What's /fit/'s opinion on video games? An okay hobby

They are fine. Although I think nostalgia is the only think keeping me playing at this point.

>>42135638
I play cause it allows me to keep in touch with old high school or college friends that no longer live near. Without that, I probably wouldn't play anymore.

>>42135638
I got way too into them in Highschool and they definitely didn't do me any good. Fucked up my posture and hip mobility from sitting too much, made me a skelly cause they'd distract me and I'd forget to eat meals, made me a social outcast cause I wouldn't hangout with anyone ever and made my grades slip cause I would rather play vidya than do homework. If you can play them in moderation (1-2 hrs/day) they're fine, but they're designed to be addictive and have you playing them all day so it's a slippery slope. Luckily I managed to pull myself away from them in my senior year of highschool and I managed to get my grades back up and get into a good school. I'm still sorting out the other problems they caused me though.

>>42135638

They are okay just don't put off more important shit for them.

I see too many people do that.

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Video games from Japan filled with cute girls are the only thing that fill the void between lifts for me.

So yes to the former question.

Didn't I just see this thread last week?

>>42135638

I'd rather spend my time doing something productive. Unless it's the new Borderlands. Then fuck the gym and everything else until I beat the game.

Video games as a hobby: Go nuts

Video games as an identity: No

>>42135638
Played a shit ton in high school. I hated it, because I got a lack of sleep and was basically anorexic. my dad is 5 11 and my mom is 5 2 and im currently 5 5 right now at 18 . Fucking hell vidya games

i love them but i shouldnt have played too much

why do you care about what a bunch of loser virgins think about what you want to do? If you want to do it, do it.

>>42135638
I played World of Warcraft for 12 years. The last 3 of those years I made enough money thru sales/boosts to fully pay for my college. Video games are fine if you're at least really good at them or can profit off of them.

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I'm a get in position

who the fuck cares what /fit/ thinks. this board is not a single entity and if you change your views based on some random fuck on here im going to fucking rape you

>>42135755
Half the threads on fit are reposts of previous threads. You should know that by now

>>42135638
If they're more to you than just harmless entertainment for a few hours a week, you should stop.

Also if you're over 20, you should stop anyways.

>>42135638
I do them mostly to play with friends, or to play old as shit games like CS:S or Age Of Empires, can't get away from AOE. I would call this game one of the main things I am who I am nowadays.

The real problem is that it depends on the game. You can casually play some games, and some you can't. For example, if you only have 2-3 hours a day to play world of warcraft, you really aren't going to have as good of an experience as someone who can play it 16 hours a day.

>>42136638
Wololo

>>42135638
This guy doesn't have deathwish on a keybind.

It is cool aslong as they are not priority in your life.

Keep it casual thats the best.

>>42135638
Gains killer if you don't have any self discipline.

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I wear this tank to the gym

come at me

>>42135638
Games are great to relax with after gym and on rest days. Shame the quality of games has gone over the years, so i stick to old school for the most parts.

wheres my runescape boys at

>>42135638
I played a lot then I switch games to gym and cooking. On off days I try to programming and read some fine books instead of gaming. It have been a month since I stopped playing games. I regret nothing.

>>42135638
A good diet/cutting aid. I have no idea how people like boogie get fat when they play videogames all the time.

playing videogames all day is probably healthier than spending all day on 4chan like I've been doing

>>42138401
This, I notice gamers who don't have moderation are more like to be underweight or lanky and unhealthy from lack of sunlight and food, not a giant fatty.

It look me a long time to recover from being under 100

>>42138401
no idea man, i used to play DotA so much i forgot to eat whole day at times.
Would wake up at 3 in the afternoon, eat lunch with family and then go gaming.
I was 5'8 and ~125 lbs

>>42138347
Freakazoid is not in c9 anymore

Video games are a gains goblin. Only children should be playing them. If you are posting on this site you are too old for that shit. Grow up.

>>42139253
Explain how browsing /fit/ is a better alternative to video games

If I spent half the time I wasted on shitty video games in the gym instead then I'd be so much further along.

Just quit, boys.

>>42139307
I spend maybe less than 30 minutes on fit per day in total, gain some fit tips and give advice to others. How long do you think neets spend playing vidya, drinking mtn dew and eating nachoes like a child?

>>42138384
>tfw double gains weekend is coming

>>42135638
They went corporate over my lifetime and are now just as bad as movies in terms of being watered down drivel meant only to best represent the shareholder's interests.

