Article Claims "Grown Men Shouldn't Waste Their Lives Playing Video Games" & It Backfires Epically
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People: Gamers are kids trapped in adults bodies
Same people: I'm gonna scream and throw a temper tantrum at my television because football man didn't catch football like I would have.
LMAO yesssss!!!
Or worse... Football man kneeled during anthem.
Sports fans are insufferable.
Or! Watch reality tv lmao
Don’t forget how many of them also trash their own cities because their favorite team lost. Or even if they won too.
She is the kind of woman who tells homeless people "just don't be poor"
😂🤣 I understand the logic
A wise woman once said, "If you're homeless just buy a home!"
@@kaiser8659 or just buy more
@@rjohnm666 so in short she's a Karen
@@theunhingedgamer3762 Zero shock if she was. At the very least, just so, so far up her own ass she could check for her own polyps. She actually said "instead of video games you could be a commentator on the royal family, like me."
Fucking commentator. On the. Royal family. Who fucking cares about the royal family? And she says video games is a waste of time.
“When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.” - C. S. Lewis
heyyy my man, same thing that popped into my mind.
awesome quote
You'd be surprised how often that quote has been bastardized to say the opposite.
Amen 🙏🏿✝️📖
@@Webshooters1 I believe that the original was a bible quote to indeed say the opposite. So technically, the C.S. quote's the knock-off, but I prefer it greatly.
I'm a doctor who plays video games. The article is a displaced expression of anger. Writer is actually angry at her daughter for rather playing games than spending time with mommy.
Same. Doctor here. My best friend is an investment banker. We both have kids and we both love games as much as we did back in high school. This woman has issues.
@@MTLGSE thank you for that. I have countless friends who are doctors and game and also MD/PhD or PhD that play games and also play games way more than I ever have.
I have a friend whose doc prescribed him an N64 with Goldeneye and Turok in order to 'curb his violent tendancies.' Further reinforces that the mainstream view of videogames and gamers is woefully inaccurate.
@@HeavyProfessor same here. Lots of my friends and colleagues play games. It saved us during our board exams. One of them would being his switch to our review courses out of town so we could blow off some steam.
If you made videos on this subject, I'd definitely watch.
To quote an XKCD comic: "I'm happy to grow up. But I won't pretend that fun things aren't still fun out of fear of looking silly."
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To quote a much better source:
“Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”
-C. S. Lewis
Is the comic called like that or is an abbreviation? Would like to read them
@@martinmeza9714 Yup, XKCD is the actual name of the webcomic. It's nonstop random hilarious and often sciency humor that's been going on for a ridiculously long time. :P
@@martinmeza9714 XKCD is the name, yes. Prepare to read a LOT of pages for that one, it has been running for over 15 years now
I'm 64 and I've been playing video games and using computers since the 70's. Yes, i was in the military and played wargames on the NTDS (Naval Tactical Data System) real time network. I'm retired and still love playing video games. It keeps my mind sharp and hurts nobody.
Thats awesome
You're epic. If I had money I'd buy you some Dunky Donuts.
Hell yeah man, that's awesome to hear!
Hell yes!!!!
Gaming: good for all ages.
"Waste time playing video games""
*Goes back to watching 9 hours of TV a day
Lol! Facts man. 🤣
i can read for hours and hours
i can play video games for hours and hours
however, i personally, cannot do nothing but watch tv for the same length of time
*Goes back to screaming at people kicking a ball and getting x1000 more money than them
*9 hours of Royal Family taking a dump and drinking tea
*goes back to watching 9 hours of TV a day while planting the kid in front of the PC with no supervision and not caring what the kid does, and then compain that the kid managed to see/play non-kid stuff and that the government has to fix that!!!*
This article is so over-generalized, under-researched, reliant on stereotypes and just plain wrong that I honestly can't take ANY offense from it.
So if I may say, this article and the community’s reaction is
Article: you’re childish, infantile, and immature
Community: and you’re and idiot what’s your point?
Yeah man, it's just mind-boggling
It's clear that she thinks that grown men should be spending their time making money selling off byproducts of biochemistry experiments to seedy professionals in back alleys to distribute to 'interested' customers.
Well, I don'tr believe she can do it any other way, It's in her playbook. How else can she write about ROYAL and politics. LMAO
@@FuzzArYo There's nothing wrong with writing about politics. There are geopolitics nerds out there just like there are rock climbing nerds. As for writing about royals -- eh... I really don't get it, but different folks different strokes; right?
Being an adult doesn't have to be a joyless slog of work and taxes. You're allowed to continue enjoying your childhood interests, and playing video games as an adult is a perfectly respectable pastime.
Couldn't agree more.
More respectable than simping for 40-years old harpies with rotten ovaries, for sure.
Not to mention there are video games made for adults idk how this doesn’t click in there heads
Exactly am I not allowed to reminisce??
When I was young I thought being an adult was working all day and throwing away all kid things and replacing them with drinking Scotch at night. I became an adult and I work all day and come home to drink Scotch and play video games.
Society to a kid once they turn 18: “Now that you are an adult, you are no longer allowed to have fun or enjoy any of your interests. You are expected to work, do chores around the house and sleep for rest of your life. If you would like a hobby you may select from predetermined socially acceptable ones such as sports, reality tv or mowing your lawn.”
"Oh and woodworking when you are like 65"
"OH and btw if you look at a female the wrong way you're a rapist."
A woman can sue you if you even look at her funny
If they had video games during the 40s, the boomers would be playing them.
@@chuckchan4127 And women started to wonder why less and less men pursue them and the government are now worried why number of marriages are low.
I love how it was specifically geared towards men completely disregarding adult female gamers exists lol
that woman's poor child
It makes you wonder how people this ignorant are so proliferate in the industry. Why is nearly every gaming news outlet full of writers just like this? And it's all the news. Literally they've been reporting for the past few years that a garage pull was a n0 0se on mainstream media.
As far as gamers, and many companies, are concerned: We don't.
Some women specifically hate that men spend time enjoying videogames instead of lavishing time, attention and money on (insecure, needy) women.
That's exactly what I was thinking
Her child have an excuse of being a child. Imagine being her partner...
They're right, men should do grown up things like gambling at casinos, servicing automobiles that don't have proprietary parts, and getting to know the local strippers while guzzling booze
I rather play video games and watch anime then spend my life savings at a casino. fuck this article man
I'd rather be a child in an adult's body and enjoy a good time, than being stuck as a bitter middle-aged person who is too busy talking about their interpretation of politics and gossiping about what the rich and famous people are doing every waking second.
Truly
Based
And add 'dissing other passion & hobbies because they can have fun when I myself can't'
It's not just limited to videogames, but you get the idea.
I also would rather not be a character living in the world of the sitcom The Office.
Seems fucking terrible.
HOLY SHIT YOU HAVE A RUclips CHANNEL!!!! IM NOW SUBBED! Been a huge fan for years
“Grown adults shouldn’t waste their time reading books and articles. Go scavenge for berries and cook your food in ash pits like a real adult.”
I legit use to forage when I lived out in the country. Its great fun, but so is gaming. I did both and Id still forage if there were some dang muscadines in this town XD
Bears shit in the woods! 😊
Now I just want to make some fire pit potatoes
Age of Empires vibes 😂
RETURN TO MONKE
CLOWNERY AT ITS FINEST
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I literally just finished watching your video to see you here lmao
@@coolguy-qb7kg same
This is omni, you've just been laid
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This person's article is the epitome of "someone else's fun greatly affects me for some reason."
