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Why do adults play video games? (exploding-heads.com)

submitted 1 year ago by Drugs@exploding-heads.com to c/consoomer@exploding-heads.com

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Seriously I don’t get it. They’re max consoomer drivel taking you away from productive hobbies like making music, carpentry, canning fruit & veg or painting. Humans are meant to create things instead of consume them on the daily. This imbalance is the main reason for societal decline, people would rather consume than create. I’ve never met a well-adjusted adult gamer. They’re all capeshit losers with equally loser children who scold other kids for not playing their lore game the right way. Fuck them all, video games are the biggest loser hobby.

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[–] zamorano@exploding-heads.com 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I play them the most when I am awake in the middle of the night and i can't sleep. Its better than staring at the ceiling. When i was in my 20's I'd walk past the video-game store and look at the people my age in there and shake my head, `what a waste of a life' i would say. so i can agree with you to a point. I have hobbies, I do gardening and home improvements. But the primary reason i bought a video game machine is because the movies now-a-days are so garbage I can hardly watch more than ten minutes without being bombarded by gay or pepsi propaganda, they are unwatchable. I need some kind of escapism, at least with a game, I can be pretty confident what it is about. My newest game is like 10-15 years old so, yes, some modern games are just as crap as modern movies, and I don't play them either. I just play them for entertainment, I couldn't tell you the birthdays of the characters or anything, I just skip over the cut-scenes.

[–] markeuzu@exploding-heads.com 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I love retro games, or at least older ones. New games feek like busy work sinulator. Do daily quest here, fetch item there, good job now do this 100x for an 1% upgrade. Indie games can also be quite fun.

I dont care for the stories either. If I want a story ill go read a book.

[–] zamorano@exploding-heads.com 2 points 1 year ago

;) yes i couldn't even do quests in skyrim, if it was easy, nearby, ok. but most of the time i would just wander around killing whatever, then sell the loot. oh and then i would buy cheap weapons, and put amazing enchantments on them and sell for profit too. I am pretty sure its not supposed to be a trading game, but i was enjoying raking in the gold.