>>42135775
Infinite this

They're great for me. Whenever I see a loading screen, or I'm dead for more than 40 seconds(this usually happens in a moba), I do 10 reps at my computer.

I manage to do 100+ reps a day every other day, at one point doing 350. I've lost more than 100 lbs from this too.

>>42135638
nothing wrong with videogames, as long as your body doesnt suffer from it. know your limits.

>>42139864
Reps of what?

>>42139864
i cringe at people who think push ups do anything

Fuck WoW and any other MMO.

I fucking ballooned up from okayish 70 kg to 90kg in a fucking year playing WoW.

And after that I stopped playing and started drinking and gained another 20 kg.

Back at 90 atm, trying to hit that sweet 75kg so I could bulk again.
Permacut since who knows.

>>42135638
>invest 1.4k on rig after years of not gaming(have huge library of ps1, ps2 and xbox 360 games)
>blast for 2 weeks
>start working
>one day off per week
>that day is spent on groceries and shit like taking care of my room and lifting, suddendly day is over
>only have time in the morning to lift, get ready, work and then have like 2 hours free time late night
>dont feel like playing at all

oh well, how do people manage more than one hobby while sleeping 8 hours and working 10-11 hours?

video games are fine and can be somewhat rewarding if you don't play casualshit. i've noticed myself actually getting better at them after getting fit as well.

>>42140077
most people don't work 10-11 hours/day on a regular basis. honestly if you actively tried to work on your time management though i bet you would be surprised at how much time you actually waste throughout the day.

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>>42139985
i laugh at people who think they don't do anything

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>>42135638
From my experience as someone who had been playing practically their whole life, video games have lost their magic.

Developers are too heavily influenced by whiny communities and PvP games nowadays require so much of your time and practice to see good results.

Theyre not bad just dont let them rule your life. I missed out on so many highschool parties and potential pussy because "I NEED TU GIT 2 GOLD, I DUN WANT 2 BE SILVUR ANIMMORE." I cringe everytime I think about how I was in highschool.

Now I just play single player console games about an hour to 2 hours a day.

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>>42135638
Video games are designed to trigger the reward centers in your brain in just the right way to keep you playing. Lots of other things give you that sense of accomplishments, but they tend to also give something back, while video games give you nothing that transfers to your life outside of the game. Not only do they not give you anything back, they can fry your attention span, since making people wait for a reward tends to lead to them not playing and the games are designed with this in mind. Attention span is just how long you're willing to wait for some sort of payoff.

Consider the opportunity cost of gaming. You could spend that same time at a martial arts gym, simultaneously making friends, learning a skill, becoming more fit, and building character. Okay, but you want to chill after the gym, so why not play games then? Because you could spend that time reading, socializing, practicing music, making art or studying. All of those things can be enjoyable and will return benefits. Even posting on 4chan can be a way to learn something new.

If you read this and find yourself still trying to defend gaming, ask yourself if you aren't just trying to rationalize your own choices and addiction. "Just a little bit can't hurt" and "there are worse things" are not good reasons to spend time and money on an empty pursuit.

I quit FFXIV recently because goddamn are mmos the worst way to spend your time. Everything is the same, over and over and over. I wish I could go back and unspend all the time I wasted grinding for shit nobody cares about.

>>42135638
they're shit

Moderation duh, I might play for an hour a day tops, might read or play guitar instead

>>42135638
Playing video games to interact with friends and have fun with them is fine. Playing video games to get better at one or two particular games, so long as it's only for an hour or two a day of practice, is fine. Playing video games because it makes you feel good or because you're acting out your fantasies is VERY BAD.

It's like alcohol. Drinking while hanging out with friends is fine. Drinking because it accompanies another event is fine. Drinking because you need it to destress can lead to serious issues in the long run.

>>42140376
but games make you good at other games at least. Normies watch latenight tv, does that make them better at anything?

>>42140376
The only thing I'll say is that I have a few friends from HS who I still play over watch with, and we have a lot of fun. Outside of that, I enjoy talking to people though online games, but I quit cold turkey a few weeks ago because I needed to get it under control. Now I can manage it pretty well.

>>42135638
I wouldn't call it a hobby. It's a source of entertainment. If you have other hobbies then it is fine, but if all you do is play video games, lift and go to work/school, then you aren't living to your full potential.

>>42136610
Fuck off, Sarah. Like watching 20 hours of Kardashians per week isn't a complete waste of time.

