As a gamer - Gaming is a waste of time 

Update: I still play games, just not as often. Yes, left uncontrolled, they can be a waste of time, but it doesn't need to be like that. Here is how: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-oo83kPP1rB0.html

For the loved of God, just treat games as hobbies. You cant be productive every single time without taking break, is all about balance life.

I don't have much time to play anymore and don't regret the time I played video games, but I wish I made sure to play games that meant something to me rather then time wasting games. I can only really make time for games to socialize. I feel I'd trade every hour of TikTok for just a few minutes of gaming with friends since the memory I've made gaming would last a life time, but I can't even remember any short I've watched. But I do agree that too much gaming can quickly become a hazard; on the other hand I'd like to try and play more fighting games at local meetups and get to know people who are passionate about something I find cool.

As a gamer - I completely agree

Thank for sharing! It should be a wake up call for most.

Man as a gamer myself I'm starting to realize this as well but I feel like as long as you are able to create a balance and don't get addicted I feel like its all good

But it is not the worst time of your. You are enjoying while playing games

And instead of gaming i would be doing what? As an autistic introvert, i don't consider myself addicted, considering that's not all i do, and i have long breaks sometimes, but i still find gaming the most enjoyable "time wasting" activity i actually enjoy doing. This "gotta be productive all time" society is depressing.

And here I am in my 30s. Stopped gaming 2 years ago but now watching RU-vid videos instead for hours. Sometimes till 4 AM in the morning... Still addicted, but now in a more accepted way.

FYI the Xbox 360 is broken (damn red ring), that's why I can just throw it around

Really cool video, and a great message as well! I see two main problems with video games. They are extremely addicting, and they usually take a lot of mental energy. Personally, I’ve tried the “just play on weekends for a couple of hours” advice, and it did not work. How do you expect a gamer since childhood to be satisfied with just a couple of hours, and to have the self control to stop after that? It just wasn’t going to happen. So, I just stopped playing video games, and now I have the time and energy to focus on other stuff related to my future career, workout, meet friends, and pursue other more meaningful hobbies.

Just don't spend time on games which require you to BEAT YOUR OLD RECORD, BECOME LVL 100000000299292929292 PALADIN, RANK UP YOUR MMR or any other bs. Games are about fun gameplay loops, like factorio (lol digital crack narcotic here), or stardew valley or dishonored series or Psychonauts. It is pointless in real life to be lvl 80 paladin, but not pointless finishing a good game like a Psychonauts 2. You receive a good chunk of interesting story, unusual video style, and not a bad gameplay. All I can say. Once a game involves abnormal level of grind your title of the video comes to the head immediately and that means that the game design took a turn in the wrong direction.

This is way too harsh a view on a hobby. This is coming from someone that literally wouldn't feel happy if I didn't play videogames each day as a kid. I can acknowledge there are in theory ways to spend my time better, but it was my only coping mechanism and way to make friends. You wouldn't tell somebody that has some other obscure skill that they've honed for years and made a community around that it was a complete waste of time. Sure, it's not necessarily productive, but it's a huge stress reliever and way to make friends. Watching sports or going to games is equally as useless knowledge that people spend massive amounts of time doing, but nobody is shit talking them for their passionate hobby. It is important to balance your life and have other hobbies and passions, but this is such a black and white view on this one hobby, that you could substitute any other non-physical hobby and people would be pissed if you said it was a waste of time.

Your videos are amazing I can tell you put lots of time and effort into your ideas it’s really amazing what’s possible when you put your mind to something

You're correct, but I disagree on a personal level. I'm thankful to have been exposed to video games as a form of art, expression, and narrative device when I was still very young, so even as a child I treated them differently than say, a toy or a gadget. People have all kinds of reasons for playing games, but escapism or relaxation was never my reason, even if I understand that it is for the majority of people. To me, games at their best are as important as films and books, but there is a massive distinction between spending your time on BioShock, or spending it on Valorant. On Ico, or on Fortnite. On Silent Hill, or on League of Legends. To me, why play Genshin Impact for 100 hours when in that same time you can play all of Deus Ex, Half-Life, Half-Life 2, Fallout, Fallout 2, Portal, Portal 2, System Shock, and probably still have enough time leftover to read at least half of a Dostoevsky novel?