If she wanted to make a fuss, she could just try the classic "Videogames lead to violence" 🤣
Ahh such simpler times where my dad would read about that I'd say it's dum and go right back to shouting die die playing doom to be fair I didn't turn in to a psychopath but do still kill things on doom
Ah yes. Made me remember how EVERY media tried to cancel Pewdiepie because he's a very famous gamer
The before times with Jack Thompson ranting about violent video games. Seems almost idyllic when compared to what Saarkesian & her ilk have done to Vidya.
My girlfriend plays video games. Sweetest young lady you’ll ever meet 🤣🥰
I'm sure she'll make a future article talking about how she was 'attacked' by gamers.
This makes me remember, how my parents used to say that "You"ll grow out of playing video games".
Now I'm 31 year old and working in the video game industry as a 3D animator. So now I not only play videogames, but I also contributing in making them.
You rebel x3
You followed your dreams and I respect you for it. My parents or more specifically my dad told me the same thing, I'm still playing them and I've made friends I otherwise wouldn't have if I gave up on my favorite hobby. I may not have a career yet, but I did take passion for games a bit further and I have created some RUclips videos, mainly some montages that I'm very proud of. It's a start I suppose.
Parents: YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO DEFEAT THEM NOT JOIN THEM
The Dream™
King shit
When my Tennis coach's father passed away, he was told by the doctors to play video games to battle his depression. It worked out good for him in the end! He played a lot of Guitar Hero and he said he had never had so much fun in years!
Yeah I remember a video game study was done in a care home with elderly people. The people in the care home were given Nintendo consoles to play with for a certain period of time and some tests were conducted afterwards. If I remember right the results were positive and playing the video games had some positive benefits.
I was told the same thing. I had actually quit playing video games because I saw them as a waste of time. But when I was seriously depressed my doctor recommended playing them. What I've learned is playing a game for an hour or two every few days (sometimes every day) makes me more productive because it helps me not get into really depressed states.
I suffer from PDSD, gaming (and those I've met by gaming) enables me to get through the day. Gaming does have negative aspects, but without gaming I wouldn't be here.
Also, just have say, love the Freddie avatar.
My Dr. suggested gaming to help with anxiety.
@@Dwarficus what is PDSD
I remember an old friend telling me always that "when you grow up, you'll stop playing videogames", now he's 41 and is confined in a retirement lair (or an asylum if I recall) due to his mental health for not having any hobbies (only work & sleep) and getting consecutive distress burnouts.
That's sad
@@edwardteach1992 Blackbeard rules.
Dear lord...
I hope he gets better. Poor guy definitely needs help.
I suggest the inability of people to divorce their identity from work and productivity is a big contributor to our mental health crisis.
I’d rather be a grown man “wasting my life playing video games” than serving someone who doesn’t have my best interest in mind and wants my life to be boring.
Remember that the rich think that you are an object, a tool, a cog in the not-so-great machine, a starving dog! To them, you are expendable. Replaceable. A toy they play with and throw out when they had their fun. Proof them wrong. Stand up for yourself and your rights as a hard worker.
Grown men shouldn’t worry about what other grown men are doing lmao
I think it’s a woman
@@planetcrazy654 don’t assume 😂 😂
@@planetcrazy654 Point still stands no grown man and woman should be in any position to know what other grown adults are doing with their time
@@ae86takumi he assumed correctly.
@@planetcrazy654 Bona Fide? Or Identify?
I think this highlights a major problem of society. The idea that maturity is tied to things people enjoy rather than how one carries themselves through interactions with other individuals. Its rather sad that people will openly judge others based on what they enjoy and see them as immature but refuse to look inward to themselves and see the irony of the situation.
Exactly. Well said.
“Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”
-C.S. Lewis
I agree with you there. I am in several sub-cultures simply because I find most of the people in them enjoyable to converse with, even when we disagree about something. Because its far easier to become well seasoned and meet lots of different types of people in online games. I have met people from all corners of the globe that have differing views on things and few of them go on the offensive simply because they don't like or understand the things I like. When you focus your life on a small group of people, such as the royal family for instance, you loose site of the diversity in the world around you. Its easy to forget that even if we like the same things, we are individuals, not copy and pasted machines. Just because we like something different doesn't mean we are broken and need repairs, it means we don't want to conform the the beliefs and ideologies of a small group just so we can "fit in". I for 1 refuse to be a Borg... which is strange to me being a bit of a cyber punk fan
Yup. People can't just mind their own business.
And this is what lies at the heart of the social conservatism this article represents: Childish fears projected onto harmless things.
This woman is literally the meme of "if they're having fun, I'm not having fun"
Vicky from The Fairly Odd Parents?
She sounds like one of those "where have all the good men gone?" types who blame video games instead of realizing they have problems.
wheres the streetwise Hercules to fight the rising odds?
@@Sniperbear13 Either already married or so sick of the shit, he decided to live in a cabin in the woods. He also might've been a little experimental and found dating other men preferable.
That's my guess anyway.
@@Sniperbear13I see, I'm A Hero reference you're a man of culture.
Well... will admit I've gone on dates where friend tried playing matchmaker. Their exe's played too much video games is basically what came up.... after hearing a full story it just sounded like they were suffering from depression...
Feminazi
I think it also reaffirms Qui Gon Jinn’s famous saying “the ability to speak doesn’t make you intelligent”.
I love that that line exists. So applicable to soooo many things/people.
Really? The prequels are terrible movies and do not deserve to be quoted. The ability to speak does in fact prove intelligence, at least relative to non-communicative creatures.
@@30noir The prequels aren*t that bad!
And we aren't talking "compared to animals". And even then, there are humans that are less intelligent than your average crow, usually due to birth defects.
@@30noir Whether or not the prequels are ‘bad’ is quite subjective, but the quote is meant to be understood as meaning “just because you can speak doesn’t mean you’re actually making sense or saying something worth listening to”.
@@30noir Mate, the fact that the prequels are sometimes absurdly quoteable is one of their more defining qualities.
If it can be memed, it deserves to be memed and if it is memed it shall be quoted.
And well... Intelligence is always relative to begin with.
When you're an adult: Oh no no no, you can't play games, that's for kids.
When you're a kid: Oh no no no, you can't play games, you have to study for school.
I'm over 25 ... pretty sure I can decide for my self what I consider "adult activities worthy of my time" and if that's playing a game, where I get to pet a virtual representation of a horse and then proceed to press the punch button by accident and feel irrational levels of regret for accidentally pretend hitting my non existent horse, then so be it.
This is me... I dreaded living under those ideals. I'm so happy I moved out. Things are so much clearer. I'm realizing how much time my rents wasted doing this. I love them both to the core but man did they make growing up a gamer hell. I studied, got the job, even got a couple cars by myself. But it just wasn't enough to justify me playing games at any time.
Assassin's creed has a action button to pet those dogs or cats (i dont remember which) and in portuguese the text reads 'afagar' (a really old school way to say pet imho), The problem is, that is REALLY close to 'afogar' which means 'to drown'. I was devastated when I passed by a dog/cat and pressed the action button, I was totally expecting the guy to just dunk on the poor animal and drown it in the nearby puddles.... I actually released a breath I was holding when the character just goes and pet the cutipie.
@@ZumaB You should have the power of stoicism.
Honestly the older I get the less I give a crap about these arbitrary lines of what I am and not allowed to enjoy. Life's too short for that BS.
@@ZumaB it happened to me as well
The most immature adults are those who worry about being mature. Worrying about being mature is what children and teenagers do. Adults are supposed to be mature enough to know maturity isn't about what you like.
"why are you playing video games?"
"Don't you know video games are for kids?!"
"QUIT HAVING FUN!!!"
- Camilla Tominey, 2021.
She writes about the royal family ffs.
Imagine then worst type of journalist trying to bash a multi billion dollar industry.
