Do videogames contribute anything to our lives? I mean, if you spent the hours you play, learning a skill instead...

Do videogames contribute anything to our lives? I mean, if you spent the hours you play, learning a skill instead, you could use it to earn money or get things done in life.

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what's the point when the end result is death anyway

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It inspired me to become a character artist
speak Japanese, and work at an american subsidiary of a Japanese studio.

Pull the pink diaper out of your ass dude.

Isn't it obvious? Depending on the game, they certainly can enrich our life or allow us to see a vision that we otherwise couldn't see like any other form art.

Video games only make sense if you're a child needing to be kept indoors or an grown ass adult who has already learned everything they need and just needs leisure time.

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Time enjoyed is not wasted...
What's the point of constantly achieving things without living? You should never have sex as well then and use that time to learn a language or practice an instrument instead...

Any more info about your life?

What's the context of this pic? Or is that guy shopped in?

they maeg me fell habby ;DDD

People have such shit taste in games.

Final Fantasy 7 on the original PlayStation was the last time Final Fantasy should ever have been mentioned, the series has been dog shit ever since, not to mention, console gaming in of itself has been dog shit since PC's took over.

Final Fantasy is literally something that should have stayed in the 90s.

and what skill would that be? what skill that i can learn for free will help me make money and get things done in life?

>inb4 coding

they make me feel like not committing mass murder, fbi-kun

>Every second of your life not spent making me money is wasted
Gee, I wonder who could be behind this post

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how does someone who owns 47 FF games get a girl pregnant?

well you could be enjoying classic novels or something too

>does getting things done in real life make you happy?
>I mean, if you spent hours to earn money, time and money learning skills, you have no time to enjoy yourself, so does making some guy that owns you more rich really benefit you when we should have universal basic income by now?

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does any kind of entertainment contribute anything to our lives?
movies? series? books? physical games? video games?

Its a safe escape from a mundane or even dangerous reality. If I could have a suicide pill, i would shut myself in and play games for the rest of my life until i coulnd't afford electricity or become severely ill then just off myself.

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I hoped to find some insightful answers in this thread and all is just dog shit.
Whelp, I'll just continue to play then.

you're a retard if you think outsiders can decide for you if videogames contribute anything to your life.
that's your decision to make.

Yeah,
>studied Japanese at the age of 14 bc my uncle worked for the same subidary many years ago
>practiced drawing constantly
>adopted the never give up attitude of the heroes in game
> tried to the best version of my self instead of clamoring over how beautiful the girls were.

There it is. An insightful answer.

yeah, but an answer to a question you didn't ask.
you asked "do videogames [...] to OUR lives" which is unspecific and discusses the matter on an abstract level.
i answered this

>with a child on the way lets sell all these things that a child would enjoy
Even if your a cuck who agrees to stop playing vidya for some hole, selling games that your kid could eventually play sounds dumb

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Honestly yeah, they make me feel less lonely when my husband is at work.

I try but whenever I try to do something my anxiety kicks in. What if I'm not able to obtain good results? I'm beginning to develop a game and learn icelandic, but I keep procrastinating every time I open Blender or the PDFs because my brain prefers to not know what would happen rather than try and fail. So I work on it on really short sessions. Hopefully these will get more extensive with time.

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Am I the only one out there who sees the state of gaming and thinks we're on the cusp of another major evolution? People are taking technology into irl, I saw an Oculus Rift on The Price is Right. Something really big is coming, the next evolution in technology is coming, one we haven't seen since the 80s and people first brought PCs into their homes.

They help promote hand-eye coordination.

Pssst, user: The baby isn't his.

They help me dissociate from my life and not havs to deal with anything

>believing FF7 was the best FF

if you had played any of the NES or SNES games you would have said FF9 was the best

Or FF6.

My point is, only kids who played FF7 first think it was the best

Anybody know the cure for this? I struggle with this aswell.

yes video games sharpen your reflexes and your response time slightly.

there is plenty of scientific research done that explains and explores the topic. for example, there is merit to Here is a TED talk on the benefits to the brain from video games. youtube.com/watch?v=FktsFcooIG8

I have also read that playing violent video games does something to make you smarter in some way, there was some research done. Here's a link talking about it theregister.co.uk/2013/11/27/psychologists_study_shows_violent_video_games_can_make_kids_smarter/

but it has to be a more real-time action oriented game and not a turn based game.

tl;dr there are real actual intellectual gains to be made from video games

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this dude is getting saved, good wife

I wonder if he asks her to give up anything... nope.

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Not who you guys were talking to but FF7 was the most relatable for it's time. It made you feel more absorbed with it's technological era, the computers, the guns, the vehicle type and all. It looked like twenty-first century. All the others were middle ages tier, and renaissance era tier but in an odd way, like six was with steam power, though had magic.