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Mfs say gaming is a waste of time while watching hours upon hours of anime, RU-vid and Netflix. There is no such thing as wasted time when you are having fun.

I can definitely admit this. Although I still love gaming whenever I get the chance to out of my busy schedule, looking back, I wasted a LOT of time trying to be a successful Trophy Hunter on Playstation. I would spend way too much time trying to grind for menial achievements that brought me no tangible reward, all for the sake of watching a virtual number rise. I would make the excuse that "It's helping me get the most out of the games I buy" or, "I get more enjoyment out of it". But the irony is, a lot of those trophies would actually end up being incredibly frustrating to earn lol. And even more often, once I finally got a Platinum trophy for a game, I would sit there for a moment and contemplate all the time it took to get it, and then start to think about which would I would do next. And a lot of these games weren't ones I would normally play, but because they had easily achievable trophies, I would get them just for the sake of getting them. I definitely had a problem then, but certainly don't now. Now I take my gaming time into more careful consideration and play the games that I actually wanna play, and not for the sake of grinding trophies that I'll never touch again after the fact.

it's only a waste of time if you think it is so. some people just don't want to live a lifestyle like everyone else. this is just baby's first understanding of how life works.

Game is only a waste of a time if you do steam. Hour a day is fine

Excellent video, I came back to this thought because I stopped playing for a year then suddenly began thinking about playing again and buying a subscription and all that but, I don't actually play, I just think about playing. How crazy is that? we have to be careful and use our time wisely with things that are actually not as you would think "productive" but things that make life worth it. And playing a video game isn''t it. It's hard but it's true. Thank you for this video. Very well done.

I came to watch about typing speed later bumped on this as i got recommened by yt after that vid And dude. I am 17 now and i regret hrsvily how much time i have wasted like since 13 i watched some bad nsfw and with these bad habits of gaming I usually now game with my friends but the time when i played alone i knew i was addicted and obsessed only when i turned 16 so 3 to 4 years in vain yea i too got 1.5k hrs on valorant and apex only to realize it wasnt worth being oblvious i ruined my marks grades mental health physicality mentality Btw nice video.❤

4:16 Yes. It's a piece of it that I truly enjoy. Life isn't all about making as money as possible, or becoming famous, or doing some quote unquote amazing thing to be remembered for... it's all completely meaningless. Life has no designed purpose. Playing a game, reading a book (or even writing a book), learning how to trade stocks, getting a new job, watching television, drawing something, getting better at basketball, etc whatever you can name it's all lacking of any inherent value or meaning. Yes, games are meaningless uses of our time, as is literally anything else we choose to do. We are just animals that have to meet our basic needs to survive and end up finding something to do with all the time in between those essentials. It's ALL pointless. You exist for a while, and then you don't. The end. Or should I say, Game Over?

Completely agree, played far too many games in my lifetime and collected aswell far too many...at 2018 i had 4k games. Today its ~500 games more, only the ones i'm kind of interested. Not all games are real waste of time. I learned a bit out of the box history from civilisation, modding(creating too) from Bethesda games, and some programming when i found the grinding way too timewasting, writing, using different Tools to manipulate some values. My other 'no waste' of time was having a 10k group when i was 14 an used advertising to get free games from developers and so on, partnerships😂, and english through the many people i chatted with and reading guides. Hundrets of games played, hundrets of hours of a kind of bliss, the real life use may be using those games to understand the world, since they are only a small copy of reality. The illusions, the emotions how you react to what. In the End of the way i understood far too Well the way games are made, the many facts about how it plays with the mind. Today i do maybe play 5hours a year?

