I don’t understand adults who play video games

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

I know a ton of women who have these complaints about their husbands and they don't play video games. Weird that you single this out specifically.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

I think that makes sense but the title of your post is "adults who play video games," not "adults who are addicted to playing video games." Those are two entirely different things.

[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.

Another wife here who's husband plays xbox a few hours a week and agree with the above. It's no different then the husband who goes golfing or watches sports for hours on Sundsy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Another wife here who's husband plays xbox a few hours a week and agree with the above. It's no different then the husband who goes golfing or watches sports for hours on Sundsy.

It is different in that the people who are active physically and/or mentally will always be better than the spectating category. There is nothing worse than someone who sits and watches. Playing sports or video gaming is a higher level of engagement, and thus healthier, even though the video gamer sits too.

[Anonymous]

I don’t understand adults who golf.

[Anonymous]

You need to catch up with the times, OP. Esports is a huge deal right now, including at the college and professional level.
Personally, I don’t understand the appeal because I would rather watch movies or read in my spare time, but video gaming is big business right now.

Think of how the NVIDIA stock has boomed. Guess what has driven that? The popularity of video gaming and the demand for computer chips that can make gaming faster and more realistic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand adults who golf.

I don't understand any adults that play sport ball games.

[Anonymous]

I would never marry a man who plays video games. A husband should do exclusively manly things like watch people play sportsball on TV, stay out late getting drunk with his former frat bros, and/or squander the family’s wealth on luxury cars and whatever else it takes for him to feel like a man.

[Anonymous]

I don’t understand either. I could never even date a man who played video games. To me, it represents sloth, and it’s terribly addictive.

People will rationalize it any way they can. At least with phone addition, people admit it’s horrible. With video games? No. They will defend it to the day they die.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand either. I could never even date a man who played video games. To me, it represents sloth, and it’s terribly addictive.

People will rationalize it any way they can. At least with phone addition, people admit it’s horrible. With video games? No. They will defend it to the day they die.

NP. I’ll continue to not consider the opinion of people who say things like “phone addition”.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would never marry a man who plays video games. A husband should do exclusively manly things like watch people play sportsball on TV, stay out late getting drunk with his former frat bros, and/or squander the family’s wealth on luxury cars and whatever else it takes for him to feel like a man.

LOL 🤣🤣🤣

[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?

What's awesome is that don't have to understand it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

+1 or how is it any different than guys who watch TV shows all evening?

[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?

Not true

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would never marry a man who plays video games. A husband should do exclusively manly things like watch people play sportsball on TV, stay out late getting drunk with his former frat bros, and/or squander the family’s wealth on luxury cars and whatever else it takes for him to feel like a man.

Yes, because those are the only alternatives to video games. How dumb.