Yeah. When you start to realize that video games are just success surrogates to help you compensate for a lack of success in real life, it gets depressing fast!
I did so much gaming in my 20s. Now in my 40s it’s hard to motivate myself to play more than a few minutes!
I grew out of video gaming the moment I started to realize that games are a manufactured irreality where nothing you do really matters, because once you quit the game you gained nothing in life, it is a well engineered time sink.
Since my time became a scarce resource and I started to value it, only a rare unique mind twisting puzzle game or short experimental experience might be worth my time, but I will not touch games that eat hundreds of hours of your life for well, nothing at all.
Also, when I was young and had almost no friends, games were a refuge and distraction, now I don’t need them. If at all, now I’d rather play a board game with other people, because it’s wholesome real world interactions and social fun.
Yeah. When you start to realize that video games are just success surrogates to help you compensate for a lack of success in real life, it gets depressing fast!
I did so much gaming in my 20s. Now in my 40s it’s hard to motivate myself to play more than a few minutes!
This.
I grew out of video gaming the moment I started to realize that games are a manufactured irreality where nothing you do really matters, because once you quit the game you gained nothing in life, it is a well engineered time sink.
Since my time became a scarce resource and I started to value it, only a rare unique mind twisting puzzle game or short experimental experience might be worth my time, but I will not touch games that eat hundreds of hours of your life for well, nothing at all.
Also, when I was young and had almost no friends, games were a refuge and distraction, now I don’t need them. If at all, now I’d rather play a board game with other people, because it’s wholesome real world interactions and social fun.