What's the point of playing video games?

>>382729303
because they're fun sweetie!

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This is a weird Lydia cosplay, and not sure if it's in a good way.

>>382729303
They exists to ruin my life

>>382729303
>They are fun
>everybody likes winning
>people likes challenges
>etc
Don't act like you don't know the reasons anon

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>>382729303
They exist to consume my time and make me forget everything I should be doing instead. Everytime I look back at the youth I spent playing games, the late nights on vidya instead of studying, or the days I stayed inside to play instead of socializing, I'm so damn ashamed. I fucking hate video games.

>>382729303
I like jerking off to them

It's a hobby?

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>>382729649
hey man

video games are a charm of the modern society

>>382729649
Did you fix your situation?
Asking for a friend

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>>382729708
>It's a fancy timewaster?
ftfy

>>382729303
lowest form of entertainment, made to keep the lowest and most retarded scum of our society busy until they off themselves.

>>382730158
All hobbies are sweetie

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Because not everyone can handle cinéma. the plebs need an outlet.

whats the point in anything you faggot

>>382730456
/thread

>>382729303
>What do you exactly gain from consuming them?
fun
>Do they provide knowledge or something else than any other medium can't?
yes
>Can you produce something out of them?
yes, but really depends on your definition
>Why do video games exist?
why do you exist?

>>382729821
It's an addictive disease, a damn narcotic that's damn hard to shake off once you get hitched. I've never experienced something so useless yet so rewarding. Played games for most of my life and I have nothing to show for it.

>>382729840
Bit by bit. I realized how inconstructive it was, and how I was for the most part behind my peers in nearly everything. So I set out to change it. I've been playing less and less the last two years, coming to an almost full stop these past six months. I've got more energy to do things I really want to be doing, my social relationships and social skills have seen a massive improvement, and the time spent on socializing, studying, and activities, have left me with fond memories instead of a disrupted sleep schedule.

But I notice 4chan and the internet in general is just as bad as video games, so I'm cutting that out aswell. It's a hard monkey to kill, but I'm determined to better myself. Fucking hate this place as well.

>>382729840
>>382730805
>have decent discipline/willpower
>can juggle life and play
games have no addictive properties, stop blaming your own failings on something else. games did hold you down and make you play them, you chose to play them and you can choose not to. it's that simple.

>>382730805
>Wah wah wah i have no self control

I know its a clichê but kill yourself please

>>382730729
what do video games provide to the human spirit fampai?

>>382731335
An escape from this ticking stopwatch we call life.

>>382731335
different things.

>>382729303
Because we live in a world where the vast majority have a completely meaningless life and will never accomplish anything because of the overpopulation plaguing planet earth and making millions of people born and raised under completely worthless mentors and parental figures.
Life itself has become monotonous and stressful with an increasingly incompetent leader class making everything worse as quickly as they can.

Playing video games to escape the terrible reality of humanity and fulfill the instinctual desire to accomplish something is expected of the average human living under a societal structure based around treating each other like livestock.
It is escapism. Earth is hell. Life is meaningless.
Video Games are fun.

Well... some of them.

>>382729303
Entertainment?

>>382729649
>has no self control or time management
>blames video games

Every fucking time.

>>382730805
>>382729649
lol kys pham.

>>382730158
Life itself is a waste of time. Everything around us will likely be entirely forgotten or misinterpreted in 2000 years.

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>>382729303
Something to pass the time. Better than replying to bait threads on 4chan.

>>382729303
Why do you exist?
Why do I exist?
Why does entire fucking universe exists, for that matter?

>>382731783
>babbys first nihilism
lol

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Why do people read books?
Why do people watch tv series?
Why do people read comics?
Why do people listen to music?
Why people watch movies?

>>382729303
What's the point in living?

>>382731902
What is the meaning of life then, faggot?

>>382731902

So you can label it, but not deny it's truth?

>>382732027
Procreation, homolord

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Video games are escapism, plain and simple. The use of said escapism, however, varies in reasoning.

Video games, like movies and books, serve as a gateway to interests and concepts beyond the norm (or, in fact, a simple retelling of the norm from a foreign perspective to the player). You play a video game, watch a movie or read a book to experience something different. However, some people do this for the sake of a new experience and some people do this for a different experience - some use the escapism of video games as a supplement while some use it as a replacement. This is the difference between someone that casually plays video games as a hobby and someone that has a commitment to them.

