Anonymous wrote:I don't know how someone could be old enough to have internet access and post on DCUM but not realize that people have different interests/preferences.

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I don't know how someone could be old enough to have internet access and post on DCUM but not realize that people have different interests/preferences.

Losers and addicts

And/or untreated adhd impulse people

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?

It’s not hard to understand. They are morons.

My DH and I play together.

Counterpoint: I do understand adults who play video games.

My sons grew up playing. My oldest, now a dad, has no time for it now. I think he played a little in college and for sure as a single man.
My youngest is in a high power career and sets aside one night every two weeks to game. It’s college football and not shoot em up games. He’s structured about it so I dunno. To each their own.

New poster. Yes it is horrible for everyone around which I didn’t understand until it was too late. I was never a gamer but my then future husband was, but he never has those multi hr marathons. He’d play for maybe 3 hrs at most.
What I didn’t realize is that he would have no understanding that little kids ideally should have zero exposure to gaming. It was part of the reason we divorced but he kept poisoning our kid (sorry for being dramatic) even when living separately by buying him devices and exposing him to content.
Basically don’t marry gamers unless you are absolutely ok with your toddlers witnessing their dad gaming on a large screen! Not everyone is as stupid as my ex but how can you tell?

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.

+1

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?

Agree, OP. It instantly lowers my opinion of someone if I find out that’s how they spend their free time.

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?

They just use that same time that you waste on social media like an airheaded teenager, to play video games, something that relaxes people and improves their hand-eye coordination.

There's a lot of "winding down" activities I don't like but that's why I do not do them. I really could care less what others do. Assuming it's not illegal or hurting someone. Who cares OP? Maybe find a therapist if this is how you spend your free time, judging what other people (who are clearly happier than you) do.

We all have our ways of winding down. I like crosswords and my craft hobby and DH plays various musical instruments and reading the news online. We never bought a console so our (now grown) DCs never got good at games and felt a little left out but have their own ways of zoning out- mostly playing their instruments. Which they do much better than their now-adult friends, who are good at video games but terrible musicians!

This might shock you, but the production budget for major video games is often orders of magnitude than most movies. Take a game like Red Dead Redemption II, for example. That game grossed over $700M in only 3 days. Name a single movie that has ever put up those kinds of numbers. That single game one has earned over $3B in its lifetime.

Why did it sell so much? Because it had a good story. It had an amazing interactive environment and challenging tasks to complete. Dollar for dollar, video games are by far and away the best value per hour of entertainment that exists. You can be entertained for 100+ hours for $70, meanwhile you probably spend $14 to see a 90 minute movie.

Video games aren't Mario or Pacman anymore. You are basically 3 decades behind at this point still thinking they're for kids. They have very engrossing stories, characters, and can even have very difficult puzzles to solve or require extensive teamwork to accomplish a task.

Maybe you should grow up, OP.

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

Golf is social and fun. Sorry you don't get it but, hey you don't have to.

Video games are social and fun. You don’t have to get it either.