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>>42140995
It is

>>42138465
Reminds me of when I lived off a couple bowls of cereal a day when I used to play Dota

>>42140376
>Because you could spend that time reading, socializing, practicing music, making art or studying.

I do all these things and still have time for video games. I'm pretty particular about what games I play, but to me it's no different than watching a good movie or TV series. In terms of skill video games are pretty shallow and somewhat unfulfilling, but they can still be gratifying on a competitive level

Nothing except for n64 with some friends once or twice a year. I dont have any strong opinion on them, if you enjoy playing and it doesnt collide with more important things going on in your life, by all means.
But if you need to think about if you play too much, you do.

>>42140918
>i know smoking is bad, but other people get fat is that any better?

Junkie-tier argument, wtf.

>>42140077
thats a stupid long work day- what field are you in?

>>42135638
Got hooked on them and became super fat, still working on slimming down
They're fun, but in no way something to be doing more than a few hours a day
Thank God I grew out of them and started hanging out with friends more and doing other things

>>42135638
If you're 21+, it's only acceptable to play casually.
If you're a "hardcore" gamer past that age, you're a loser and not a man.

wheres my ffxi boys at

>>42141314
My dad's standard days working as a robot technician in a factory are 10-12 hours. He gets 3 day weekends though, assuming he doesn't want to work them

>>42135638
video games are for children

>>42135638
It's a hobby like anything else. If it's fun for you, enjoy it. People will always make value judgments it's how we operate; spend less time concerned about how well you fit into a groups box based on their value judgments. If you operate and prioritize your life efficiently, who cares how you spend your down time?

Do you guys know a good real estate game?

I took up lifting when I got bored/ashamed of playing vidya. Replaced the monotonous grinding and leveling up of a fictional avatar with the grinding and leveling up of my physical body. Wish I had given up the polygon jew and discovered lifting much sooner.

>>42141547
Your down time is never actually down though. Some people spend "down time" doing things that return more substantial rewards. Why not you? Sounds like you're trying to rationalize something that you know isn't a good use of time.

>>42139985
literally the best exercise known to man

>>42135638
One day I realized I was bored with them.

I'm proud to say I've grown out of them and moved on.

Feels good bros.

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>>42140376
I agree with this in the context of the commonly held idea of what a game is, but this argument can't apply to the medium as a whole. There are incredible games that solely bear an artistic intent and aren't concerned about enjoyability.
Take a look at this article on a Russian game that was made as a cultural commentary:
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014/10/05/pathologic-review/
You should also look at Silent Hill 2. It was intentionally designed to create the feeling of playing as a broken man, as it controls very poorly and constantly focuses on this unsettling and apathetic atmosphere. These were not games that I enjoyed playing, but they shook me to my core and changed my overall worldview.
A more explicit example of games being benifical would be the persona series, which taught me how to manage my time in order to be successful in fitness, school, and relationships. Like I remember reading How To Win Friends and Influence People and being able to connect it to persona, since the basic teaching of just succeeding socially by being interested in people and asking questions was also echoed in the game.

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I play Halo 5 casually.


Any /hg/ here?

Video games are actually useful in a couple of ways, and have gotten lots of people into tech and computers, what you should actually be worried about is porn and masturbation.

I reckon I'd have been a completely different human being if I had developed healthy sexual habits.

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>>42142219
It died at reach

>>42135638
As long as they don't become a distraction/vice like they were for me, go nuts imo

>>42135638
This gets asked every week summerdyels stop replying.

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>>42138384
osrs or kys

>>42135638
I enjoy playing sports games (NHL, FIFA & Madden) but since I turned 18 (5 years ago) I literally lost all interest in all vidya other than those. I used to love gaming so much and now literally anything other than those three I just find so boring. I bought Yakuza 0 the other day as all my friends were jerking off to it and I was just bored after an hour.
Plus I had a big circle of online 'gaming friends' through a community I used to frequent and I have most of them on Facebook and seeing how they turned out compared to the few of us that stopped seriously gaming once we were 18 makes me realise how blessed I am. When I think about how much time I used to sink into gaming and being on Skype with them it sometimes makes me feel sick, but other times I wonder if that's what made me who I am today and I had to hit rock bottom fatty permavirgin status before I realised that life didnt have to be this way.

>>42141715
Wrong. Pull ups are.

