i wouldn't go this far but it's cray how many hours people do it. one of the things i'm most grateful for from my upbringing is that my parents didn't buy us a nintendo. forced to learn some skills that made life much richer.

I legitimately stopped playing video games as soon as I was able to fully grasp the concept of wasted potential

I haven’t owned a gaming console since the Xbox 360 

There’s too much life to live

gaming is 100% a waste of your time and definitely evil

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i wouldn't go this far but it's cray how many hours people do it. one of the things i'm most grateful for from my upbringing is that my parents didn't buy us a nintendo. forced to learn some skills that made life much richer. 

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Agree overall but also disagree 

To each their own and times will change with time

playing in nature unseriously probably net better than unserious first person shooters. i think about just how addicting they are, time suck.

Honestly everything is a waste of time if you don’t take it seriously

yeah the games i'd play at friends growing up got old after a little bit and we would opt in to something else after a short bit. these days the rabbit hole can go as deep as you'd like. also, games no longer seen as a kid thing, it would have been seen as extremely weird to play games all the time in college

Most people grow out of it or develop a healthy relationship with the hobby. However games back when we were kids were either short-to-medium length single player affairs with a defined story arc that could only be played linearly one way. 

Now you have 300+ hour games with endless possibilities and dimensions that can suck your life dry. 

Add the infinite loop games like Call of Duty or Fortnite, which also suck your wallet dry and you can start to see how it might be viewed as evil.

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... And even have to wait for a day or two when you didn't have the proper size at hand. So yes, batteries saved us, I guess.

game boy not so bad because you're forced to take breaks to change batteries

The other way to look at it is anything can be serious if you want it to be