I pretty much agree with this, I used to spend hours on gaming just a few short months ago and now I've cut my habit down to maybe an hour or two a day playing fortnite with my friends and even then I feel guilty afterwords, it's not even a matter of maturity just setting the right goals in life so you achieve something real with it

I'm planning to buy a ps5 and I'm really scared now

You video always good be always consistent

Maybe play better games

I only game a few times a week if that my Xbox activity is either 1 hour each day or nothing but on my Nintendo’s it’s probably 40 minutes a day sometimes at the most Edit I think as long as you don’t play a excessive amount every day I’d say nothing more than 2 hours a day your not wasting your time it’s simply something to do especially when your friends can’t hangout

what isn't a waste of time? chasing money, status, relationships?

Switching to gaming on a Sunday was the best decision I ever made. My life improved so much since then.

Gaming alone is a waste of time and i regret wasting that time every day. On the other side binding with family&friends while playing video games is one of the best things in my life. The people i met through games and the memories i made with my brother playing nintendo games is something i would never regret. I still play games too, but after a few hours, weeks or months i feel like it’s a waste of time again because i know i wont make any good memories with friends or family anymore.

I've been a gamer since 1996. I noticed that as i age i spend less time playing. I may keep buying new hardware but that does not translate into more time gaming. The strange thing is I tend to go back to simple gaming even after upgrading the gaming PC to the latest spec. Now I spend more time on the 3DS than on my PC. I for one have always been a critic of hard games - we basically play games to unwind after a hard day/week's work, not to repeatedly replay a game level like it's a chore rather than a game to unwind to. It's hard enough we have to put in week's grind to pay the bills so the idea of making a difficult game just doesn't make sense to me.

Life can be punishing, and gaming can help you escape from it. The product itself isn't bad. Also, I think gaming is the future when AI and robots do all the productive work. I don't think that games are the issue, really. There are other things in life you can get addicted to. I got addicted to reading romance books, so serious that I didn't eat or sleep. Stories, fantasies, and imaginations would complete myself and freedom if it weren't for the survival needs in this society. The society, which I don't really like because it's so centralised and demand us to fulfill human desires.

I’ve been thinking about selling my gaming PC lately since I’m currently unemployed and I’m struggling to get a job rn. I haven’t made any improvements to my life for awhile and all i have been doing is gaming honestly.

Every hobby is a waste of time, like the video.

This applies to all sort of enterteinment that we potential abuse: movies, youtube, mobile, etc There is some kind of stigma that video games carry arround. I spent HOURS on youtube of mindless watching bs videos. The moment I take the controller my gf freaks out! wtf....

You must be so depressed my guy. I feel bad for your kids.

"Gaming" is not just grinding some stupid rank system or numbing yourself with some addictive time consumer type of game... "Game" is a huge medium that includes role playing, system construction, world building, automation, artistic/aestetic perceptions, visual and experiential storytelling etc. YOUR play habit and gaming culture is what is toxic and a waste of time, not the whole medium. To this logic, watching a film is also a waste of time. If you consume the same popular and stupid works, films will surely turns into a waste of time for you. But in the mind of someone with taste, films becomes a great narrative medium. Games are the same way, and even more so. Games are not just a narrative medium, they are a limitless medium of experiance. If you haven't realised that in all these years of gaming, I don't even know what to tell you... Just stop badgering these same old boomer arguments. You wanna read books? Than read it, gaming is not a barrier for it, unless you have a toxic and bad relationship with it. I recommend anyone who thinks the same way as this video to read "Theory of Fun for Game Design" by Raph Koster.