She needs to get laid 😂
@@WithDreday I don't think she's getting laid anytime soon
DID I JUSS CATCH YOU HAVIN' FUN!! *SMACK*
@@FukurouYGR Men lost to Feminism, Women lost to gaming.
@@WithDreday I feel more sorry for the child she has.
Think of what it must be like for them living with her.
My girlfriend was suffering from depression, so i got her a switch to play whenever she wanted. We both play it every now and then and she loves mario. She has never touched a video game in her life. It had helped her move on with her depression, along with many other stuff.
Nice, hope all of you carry on with your lives happily 😁
I find that indie narrative videogames attract thousthands of comments about how they really improved their lives. You know, like undertale or omori. Glad to see other videogames can do the same thing
You're no trash can. You are a Good Man.
This. I'm not a pscychologist, but I guess that when (real) life is a mess that you feel that you can't control, playing games can relieve stress and get your mind off things.
@@gabrote42 like Ori?
she is the type of person that sits alone in a room saying how mature she is while being bored
More likely gossiping behind people's backs and being petty (based on her article). However, I don't know her so... who knows, maybe she was just paid to badmouth us all unwillingly (however doubtful).
You know she is the kind of person who watches those drama / romance tv-shows, or gossiping news about royals or "reading books" like 50 shades or harry potter. Probably playing board games too.
@@narudan hey, board games a pretty great
@@MRtacoslicous I don't mind either way but don't pretend one is somehow superior than the other
Like what you like
I'm positive she lives in a spartan house or apartment, either white or cream colored, with minimalist furnishings, and one room with a bookshelf with books that NO ONE on here would ever read in a million years, that she uses mainly for zoom conference calls.
I feel like this is an argument I have with people in my own family. Recently I was told that I was losing sight of reality because of how involved I am in gaming…even though I have a full time job, pay bills and handle my own shit as a man. But…I play video games so…I’m out of tune with reality…I’ve never been so pissed off in my life. Well said. Well said.
imagine what that person would say if they found out about vr
Its all misplaced anger on the part of those people. Often jealousy because you have your shit together well enough to live life and have hobbies
As someone who went through multiple years of college to become an aerospace engineer, got employed with NASA and is currently working on the Artemis program, I'm glad to know I'm still an immature child for playing games in my free time. When we next land on the moon I hope this lady covers it, just so she unintentionally recognizes a gamer who helped make it happen.
Quick Edit: Thanks for all the love everyone, didn't expect this and I love basically any sci fi/space game.
It's always the biggest losers who have to whine about how others spend their free time. Carry on Some Dude, I think what you're doing is pretty damn badass and infinitely more fulfilling than anything this woman has ever done in her life.
Nice man!
Also have you ever played kerbal space program?
Good luck and godspeed to you and all of NASA in the upcoming space faring missions.
Onward and upward, always.
@@winstonsmith3703 Hell yes, I love KSP, I've got over 200 hours in it.
@@Pengun3 you sir, are an inspiration to us all. Keep being a badass
>"Don't waste your time playing video games"
As if complaining about what people do on the internet is much better...
At least you have fun with video games. Twitter? They're just rageaholics.
Seriously!
Self important people not realizing that folk don't care about the thing you like. It's like a celebrity chef losing his collective shit because he spent his whole life in pursuit of his thing and here you are eating a Borger from Wendy's. How uncouth, disgusting lower class man! He doesn't realize he's eating garbage! We must educate him!
Exactly. Why are so many people complaining about what this lady does on the internet? She just wants to write an article and people are giving her a hard time smh
its kind of upseting how complaining on the internet about what other people do in their free time has itself become a hobby to many nowadays
"She really is no fun at parties."
- her 8-year-old daughter
I would like but it's at a perfect 69
@@ZombieDireWolf cringe
That profile picture.... whoooooo
Feel sorry for the daughter. Too bad if she ever wants to consider e-sports/streaming/commentary as a way to earn a living, Mum won't be having any of that. Wouldn't be surprised if Daughter has a miserable time at school because she's not allowed to play any games and must focus only on her schoolwork and "becoming an adult who only does adult things".
Weve literally been through a pandemic involving several lockdowns and idiots have the nerve to write articles like this when a massive chunk of the population turned to gaming to stop themselves going insane from boredom.
I'm a 53 y/o grown man who plays strategy computer games, keeps my mind active, if I didn't, I would probably end up as a dribbling moron, like this author.
My Father plays strategy games too. Recently introduced him to Total War, and he's having a blast. Helps him relax after a day of work.
@@MarcusTrinnias those are my go to games as well.....
These people are still thinking about video games as if it were the late 80’s or early 2000’s smh
keep on gaming mate 👌😎
I'm 35 and intend to keep right on gaming until 53 and beyond.
She sounds like she would be mad about childless couples and single people going to Disneyland too actually.
I'd say that's quite accurate.
@Anal Farmer who cares? What's wrong with having fun?
Which is funny given Disneyland is a more of trip for parents than their toddlers if you think about it
@@isaacgray2909 anytime a parent brings their young toddler to an amusement park it’s rarely for the kid, who will barely remember the event when their older.
The child is just an excuse
"I'm not so insecure about myself that i have to dunk other people's hobbies just 'cause I lack an understanding of it" It is just a precious quote which resumes many aspects of social media nowadays
and not just social media. That attitude of wanting to micro manage everyone else is found everywhere.
And it's not just the last few years either, though it's been getting worse and worse very quickly.
I lost a job in 2007 (right at the start of the mortgage crisis), officially "because you're not a good fit in the team" (after nearly 2 years of working quite well in that team, no complaints from anyone and good performance reviews) but I suspect because of my opposition to the insane new dress code which dictated what we, office flunkies who never saw a customer, were supposed to wear down to the styles and colours of our underwear and socks.
thats so amny peoples out look. oh my god XD
@@jwenting That has to be the most stupid dress code I have ever heard of
We are just like sheep to those shepherd-wannabes. People can live their life without their fake pity anyway. Have a good day, people
She's one of those who is wasting they own time writing something nonsense and wasting all those poor adult mans time.
No one on their deathbed or grave stone epitaph ever said:
If only I had spent more time meeting other people's expectations.
An industry that regularly makes more money than the film industry.
An industry worth more than movies and music combined.
Are "you" making money
*An industry worth more than movies, music, TV/streaming and sports....combined*
@@tigeroyer7789 everyone enjoys movies not everyone enjoys games
@@GForceIntel ... And?!
Her: "Grown men shouldn't waste their time playing videogames."
Karens: *kicking and screaming to get their way*
karen try block guy play skate board
"Yeah. They should be spending their time trying to woo me. Just like that Madonna's Material Girl music video..."
C. S. Lewis: "When I became a man, I put away childish things. Including the fear of being childish and the desire to be very grown up"
I love that quote! I'm a responsible adult, I show up to work on time every day, I rarely call out sick unless I'm so sick I can't even stand up, I pay my bills and taxes on time, I vote, I take care of myself and my loved ones so if I want to do something "childish" just for myself, no one is going to make me feel guilty for that.
Ah the man who wrote Alice in wonderland
@@haruhisuzumiya6650 Actually, that was Lewis Carroll. C. S. Lewis wrote The Chronicles of Narnia.
Everyone is childish about something. No one just becomes an adult all of a sudden.
i wasted a lot of time when i was kid staring at chalkboards with nothing of importance being taught. i'm gonna use my remaining days playing all the videogames i want. i'm not going to die rich for sure but i'll die content with all the various experiences gaming have given me so far.
