This is more for discussion, maybe some of you can handle it
I didn't even game often, but it constantly occupied my headspace. I spent tons of cash on Nintendo and steam just to barely play game but look forward to them. Or I would play them and it would just feel like a huge time sync and not fun.
I'm 40 now with 4 kids. I always justified it as a way to bond with them or something I deserved. I would say it was not as bad as doomscrolling or social media.
What kept me in the most was just memories of gaming. I just couldn't recreate the happy times. But I kept trying anyway. I tried moderation but I just cannot do it.
I decided to quit them all. It's liberating not to try for achievements or set arbitrary time limits. I no longer spend mental energy seeing what slop is too woke And acceptable.
I feel like this is something I should have done when I had my first kid years ago. It's a complete waste of time beyond some good mental exercises many of you cocks shamed vidya, and I salute you for it.
Everyone reading this under 40. Don't waste years like I did.
Don't beat yourself up too hard. It seemed like it was just a hobby. An immature hobby. An expensive and mostly unproductive hobby.
But now you can just find a new hobby. A grown man hobby. Maybe you build stuff in your workshop, or fix things to make money on the side, etc Build a solar power array, or start a garden, or get some chickens and ducks, or get an old classic car/truck and restore it.
I never get into video games much. I like other hobbies like customizing guns, fixing appliances and tractors and equipment, modifying my truck, hiking/camping hunting, etc
With your kids you want EXPERIENCES and MEMORIES. Your kids are probably never going to reminisce sitting in front of a tv screen with dad playing video games. But they'd remember the first time dad took them hunting and they shot a buck ,or the time dad took you camping and you caught a rainbow trout, cleaned your first fish and cooked it over the camp fire. That will be a memory they remember and cherish. Not you being a boss in grant theft auto.
You just push buttons on a game pad?
Why would a Supreme White Community want you then? What do you contribute that is of any value to fellow man? You better figure something out. What do you do for a job? Menial mindless tasks that we could train pajeets or spics to do?
I never changed a fuel pump but watched YouTube and did it
I never changed the valve stem gaskets on engine but read how to do it
You not having any valuable skills is your own fault. Not mine. Not someone else's.
Also you being White isn't good enough. Why would other white people want you around if you can't do anything useful than play video games.
It's not an unreasonable demand that the supreme White men around you who do productive work every day want you to find something useful to contribute to fellow White man. Learn a trade or how to program your own video games or something. Any Cheeto chewing bong sucking idiot can play video games.
>I never changed a fuel pump but watched YouTube and did it I never changed the valve stem gaskets on engine but read how to do it.
That's not a skill, that's just following instructions for some basic labor, I have countless skills by that metric. Diagnosing and isolating the problem would be a skill, but the actual replacement of parts is usually more akin to unskilled labor as it's just a series of simple tasks which are mostly intuitive barring a step or two that's more complex.
>You not having any valuable skills is your own fault. Not mine. Not someone else's.
Two men can have the same skill, but for one it's worthless and for the other it's the most valuable thing they have. What's the difference? Employment. Skills don't matter if they aren't used and having skill alone is worthless, nobody hires on skill alone.
Bullshit.