If you see top channels on RU-vid you will see only gaming channel mostly, like markplier, mrbeast gaming, techno gamerz, dream etc etc endless where people waste their time and it's not some half a million views or a million views its multiple millions of views overall counts for these channels is in billions of views annually, you can't imagine how much people waste time on internet, first play it and then watch it like bozo, they are making millions while you are just stuck in rat race, unhappy, coping, unsatisfied in life, achieved nothing big in life, just living an average worthless life. Of course they gonna regret in their 30's for the amount of time they waste but the only blame should be you yourself. I currently have 2 yt fan page or channels which currently making me 5-6k$ on average and I just transform content and not even produce anything original but these gaming addicts can't even do that because they are addict and I know yt is Addictive which is also a reason I use yt mostly on Grey scale mode because I care about my business lol

Play once a year, and be a content creator make money in a non gaming niche on yt. Travel international or beautiful places like Bali once a month. And you will not feel inferior or npc like person if you do this

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Everything is a waste of time. I mean, what are you gonna do instead of playing video games? Read books? Watch series? Watch anime? Watch movies? Socialize with people? Isn't it all just "wasting time" i think life is all about wasting time, we just gotta do what we want, whatever that brings us joy. If you're not happy about gaming, then stop. If it doesn't make you happy, its a bad way to waste your time. 👻 Don't get me wrong, i have a job, i provide for my family, but with little time i have to myself, i like to do what i enjoy, be it scrolling bullshit shorts, watching youtube videos about conspiracy shit and stupid people saying stupid things, watch stupid mivies, watch anime, watch some stupid series, hanging out with my stupid friends because i'm stupid too, and yeah, i call it wasting time even though i enjoy doing them 🤣 i don't get why we are so obsessed about being productive, if you enjoy being productive, do that, its another thing to waste your time anyways. What's important is you enjoy this ride we call life 👻

Simply True. For me, I have deleted or sold every single reliability I had with games to force myself to never come back into this sheep infested waste of life. Then, you are free. There are no sunk cost fallacy, no wasted passion, energy, time, money and no space for possibility to ever go back. You can finally enjoy 99.99% of life other than just the 1 thing of a virtual video game. If you live in the mountains, completely isolated from society, then video games or even recreational drugs could be viable because there is no meaning of time or "money"(=time) or social value. However, if you live in a society, among other people with rules and regulations, there are some things that matter more than others, and these things cannot be avoided unless you give up and intentionally live unsocial. If you have any passion for even the slightest thing other than recreational activity, you should pursue them immediately. Games are just an immediate reward response, just like any other instant dopamine which is manipulated so that the one providing it gains money = time on the expense of your time. If you say games are useful, you are simply coping and I feel bad for you because when you come out to the real offline world with many great diverse people, your thousands of hours in video gaming is worthless, which could have been spent of much better things. People who cope say things like "it gives you a virtual experience of marketing or business", why don't you just get a degree or get a job in that field, start your own business because learning from video games is not valid in society and the things you learned are the things everyone already knows which does not increase your value as a social member at all. Think about it, if you said to someone, video games helped me more than anything else in life, nobody will side with you, even yourself if you hear it from somebody else. Just simply a loser and always will be. Just like how university does not give you success, life is not fair or logical. Only the things that matter do, especially for you. Unless you are the 0.0001% minority who happen to make money or value through video games at a life changing amount, all of you are wasting valuable time that you could be using in the vastly different things in life that matter the most. The most painful thing is whenever you come back to the real offline world after you finished your period of virtual video gaming. Even if you were the one who spent thousands of hours as a veteran in something that gives you nothing in return, whenever you wake up to the real world to pay bills, go to school, search for your own passion or finding a partner, going on a date, meeting new people, becoming financially free, the recreational games mean absolutely nothing because it was just a scheme for the supplier(developer) to earn time and money by the expense of all you gamers who waste your precious time and money playing it. What's even more depressing is that those who are more dedicated in games are people who can really outshine in life too, just unfortunately stepped in a never ending quick sand of fake virtual video game that sucks you in harder the more to stay in it. Just delete everything, and enjoy the rest of your life if you want to achieve even the slightest thing in the social world. Its far more better than you can imagine because I know most of you want to compete and win in the real world.

Or just enjoy it as a hobby. Dont "build your life on it" as you say. But enjoy it for what it is. Moderation.

