It is actually kind of embarrassing how much I have played Civilization III and Civilization V in my life.
But they are just so good!
I don’t think so. Where have we lost them to? They’re still around. I still see a few around.
Most have become (fairly) normal human beings.
Worry more about them losing their sense of values to a corrupt educational system.
Considering a good majority of Women nowadays are either Leftist or Ice Cash Registers, video games are a good substitute.
I think I started with Sim City I. Godzilla ate my town and I didn’t look back.
From the recycled lies department: the scourge of video games, direct from 1982.
they must be getting really desperate for headlines.
Almost got hooked on video games until I learned about “cheat codes”. It lost all appeal to me. I can cheat at solitaire and it’s much cheaper.
I know of about 10-15 men in the 28-35 range and everyone of them but one is useless.
Its NOT video games...it is the Pre-College education which had them bored to tears.
When your brain is being filled with useless junk, young men find something else to stimulate it.
Sex and Video games.
Frankly if I was 25 right now, I wonder if I would have been wise enough to stop following my friends to a useless life.
Looks like this author’s real problem isn’t men enjoying video games... This author’s real problem is that men are beginning to refuse to become slaves to women!
I’ll admit to spending a little more time than I should have playing the Fallout series some nights, but it hasn’t negatively impacted my life.
My brain works differently. No attention span whatsoever for video games, no reward value whatsoever for winning them. Plus the heavy motion games like racing make me nauseated.
That reminds me.
Far Cry 5 is coming out next February.
I had an amazingly similar experience in 1981 while in college. Roommate had an early Apple computer with a very similar game, don’t recall the name but it was a very similar premise, making decisions on resources and building in ancient Egypt with consequences for decisions when unanticipated things happened. I was in college, but hooked on this game one night and kept playing all night until I noticed the birds singing and it was daylight outside - had been going for nearly 12 hours nonstop. That was it for me. Put the game away and swore off computer / video games for the rest of my life.
I have two boys - both of them have had troubles controlling the time they use these games. One is over it, the younger still struggling.
Not much into video games myself. But I have to admit to spending way too much time here on FR.
As my Mom (God rest her soul) would say, “Why don’t you quit playing on the computer and go outside?”
As a mom, my only son is addicted to gaming.. but he has never been in trouble and he isn’t paying child support at 23.. women these days, nasty. I support his habit as a way to avoid marrying a woman who will never put family first and never make self sacrifices.
New girlfriend. . No problem.. when COD comes out, she will be gone.
I say that and my husband plays COD every year when it comes out, then he’s bored with it, no other game..
And this year it’s epic Ww2 COD.. I will be playing along too. Can’t beat em, join em.
I still play Eve Online, with it’s murderous learning curve and lack of twitch-muscle play. It actually helps me keep the mental gears oiled because of the complex problem-solving involved with it’s “spreadsheets in space”.
BioShock.
The original. Although BioShock 2 was also pretty good (and BioShock Infinite doesn't exist in my dojo).
BioShock wasn't a video game. It was deep narrative storytelling of a whole new grade. When you come upon a smuggling den and find that the goods being illegally brought into the city are Bibles, you know something is different.
BioShock is a morality tale about what man is capable of doing in the complete and conscious absence of a belief in God. And it is not pretty.
BioShock will probably also go down as the first game to have an LGBT character. Sander Cohen: the flaming (LITERALLY) homosexual. And he's not portrayed as being the sanest of sorts.
Golf, gardening, computer games, TV sports, tennis, woodworking, yoga, TV crime shows, restoring cars, garage sale shopping, reading romance, science fiction or mysteries. Which one is morally superior?
“Men aged 21 to 30 worked 12 percent fewer hours in 2015 than in 2000.”
Hmmm...changes to health care laws making it more expensive to hire full time workers?
Video games are games. People have been playing games since the emerged from caves.
Some people might get obsessed, but even that has degrees. Obsessed during a slow month? Obsessed as a young teen where there isn’t that much to do? If you show up for school work, sports practice, who cares if your spare time is spent playing.
I’m not worried. My three sons all love to play and some of them are expert and one works in the field. My youngest boy, with special needs, got thrown out of Toontown (Disney multiplayer game for kids) at 7 years old for hacking the game and telling other kids how. I was very proud. Sorry. Lol.
He also hacked club Penguin and he was very good at Minecraft. Now he is soldering electronics components. He can’t speak but he can kick ass in his own way!