What's Veeky Forums's opinion on video games?

why do you care about what a bunch of loser virgins think about what you want to do? If you want to do it, do it.

I played World of Warcraft for 12 years. The last 3 of those years I made enough money thru sales/boosts to fully pay for my college. Video games are fine if you're at least really good at them or can profit off of them.

I'm a get in position

who the fuck cares what Veeky Forums thinks. this board is not a single entity and if you change your views based on some random fuck on here im going to fucking rape you

Half the threads on fit are reposts of previous threads. You should know that by now

If they're more to you than just harmless entertainment for a few hours a week, you should stop.

Also if you're over 20, you should stop anyways.

I do them mostly to play with friends, or to play old as shit games like CS:S or Age Of Empires, can't get away from AOE. I would call this game one of the main things I am who I am nowadays.

The real problem is that it depends on the game. You can casually play some games, and some you can't. For example, if you only have 2-3 hours a day to play world of warcraft, you really aren't going to have as good of an experience as someone who can play it 16 hours a day.

Wololo

This guy doesn't have deathwish on a keybind.

It is cool aslong as they are not priority in your life.

Keep it casual thats the best.

Gains killer if you don't have any self discipline.

I wear this tank to the gym

come at me

Games are great to relax with after gym and on rest days. Shame the quality of games has gone over the years, so i stick to old school for the most parts.

wheres my runescape boys at

I played a lot then I switch games to gym and cooking. On off days I try to programming and read some fine books instead of gaming. It have been a month since I stopped playing games. I regret nothing.

A good diet/cutting aid. I have no idea how people like boogie get fat when they play videogames all the time.

playing videogames all day is probably healthier than spending all day on Veeky Forums like I've been doing

This, I notice gamers who don't have moderation are more like to be underweight or lanky and unhealthy from lack of sunlight and food, not a giant fatty.

It look me a long time to recover from being under 100

no idea man, i used to play DotA so much i forgot to eat whole day at times.
Would wake up at 3 in the afternoon, eat lunch with family and then go gaming.
I was 5'8 and ~125 lbs

Freakazoid is not in c9 anymore

Video games are a gains goblin. Only children should be playing them. If you are posting on this site you are too old for that shit. Grow up.

Explain how browsing Veeky Forums is a better alternative to video games

If I spent half the time I wasted on shitty video games in the gym instead then I'd be so much further along.

Just quit, boys.

I spend maybe less than 30 minutes on fit per day in total, gain some fit tips and give advice to others. How long do you think neets spend playing vidya, drinking mtn dew and eating nachoes like a child?

>tfw double gains weekend is coming

They went corporate over my lifetime and are now just as bad as movies in terms of being watered down drivel meant only to best represent the shareholder's interests.

Infinite this

They're great for me. Whenever I see a loading screen, or I'm dead for more than 40 seconds(this usually happens in a moba), I do 10 reps at my computer.

I manage to do 100+ reps a day every other day, at one point doing 350. I've lost more than 100 lbs from this too.

nothing wrong with videogames, as long as your body doesnt suffer from it. know your limits.

Reps of what?

i cringe at people who think push ups do anything

Fuck WoW and any other MMO.

I fucking ballooned up from okayish 70 kg to 90kg in a fucking year playing WoW.

And after that I stopped playing and started drinking and gained another 20 kg.

Back at 90 atm, trying to hit that sweet 75kg so I could bulk again.
Permacut since who knows.

>invest 1.4k on rig after years of not gaming(have huge library of ps1, ps2 and xbox 360 games)
>blast for 2 weeks
>start working
>one day off per week
>that day is spent on groceries and shit like taking care of my room and lifting, suddendly day is over
>only have time in the morning to lift, get ready, work and then have like 2 hours free time late night
>dont feel like playing at all

oh well, how do people manage more than one hobby while sleeping 8 hours and working 10-11 hours?

video games are fine and can be somewhat rewarding if you don't play casualshit. i've noticed myself actually getting better at them after getting fit as well.

most people don't work 10-11 hours/day on a regular basis. honestly if you actively tried to work on your time management though i bet you would be surprised at how much time you actually waste throughout the day.

i laugh at people who think they don't do anything

From my experience as someone who had been playing practically their whole life, video games have lost their magic.

Developers are too heavily influenced by whiny communities and PvP games nowadays require so much of your time and practice to see good results.

Theyre not bad just dont let them rule your life. I missed out on so many highschool parties and potential pussy because "I NEED TU GIT 2 GOLD, I DUN WANT 2 BE SILVUR ANIMMORE." I cringe everytime I think about how I was in highschool.

Now I just play single player console games about an hour to 2 hours a day.