The development of video games over the years since the 70's has pushed technological boundaries in such a way that it reflects on our peoples as a whole - there stood a very strong chance that the concept of video games could have been delayed or even never to have had possibly ever actually happen. Now, however, video games reflect a current peoples' interests as well as social and technological development. It is very easy to glean what was on the mind of people from the 80's and 90's in comparison to games of this era. It's very easy to visualize how perspective, such as our views towards women and minorities, has changed over the years. They serve as an interactive visual chronicle of our development as a society.

Other mediums can bring across the same information, but in a such a diverse society as Earth's, there will always be variation in regards to how information is exchanged, presented and preserved.

>>382732258
>it's all about raising more hellspawn to drain already scarce resources faster

Ha ha you are a complete fucking retard and clearly don't know a goddamn thing about this planet.
INTO THE TRASH YA GO

>>382732602
low test

They exist to trigger retards like you

>>382732258
why

>>382729303
Games aren't a means to an end for the most part.
You play them because you like to play or like to get better at them or like to play them with others.
Games most definately provide things other media can't.
No other media can piss you in the face for not being good enough, no other media have this level of control over environment, challenge, sound-design, immersion, worldbuilding, relatively fair balancing for competition, freedom to use and make up physical logic to make puzzles and challenges, freedom to pick your own path in a fictional world and a slew of other things.

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>>382729303
Thanks to vidya I was able to hone my skills as a moon coder, and because of it my job life and quality have skyrocketed to levels I'd have never gotten otherwise.

>>382734720
shut the fuck up onsokumaru

>>382729649
Ehh, my childhood sucked shit, and vidya was a great way to relax.
Plus, I live in a shithole, so it's not like I have anyone to look at and be jealous of how successful they are.
Even my siblings are complete fuckups, just like me.

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>>382729303
>What's the point of playing video games?

It's the only thing these days that can distract me from my crippling depression.

Oh yeah, and their fun too.

>>382729303
yes
yes
yes

>>382730382
>cinéma
>not kino
You were saying something about plebs?

>>382729303
it's a mindless activity that temporarily blocks feelings of worthlessness and existential dread

>>382729303
I like to have fun

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>>382734720

>>382729483
The cosplay isn't weird, it's 100% accurate. The character design is what's weird.

>>382729303
For fun
And forget about reallity

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Whats the point of doing anything?
Whats the point of gaining anything?
Whats the point of anything period?

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>>382729303
>Do they provide knowledge or something else than any other medium can't?

No other medium can do what video games do. When you watch a hero slay a dragon. You watch a hero slay a dragon. When you kill a dragon in a video game. you personally killed that dragon. It is a sensation unlike anything short of lucid dreaming

>>382731069
>games have no addictive properties
Mental addictions, psychological dependence and deeply set habits are all things, otherwise people wouldn't have serious problems with gambling, eating, biting their nails, smoking weed and playing video games.

Of course decent discipline acts as a great buffer against all of these things but that's not something every person is born with. For a lot of people discipline can be something that has to be taught and cultivated through parents, the environment, peers etc..

> it's that simple.
Human behavior usually isn't simple at all, we haven't even come close to fully understanding our own brains.

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>>382737298
Dexter gets it. That's why he became a lumberjack.

>>382729303
What's the point of eating oreos?

What do you exactly gain from consuming them?
Do they provide knowledge or something else than any other medium can't?
Can you produce something out of them?

Why do oreos exist?

>>382732258
This makes sense on a surface and technical level but a strong part of me feels like it's a copout.

Like yeah, every species procreates and most species are the way they are due to procreation and most species' traits are specifically there to aid in procreation in some way but at the same time, if you go back to the very very first organism that every existed you'd have to figure that it didn't give a fuck about making babies or splitting itself up. The first organism, in all likelihood, just was, procreation was probably just a thing it happened to do.

Is the meaning of my life and everyone else's really just one of the things my earliest ancestor just happened to do? I don't think so. Honestly, it's probably best to just assume that there is no inherent meaning to life and instead make our own, with hookers and blackjack.

>>382739419
Oreos exist for interracial jokes.

>>382737465
Actually not true at all. Your brain rewards you almost the exact same amount when you slay that dragon as when your favourite sports team wins a game while you watch from your couch.

It's the main reason MOST people consume video games by watching others play. You have about 140,000,000 people worldwide who play actual video games (no web browser or phone shit), but then over 200,000,000 people who just watch those same games being played and get almost the same level of entertainment.

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>>382729303
Whats the point of watching movies?
Do they provide knowledge or something else other mediums can't?
Can you produce something out of them?

Why do movies exist?