Not to mention the fact that the gaming industry is the largest entertainment industry on the planet. Much bigger that the movie industry these days. So she is attacking the worlds biggest entertainment industry thinking it's the children using all that 150-170 billion dollars every year on gaming 🤦🏻♂️
There are over 2.5 billion gamers around the world, average age is 34 years old, and over 70% of all gamers are 18 or older.
Grown Men Shouldn't Waste Their Lives ( insert word here )
And what about these toddlers? When are they going to play Dead Space and Resident Evil?
I remember adult games, even as far back as Atari 2600. This person needs a reality check.
It's like morons who say its ok to ruin Star Wars because; "its about spacewizards with lasers, intended for children".
Just go away. You are not in your element here. Go and criticize _knitting_ or something.
Man you pointing out gaming being bigger than the movie industry is quite interesting.
Being born in 2000 I can only imagine what it was like when movies were at their hay day and in the 80s video games were just starting to pick up traction.
I bet nobody ever thought the impact those pixels would have on generations to come and would go on to out do movie industry some day.
Not to go off topic but this interests me •3•
it is bigger than the movie AND music industries COMBINED. That's a pretty tall order tbh.
@Ultra Magnus oh brother...
Maybe not every man wants to die a horrible death on a battle field so some greedy politician can get his oil fill? Ever think of that?
Maybe what men want is to be seen as people and not soulless tools/pawns devoid of any thoughts or feelings of their own.
Maybe men just want to have peace? To just be able to live their lives like anyone else?
And I'm unsure where you get the idea that "Vidya gaming = poor life style." That only applies to a small portion who already have mental health problems. Which means if it wasn't video games it'd be another thing.
Most gamers are just regular people who enjoy their hobby on their off time like anyone else.
This whole article screams, "My boyfriend/husband is wasting his time playing video games when he could be investing that time into making more money for me."
Exactly, that was the same vibe i was getting from that article, sounds like she is bitter her partner bought a PS5 or Xbox instead of spending that money on her and her vanities/likes.
@Andrew Holt Guys, we're making wild assumptions..... As if she wasn't an angry, bitter and lonely individual
I honestly wouldn't be surprised if it's not by chance that she very specifically uses the words "grown men" instead of "adults". Everything else here is so stupid, so why not?
Hammer+ NAILHEAD
Stuff like this needs to be included in the "Trashy moms that scream at food workers" starter pack
"Grown people" is a subjective term these days. I've seen 50 year old men have about as much maturity as actual toddlers and teens acting mature and taking on responsibilites that come with
There are 70 year olds that still throw temper tantrums because they choose to have their feelings get hurt over listening to actual advice. You can't grow out of it unless you want to.
Exactly , Age ≠ Experience.
To paraphrase Sir Terry Pratchett, just because someone is old doesn't mean they're wise. They could also have been very stupid for a long time.
@@ajitsen6927 Age _can_ = Experience, but it takes effort on your part. You cannot be strictly an observer and learn how to be mature--you must act and then learn from what you've done. Far too many people try to skip the doing things part and think they're "grown up" when they lack a lot of personal interaction with others. Going to work can help but it isn't the standard that defines what and who you are by itself. What demonstrates that you have grown up is how you treat others and how you treat yourself. If you cannot take a joke, if you get upset by the things others do or say when what they do has 0 effect on you or anyone else for that matter, if you go around telling other physically grown people what they should and should not do with their free time... then _you_ are a hypocrite and are demonstrating that you have no idea what being a grown up actually means.
@@knusperkeks2748 Said 70-year-olds are the people that run the U.S.
Literally everything we do is a “waste”. We’re all going to die, so we might as well spend the brief time we have on this earth doing what we like to do. Nothing you enjoy doing is a waste.
It's shocking how few people seem to ever realize your point.
Time you enjoy wasting is not a waste of time
B-but if I don't spend all my time in performative suffering, how am I going to impress all of my fake-ass friends and acquaintances?? Surely, the lukewarm approval of people who would stab me in the back for the slightest gain if they could get away with it is the greatest measure by which to gauge my self-worth?
Well said
@@BackwardsPancake ekacnaP has Twitter down to a science!
"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing."-
George Bernard Shaw
Hilariously, every time i run into some mid aged adult or older that is completely grumpy and looks miserable and obviously doesnt play games.. that is just one extra log to the 'never stopping playing games" fire. Yeah.. you have fun being bored.. ill be over here at least entertaining myself.
George Bernard Shaw, Proto-Gamer
she must be partaking in the finer things in life like alcohol, watching vapid soap operas and creating snide articles to stay relevant.
This person is the same that says: “don’t waste your time playing games, go read a book” then goes and reads 50 shades of grey
Books? Books are juvenile, kids read those.
Or u can go read Mein Kamp or the communist manifesto just to spite them.
"Do something more mature".
"Now, what flavour of artificial Reality TV drama shall I point and laugh at this evening?".
@@pingdragonify joining the brown shirts to make something of my life...
Lol, 50 Shades is probably above her comprehension level, she should stick to reading the "Velvetine rabbit" or "The Mouse and the Motorcycle". Lol
Check out the author’s next op-ed piece, “Get off my lawn, you damn kids!”
Followed closely by “get out of my sun, you cantankerous cloud”
@@exceedcharge1 followed by "get out of my solar system you asshole aliens"
@@exceedcharge1 ending with "I'm better than you! Because I poop in the woods!"
More like: I got conned into giving this article clicks and views.
Folks. Come on. This is a clear example of clickbait and y’all got conned into it.
Yep
I've never understood how gaming is somehow less of a hobby than watching football or movies or reading books.
it isnt. not anymore. it became a hobby and these people hate that. and their trying to stop that
and failed
Reading has it's benefits
But I agree
Reading is better than playing games. That is a fact. But this karen is butthurt beyond belief!
@@Deathbringer99699 reading doesn't help keep my busted ass hands working, doesn't aid in practicing racing lines on tracks, doesn't keep my hand-eye coordination up, in general doesn't keep my problem solving skills acute though there are situations where the game is dumb and the book is challenging...
I generally play survival games, fighting games or racing sims, wheel and pedal included, nothing that is even remotely mindless button pushing.
@@glenwaldrop8166 i also play games but there are better things to do in life.
One of my favourite hobbies is painting miniature figurines. The skill and knowledge of art goes so deep, I've learnt more than I ever did studying illustration at university.
When people ask about what I like to do, I tell them "painting models" and their response is always a good gauge to what kind of person they are.
Everytime I ask people like this "what are you defining as 'grown up'?" I always get similar answers:
- "Develop a career" - I have one...no scratch that...I have two!
- "Go out and socialize" - I've got plenty of friends and spend a healthy amount of time with other people in general
- "Read a book or go appreciate other art forms" - I do all of this whenever I come across something that tickles my fancy
- "Start a relationship and family" - I have a spouse and child, one lovely, happy family
All of this while playing video games in the free time I have earned.
You know what? Here's a novel idea. How about we all agree that we have a limited time on this planet so just let everyone do what they want with that time so long as it doesn't cause harm.
Why are other art forms anymore "adult" than video games. They are an equal "waste of time".
“Go appreciate other forms of art” because gawking at paintings and sitting down at a 2 hr opera is much more fulfilling than sitting down and playing games. All of the adult arts are boring and bland af. Let those people speak nonsense, they are the ones who have millions of regrets as they are dying
@@justsomeguy2142 Whoah whoa easy there Chris. There's nothing wrong with appreciating the arts AND videogames. I live and breathe classical music, hell I was named after a painter!
It's just insecure people who want to feel superior for not playing video games. They watch TV and listen to music on MP3 players, I bet their parents thought less of them for that. It's a cycle for sure.
