Am I the only one who thinks playing video games after age 14 is pathetic?

I have to agree. People spend hours and hours sitting on a couch playing video games..."pathetic" is the only word to describe it.

I'm 53. I cried at the end of The Walking Dead. It's better the TV series. I cried at the conclusion of game 1.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_iMGb_ShVE

I'm taking a poop so I'm bothering to watch this.

I also happen to think that watching TV shows about zombies is a huge waste of the human mind.

Randy Oldman wrote:

I'm 53. I cried at the end of The Walking Dead. It's better the TV series. I cried at the conclusion of game 1.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_iMGb_ShVE

I really hope you're a troll.

doo doo wrote:

I also happen to think that watching TV shows about zombies is a huge waste of the human mind.

The Walking Dead is one of the best documentaries ever to be shown on TV.

I have to agree. Like any kid around 12-13 years old, I LOVED videogames in my childhood. But, once I hit grade 9, I just found them boring as hell.

I'm 29 now, and know plenty of 30-somethings who spend almost every moment of their spare time gaming. Personally, I would find that to be the most depressing thing ever. It just seems like an absolute waste of time. I think it appeals to people who don't like the idea of really taking responsiblity for their lives, and want to just escape into a little fantasy world.

All things in moderation. I have a friend who is at the top of his class in med school, and who also happens to play video games on occasion. Perhaps you could tell him that he needs to "interact with people and learn about the world" when he sits down to play a video game after finishing a week that included scoring in the 95th percentile on a shelf exam and working 12 hour days in a clinical setting.

doo doo wrote:

Randy Oldman wrote:

I'm 53. I cried at the end of The Walking Dead. It's better the TV series. I cried at the conclusion of game 1.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_iMGb_ShVE

I really hope you're a troll.

No it's not a troll. Have you played it?

One of the best things about life is having time to do what you enjoy. If that's running, great. If it's getting really good at a video game and enjoying that challenge, great. Take running, and you can really see that trying to beat a bunch of guys running in circles is just as "pathetic" to most people as trying to beat a video game. I love running, and I have often enjoyed video games, especially when playing against other people all over the world. Competition can be fun, and look at it this way: you have a much, much bigger chance of becoming truly great at a video game than you'll ever have of becoming truly great in distance running. To each his or her own, my friend. Enjoy life however you can, and let others do the same without calling them "pathetic" without looking at yourself in the mirror.

Meh, I'm in my upper 20s and still occasionally play video games. Though I only ever do when one of my friends are on(either real-life friends or those I've met through the game). We chat in Skype as we play so there is still plenty of social interaction.

And I can assure you that I have had many more meaningful conversations and hilarious interactions through that medium than through this shitty message board.

"Competition can be fun, and look at it this way: you have a much, much bigger chance of becoming truly great at a video game than you'll ever have of becoming truly great in distance running."

WTF?? Dude running is REAL it takes place on REAL roads, tracks, trails, vs REAL people.

Video games are not. "Being good at a video game" is like saying someone is "good at watching TV".

all things in moderation wrote:

All things in moderation. I have a friend who is at the top of his class in med school, and who also happens to play video games on occasion. Perhaps you could tell him that he needs to "interact with people and learn about the world" when he sits down to play a video game after finishing a week that included scoring in the 95th percentile on a shelf exam and working 12 hour days in a clinical setting.

You're right, this moderation is acceptable.

Shawn H, I see your point, but to a point. Running is at least healthy and it takes ~2 hours out of your day even at a very high level. Playing video games between your 1st and 2nd runs for 6 hours is just a waste of the human mind. I know I'm being judgmental and I know I could be volunteering at a soup kitchen being a saint instead of running, or studying biology or something. Rupp's quote on the front page just blows me away. Like, you are a married 20-something and you finally stopped playing video games all day because you had a kid?

I haven't played video games since college, but I think picking a random activity and saying someone is pathetic is more pathetic in and of itself. If you are so worried about what others are doing, odds are you aren't filling your time with anything better than playing a video game. Not to mention, learning the skills, and having a knowledge of the game can make it an engaging experience. For example, in college we used to play ncaa football, a lot of us had very in depth knowledge of the offensive and defensive schemes and it was fun. Could we have all sat around a coffee shop and talked about the latest Harry Potter book or some shit? Sure, but it wouldn't include competition and it wouldn't be as fun.

Bend over, reach around, pull the stick out of your ass, then hit yourself in the head continuously until you decide to worry about yourself and not everyone else.

Running couldn't be a more silly way to spend time(don't give me the health bit, there are a hell of a lot more fun ways to stay healthy), but most of us on this board do it.

Throughout middle school and grade 9 I was a video game fanatic, I would play every day after school. A lot of the conversation between my friends and I would be about video games. Video games were something that identified me.

One day my Xbox broke, even though I also played a lot on the PC I realized that I did not really miss it. From then on my video gaming started to decrease. My junior and senior years of high school I barely played games at all.

Every once and a while I'll play Halo 3 or Star Wars battlefront 2 with some of my friends for old times sake, but I could not understand why I would sit alone in front of a screen playing games so long.

Sometimes, when I'm sitting in my dorm, staring at the wall, or if I'm at home, watching some show with my parents that I have no interest in, I think 'is this really different from playing video games'/

This is becoming a very interesting social experiment.

The two big defenders of "doing what you want" and/or video gaming are known conservative posters. Those being Shawn H and Dial it up.

I don't know where Zohan falls in the political spectrum.

It is all good once he calls himself a Gamer. Then he is absolved of his all loser status.

doo doo wrote:

This is becoming a very interesting social experiment.

The two big defenders of "doing what you want" and/or video gaming are known conservative posters. Those being Shawn H and Dial it up.

I don't know where Zohan falls in the political spectrum.

I think with a large sample size we would see very little evidence showing conservatives are big do what you want defenders and democrats hate video games.

Wow! A lot of "grown-ups" here preoccupied with what other people spend their free time doing. Is there a bigger waste of time than worrying yourself over what someone else does with their free time?

Give it up - as long as it doesn't affect you, what do you care?

Doing what makes you happy could also be seen as a Libertarian viewpoint which many people view as Conservative.