Serious question. Are video games harmful for you ? Does it stray

>>389423619
Anything is bad for you in excess.

>>389423619
Depends on what you consider important

Video games aren't harmful, addiction is harmful. Doesn't matter what your addiction is.

>>389423619
that guy juices

>I wasted my time playing video games
>learns to draw
Unless you are going to have a profession as an artist you are "wasting time" learning how to draw too.

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>>389423690
This, pretty much.

Maybe a more appropriate question could be "are video games inherently harmful for you?"

For instance, some things are okay in and of themselves, but bad in excess. Pizza is good by itself. Too much is bad.

Things that are bad in and of themselves are absolutely harmful, no matter the amount. Meth = bad, inherently. Gunshots to the temple = bad inherently.

Of course, then you get into the post-modern, subjective thinking bullshit that says "maybe good is subjective and killing oneself is more positive than living, ergo, a gunshot to the temple = good" but then you're a moron

Of course I'm bringing up a topic like this on a video game board, so... maybe I've... become... the moron

>>389423817
What if I'm addicted to air

should I cut it out of my life slowly, or just go cold turkey?

>>389423949
>Gunshots to the temple = bad inherently.
http://knowledgenuts.com/2014/10/17/how-a-gunshot-wound-cured-one-mans-ocd/

>>389423619
>body builders
>"dude lets put our bodies under extreme stress and die at 25 of a heart attack LOL!"

>>389423619
For your next step, quit 4chan.

>>389423619
Humanity requires balance to be stable. In diet, in entertainment, in activities, everything. So, like >>389423690
said.

>>389423619
If you do any hobby for 5-6 hours a day it's going to have an impact on your life.

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>>389424016

Great job

I don't know and I don't care that much. I love games, but haven't been playing them lately. I got into that phase where I felt I was wasting time and I should spend time reading or getting smarter. Then that quickly diminished, as if I even knew where to start. But I bought Necromomicon and plan to read it with someone. Maybe I'll read more books then.

>>389424016
time to shoot myself in the temple I guess

>>389424148
Use a shotgun please.

>Start training for a marathon because of tl;dr reasons
>Got fitter ( everyone jelly of my new fit physique)
>Have to train every day
>No time for videogames
I only play on Fridays and Saturdays. Some Sundays are dedicated to vidya but most are spent just chilling

>>389424148
pls don't

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>>389423619
I'm fucking lazy. If I didn't have video games I'd just fill that time shitting around on the internet or watching tv or some other equally lazy unproductive past time. I just play them because I'm bored, not because "OH MAN I GOTTA PLAY THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IN MY LIFE" or some such shit.

>>389423989
Some say breathing removes seconds from your life. So ye.

>>389424234
>being this butthurt

>>389424363
>the dog tanks while the cat spanks

>>389423619
I don't think so. It's not realistic or necessarily health to be productive 24/7. I work out regularly and have other hobbies, but I still make time for video games.

Depends

You play 6-8 hours daily your eyes are going to get fucked

You play 2-3 hours daily you're going to be fine

You're eating fast food, sodas and other trash while playing you're going to be fat as fucking shit

How is learning to draw any better? Unless you're aiming to get a profession in the area, it's still just a time-wasting hobby.

Most people need some kind of hobbies to entertain themselves in their spare time. No matter how much you love your job there will be times where you would rather relax with a hobby. It doesn't really matter what that hobby is. The only time video games could. be considered bad for you would be if you were spending a dozen hours a day playing to the detriment of finding a job, or to the point where it was ruining your health. Even then, that's not specifically a problem with video games - it would be just as unhealthy to spend 10 hours every single day reading novels or watching TV.

>>389424535
>fix several problem at once instead only one

Only benefits with a shotty

>>389423619
I waste much more time on 4chan than playing vidya. Any large waste of time is going to hamper your personal growth.

>>389423619
An addiction to anything is harmful and most well balanced, non autistic people, can enjoy near any activity as long as they understand how to do so in moderation.

You could work 24/7 and would probably overload on stress and kill your self. If you were to do nothing but draw, you would be sick of it. Video games are meant to break up the work you should be doing otherwise. Video games are not a replacement for work.

>>389423989
Breathing literally burns up your body fuel at an alarming rate. If you didn't breathe you wouldn't need to eat to replenish it.