@@metaloverlord7465 Same as your 3 Ninja Turtle brothers? Leonardo confirmed as canon
This is my parents at their finest. Perfectly willing to sit in front of the TV as often as possible, but me doing the same with video games? Well suddenly it becomes a waste of time and I should be out socialising 24/7.
Yep, tell me you’re close minded without telling me you’re close minded.
They see it as an age thing, but if youre underage playing video games all day is 100% waste of time
Dude I'm 40 and it's been this way forever. For some reason video games have been the whipping boy and scapegoat at every God damned turn. It's honestly tiring hearing this same old drek regurgitated every few months about one of your favorite past times.
@@bane9951 I did that the whole time people are shit lol
@@clblanchard08 It's been this way longer than that. First it was "novels will ruin our children, they're addicted," then it was TV/movies, now it's video games. Stupid people are a constant through the ages. Just ignore them and enjoy games.
Things I have learned in life: 1)Anything that moves you is art. 2)As long as something isn’t hurting yourself or others, anything that makes you happy is never a waste of time. 3) Journalists who write click-bate articles that attack something people like just to kick a hornets nest and get angry clicks are not journalists as they have sold their integrity for short time gain.
Did you mean bate or bait? Because they are not the same thing and in this particular case could lead to very different understandings. Cheers
4) If someone uses Video Games as a scapegoat for something, they don't care about the real problem and are most likely a dumbass.
Well said
She most likely doesn't even have a degree in journalism. Glorified blogger.
Good insight
"I'm miserable and so should these other adults!!1!1"
Honestly sad to see her opinion of others hobbies.
“Today’s story is about a clown”
*Oh this is going to be GOOD.*
Speaking of clowns look up sweet tooth :D
I cracked up as soon as I heard that line!
@@GirlGamer867 same
Going to need a 1UP for that burn XD
@SomeCreativePerson oh come on, thats WAY too much of an insult
the clowns dont deserve to be insulted like that, dont associate clowns with her ,they dont deserve it, even pennywise doesnt deserve that
The fact this article is behind a paywall really speaks volumes about this particular publication.
Yeah I found that weird when I tried goin to the article asking me to pay 🤦🏽♂️
Sad thing is, there's actually people out there that pay real world money for pathetic slopaganda like that miserable ignorant person wrote.
She's a bit of a snob from the UK.
There are sites to bypass the pay wall, you just need to paste the link.
Yep
I've always seen belittling others' pasttimes for the sake of "maturity" to be the most childish and embarassing shit, surprised these people haven't been laughed out of existence yet
Yeah, you basically can't waste your free time no matter what hobby you have. It's "free time", you use it to entertain yourself or otherwise get some rest from thinking about all your responsibilities and problems. Some watch sports, some play sports, some watch anime titties go "boing". To each their own.
My guess is, is that they're such shallow individuals with nothing to show for, any semblance of individualism that somebody ELSE has, rustles these shallow peoples'* jimmies due to their lack of.
Yeah like I'll take this kinda shit from a guy who's cut social media and TV and all that out of his life, makes furniture and teaches his kid survivalist skills for fun in his free time - THAT guy can tell me I need to grow up and stop wasting so much free time playing video games.
But something tells me that the folks who write articles like this spend plenty of time mindlessly scrolling through their social media and vegging out as they binge whatever the f on a streaming platform - and those people can go f themselves because video games are way more engaging, challenging and meaningful than social media or TV/movies. Screen habits are a vice, no doubt, but as far as screen habits go, video games are the least bad IMO.
@@SquareNoggin But they are the best of "the bad" though. I play mostly sandbox survival/building games (Minecraft, Valheim, etc.) or MMORPGs. First ones works up my creativity and imagination while the second ones help me work on my social skills, organizational skills and leadership (I do lead group content once in a while), teach me focus and concentration (consistently perform my dmg rotation while dealing with any mechanics game or non-careful players throw at me), economics and data analysis (smart ways of earning in-game currency), and some more. Oh, and also basic stuff like eye-hand coordination, reflexes, etc. I've also finally started speaking English (not my native lang) while so far I was only listening to it and writing myself thanks to online games.
Meanwhile, watching stuff is a very passive kind of entertainment. I do get something out of it (like learning foreign languages or even just game-related stuff) but it's almost like studying at that point and not the kind of binging netflix or something that's so popular lately.
Anyway, I'm back to wasting my time improving myself and making others' day a bit better by succesfully leading them to victory in challenging videogame content.
yes yes and yes.
I've had people talk to me like that before about video games, and my take-away from the discussion is that they're generally upset that when you play video games; you're not being "productive", you're not being an asset or contributing to society... or you're not benefiting them in some capacity.
As a "fully grown adult" I will exercise my prerogative to spend my spare time doing as I see fit, and if they dislike what I'm doing they can proceed to behave like a fully grown adult themselves and mind their own business.
To hell with that “productivity” mindset. I’m already wasting nine hours of my life, five days a week in a place I don’t want to be, doing things I don’t want to do, for a wage I can’t even live on; I refuse to do any kind of work-like activities in my meager free time that isn’t for myself, my family or close friends. If someone who isn’t family or a close friend wants something “productive” out of me from my precious free time, then they are going to have to pay me at least triple the rate I make at work. My free time is a scarce resource and I don’t part with it cheaply.
People: "video games are for children"
Same People: "video games are violent and shouldn't be played by children"
and cherry picks gta as the singular culprit.
@@cmdraftbrn "VIDEO GANES ARE A BIGGER PROBLEM THAN GUNS" is the most retarted shit I've ever read
These people just want to make excuses for people to not play video games
"When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up." - C.S. Lewis
the full quotes even better IMO
"Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up." - C.S. Lewis
@@Hipst3rNinja I agree. C.S. Lewis is among the GOAT.
Fair...but if all you do is one thing at the detriment of others whether that be financially, psychologically, or both...then it's a problem. Granted we're now delving into mental health issues whereas this article is just straight insults....but none the less it's important to realize that video gaming can be harmful and a negative depending on how they are utilized. The thing that makes video games particularly dangerous to some is the fact that they are 100% legal and unregulated beyond pathetic labels on the box that parents ignore anyway. And this was before the age of microtransactions and gambling simulators under the guise of whatever game they're pretending to be....now the evil has gone all out and it's tragic really.
@@HandleNameIsStupid what you describe is not a problem of games
it's a problem with companies unregulated with very little to no law that can check their moves.
This isn't exactly new, plenty of companies where the laws are lax push the extent in which they are allowed to siphon money into themselves to the detriment of the public...
Which is an entirely separate issue and matter to games.
@@Hipst3rNinja This is it. The deification of adulthood for its own sake is in itself a juvenile mentality. When I was young, all I wanted to do was grow up because I thought being "grown up" and abandoning my childhood likes was "cool". Now that I'm actually grown up I've seen how silly this mentality is and freely enjoy my childhood hobbies and tastes.
Growing up is about adding new things to what you already have, not losing things you liked.
The 80's called, they want their overblown outrage back.
I was getting déjà vu too.
There are plenty of different stuff that was normal and no big deal in the 80s that people now think is wrong so people have way more of an outrage about things now than they did back then.
Same with the 70s, 90s and the 2000s that those same things were perfectly fine back then but are wrong now.
Also in the past it was mostly violence people had an outrage about but now there are many different things people love to censor, remove and change because it could hurt somebodys feelings.
Careful. Lol. That's my decade! i often wonder why it is that I still play games. Then the answer presents itself: It's a rich medium - one providing both amusement and escapism, one learns a lot too while gaming. It's also had other applications besides entertainment. I'm not sure why someone would write this crap. This clown is making us look foolish. At the VERY least - she should have researched this before mouthing off on a subject she has ZERO knowledge/experience on.
