I don’t understand adults who play video games

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Anonymous wrote:GAME OVER

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You have PacMan fever and its driving you crazy.

[Anonymous]

Interesting study -- gaming and autism
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10377367/

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Anonymous wrote:Autism spectrum...

Rather have Autism than be you.

You can think what you want, but a large number of ASD individuals play video games for hours. Video games are often used as rewards for ASD students.

Autism is not an insult. My dc has Autism and I think they are great. We play video games together. It is fun!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Autism spectrum...

Rather have Autism than be you.

You can think what you want, but a large number of ASD individuals play video games for hours. Video games are often used as rewards for ASD students.

Autism is not an insult. My dc has Autism and I think they are great. We play video games together. It is fun!

PP here. I was responding to the previous poster. I know it's not an insult. We have 2 ASD adults in our extended family, and I work with ASD kids and teens in a public school system.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

+100

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I dont really get it either, but it's probably because I grew up with Pong and Oregon trail and stuff that wasn't designed to be as compelling or addictive. As long as someone isn't gaming when they should be working or being productive, I guess it's no worse than reading or watching tv or whatever.

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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?

"I read on here and Reddit all the time" and you are criticizing how other people waste their time.

lol, funny and a really good point

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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?

Show me a quality woman with a BF who plays video games and I'll show you someone I can steal away from that guy very easily.

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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?

Show me a quality woman with a BF who plays video games and I'll show you someone I can steal away from that guy very easily.

Legend in your own mind lol. If she cheats then you are with a cheater and if you are the AP then you are also a scum bag. Go ahead and judge.

[Anonymous]

My husband plays video games - maybe a couple of hours a night some days. He doesn’t watch any tv and in the evenings he may play video games for a couple of hours and then read his book for an hour or two. It’s how he enjoys spending his downtime and it doesn’t bother me at all.

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Anonymous wrote:My first boyfriend flunked out of college because of video games and another one never wanted to do anything with me except play video games so I got fed up with them. I promised myself that the man I married would have to have no interest in video games!
My friend's husband plays for hours a day and she says "At least he's home and it's stress relief" but I know it drives her crazy that on a beautiful sunny day while she is out enjoying herself with their children he is sitting alone in a dark bedroom.

My boyfriend has workers who play video games every night late into the night. They are always 2-3 hours late to work everyday.

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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?

Show me a quality woman with a BF who plays video games and I'll show you someone I can steal away from that guy very easily.

Legend in your own mind lol. If she cheats then you are with a cheater and if you are the AP then you are also a scum bag. Go ahead and judge.

I can deal with that and live with myself just fine. I know these gamers. It's as bad as crack to many of them. They ignore their family and go without sleep and their social circle are the other gamers on the screen. It can get to a point where they have nothing to talk about with people outside of that world, but can drone on with other gamers about what level they have achieved in the game.

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There are some local adults who played and created video games all the way to a multi-billion dollar payday. It worked out for them!

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How to tell OP is a boomer without telling me OP is a boomer.

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Why do you have to understand it? I don’t play video games but I spend an inordinate amount of time on fairly pointless activities (knitting my own socks, reading murder mysteries, writing fanfic, solitaire, sudoku, etc) and I don’t see that video games are any worse. No worse than any other hobby, as long as it’s not taken to the point of obsession. Which applies to all hobbies, be it CrossFit or gardening or video games.