Then there's the fact that Iris dying was tragic, it makes you feel for the game, and the 3d draws you in more and the better sounding music must have too. Cloud being conflicted as much as the antagonist also makes it good. What was sixes main character, jack sparrow or some gay shit?

Aerith*

not iris

wtf

It's only a waste if you haven't got your life situation sorted out. So for most here it would be a waste.

fun way to pass time till I die.

Nope, they're just an escape. But i mean, TV, Movies, Fantasy Novels, etc, can be meaningless escapes too. We've all got our vices.

He's still a C U C K for giving in to a fucking woman
Btw nice digits

this, it's specially sad seeing how he isn't just a junkie but even takes his time to learn the lore of the games.

I honestly don't give a shit if a man plays vidya (even if the modern gaming industry is full of sjw fags).
The one thing that really pisses me off is when a man pussies out and gives in his gf/wife. Literally no one should give a shit what a woman thinks.
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Sometimes the hand we hold is the hand that holds us down i guess

*gives in to his gf/wife

Yeah like the nigga could've just limited himself to playing an hour a day, there's absolutely no reason to throw his favorite pastime out the window for a fucking baby.

If my GF try to pull this shit on me i'd be like "you gotta raise that kid on your own bitch!" then dab my way out hoping she is too dumb to pull that child support card from her deck. #Gamerz4Lyfe amirite fellow gamerz.

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Cool Facebook post

You can get paid to learn any trade.

Dont mock my hobby!!!!!!!!!! I am a gaming goddess.

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>goddess
Gross.
I bet you're into one of those 'lol so nurrdyy :):):)' space shows.

Here guys, have some more rage material:

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I bet these same women wouldn't even flinch if these guys had a serious addiction issue like drugs or alcohol.

It's all about attention. Stupid, stupid people.

What you're basically saying is fuck your hobby, go do something better with your life.

Gaming isnt a hobby. Its entertainment that you didnt even create. Its like saying im watchin tv shows this is my hobby. Fishing would be a hobby. Painting is a hobby. Games are not.

I easily have 10k+ maybe even 20k hours gaming in my life. According the a 10000 hour theory I could have mastered a skill twice over. I'm not even that good at vidya tho so that must not apply to the retarded. All in all, no regrets, would like new games that don't suck devgods please.

Roasties fighting the good fight. Anybody with a (((Girlfriend))) doesn't deserve to share in my hobby

>What was sixes main character, jack sparrow or some gay shit?
Six didn't have a "main character" because it wasn't edgelord self-insert garbage.

>the 3d draws you in more
Endlessly confirmed for underage.

Is this what yandere is?

Lol this pic cracks me up a bit too much

And here you are, best version of yourself on Jow Forums typing out the amazing life you have

>entertain myself
>enjoy it
vs
>learn skill
>earn money
>invest towards money
>money for the sake of money
>hate ever second and never enjoy self.
I will always prefer games to anything money can buy. as long as I have enough money to buy more games and enough time to play them, then I have enough.

It's still a hobby

>you could be doing something productive instead of doing something you enjoy

this argument is so ancient and stupid, basically humans should just be machines that do nothing but work towards some end goal or pursue attributes that other consider virtuous

I only really come here bc there are certain topics I cannot discuss Irl or the main forum I frequent.

I can ask sexual questions in anonymity.and no one will be the wiser.

For some reason, "losers" and "robots" claimed this board in 2012 or so.

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They contribute feelings, such as victory and sometimes rage.

They contribute fun for some people, but essentially it's a waste of time because it will get you nothing but that, much like most pure entertainment Media.

You have to ask yourself, do you still want to play games when you are 30 or 40 or are you going to learn something that could save you? Gotta pick something that is long-term much more fun though, but most people don't want to think about their future

Cucking yourself into thinking things that are actually enjoyable suck so you feel better about wasting your life playing games.
>The absolute state of robots

I hate that it has become another social media hobby for attention and validation. Saw this coming when the Xbox came out and that's when I dropped out of gaming. Don't even get me started on how shitty every uninspired flavour of the month FPS is.

It gives depressed millennials something to do like playing the Nintendo Switch, which is what the average depressed millennial in their 20s have.

>try to work
>hate it
>try to play guitar and piano
>hate the effort and don't retain the skill, did not start early enough and will never write original pieces
>doodle
>hate the outcome, cannot retain any skill and do anything past line work
>program
>it fucking sucks
>work out
>hate the effort and have no goal

I'm not earning money to earn money, I'm earning money to emtertain myself. effort vs enjoyment pure entertainment easily always wins. I do not have a spirit of competition, I am too passive. This I will never contribute anything meaningful. I do not have a sense of achievement, things cane too easily to me as a child and nothing ever felt good to complete. thus i would get nothing out of completing arbitrary goals
what else am I supposed to do, and go at least 3 layers deep into why.

