I don’t understand adults who play video games

[Anonymous]

I read on here and Reddit all the time about people, mostly men, who spend hours upon hours playing video games like they are 12 year olds. How is this attractive? How do people find time to do this? Especially those who are parents. I sincerely don’t understand. Do your kids just watch you play video games? Do you play with them?

[Anonymous]

I’m a mom with two kids and I play video games with them sometimes. Not hours and hours, obviously, but my daughter and I play Just Dance together and we play MarioKart as a family sometimes too. It’s fun!

[Anonymous]

You sound like a self-centered twit.

[Anonymous]

I don't play video games myself, mostly because I'm not that good at them, but I have no problem with adults who do, provided they also take care of the important things in their lives.

[Anonymous]

I dunno, OP. I would never date, let alone marry or have children, a man addicted to video games. I agree it’s not attractive to me. Some people like it though or at least don’t mind it, and that’s great for them. Every pot has a lid or whatever, right?

[Anonymous]

I play games on my phone. I wish I had more time to play but I don’t. I do it after my kids go to bed. It’s mindless pleasure for me. My only me time. Can’t take that away from me.

[Anonymous]

How is it any different than men who watch other men play sports all the time? Some of my friends husbands are constantly watching hockey, golf, baseball, etc and its annoying to plan around.

[Anonymous]

I think it is bizarre too, OP. Do not get it. But I also do not understand the obsession with movies, binge watching tv, or listening to podcasts. I'd rather read a book or a newspaper/journal.

[Anonymous]

I have a husband who plays video games. I have no problems with it.

1. I am an introvert who needs a lot of alone time. It's nice to not have a needy man clinging to me all the time.

2. My husband uses this time to burn off steam from his very high-stress job. He is a lot happier when he interacts with our family because of it.

3. He still takes time to do his part to contribute to our family. Mostly he plays for a few hours after work and on weekends.

4. I would rather have a husband that plays video games than one who goes out with "the boys" every night and comes home trashed.

It works for me, I understand how it doesn't work for everyone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have a husband who plays video games. I have no problems with it.

1. I am an introvert who needs a lot of alone time. It's nice to not have a needy man clinging to me all the time.

2. My husband uses this time to burn off steam from his very high-stress job. He is a lot happier when he interacts with our family because of it.

3. He still takes time to do his part to contribute to our family. Mostly he plays for a few hours after work and on weekends.

4. I would rather have a husband that plays video games than one who goes out with "the boys" every night and comes home trashed.

It works for me, I understand how it doesn't work for everyone.

Yup. I would rather be married to “fun dad” than the judgmental guy with a stick up his ass, but that’s just me 🤷‍♀️

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I dunno, OP. I would never date, let alone marry or have children, a man addicted to video games. I agree it’s not attractive to me. Some people like it though or at least don’t mind it, and that’s great for them. Every pot has a lid or whatever, right?

LOL Hypocrites addicted to their phones, DCUM, candy crunch whatever. But it's different for you, right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I read on here and Reddit all the time about people, mostly men, who spend hours upon hours playing video games like they are 12 year olds. How is this attractive? How do people find time to do this? Especially those who are parents. I sincerely don’t understand. Do your kids just watch you play video games? Do you play with them?

Do your kids spend every minute of every day with you? I play while my kids are asleep or at school or doing homework. I'm also too old to care what random people find "attractive." I do the things I find fun.

[Anonymous]

Playing on phones or tablets or laptops, watching movies or tv shows, doing puzzles - no different to me from playing video games.

As long as it is in moderation, any of these are fine with me for how someone likes to spend their downtime.

[Anonymous]

Playing video games is much more engaging for your brain than watching sports (the national pastime).

It's interesting how you've absorbed previous conventional thinking about which groups are "bad" and which groups are "normal", without applying any critical thinking whatsoever.

[Anonymous]

Op - I never had any video gaming systems growing up so I guess my opinion is skewed.

I think more my disdain is for people who are addicted to the detriment of other things. Like taking care of their kids, doing family outings, sleeping late in the mornings because they were up till 3am gaming. Obviously this is not the norm.