>>42135638
the latter

no exceptions

>>42142663
this guy knows whats up

>>42135638
Games I want to nostalgia trip on:

Super Mario RPG
Final fantasy 6 and 9
Tony hawk pro skater 2
Math Blaster
Demon souls

>>42135638
wtf

that noob only has action bar 1 filled

>>42135638
It's good in moderation. Occasionally I'll play with old high school friends. Or I'll spend a 2-3 hours a week chilling and playing. But beyond that it's a waste

>>42135638
A waste of time that you'll regret later in life.

who here JK II?

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I lost interest and hadn't played video games in years but I recently picked up FINAL FANTASY XII THE ZODIAC AGE for nostalgic reasons. I also hadn't beat the original for PS2.

Is this bad?

>>42142847
I agree. Spend your valuable time on 4chan instead.

>>42135638
>on a cut
>lift
>eat
>vidya until next meal
>eat
>vidya till sleep
>repeat

Its honestly made cutting more tolerable

>>42139079
>>>/reddit/

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Playing video games is like watching those super heroes movies.

It's something made for children but that can also be fun for adults.

The problem is when adults actually take it seriously, spend a lot of money on it and take it as their lifestyle.

It's a toy you have fun from time to time, and if you don't see it like this you are probably a manchildren.

The only people I know who play vidya during the afternoons or more than 2 hours a day are my failed high school friends who still live with their mothers and have no job.

>>42135717
Yeeeeeeep me too anon

Gradded a year late because I didn't give a fuck about anything but the Vidya/PC and spent 15k+ hours on them, no lie I spent 10k in a single game

I would have thousands of dollars extra sitting in the bank if I'd never played video games. Only downside is I'd lose some great memories of playing with friends as a kid. I still play with friends sometimes, but I'll never enjoy a game like I used to. I'll never be totally immersed in another world again. It's completely fine with me though, as I have much more to be proud of and happy about than I did before, and I don't want to enter another world when there's so much left of this one to explore. I enjoy life too much now to need the escape that video games offer.

>>42140376
You're unable to claim moral high ground when you're posting on 4chan

Raided in WoW for a year and a half. Went from nothing under my belt to a rank 2 in bracket for my spec. Just quit last week.

Multipler lader games and MMOs are pretty toxic, they get super addicting.I get the itch, and the only way to scratch it is to crush my compatition, through whatever means necisary. I'll go full 'work, game, sleep bare minimum' at times on lader games. And I guess a rank 2 shows how far dedication can go. But it's not well placed decication at all. If I'd be put the effort into fitness, i'd be ripped instead of in sloppy purgatory between average and bearmode. I can still do pullups, so I didn't really let myself go that bad, but I stalled in every fitness aspect.

Single player titles are a great hobby though. games like pokemon, oldschool cRPGs, tabletop gaming, and the like are both fun and wholesome. I'm playing Pillars of Eternity at home in free time, Pokemom rom hacks on my phone for free time on the go, and I'm in a dungeons and dragons 5e campaign running Curse of Strahd every saturday

>>42135717
>Fucked up my posture and hip mobility from sitting too much
This so much. Still trying to undo the damage.

it's degeneracy

sweet sweet degeneracy

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>>42135638
haven't read the thread yet but I'm assuming the majority of 4chan thinks video games are healthy as this is NEET.org and posters are usually <22 y/o

But once your life gets busy. Once you have to work more, study more, have friends, are in a relationship, have responsibilities, and start to develop more meaningful hobbies you'll also start finding that video games are a waste of time.

I'm betting most of us who still play video games don't even get joy out of them anymore; it's just a habit at this point

>>42140995
>someone else is also wasting their time
>that means its ok for me to waste my time

cool, retards wasting their life

>>42141598
Because doing things you find fun is fun, and doing things you don't find fun is not fun?

>>42144890
>i didn't really enjoy video games so that menas no one does!
not an argument

>>42139985
Not trying to defend the autistic tripfaggot, but pushups are a great exercise breh. No the best, but pretty damn good.

>>42144890
Not sure about that man. The vast majority of them get old, but you can only spend so much time being productive before you just need to do something kind of inbetween. Challenging but mindless enough.

Maybe since most of my hobbies involve some form of learning etc I'm a little overtaxed right now, but after a long day I love a beer and splatoon.

>>42138347
>clown 9

>>42145773
Also, OP, life is what you make of it. If you find value in video games, nobody can say differently about that. If you find it too destructive, you can change it too

>Played 8+ hours of vidya per day in high school
>Currently get about 4-5 hours of vidya per day, 10+ on the weekends when single, 5+ when dating
>Just got out of a 6 month relationship with a girl who weighed less than 100 lbs, got to fuck her raw every night
>Make 82k/year first job out of college
>Hit 1/2/3/4 and went into boxing

Life is good, people who say there's not enough time in the day are just slow, stupid, or both -- or born in a third world country :(

>>42145816

what's your job?