Video games are designed to trigger the reward centers in your brain in just the right way to keep you playing. Lots of other things give you that sense of accomplishments, but they tend to also give something back, while video games give you nothing that transfers to your life outside of the game. Not only do they not give you anything back, they can fry your attention span, since making people wait for a reward tends to lead to them not playing and the games are designed with this in mind. Attention span is just how long you're willing to wait for some sort of payoff.

Consider the opportunity cost of gaming. You could spend that same time at a martial arts gym, simultaneously making friends, learning a skill, becoming more fit, and building character. Okay, but you want to chill after the gym, so why not play games then? Because you could spend that time reading, socializing, practicing music, making art or studying. All of those things can be enjoyable and will return benefits. Even posting on Veeky Forums can be a way to learn something new.

If you read this and find yourself still trying to defend gaming, ask yourself if you aren't just trying to rationalize your own choices and addiction. "Just a little bit can't hurt" and "there are worse things" are not good reasons to spend time and money on an empty pursuit.

I quit FFXIV recently because goddamn are mmos the worst way to spend your time. Everything is the same, over and over and over. I wish I could go back and unspend all the time I wasted grinding for shit nobody cares about.

they're shit

Moderation duh, I might play for an hour a day tops, might read or play guitar instead

Playing video games to interact with friends and have fun with them is fine. Playing video games to get better at one or two particular games, so long as it's only for an hour or two a day of practice, is fine. Playing video games because it makes you feel good or because you're acting out your fantasies is VERY BAD.

It's like alcohol. Drinking while hanging out with friends is fine. Drinking because it accompanies another event is fine. Drinking because you need it to destress can lead to serious issues in the long run.

but games make you good at other games at least. Normies watch latenight tv, does that make them better at anything?

The only thing I'll say is that I have a few friends from HS who I still play over watch with, and we have a lot of fun. Outside of that, I enjoy talking to people though online games, but I quit cold turkey a few weeks ago because I needed to get it under control. Now I can manage it pretty well.

I wouldn't call it a hobby. It's a source of entertainment. If you have other hobbies then it is fine, but if all you do is play video games, lift and go to work/school, then you aren't living to your full potential.

Fuck off, Sarah. Like watching 20 hours of Kardashians per week isn't a complete waste of time.

It is

Reminds me of when I lived off a couple bowls of cereal a day when I used to play Dota

>Because you could spend that time reading, socializing, practicing music, making art or studying.

I do all these things and still have time for video games. I'm pretty particular about what games I play, but to me it's no different than watching a good movie or TV series. In terms of skill video games are pretty shallow and somewhat unfulfilling, but they can still be gratifying on a competitive level

Nothing except for n64 with some friends once or twice a year. I dont have any strong opinion on them, if you enjoy playing and it doesnt collide with more important things going on in your life, by all means.
But if you need to think about if you play too much, you do.

>i know smoking is bad, but other people get fat is that any better?

Junkie-tier argument, wtf.

thats a stupid long work day- what field are you in?

Got hooked on them and became super fat, still working on slimming down
They're fun, but in no way something to be doing more than a few hours a day
Thank God I grew out of them and started hanging out with friends more and doing other things

If you're 21+, it's only acceptable to play casually.
If you're a "hardcore" gamer past that age, you're a loser and not a man.

wheres my ffxi boys at

My dad's standard days working as a robot technician in a factory are 10-12 hours. He gets 3 day weekends though, assuming he doesn't want to work them

video games are for children

It's a hobby like anything else. If it's fun for you, enjoy it. People will always make value judgments it's how we operate; spend less time concerned about how well you fit into a groups box based on their value judgments. If you operate and prioritize your life efficiently, who cares how you spend your down time?

Do you guys know a good real estate game?

I took up lifting when I got bored/ashamed of playing vidya. Replaced the monotonous grinding and leveling up of a fictional avatar with the grinding and leveling up of my physical body. Wish I had given up the polygon jew and discovered lifting much sooner.

Your down time is never actually down though. Some people spend "down time" doing things that return more substantial rewards. Why not you? Sounds like you're trying to rationalize something that you know isn't a good use of time.

literally the best exercise known to man

One day I realized I was bored with them.

I'm proud to say I've grown out of them and moved on.

Feels good bros.