@@CyberLance26 Yeah, it's almost as if people can change their sensibilities over time. Weird, huh? There was the same kind of outrage in the 80's and before and after, it's just louder now thanks to the internet. We have echo chambers of outrage and echo chambers of being outraged at the outrage, ad nauseam. People clickbaiting with outrage isn't very different from what you'd see on TV in the 80's and 90's, right down to the same profit motive. I don't know how old you are, but what you're describing is nothing new.
The stars are right. I guess it's time to blame D&D for leading kids to Satan again. Proceed to scream in an orderly fashion.
Well, I'm a US Army veteran and a gamer and I have never ridden a scooter. In fact, we used video games in the military for personnel training. Anything from ground combat simulations to flight simulations. Technically these are games, even if they are meant for training purposes. Didn't seem infantile to me.
Hell, a modified version of Doom II was made specifically for the US marine corps for fire team training and in my mind if the military can use a FPS game to help train their men even a little bit on top of the normal training then good on them, not only does it provide a bit of entertainment to the men but it also provides a 100% predictable run each time if nothing in the settings is changed but if they want a unique challenge that can also be done and it won't put them in potential danger that could happen if something similar was done not in a game setting.
I just went to see the tweets linked in the description and found this absolute gem
"We play games for the same reason you wear makeup sweet heart, It’s a nice little escape from reality"
MAN DOWN WE NEED A MEDIC
SHOTS FIRED, SHOTS FIRED!
Ain't no senzu bean that'll heal that.
"DEFIB DEFIB I'M NOT GETTING A PULSE!! "
Makeup is pretty relaxing, really.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It seems people in this era have forgotten this unwritten rule:
*Don't talk shit unless you can take a hit*
It's not even unwritten. In nearly all religions, you will get some form of "Treat others the way you want to be treated".
I’ve learnt my English from playing video games, listening to journalists on gaming news cause that’s what I’m interested. I wouldn’t say that my English is good now but better than those days in school where I used to fail my english test. YongYea’s English always inspire me and had me keep on following his video.
Your English is good! You're eloquent with it.
Consequently, highly Japan-focused franchises like Yakuza (especially given almost every game lacks a dub) is teaching me quite a bit of Japanese culture and phrases.
Also, as the other person said, your English is pretty good.
Bro if you didn't mention it I wouldn't have ever known English wasn't your first language. Trust me your English is better than English natives. You're doing great! Keep it up :)
trust me, what make my English better (still crap and idc) is anything but school.
Same as u, I wouldn't even be a doctor rn if it wasn't for video games teaching me proper English where my country teaching system failed to do so, and when u enter a medical college a good English is just the base requirement as there is no time to start learning that when u already have thousands of medical Latin terminology to memorize
Thanks young for sticking up for the little people without a platform. I have an UNBELIEVABLE story related to this.
Co worker bullys me for playing switch on long (2 hours) rides to jobsite, breaks, and lunch also weather events like lightning stand downs on big work sites that can last hours. For about a year he bullied me about gaming and how I should be doing side work and working weekends making money etc etc until he brought his son to work. His 10 year seen my switch case and for the entire day he talked to me about pokemon, zelda, splatoon, mario odyssey. He followed me around and that day and vocally expressed his excitement to see me after times apart. You could see it in his father's eyes how upset he was that his son was connecting with this strange man he had bullied the last 12 months and I felt extremely uncomfortable about it but since that day he never bullied me about it again . I feel like he felt like I was more connected with his son then he was and in front of other co workers it was a bazaar experience but I think about how I treat people and they're life choices either on hobby or cars or clothes etc etc. Sometumes people get to tunneled on certain things and dont see just how close minded they are untill a huge reality slap hits them square on the jaw.
That's an awesome story if true. Unfortunate that dude was being an ass, but hopefully he could see a little bit through your shoes by now.
Ignorant People: “Video games are a waste of time!! Back in my day…..”
Same Person: Okay now time to watch TV 😎
The lack of self awareness is astonishing.
Back in the authors day, their parents probably moaned at them for watching tv.
And THEIR parents moaned at THEM for listening to rock and roll.
"time to consume the new piece of media regurgitated by Disney"
This article might be the most boomer take of all time
Aw, I think this woman is probably sad that her husband would rather play games than spend time with her, and now takes it out on the rest of us.
I get the feeling the daughter is neglected due to mums need to write shitty articles.
Hit the nail on the head
Sheeeeeeeeeesh
Geee, I wonder why the husband might feel inclined to do that.
ZING ZING ZING ZING ZING KO
There’s a saying that someone reaches true adulthood when they realize that it’s ok to act childish sometimes. In other words, this author is more immature than any real adult. After all, she’s mocking gamers the same way as an elementary school playground bully.
CS Lewis: "When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”
@@rosesweetcharlotte Thanks, that was it. It's been years since I read it, so I couldn't remember who said it and the exact context.
That's what I think about whenever I see stuff like this. This is true childish behavior. Children push stuff they deem childish away to seem more grown up. Adults don't care what others think or do in their free time if no harms done.
“you’re having a good time? what a waste, think of the agony you could be in!”
"Oh... nooo... the horror... imagine having fun on a hobby that is multi-generational the absolute horror... I certainly don't want to have fun with my niece and nephew... that would be horrendous... sorry kids having fun with you is apparently a mental illness." - Me a sarcastic prick who felt his neurons dying from what that "journalist" wrote
I'm 42 and my nephew is 7, just starting to get into games (has a Switch and plays PS with his Dad). I'm super excited to share this with him as he grows up. I feel real sorry for that "author's" daughter.
@@sixstringedthing
In the same boat, though nieces instead of a nephew. With one who I've played games with since she was fairly young. Maybe about 5 or 6 if memory serves me well, if not a little earlier of course. Given that particular niece is now 18, and she still loves to game.
Methinks the authoress of the article needs some time in a room with Tetris, or perhaps the Style Savvy/Style Boutique/Girls Mode series. One has to wonder if she has played anything older than Pokemon Red/Blue. Unfortunately I doubt she could understand a cartridge based system, let alone anything like older generation computers that used diskettes or tapes.
I could recall having times where I'd play some games with my nieces. Sure they like the girly stuff, but they can also diverge into different genres as well. My oldest niece had chances to also play stuff that was before her time. In some cases, I enjoyed watching my niece beat the shit out of me in a game. I'd say it's a case where my oldest niece has fairly decent skills. If anything, I can laugh about my niece having had skills that I can respect.
"urinalist" fixed that for you
Gaming is an artist medium and when the product doesn't engage in casino mechanics, there is an immense dimension of enjoyment, perspective and creativity to marvel at. Loving something that brings you joy and inspires your imagination such as gaming isn't evil or wrong.
I just recently played trough the newest content of Genshin Impact, and while this is a casino ridden gacha game, its world and experiences also provided some of the most beatiful gaming moments in my life - ever.
The new Inazuma region is just so beatifully designed, it literally brought tears to my eyes at moments. Had to stop to make plenty of beatiful screenshots on the way, it just looks and feels that good.
It is a terrible shame for anyone to reject these experiences just because "it is them videogames" is all that I will say.
personally don't think videogames are so different from movies some have so much dialogue in them that you could even consider them as such. you don't hear people saying you are an adult so you shouldn't be watching movies!! so silly.
@@neocodexx Yeah, Genshin Impact is amazing. I am enjoying playing the Inazuma region in Genshin a lot. The region mechanics, exploration and adventure are extremely fun. And as you say, Inazuma is a spectacle to be left in awe by.
I'm still fairly early in the Inazuma story - just met Yae Miko - and I am excited to see how the story and journey progresses.
@@asmrsoundofgames903 I watch children's cartoons and apparently there's less articles telling adults to stop watching cartoons - not like an article would ever change my mind.