>do you still want to play games when you are 30 or 40
Yes.

Holy fuck I'm glad I'm not you. How can you care so little that imaginary accomplishments in games that literally nobody cares about can be more meaningful than actual skills and accomplishments? Do you have any friends or family? What do they think about this outlook?

There are no things to be done in my life
Onigiri

Perhaps he doesn't about impressing others.

*doesn't care
original

>Six didn't have a "main character"
Tina/Terra is obviously the main character, imo. She's just not as forced as any of the others MC's, but it was made pretty clear that she was the key to defeat the empire, and her story was certainly the most anime one (not to mention all the other characters would have died after the last battle if it weren't for her).
Still my favorite FF game though. The only reason I put it over IX is because of IX's plot holes and because Zidane was annoying and Garnet was just retarded and they got the most screen time

It's not about impressing others exclusively. But I know in my life I have people who depend on me. If I were to just say I don't care about life I'll just play video games a lot of people would display great concern. Also I would stop being desirable or useful to others which actually is meaningful and worth pursuing.

Well, good for you. It's clearly a different matter for user so while you ought to be glad you're not like him, his business is no business of yours anyway.

It's a public discussion board, if you post it publicly it's everyone's business. It's exactly why the incel shit is becoming problem. All these pathetic people do nothing with their lived but play video games. Have no ambition, skills, meaning, relationships then get upset and act entitled when no gf. You make yourself a man to be worthy of things in your life, playing video games instead of pursuing skills and meaning is literally the opposite of that. It's a plague on modern men.

yes, i rape your mom everyday in fortknight

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You're getting upset user is not like you and he has no interest in being like you. You're the one with an issue of egocentrism, sir. Also incredibly myopic and impressible if you think "incel shit" is a real concern outside bubbles like this. There are far more pressing issues for modern people than how they choose to entertain themselves in their free time or other such masturbatory nonsense you seem more concerned about due to being just as foolish and self-centered as those you denigrate.

People who don't have video games as a hobby don't spend all their free time learning a new skill or really doing anything useful

They binge watch Netflix, scroll through Facebook endlessly, smoke weed, drink, blast shitty music all day or any other time waster.

At least video games give you a sense of mastery and accomplishment, even if it is all fame and digital, what does it really matter?

>Have no ambition, skills, meaning, relationships

What if you can't do A N Y T H I N G?

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>watching TV
No problem!

>playing video games
Let us have a critical discussion about the role video games play in our lives.

It's a real issue in my city because an incel just hit 15 people with a car. If men were raised to be men that wouldn't be happening and people wouldn't be dying.

There's no way you can't do ANYTHING unless you just give up. Unless you have an IQ below 80 you can learn a skill.

Then you are lost user

>There's no way you can't do ANYTHING unless you just give up. Unless you have an IQ below 80 you can learn a skill.

I have several mental illness, have the appearance of a goblin, crossed with a rat, and would not doubt if my IQ is below 60.

Why SHOULDN'T I edge to anime porn all day?

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Your looks have nothing to do with it. If you're actually mentally ill then you're probably never going to be a fully functioning member of society anyway so it's not like it really matters what you do. If you're unable to work or have hobbies for health reasons it's not the same as if it's due to free choice.

>It's a real issue in my city because an incel just hit 15 people with a car.
One note compared to countless people just like you who are killed by people just like you because drunk driving.

People like me? Even if I did drink what kind of a brainlet drinks and drives? Especially in a city with mass transit and uber/lyft. Even so it's very different. Mass murder with intent is not the same as manslaughter (that's what you're charged with for drinking and driving to use you're example) or even a crime of passion with clear motive with one target. You're conflating a terror attack with manslaughter, not a good look.

>Your looks have nothing to do with it.

You mentioned relationships in the first post I quoted you on.

>They will look past that if you have a good per-

Senpai, please.

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I don't see myself dropping video games any time soon and I'm fine with that. What depresses me is I also don't see myself leaving the vicinity of morons whose most pressing life issue is how they entertain themselves. If I'm lost, you haven't even crossed the starting line.

It's not about personality. It's about success, status, competence. I mean no girl cares about your fortnite wins, but I have tons of ugly friends who pull women because of their competence, success, and social status. If you're seriously mentally handicapped to the point where you can't work though you're pretty much fucked though.

This is actually a great point. People that dont play games still waste time.

It's not as much of a waste of time. Most of the things on this list provide social capital, something video games never do. If you can talk about shows that majority of people are watching you can engage in discussions about relevant cultural things. If you're out partying you're building relationships and raising your social capital through shared experience.

The sense of accomplishment isn't real. It's like drinking because it makes you feel happy. When all is said and done you accomplished nothing and nothing will be recognized but wasted time.