Fed up with videogames

I Havent_Slept For Days wrote: »

I'm having a breakdown.

I was playing CoD and just had a wave of shame and embarrassment come over me. What the hell am I doing? I’m 32 years old, and I spend my nights shooting an imaginary pixel across the screen to prove I have faster hand eye coordination than some ****ing 12 year old kid across the country. What’s the ****ing point? It feels like I’m consooming some opiate of the masses bull****. Every game another $60. Every PS+ subscription another $20. Every new console another $400. When does it end? And the hours. I don’t even want to think about the hours poured into this various bull****. I’m a grown man and I ****ing spent 100 hours larping as an 19th century cowboy in Red Dead. What in the actual ****? Imagine if I had spent those hours in the gym or getting my degree.

The more I think about videogames the more I realize this is just some corporate bull**** designed to keep man complacent and fixated on spending money. No wonder kids today are always bitching about mental health nowadays. You can’t live up to your true self when you spend your nights pretending to be some ****ing dwarf with a sword that casts spells.

Relax and stop beating yourself up about this . The feeling is normal for many a 30 plus year old who spent a lot of the early and late 1990s and most of the 2000s being surrounded by PS 1,2,3 and 4 ; various Nintendo’s , x box etc

You have played them all and what’s left ? Probably not a lot . The PS4 selection / variety of games has been poor compared to ps3 (selection and variety not quality ) or even Ps2

Then like all you got duped into spending money on endless editions of call of duty , fifa , pes and feeling short changed - been there done that

You are just getting to an age where enough is enough for you

Yes , by all means focus on physical exercise . College ? You can always go back . There’s absolutely no harm in spending free time occasionally playing computers . Just mix it up a bit and make sure you maintain a social life

Sometimes it’s them and not you - sometimes you don’t want to be stuck in the smoking area of the pub all night and your pals whining about something small or you spend half the night rowing with a girlfriend / potential girlfriend etc . Not everyone is having the time of their life despite what their FB page says . Work life can be a pain of working with dishonest and or incompetent people - so you need something to fall back on to enjoy yourself - for you it’s computers

Game’s a clearly made and marketed for people of all ages , and especially for those who grew up during the console boom of the late 1990-early 2000s who would now be in their 30s . Earlier than that consoles were seen as a geeks thing thm It became cool and now it probably back to being a geek thing

Do what’s best for you - but yes , cutting down on the hours would be wise - gonna be hard however in lock down

No point crying about what you could have done - we all do that - it achieves little . You can always do something about it now and in the future

Personally I liked the auld consoles but wasn’t too big on it . Sega, game boy and all the playstations . And yes , I have done the 12-13 hours stints of eg Pes my be a pro , some RPG games and of course lol , CHAMPIONSHIP MANAGER for the PC (every football fan was doing it during the early 2000s- loss of YouTube clips of people taking it way too seriously) always avoiding online play - not worth it for me

Got the PS4 a few years ago , bought very little bar the odd Fifa , Pes, nba 2K and the assaissins creeds, GTA and red dead - nice way to spend Christmas when not watching the horse racing or - boozing

1 Won’t /hope not / can’t see myself forking out money for ps5 - too busy now even if I wanted too. Also got other interests like cycling keeping fit etc

Try not to put yourself down . It’s a normal phase you are going through

jam_mac_jam wrote: »

I can never understand the idea that you are meant to stop playing games at a certain age.

How is any different to reading or watching a film or anything else.

If you like watching football or playing a game what difference does it make. Why do people have to be so judgemental.

If you like it just do it unless it's getting in the way of doing other things.

Whether one is meant to or not , by the time you start working long hours / being responsible for teams or a business , kids , wife ... it’s extremely hard to keep up the auld gaming .

Christmas is a good time to give the console a blast but most of the year some people are just too tired

Most of us born in the 1980s and 1990s were born to the console generation . Developers didn’t forget about that large group of people in the 2010s when making games . They are clearly marketed for them as much as they are for the teenagers of today

Nothing wrong with gaming . Just do it in moderation and personally my opinion , stay off the online stuff - take can get too serious and competitive and can get nasty

It is a bit sad that we didn’t spend enough time outside playing football - jumpers for goal posts (nice , marvellous) like the kids of the 1970s but they had nothing else to do

but then, many of us were already playing sports for clubs, school and colleges and some of the really talented people were also playing for county or country or province so that was more than enough of that .

You are absolutely right though . No different to reading a book or watching a film - **** those who judge

Personally , the women make me laugh. What do they do in their free time (that lack of it many of us have today lol) watching soaps and Hollywood gossip while bitching to their pals , getting dressed up for the gym with some laughable excuse of a work routine and spending most of that time taking selfies of themselves and their ****ing lunch (okay a bit generalised intentionally)

limnam wrote: »

I'd say he knew that before he married her.

Make your own luck :cool:

Women change once they marry - the horror ! The horror ! 🤣🤪