>>42145823

I do Finance for a major corp

>>42135693
Same, I've actually considered dropping my friends because they want me to play all the time and it's rushing my gym schedule when it rather take my time there.

>>42140376
>be a way to learn something new.
>on an empty pursuit.
>Implying you can't learn anything from videogames

>>42145867

82k right out of college? jesus man let me in on that

>>42145933

Do Finance, it's like baby math I never do anything more difficult than multiplication. But I think Database Management is even easier for probably soon to be the same salary.

>>42135638
>tfw I completely lost interest in video games when I started lifting two years ago

Kinda miss it, just don't have the interest in playing them anymore

>>42141085
does this family do anything besides take black cock

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>>42138384
>>42142663
>>42142777
mah niggas, i stopped playing RS in 2008 but started playing OSRS few weeks ago, currently combat lv 52. at, def & str currently in 45 hp as well, ranged at 30, and magic in 47, stopped playing a bit to get better at battlefield 2 multiplayer.

Used to play games a lot before I started lifting.

Now I don't have the same enthusiasm nor interest in them anymore.

But, I still play games that let me pause and continue at will, or fairly short rounds that won't consume hours.

>>42141085
>50 shades of brown

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>>42148269
currently on a cut, but dem thing is hard as fuck, all i drink is water, will i make it brehs??

>>42145888
Like what?

>>42135638
I quit video games cold turkey almost 6 months ago.
And it's the best thing I did this year.

I never was into the usual games that get people addicted (WoW, CS, LoL, etc.) and I'm glad for that.

The only type of game I would consider playing if I were to start again at some point are linear, story-focused games, that are more like an interactive movie than a "game". Games that you play through and when you're done, you're done. Maybe replay at some point, like you'd rewatch a good movie.
But those games seem to be pretty rare nowadays. Everything is "muh open world", "muh player freedom", "muh 100 hours of content". Or they're "wow so deep" indie games made by some fat nerd or some tranny.

>>42135638
Well there are few games, where i admit i wouldn't say i wasted my time, because they were true masterpieces. Mainly Mass Effect series, Gothic 3 and Dragon age Origins left me with some feels, from which i will frankly never recover. Then there are AC 1 - AC Black Flag, Risen series, Skyrim, Age of Mythology and and few more. They are art and gave me something.
For past 5 years i have always replayed Gothic 3 in the summer, because there is something special, which makes my mind wander to this game again and again, fucking vast deserts, music, conversations, distant sadness of whole fucking game and makes me replay it every fucking year

>>42148537
Damn I enjoyed the hell out of Gothic 3 when it came out. Even the buggy mess that it was.

>>42148565
Yeah, it was brutally bugged, but there are lot of community patches and fixes created by some anons who dedicated lot of their time for Gothic, which make it playable and greatly enjoyable. Try it

>>42148471
>quits games
>never played a real fucking game in the first place

neck yourself

>>42148600
I tried it last year, couldn't really get into it. And I don't play games anymore anyways now.

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>>42148600

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>>42135717
Are you me? Holy shit this was exactly me. I got my self out of that shit and started to get back into Sports and went to the gym. Thank fuck I got a wake up call when my Best-friend called me a fat fuck at 17.

>>42148660
Man night of the raven was pretty hard. It was nearly a power playing. Also gothic 1 and gothic 2 notr have special place in my heart.
I tried Gothic 4, despite the reviews and man.. That game is a fucking tragedy

>>42148630
>muh precious vidya reeeeeee

>>42141598
I actually don't play video games and I absolutely agree with your opinion. I could be making money in any sort of down time I feel I have, however it's important to be a well rounded person. Video games as consumable media are fun distractions and there's inherently nothing wrong with that, as I stipulated earlier, all other priorities are met.

>>42141387
I agree

I want to stop playing but I have no other hobbies (other than going to the gym but that doesn't cover most of the day)
what do I do /fit/?

>>42148269
thats pretty good. gotta get that slayer up tho

>>42142811
>what are modifiers

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>>42143531
What game?
I logged 1000 in TF2
Pic related me now

>>42135660
Same.. recently started playing Age of Empires - Can't say that I'm not enjoying but the campaigns can take 2-3 hours if you're as shit as me but I do get to learn a little history so that's cool.