And definitely not a waste of time. I always find it odd that people never say this about people who spend all their time watching TV. A hobby is a hobby and if you love it, it's not a waste of time.
13:22
I'm an orthopedic surgeon , currently in the process of finishing my masters degree. And video games have been (and always will be ) a great stress reliever from all that pressure.
this lady needs some hobby, she's clearly miserable enough to write that shit. May I suggest gaming?
I worked at a prison for 12 years. They helped, and by a noticeable amount.
If I got paid a dollar for every time I've seen a comment with the time posted right as it's playing I'd have at least a $50 in my wallet. It's bizzare lol
@@wutsit2yuhhuh246 Only 50?
I'm a middle-aged man. An adult. Some of the video games I play are made specifically for adults. I work an adult job. I drive an adult car. I wear adult diapers. I do adult things like taxes and take adult medicine for my adult problems like arthritis. The thing about being an adult is that you can do whatever you want in your free time as long as it doesn't hurt anyone else. If there's anyone wasting their lives it is these Karen types that write articles complaining about other people's hobbies.
Oh, and my dear old mom likes playing the Switch too. She's played multiple Xboxes and Xbox 360s until they stopped working, and some of my earliest memories are of my parents playing Atari and NES.
Me and my 19 year old daughter played "It Takes Two" a few months ago. Neither one of us had any clue it was going to as good as it was.
Took us about a week to finish it.
Play a way out xD
At least it's not troll and I
*If* she's still around, I think the grandma who plays Skyrim would like to have a word about the person who wrote the nonsense that adults can't play video games.
My father was disabled at 17 in a (temporarilly, was flatlined 20 minutes but resuscitated and spent nine months in a wheelchair) fatal car accident. Was too stubborn to quit and worked for another twenty years until complications related to the accident retired him for good in the late 2000's, when I was in Middle School.
We've shared 2000 hours in Destiny and constantly talk about the latest releases. He still drags himself to the garage to work on his cars but our love of gaming give us something to bond over when his pain acts up. Without Skyrim he probably would've lost his sanity since he loves to work and is an incredibly gifted engineer, sometimes it's how the cards fall.
This feels like an oddly specific rant about a single person or event that pissed them off…
Probably a scorned lover.
@@Bowblaxian_Tricknology Probably the lover had more fun with Mario than her
With how much detail she went into with e-scooters and public transportation, she probably got elbowed on the subway or something like that and decided to vent about it on an irrelevant website.
@@randomSaltyUser - That's what I thought too. Her ex-boyfriend's main phrase around her was probably, "Just one more level/mission/quest, hon, and I'll do whatever you want."
My thoughts exactly.
"I'm a ignorant hag and refuse to let peple have their harmless fun and call their hobby a waste of time. Anyhow, time for me to binge watch a reality TV show"
reality shows is the real waste of time and brain, at least in video games ur brain is challenged but when watching reality shows it just turns off and turn into monkey mode, can still be enjoyable and nothing wrong if anyone to watch them but for a matter of fact, video games improve many aspects of ur brain
@@zer0legend109 It can be argued that reality tv does more harm than video games ever could too.
Example: People harassed Hana Kimura to suicide because she was only playing her character in the reality show, Terrance house.
I mean imagine people ("grown folk") making a career out of tossing balls and getting punched. Imagine hosting world-wide tournaments and championships for what are little more than physical games.
Imagine people running gambling circles around other "grown folk" playing physical games and throwing their remotes at the TV.
Clearly, we gamers are the kids 🤷♂️
Probably spends hours a day on bejeweled, or solitaire too ...
Reality shows have got to be the biggest, most time wasting, awful to watch and overall fucking terrible mistake ever smh
My first exposure to a video game was at 7, _attempting_ to play _Pong_ in 1973, when I didn't know enough about the game to play it right. I still play games to this day, and I always go back to an old-school game like _Ms. Pac-Man,_ my absolute favorite.
Since this woman mentions 3 Nintendo games in her gravely short-sighted (to say the least) article, you can tell she's never seen the Game Boy Pocket commercial with people in their 70s and 80s playing _Tetris_ and other games on it. You can pretty much tell she obviously knows nothing about the multi-billion-dollar _E-sports_ industry, full of grown men and women. And many of the grown men and women who played video games as kids are now game developers or have started game companies and businesses of their own.
"Video games are waste of time. Go read a book or something"
*Me reading walls of text in a RPG*
And do extensive study on the world building and the history of it.
Disco elysium, a game with story that better than most psychological novel put there
Hades, a game with word count exceeding the effing game of thrones
Journey, a game that tells amazing story without a single words
And yet here we are people leveraging book as something smart or worth putting in pedestal.
Don't get me wrong, I read books as much as I love my games. But book is just another form of transmitting information and self expression, no different than games.
Or me taking two hours on a ten minute quest in ESO reading every book in a library.
Memorizing the entire 36 lessons of vivec intensifies
I learned to read because of video games. I always wanted to find out what characters were saying.
This is one of those rare examples when saying "Okay boomer" is entirely justified.
Yep, it's absolutely ok boomer
"rare"
And a Karen. I bet you she drink a bottle of wine at night
@@MrHodoAstartes Yeah most of the time I hear "okay boomer" it's over the top and unjustified but in cases like these the author has no idea what she's talking about.
That's probably the saddest thing about this article. A lot of the Twitter replies imply that the author is part of a vast minority not worth taking seriously, yet my parents, as well as most of their boomer friends, have consistently stated that games are for children... and also terrorism simulators. The article was obviously designed to appeal to them.
I feel bad for this lady’s daughter. You know that, as soon as her daughter turns a few years older, her mom is going to scold her for playing video games or trying to enjoy herself.
Yeah, and pack her day with "useful" activities while she slouches on the couch wasting her time watching the fiftiest Diana documentary and reminiscing how it would feel to be important and part of the royal family.
I remember that. 'go outside!' I went outside and my friend broke his arm. I went outside and I broke my clavicle.
It is important to get exercise and sunlight, but people like my mother had been raised to be offended by people merely being inside briefly (despite them being inside the entire time).
Oh, by that point, the daughter has left. Fuck that noise.
"Ur 14 go look for boys , stop playing this childish game" is the vibe im getting from her
She reminds me of the parents/grandparents of kids that I used to teach. As soon as they started school no more cartoons. At ten no video games, bikes, and skate board, card games. No socializing with kids, or adults that still do those things. So they can enter a productive life, and work force.
On another note, many parents just give their kids games and ignore them. Actually engaging with their kids and playing with them is something that helps them develop healthy social skills and helps prevent them from becoming angry beasts when the lose a game.
"grown men shouldn't be playing games, now I'm going to spend 50 bucks to watch a bunch of people throw a ball around for an hour"
Playing games is actually more involved than watching sports which is the hilarious part… playing games isn’t just an active activity… depending on the game it requires immense skill to even participate in the activity…
I believe the writer was a woman. Though I could be wrong.
But in that case. She most lilely spends 50 hours watching reality tv.
AKA: watching grown ass adults act like children
Two groups of grown men fighting over a ball for an hour or two. LOL 😂😂😂
@@mrb3rt811 best way to explain it to someone who watches sports is: Gaming is watching football… but I can take direct control of one or all the players on the field and guide each of their actions to carve out the perfect experience while also embarking on a grand adventure at the same time… aka interactive football with Hollywood level stories threaded in between
@Andrew Holt Well said.
Bold take for someone that's dedicated her entire life to writing gossip columns about the royal family.
