Sterling but I am not particularly fit, either.Both are bad. The advent of streaming TV services is an issue too. People are getting more and more attached to cheap fun. I am too, it's never going away, but I'm not gonna pretend it's not making people weaker, more susceptible to marketing, and more likely to never get anywhere in life and not really understanding why until they look back and notice that they don't give a shit about 99% of the games and TV shows they watched.
Then you will get a better picture of how entertainment marketing affected you since you were a kid and got hooked on it, and how much time you really spent on this shit.
So is reading YA novels.It's because it's an activity that is completely useless that makes you sit on your ass, get out of shape and develop anti-social tendencies and addictive behaviors, and you end up with nothing in return for your time spent.
It's because of guys like these
The world thinks that's what we all look/act like.
I'll never understand letting your identity be consumed by a thing. You all don't "own" gaming.I'm a self-identified gamer. What a hilarious and cringe-hot take.
Who the fuck says gaming "owns" me? Lmao, it's my favorite hobby. I have responsibilities, but at the end of the day, gaming is a great stress reliever and a super enjoyable hobby that I have immensely enjoyed since my childhood playing on the SNES and PC. I have always played games and I will continue to do so because I'm a gamer who cares about this entertainment/artistic medium.I'll never understand letting your identity be consumed by a thing. You all don't "own" gaming.
I've always played games too I'm sure long before you were playing games. I'll never be a "gamer". Gaming doesn't belong to "gamers" you all dont't own it, doesn't matter that you all are self professed "gamers"Who the fuck says gaming "owns" me? Lmao, it's my favorite hobby. I have responsibilities, but at the end of the day, gaming is a great stress reliever and a super enjoyable hobby that I have immensely enjoyed since my childhood playing on the SNES and PC. I have always played games and I will continue to do so because I'm a gamer who cares about this entertainment/artistic medium.
Talks shit about people who identify as "gamers" then proceeds to flex about gaming on the Atari 2600. Thanks for providing the laughs buddy. Who is gatekeeping and being the elitist asshole again?I've always played games too I'm sure long before you were playing games. I'll never be a "gamer". Gaming doesn't belong to "gamers".
Difference being I dont let my whole identity be consumed by a thing I do. Cope more.Talks shit about people who identify as "gamers" then proceeds to flex about gaming on the Atari 2600. Thanks for providing the laughs buddy.
True. My brother is addicted to heroin, arson and illegal pornography and my parents like him a lot more.There seems to be an underlying sentiment from society that men who play video games are somehow worse than any other addiction related vices.
I'm a gamer, deal with it. No need to cope buddy, I'm playing New vegas and enjoying the hell out of it rn. But please, keep being an elitist gatekeep, you are providing great entertainment.Difference being I dont let my whole identity be consumed by a thing I do. Cope more.
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You are filthy gaming scum. Your whole family should be ashamed. At least my brother is a respectable drug addict who also does porn on the side to feed his heroin addiction. Now he is going places.True. My brother is addicted to heroin, arson and illegal pornography and my parents like him a lot more.
You mean a bad rep.You mean a bad rap, OP
This, if anyone thinks it's bad now, back in the day it was practically an underground club. No mainstream press, no videogame chain stores, scorn from family and friends who could not understand why a teenager wouldn't grow up and stop playing those childish games. Shits changed a lot.Gamers today never had it so good. Playing video games is socially accepted now as a 'normal' activity.
Take that from a guy who did the hard miles back in the 80s. We broke down the boundaries and wore down the naysayers, we walked into Mordor. And we did it so kids today can play games and be cool!