Where did you learn to make videos like that?

Hard disagree. If people weren't playing games they would be doing something else Netflix, social media, reading books, sports etc. It depends what enjoyement means to someone. of cos any activity or hobby should be done in moderation as to not impede other areas of your life.

What is your opinion on Esports players?

i recently stopped gaming after school like i use to and now i can't find anything else to do. i feel like gaming had a pause on my life from the start of it and now i resume it. i be sitting in my room after a quick book reading and just wondering "wtf do i do now" men, i got to find a hobbie or sum :/

I do it smart. I watch RU-vid walkthroughs so I don't play more than a hour. I'm not solving puzzles on video games anymore. Watching sports is. A waste of time too.

I was trying gta5 story one last time on fp free aim yet i got that mission where you rescue Lamar and I just could not handle the conversation and hearing the n word over 6000 times I just cut the disk up LOL

Throw another console like that and you're gonna find out.

Everything that doesn't glorify the name of Jesus is a waste of time. We've all wasted time, so enjoy it, games, movies, sports etc...

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This is high quality content im surprised its not getting that much views

I wasted alot of my teenage years on video games and corn and i agree 100% but i have to admit it hurt a little when you dropped your ps2 games, i hope more people watch this video so here's a comment for the algorithm

I am now using all the knowledge I learned about my obsession with video games to develop the best video games I can make as a developer. I wouldnt be able to make great games if I havent played a lot of different types of video games throughout my life.

They are not a waste of time if you are having fun lol. As long as you dont get addicted they are great

If Confucius tells you gaming is bad for you then you better believe it.

Also define productive. Your falling into the same talking point that nobody can define

I can remember entire zombie Easter eggs and so much about games but when comes to real life it’s complicated😂😂… Alot of times its just an escape from reality

i was going to get angry until you said the last part about just controlling... moderation is the key and some games are just really good experiences like red dead redemption 2 or ghost of tushima for example ..... you can be productive and play game

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Just use videogames as a break from being productive, there problem solved

Just one more drink😢... absolutely agree.

Bro this is goddamn art

1st world problem

True, but what else could i do

I agree with you 100%

Moderation is the Key 👍🏻

Real, u're really great man

hey man, i just watched a couple of your videos such as "my tinder girlfriend", "pets different timelines" and of course this video. I just want to say that i love your videos and i see how passionte you are about creating content by the effort and dedication that you put in these videos. Please, keep making wonderful videos, they are awesome and you too S2 (btw, sorry for my english, i'm learning

that 30 mins is real

1:55 how'd you do that cut?

Great and true video

Moderation

Imagine working an 8 hour shift and then coming back home to play another 8 hours.

bro u r a G

this is an entire movie

sadly, mobile games are my problem

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Speak for yourself

this some facebook mum copy paste stuff right here XD

You Earned MY Subscribe 😇 because of this video. Congratzz. Pls Keep up the good work

I partially agree, but the problem is more complex. As a lot of other enterteinment products, the quality time depends on the consumers, and not on the product itself. Gaming is not a waste of time more than watching a movie or admire some art, is just more addictive. It doesn't give you any practical skill, but you'll have some good time, it can be inspiring and put on the table some good questions. Sometimes can also give you some good skill as a collateral (which, of course, you can learn with other activities). The problem is when you do nothing or think about nothing else than gaming, when you don't grow up, you don't achieve some life's goal, or know nothing about real world. It's a problem when you build your entire personality around a specific passion. In this case, i 100% agree with your video, i can confirm from a personal experience, but stopping gaming entirely is not necessary. Dropping time consuming/grinding games for quality time games is a start. I'm 30 now, i'm married, i have my own house, i mantain a social life, i work out, try to learn about world and manual works, and i still play videogames as my main hobbie, without giving up on other activities. I'm a gamer, and always will be, but is not the only thing i am

i sell my pc because i i was playing like 10 h in a day

As a gamer I most definitely agree