I agree with this in the context of the commonly held idea of what a game is, but this argument can't apply to the medium as a whole. There are incredible games that solely bear an artistic intent and aren't concerned about enjoyability.
Take a look at this article on a Russian game that was made as a cultural commentary:
rockpapershotgun.com/2014/10/05/pathologic-review/
You should also look at Silent Hill 2. It was intentionally designed to create the feeling of playing as a broken man, as it controls very poorly and constantly focuses on this unsettling and apathetic atmosphere. These were not games that I enjoyed playing, but they shook me to my core and changed my overall worldview.
A more explicit example of games being benifical would be the persona series, which taught me how to manage my time in order to be successful in fitness, school, and relationships. Like I remember reading How To Win Friends and Influence People and being able to connect it to persona, since the basic teaching of just succeeding socially by being interested in people and asking questions was also echoed in the game.

I play Halo 5 casually.

Any /hg/ here?

Video games are actually useful in a couple of ways, and have gotten lots of people into tech and computers, what you should actually be worried about is porn and masturbation.

I reckon I'd have been a completely different human being if I had developed healthy sexual habits.

It died at reach

As long as they don't become a distraction/vice like they were for me, go nuts imo

This gets asked every week summerdyels stop replying.

osrs or kys

I enjoy playing sports games (NHL, FIFA & Madden) but since I turned 18 (5 years ago) I literally lost all interest in all vidya other than those. I used to love gaming so much and now literally anything other than those three I just find so boring. I bought Yakuza 0 the other day as all my friends were jerking off to it and I was just bored after an hour.
Plus I had a big circle of online 'gaming friends' through a community I used to frequent and I have most of them on Facebook and seeing how they turned out compared to the few of us that stopped seriously gaming once we were 18 makes me realise how blessed I am. When I think about how much time I used to sink into gaming and being on Skype with them it sometimes makes me feel sick, but other times I wonder if that's what made me who I am today and I had to hit rock bottom fatty permavirgin status before I realised that life didnt have to be this way.

Wrong. Pull ups are.

the latter

no exceptions

this guy knows whats up

Games I want to nostalgia trip on:

Super Mario RPG
Final fantasy 6 and 9
Tony hawk pro skater 2
Math Blaster
Demon souls

wtf

that noob only has action bar 1 filled

It's good in moderation. Occasionally I'll play with old high school friends. Or I'll spend a 2-3 hours a week chilling and playing. But beyond that it's a waste

A waste of time that you'll regret later in life.

who here JK II?

I lost interest and hadn't played video games in years but I recently picked up FINAL FANTASY XII THE ZODIAC AGE for nostalgic reasons. I also hadn't beat the original for PS2.

Is this bad?

I agree. Spend your valuable time on Veeky Forums instead.

>on a cut
>lift
>eat
>vidya until next meal
>eat
>vidya till sleep
>repeat

Its honestly made cutting more tolerable

>>>/reddit/

Playing video games is like watching those super heroes movies.

It's something made for children but that can also be fun for adults.

The problem is when adults actually take it seriously, spend a lot of money on it and take it as their lifestyle.

It's a toy you have fun from time to time, and if you don't see it like this you are probably a manchildren.

The only people I know who play vidya during the afternoons or more than 2 hours a day are my failed high school friends who still live with their mothers and have no job.

Yeeeeeeep me too user

Gradded a year late because I didn't give a fuck about anything but the Vidya/PC and spent 15k+ hours on them, no lie I spent 10k in a single game

I would have thousands of dollars extra sitting in the bank if I'd never played video games. Only downside is I'd lose some great memories of playing with friends as a kid. I still play with friends sometimes, but I'll never enjoy a game like I used to. I'll never be totally immersed in another world again. It's completely fine with me though, as I have much more to be proud of and happy about than I did before, and I don't want to enter another world when there's so much left of this one to explore. I enjoy life too much now to need the escape that video games offer.

You're unable to claim moral high ground when you're posting on Veeky Forums

Raided in WoW for a year and a half. Went from nothing under my belt to a rank 2 in bracket for my spec. Just quit last week.

Multipler lader games and MMOs are pretty toxic, they get super addicting.I get the itch, and the only way to scratch it is to crush my compatition, through whatever means necisary. I'll go full 'work, game, sleep bare minimum' at times on lader games. And I guess a rank 2 shows how far dedication can go. But it's not well placed decication at all. If I'd be put the effort into fitness, i'd be ripped instead of in sloppy purgatory between average and bearmode. I can still do pullups, so I didn't really let myself go that bad, but I stalled in every fitness aspect.

Single player titles are a great hobby though. games like pokemon, oldschool cRPGs, tabletop gaming, and the like are both fun and wholesome. I'm playing Pillars of Eternity at home in free time, Pokemom rom hacks on my phone for free time on the go, and I'm in a dungeons and dragons 5e campaign running Curse of Strahd every saturday

>Fucked up my posture and hip mobility from sitting too much
This so much. Still trying to undo the damage.

it's degeneracy

sweet sweet degeneracy