>skipping leg day
tsktsk

Is being a "sponsored athlete" somehow of more value then sitting around playing video games while leeching money from the government?

Both things involve performing repetitive tasks while receiving an endorphin hit on someone else's dollar.

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>>389424735
>You play 6-8 hours daily your eyes are going to get fucked
howso?

>>389424363
>Think that the cat will fuck the deer
>Instead get a weird deer x dog fight
Disappointed

Is addiction to porn worse than video game addiction?

>>389424363

lol stupid fucking dog get rekd

I know that video game addiction is a recognised mental illness in the DSM5 but I really struggle to believe that it's a real, chemical dependence and not just weak willed people doing something they find fun.

Like, someone who is addicted to crystal meth has differences in body temperature and brain chemicals. Video game addiction just sounds like an excuse for being lazy.

>>389425328
t. deer
fuck you for bringing your baby to nowheresville and then having an autistic meltdown

>>389425227
How retarded are you? Starring onto a screen for 8 hours daily is going to extremely damage your eyes. Also while being at the screen you barely ever blink.

>>389423619

It's not so much that playing video games is inherently bad, but that there are a disproportionate amount of losers attracted to video games, or who identify as "gamers".

>>389425214
>Be an athlete
>Receive money for doing better than the rest
>Tugboat ends when you fuck up a body part or grow old
>Meanwhile get to have sex with other hot athletes and maybe have a public school named after you

Vs
>Receive money for doing nothing
>Nobody wants to suck you unless you have money
>No one names their school after you

>>389423619
it's a better use of your time than watching a movie or shitty tv. Also depends on the game you play. I say playing games with good writing like planescape or SMAC, or playing games like wipeout or twitch FPS for reaction times and hand-eye coordination, or playing puzzle games for your brain are a better use of your time then playing some shitty ubisoft time-killer or those "cinematic" games that try and turn your brain off. Being dedicated to something, especially to the effort of learning something, is good for you know matter how irrelevant what you are learning is to your daily life activities. It means you show passion in things and are willing to dedicate time and effort to what you care about. The problem is not when this becomes "addictive" but when there IS an absence of regular human social habits, such as working, school, and general socializing. It doesn't mean videogames (or whatever your passion is) is directly the problem, but there is usually a correlation.

>>389423619
>Does it stray you away from learning, being strong and doing important things?

No, but being a mental and physical weakling does. If you "stray" into addiction, it's because you want to trade your deprived existence for a little nook to hide out in. 'Addiction' never explains any of this, it's always been a pathetic attempt to draw an outline around something fairly conplex. You could cross the word out and still discuss this perfectly fine.

No. Weed is. I only play video games when I'm high.

>>389423949
thanks for warning me about using meth and getting shot in the temple. gonna avoid those from now on

>>389425325
I don't know, but listening to married people with porn addiction, they say it ruins their relationship heavily.

>>389425438

dogs are disgusting stupid dirty animals that deserve all that and more.

>>389424735
>played 8-16 hours a day for years
>stereotypical gamer drinking mountain dew and eating junk food the whole time
>weight has never strayed from 130 +/- 10 pounds
Also the addiction part is definitely right. I failed out of school and life for 10 years.

>>389423619
Only if you're addicted.

I'm so depressed and numb that i can't even play games, much less learn something new.

>>389424363
Wtf did doggo do?

>>389423989
If you're addicted to air you're hyperventilating, unless youre running low on oxygen, you shouldnt be hyperventilating, so no.

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>>389424363

>>389429338
What happens next?

>>389424363
B
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>>389423619
Serious question. Is drawing harmful for you ? Does it stray you away from learning, being strong and doing important things?

I stopped drawing for 2 months and instead of wasting 6-5 hours a day drawing, I've spent that time on learning how to play video games, and I really gotten good.

This site is far more harmful to me than video games could ever hope to be.

>>389424363
lmao suck shit stupid fucking dog. What stupid
cunt let a dog run around freely? it should be caged or fenced.
>>389425457
That's complete horse shit.

>>389423619
You can easily get a body like that and still be a gamer.

You aren't even supposed to exercise for more than a few hours per day anyway

>>389423619
Games and politics have ruined my life, but it's too late to turn back now so whatev.

>>389427868
>>389432361
People that hate dogs are worth less than dirt

>>389424363
>this cat's about to rape my kid
>better go fuck up this dog
Are deers brainlets?

