"Addicted" to video games: Biggest loser ever??

I logged 3,500 hours in an MMO. You literally get addicted I'm not kidding. Haven't played in months but always want to fire it back up

Curious man wrote:

I logged 3,500 hours in an MMO. You literally get addicted I'm not kidding. Haven't played in months but always want to fire it back up

Was it Sword Art Online?

The chip master wrote:

Look up pro gamers and ritalin/adderal use. Its not illegal cause the sport is hardly regulated but its essentially the same thing

Just cause u see fat runners, doesnt mean runners are in the same condition as gamers. How dumb do you have to be to assert something like that? You can site ultra runners and robert young all you want but i assure you, you can find far more pitiful specimens in the world of proffessional gaming.

To put it into terms even the simplest of simple minds can understant, would you rather your child be an athlete that spends all his free time playing sports or a child whose a gamer sits on his ass playing warcraft all day?

Ritalin/adderal use is hardly in the same league as the hard core drug use typical of a lot of runners. To say they are the same is dishonest.

What? You want to disown all the fat runners now? You also want to disown ultra runners and Robert Young? That's quite the cherry picking you are doing there.

I would rather have a child that is balanced between fun sports and having fun gaming/learning. But definitely nothing to do with elite running since all elite runners are drug abusers and I don't want them involved.

Spoken like someone whos never abused ritalin before. Ive been down thay road and its not pretty. Its a very real drug and the comedown is horrible

No, i was speaking in terms of the demographics as a whole not jus the few outliers that help emphasize my point the most

Ok but whats your answer to the question i asked?

The chip master wrote:

Ok but whats your answer to the question i asked?

I already answered. No involvement with elite runner because it is just all a bunch of drug abusers. Have a balanced set of hobbies/having fun.

NotaGamer wrote:

Wasting time playing those games is one of the dumbest things anyone can get into.

Absolute idiocy. Nothing comes from it. It's not real. Requires no effort,you get no benefit at all in the end. Heck even spending time watching movies is better because on some level real people are acting, video games are 100% made up fantasy.

Like reading then? Except in a book the story is already written and it requires nearly zero thought or interaction. With gaming you need to think and create the story. Using eye to hand coordination. Every game has a different outcome based on how well you think and react. IMO gaming is "better" than TV and I only used the book comparison to make a point, I of course think reading is better still. Ultimately I think it's more about moderation. 12 hours a day isn't good. Unless you're a professional and making legit money, then I'd argue that it's better than ANY desk job out there that pays the same.

I'm gonna take the bait:

I played a lot of Quake 3 in my late teens and I honestly think I'm a much more successful person because of that experience. Most games are power fantasies, they let the player feel like they're amazing, but Quake is the opposite. If someone is a little bit better than you, they destroy you. There's no randomness, no teammates, so the only thing to blame is yourself. You either cop to that, look at yourself critically and honestly and then put in the work to improve, or you will stay bad. I take that attitude to almost everything else I do and so far, I'm doing better than a lot my peers.

Join me on COD WWII xbox one s

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Most addictive gamers are obese, overweight, unhealthy.

From a health point of view sport is way better.

Nooo. I can't say things like that, because a lot of the games like Grand theft auto, saved the physical system of the people. Yeah, I think it's true and not funny since I tried it on my self. Just one problem that pisses me off is prices on such games. Yeah, they are pretty expensive and developers don't even know that the prices are very high for some countries that can't afford it. So I can't afford this either so I've decided to watch ongoing matches on https://egamersworld.com/ where the info updates pretty often, so it's better than buying a game, I think.

RPG games are bad addictions. I know of plenty of people who failed out of college from WoW.

You need to keep perspective.

Me too! I play Vice City at night when the kids are already asleep. Such a waste of the time.

Is Greg a gamer?

If they enjoy it then they do get something out of it. There is no meaning to life.

Friend of mine's 15 year-old son does nothing but play games. He seems to be really good at them. I've seen him playing two first-person shooters simultaneously. Not sure if he was controlling two characters in the same game or if it was different games. I will admit he has a skill that I don't have or understand. But he doesn't seem to be good at any other normal human things.

Uhh No! I think that title goes to a screen writing wanna be piano player living in Canada.

Absolutely agree. In my view, video games take a lot of time. When I am bored or just want to distract myself a little, I play word games. Why? It's a good way to pass the time and improve memory/vocabulary. Thanks to this tool https://word-finder.com/words-that-start-with/pac/ I managed to guess difficult words.