God damn that's depressing. And that's not even her hobby, that's her career lmao
I love gaming. It's an escape for me. My day job is as a paramedic. I see people on the worse days of their lives; when they are hurting and desperate; I have the privilege to be there with them at their end. These days can be tough. Sometimes, after a day of loss, I want to enjoy some escapism. Camilla is clearly a close-minded individual, and honestly, I pity her lack of understanding.
That's awesome! You clearly deserve to be "wasting your life" on video games. 😂
@@Roman-ji7iu wtf dude
@@bonecrusher3248
I was saying it as a good thing lol, that's why I put it in quotes (it was sarcastic). He's worked hard & done good, so he deserves to have some fun.
Out of interest, do you think your job has affected the types of games you like? For example do you avoid sad games, games with violence, etc?
@@andrewsmith4575 It's a really interesting question. I think it's important to feel things, on the road we have to reign them in for professionalism, so I quite like an emotional story in a game because it allows me a outlet of what I have to keep inside at work.
I think...the way I play games has changed. I used to be more of an achievement hunter, but I'd say I play games for the social aspect of them. Playing with friends is more important then playing the meta, if that makes sense?
Had this argument a ton of times with my other half. Then I pointed out the fact that girls do the same thing at 55 they do when they are 5. Play with hair and makeup and talk to your fake friends for hours on the phone. so how is that any different?
It's only taken her 7 years to realise that if she puts the phone down I'll put my controller down.
You know, my parents had the same attitude about anything animated for years. I finally have gotten my father to watch Clone Wars. We’re in season 3. He’s addicted. But it’s Young Justice that really took him in. We watched all of season 1 in three nights. My father? 71, has his phd, still working. Oh, and he speed runs every Wolfenstein. People don’t get it because they don’t give things chances. Same kind of bully that went after you in middle school or high school for being a geek.
Nice, Clone Wars is a great show.
Love this for you
Tell your father he is a full bonafide champion. much respect to your family
Speed runs wolfenstein? That's so cool! I'm 32 and cant do that
This is wholesome.~
"Grown Men Shouldn't Waste Their Lives Playing Video Games"
Me: So why is there rated "M" games out there? Or are you saying I should let my 5y old kids play Manhaunt, Nekopara, and Dead Space together?
I also like how the ad that sparked this whole article depicted a man and woman playing, but she specifically chose to target men with this and leave all the women gamers out of it.
I've used the same argument the rating is right there on the front cover of the games promotional art, do they not read that shit or something?
nekopara😅
What? Nekopara is a family staple throughout Japan?
It’s rated M, for MEN.
You want know what I find the funniest part about this article? It's the fact that Camille is unaware that Nintendo themselves actually CUSTOM MADE a gold-plated Wii console for the QUEEN herself! At her request!
It's a good way for the elderly to exercise.
Pfffft. The Queen is just an eight year old girl stuck in a geriatric body.
@@rosesweetcharlotte i know tons of boomers that actually digged the wii back then especially when it came to wii sports
@@lifeneedsmorechill Everyone knows the Queen is a myth
Queen Elizabeth?!? Dang, I respect that
Bunch of nurses and doctors doing dumb tiktok dances are totally a grown up thing to do….
40 years ago, game system were "for kids."
But then those kids grew up, and kept making games that appealed to their changing tastes, which also appealed to other people.
This feels like an article out of 1985, not 2021.
Also video games generate more revenue than Hollywood.
@@futureskeletons66669 More than Hollywood AND the entire music industry, combined...
50 years ago video games were marketed as "family entertainment" meaning adults were meant to play them as much as kids. It was the retail stores who changed the marketing by moving the consoles to the toy section.
But yea, the kids who played video games grew up to make their own video games that appeal to their more grown up, mature tastes, and a LOT of those games are absolutely not "for kids"!
@@futureskeletons66669 And for a lot less money. The indie industry is beyond a goldmine. I have never seen any one work in decades touching as many people as Undertale and Omori did. And when the AAA was less greedy I'm sure it brought funto many. This article is a last struggle from immature fools
I think it was the 1998 article I read in a herald sun. (The irony being that it's a news Corp media tabloid)
My Dad used to be like that back in the day "You waste your time on video games boy, you'll become foolish in the head". I learnt a whole chunk of history through playing Civilization 2 and reading the Civilopedia! And found learning in that way to be quite engaging and fun at the same time. My Dad took interest in my passion for video games and learnt to appreciate, understand and enjoy the games with me and as a result we grew an even stronger bond. He especially loved when I played Resident Evil 1, (he wanted me to play as Jill all the time instead of the big macho man Chris).
He would stop watching the TV and pop in my room and ask "Are you playing that game with the woman and gun shooting those monsters?! I will put it on for him and we'll enjoy quality time together with Dad as backseat player shouting "Kill it! use the Shotgun!!". *Me:* "That's a waste of ammo for a zombie, Dad" *Him:* "Well that stupid pop gun you got is not doing anything to him..." Me: *Sigh*. He'll be burning up the food while he watched me play Resident Evil, many times this would happen.
He helped me solve the puzzles in the game and remind me to pick up the herbs when I pass them. The puzzles were quite hard to solve in those days but Silent Hill takes the cake on that one with their crazy ass, Einstein type puzzles (a little exaggeration). They really did melt my brain though and challenged me tenfold. This was the mid 90s and what glorious days they were.
I miss him. RIP Dad. Always in my heart.
aw, man, that's heartwarming. He will be remembered.
I had a fun time playing video games with my dad, too. We played Contra, Bloody Roar 2, Road Rash, and his personal favorite: Battle City (he's still alive, btw). Nowadays he also wanna play other game with me (Tank Force, an old Namco arcade game that released outside Japan but it re-released on Switch). He is old now, so he can't remember anything. Therefore, I have to carry him all the way thru the game while I still remember his strategy to play all of those games.
I also had another good memory about Megaman Star Force 2, the final stage (Mu Continent). That stage asked me to find 4 paragraphs while avoiding monsters and put all 4 of them in order. I didn't understand English back then, so I have to translate all 4 paragraphs to find out what happened. Meanwhile, my relatives, who also didn't like video games, walked past me and said "yeah, boi, this is what I want you to do, studying, not sitting around playing video games!"
Beautiful
Man i wish i had a dad like you guys.
The only parent that i have that likes video games are my mom and while she's one of those "mobile casual gamer" she does occasionally enjoy some mario like platformers that she found the in the play store.
From time to time when i see her struggle with a level she asked me "can you beat this boss for me?" and i gladly oblige cuz its rather fun having my mom be impressed with my platforming skills.
And yeah your dad will be remembered, it takes guys to know when he is wrong and spend time with you.
RIP, he might have an old mindset before but he has the best mindest of all that is "anyone can change their mindset" so he wan't trapped in the old mindset and learnt to appreciate other things
🥺🙏
"when I was a child, I used to read fairy tails in secret. Now as an adult, I read them openly. When I grew up, I left behind childish things, including the fear of childishness"
Fairy tales are awesome. A bit dark, but awesome.
@@lystic9392 true, especially the old “original” versions of European fairy tales that were wild AF and everyone dies and/or got horrible things done to them
@@TheCivildecay My Mom was always reading those ones to me in my Childhood, Fairy Tales of cut off thumbs, a girl who set herself on fire because she was playing with matches and a boy who starved because we wasnt eating his soup. Fantastic.
C. S. Lewis.
it's funny how gaming went from this "wow, you play video games? you fucking nerd!"
to "wanna game later?"
Same with Anime, back in the day it was called cartoons and it was childish, I was legit scared of watching cartoons when i was nearing 18 years old, but then I basically just said "fuck it" and watched more.
Way better than most TV shows anyways.
Being a grown ass adult means I can do what I want within the bounds of the law.
I'd like to see the writer stop me.