>>389432807
Deer are retarded vermin yes, and they don't even taste all that good

>>389423619

It depends what your hobbies are. Even ones that seem pretty normie can start to dominate your life in not good ways.

>go to swing dance club on a whim
>get hooked on swing dancing
>suddenly spending $250/month to do swing dance between admission fees, gas, and lessons
>spend $70 on shoes I use only for dancing
>literally dancing 3-4 nights out of the week
>actually get pretty good because I'm passionate about it
>probably have mild hearing loss from being exposed to loud music for 4-6 hours on dance nights
>this goes on for 6 months
>go to another state for summer vacation
>no swing dance joints within an hour drive
>go to one that's 2 hours away and is expensive as hell
>realize it's not worth it
>try teaching friends how to dance so I can get it out of my system
>they suck and it only frustrates me more
>give up and quit for the rest of the summer
>realize I was actually becoming addicted to dancing

I mean, I can definitely think of worse things to be addicted to but I was missing classes and calling in sick to work so I could go dancing. It even lost me some friends even though I made lots of new ones through dance. I keep it limited to just once a week tops now, but it's hard to resist going to more dances when a friend says "I didn't see you at [venue], you should come next wednesday!"

>>389423690
fpbp

The whole "video games are bad for you" meme is pretty much the same as "technology is bad and ebil and making people distracted and less connected reeeeeeee". Normies do the same shit wasting time and potential by staring at their smartphones all day shitposting on their app or social media of choice. Technology is by no means inherently bad at all save for weapons of mass destruction like atomic bombs and nukes. Besides that, technology only becomes bad when you overindulge in it to the point where it consumes more time than is healthy. Try blocking out a chunk of time to do one thing besides internet or vidya. It can be literally anything at all, just set aside time to do one thing where you focus on that completely like reading or drawing or going outside. Once you get in the habit of managing your time and training yourself to commit to that time, you can achieve damn near anything you want.

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>>389433189
>addicted to swing dance
That's pretty ring-a-ding desu

>>389424363
FUCK DEER

>>389433189
Are you a girl? I've read about females being obsessed with dancing.

>>389433189
How much pussy did it lead to?

>>389433630
None. Going home with a girl means less time for swing dancing.

>>389433613
I'm a guy, but some of the gals in the swing dance scene go pretty hardcore in it too. Some so hardcore that they're not even that fun to dance with anymore, which is a shame but meh.

>>389433630
Zero. I never went into it with any motives besides "I want to dance and I want to get as good as I can." The community is incredibly tight knit and tends to squash those sorts of people before they become a problem. I've never heard of anyone being outright banned from swing clubs for it, but creepers don't last long in the scene.

>>389423690
This.

Too much Vidya: You're just sitting around not even playing things because you enjoy it

Too much exercise: You're a gym rat who only cares for sweat and pecs

Too much politics: Reality is gone, you view EVERYTHING in a lens of political satire where everything is labeled.

>>389433862
This too. Also it's really not a good idea to engage in any sort of relationship with swing dancers. It's worse than dating in the workplace and I've seen some pretty rough breakups cause several excellent dancers to quit the scene entirely.

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>>389423949
What if
YO HOL UP
What if

WAIT A FUCKING MINUTE NIGGA.

What if.....we're all.......................................................morons!

>>389424363
did baby deer just give up on life?

>>389434094
What if your a moron and were all smart peple

>>389423619

>Game addicted

I bet it's a normie that would play WoW like 2 hours a day

>>389423619
Is there something more important than vidya? If so, gtfo normie rrreeeeé!

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>>389434282
so u dumbdumb got it
>tfw knot brainlet

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>>389423619
Games being bad is the same as rock music, punk music, DND, mobile phones, rap, and painting your room certain colours are considered bad. Hell the Korean Govt. think that leaving an electric fan on at night will kill you.

So this is just a fad that'll pass once the next popular thing that people spend tonnes of time on comes around.

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Waste your time with the shit you like
nobody cares what you do in your free time and it's stupid to change your personality for people who not really care about you

>>389425457
Right, its always the idiots that eat whatever they hear that insult on the first instance. Who told you watching a screen for 8 hours damages your eyes billy?

The only thing damaging you is blue light

>>389432794
Just like other people and dogs

>>389429041
Smelled like a wolf.

>>389434786
People very much care about the shit you like and the time spent doing it, dumbass. Show me your toenail collection.