>>42149709

oink

Like film, worth trying classics and unique experiences

Once you start consuming trash you've gone too far

>>42149723
Lol, guess you're a twink.

>>42148537
>mass effect
>masterpiece

the first one was good because it was a star trek ripoff. the other two were shit.

>gothic 3
my nigga
>dragon age

lol

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>>42135638
>rarely play video games anymore
>me and my friends used to play video games from childhood to our young adult years
>we're all married now and most of our wives fucking hate vidya
>we play board games and card games now

Living the normie life famalams

>>42149709
I'd caress that

no homo

>>42135638
Here's another question:

What are some /fit/ approved games?

>>42140376
would be a good argument if not for the fact you spend time posting on an autistic image board

>>42139645
>Gain fit tips
From /fit/?

>>42149787
>being a pussywiped bitchboy

kys

Basically,
>Single player games
Good as a hobby, if you play 2 hours a day at most(you should not be spending more than 2 hours at any hobby,be it vidya,reading, writing)
>Multiplayer/Online multiplayer/Co-Op
Kill yourself. it's that simple. No, fuck your "social gains". Stop being a faggot and pick some other hobby

>>42150168
Unfortunately nobody makes any AAA singleplayer games anymore.

>>42135638
I've played a lot of videogames in highschool/first couple of years of University.
I was addicted to them, playing 12+ hours a day.
Luckily, I was able to realize wtf I was doing and dropped them the next day. I managed to fix my grades, get my degrees, and get a good job.

However, even today I can still see the effects of playing heavily for like 6 years. More often than not I have to study (in the evening, after a day at work) things that I did not study properly during Uni. Social skills were completely shit, and even though I'm doing fine now, sometimes my social autism emerges thanks to all those years spent playing instead of going out and meet people.

Also, thinking about all the things that I could have done instead of playing (e.g., play an instrument, a martial art, read books, etc.) is incredibly painful and makes me think "how the fuck did you even manage to to that for all those years?".

I go to the gym every day now, haven't touch a videogame for 3 years, but sometimes when I go to a tech store and pass by the "videogames and console" section, my hands itch and my brain for a quarter of a second goes like "maybe we could buy that and just play a couple of hours per week", but I manage to shut the thought down with a "no you don't, shut the fuck up".

Today, I also go out as much as I can, every evening is a good evening for a drink or a chat with friends, no matter how tired I am from word + gym. Plus, I'm still trying to do as many things as possible to make up for the time lost.

Bottom line is: if you are able to to restrain yourself and play like 1 hour a day or every other day, videgames are ok. If you find yourself playing more and wanting to play more, abort immediately man. That shit is going to kill your physical gains, mental gains, pussy gains, any kind of gains that you can imagine. Not worth it in the long run.

What do you get out of gaming?

It's literally one of the worst hobbies ever.

>>42150213
Fortunately we still have older, better single player games available and emulators to play roms.

>nobody should spend more than 2 hours a day on a hobby
Fucking kek

>>42135638
>All these anons that escaped from MMO skinnerboxes
Fuck mane

Video games are an art and just as valid as painting or theater. I fully believe that

>>42150240
Enjoyment

>>42135638
>just under a month no vidya
Time to replace most of my shitposting with reading books.

>>42135638
My friends and I have a once a week rule...if we complete all our mandatory activities for the week then we allow ourselves to go full nerd on sundays after 3 pm.

My requirements include:
>lifting 4 days per week
>running at least twice per week
>reading 300 pages
>my house must be completely clean
>finish 10 pages of my sketchbook
>my schedule for the following week must be completed

This makes video games in general 100% more enjoyable and has actually made me stick to my weekly obligations as I really enjoy playing with my friends

>>42142219
>>42142328
We play halo 5 pretty competitively at the high onyx level in team slayer. We also play breakout.

Hoping the halo 3 backwards compatibility revives the community, but I'm not holding my breath. It would be nice to finally get 5000 exp and a five star general though.

>>42151753
Good strategy, senpai. May have to do this if I find a game I actually want to play.

>>42151608
I support this. HOWEVER, it also means I'm a little picky with the games I choose to spend time on. Spending time on Call of Duty doesn't even offer a rewarding narrative or art style so I avoid those.

>>42151753
THis is a good idea.

>>42151876
I agree. Not every game is worth your time. I stick to singleplayers with a strong narrative

>>42135638
Gaming shouldn't pass the casual/hobby status level on your life if don't have most of real life issues already solved.