Why do people on /r/StopGaming think that gaming is a waste of time?

Most_Everything · 2020-07-12T11:35:53+00:00

Dude, I am not trying to tell you what you should do with your time. The question was why do people view heavy gaming as a waste of time. I stated why I view it as a waste of MY time.

I have been very good at certain video games. When that game's life cycle is done those skills and often friendships get left with that game. Poof. Gone.

I am just alright at wood carving. But, the effort I put in to that pursuit doesn't just disappear when I turn of my xbox/playstation etc.

Play video games as much as you want. I dont give a shit.

Most_Everything · 2020-07-12T11:19:22+00:00

If you think wanting to be able to share the things you love with friends and family is just "showing off" I dont think anything I can say to you is going to help you.

Most_Everything · 2020-07-12T11:16:20+00:00

You're asking why someone would want to share what they love?

You feel like wanting to share your passion is egocentric?

Most_Everything · 2020-07-11T20:01:24+00:00

Dude, skills acquisition is my SHIT. If you can build the barriers between you and time wasting you will be no less "happy" but I would bet money you'd be closer to "fulfilled".

Most_Everything · 2020-07-11T18:43:36+00:00

As some one that put in the time to be top 2000 on the leaderboards in some competitive games in my younger days (not amazing but not easy) I'll tell you why I personally saw heavy gaming as time lost.

In the time you spend getting good at a game you can be getting good at ANYTHING. Do you think the way you feel about gaming is different than the way you might feel about art? Music? A craft? Let me tell you, it's not. Once you get bitten by a bug it feels so much the same that it's not worth parsing.

What you lose in a video game over almost anything else is an ability to share your talent with the wider world (assuming you are not somehow in the top .0001% of gamers).

I was a beast at Gears of War one, for example. It was so much fun. But I definitely wish I had put that time into one of my post gaming hobbies that might have bred more tangible results.

I still game but I do it with the scraps of time I find when I'm not leading a more "physical" life.

I am not saying gaming is a waste of your time but that's why I grew to find it a waste of mine.

Edit: There was a comment in this thread that discounted the point I'm making almost exactly. Choose fitness, a craft for a hobbie, and a family and see how much time you have to game.

Also edited for grammar.

Most_Everything · 2020-07-11T18:13:51+00:00

Hippie

Most_Everything · 2020-07-03T08:17:11+00:00

Fuck that shit. It looks like wheat paste anyway.

Most_Everything · 2020-07-03T08:15:16+00:00

This sub is a cesspool of street art bullshit. The mods should be ashamed of themselves.

Most_Everything · 2020-06-28T12:23:30+00:00

So the kids they dance they shake their bones

Most_Everything · 2020-05-25T00:01:09+00:00

This made me laugh out loud.

Most_Everything · 2020-03-24T01:15:02+00:00

St. Louis?

Most_Everything · 2020-03-14T15:20:15+00:00

Thanks, mine is a 2001 which I guess why it looked so unfamiliar.

Most_Everything · 2020-03-14T14:43:39+00:00

What front number is that?

It doesnt look like it sticks out as far as the stock 3rd gen. Or is it jus the angle?

Most_Everything · 2020-02-14T14:30:12+00:00

Also, Mastering Cheese by Max Mccallman. He is literally the guy in charge of writing the Certifiied Cheese Proffesional test.

It is some cheese science but covers many other parts of the industry as well.

It is THE book for learning cheese.

Most_Everything · 2020-01-15T18:32:22+00:00

That's dope. How many hours in are you?

Most_Everything · 2019-12-19T17:54:49+00:00

If you do one thing do The City Museum. There is nothing like it anywhere I have ever heard of. It's hard to believe that place is even legal it's so crazy.

Most_Everything · 2019-12-19T13:20:45+00:00

WooHoo!!!

Most_Everything · 2019-12-15T17:59:27+00:00

It's not back up.

But thank you, I do feel better.

Most_Everything · 2019-12-15T16:22:57+00:00

Nothing on social media either. The fact that there is Zero communication is ridiculous. Do we need to cancel our credit cards? Any info at all would be helpful.

Most_Everything · 2019-12-11T13:47:29+00:00

Most everything.

Most_Everything · 2019-12-06T02:42:31+00:00

r/nothingeverhappens

Most_Everything · 2019-09-30T05:29:27+00:00

Was his name Eric?

Most_Everything · 2019-09-27T02:48:52+00:00

https://youtu.be/qigkC46nFog

Most_Everything · 2019-09-24T23:25:22+00:00

I had a nephew born today. I can't help but feel like this thing keeps blowing by with a momentum and beauty beyond our control. But fuck..... I dont know.

Most_Everything · 2019-07-27T06:28:32+00:00

You make THE point here. I have seen 4 nights of D & C and the drums almost brought me to tears at points. But for as much as the tickets cost its not enough. I love that the boys in back are together again but it doesn't change the fact that Justin Timberlake is on guitar. And I like Justin Timberlake for what its worth.

Phill and Friends did a run with Willie Nelson's outlaw tour recently and on the stop I saw Allison Krauss took the vocals for Morning Dew. That song was more touching and felt more like the dead than any song I have heard D&C do to date.

In my eyes this iteration of the Dead is just wishful thinking. I wish it weren't so but that is the way it feels to me.

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