• LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world
      3·
      8 months ago

      That might fall under the categories of “free internet” and “living a fulfilled life.” So I’m pretty sure your video games would be provided complementary by the government too!

        • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world
          1·
          8 months ago

          I don’t play video games but those who do seem pretty addicted to them therefore they’re doing something they enjoy and their life is fulfilled.

          • maniclucky@lemmy.world
            2·
            8 months ago

            While real video game addiction is not a thing to trivialize, not all gamers are addicts. It’s a hobby. Same as reading, watching TV, working on a car, woodworking, stamp collecting.

            Generalizations suck dude.

              • maniclucky@lemmy.world
                1·
                8 months ago

                Given the bad faith nature of your answers and your at best confused message of “addiction = fulfillment”, I’m going to chalk this “BuT i’M aGrEeInG” answer to more bad faith.

                • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world
                  1·
                  8 months ago

                  well yeah, I think video games are horrible waste of time and the rising generations are physically unfit and socially inept, many are addicted to video games but won’t admit it because they make justifications and rationalizations for video games because they say “it’s good for training reaction time and hand eye coordination And people who are good at video games turn out to be good drivers on the road IRL” etc but it’s really a waste of time, they are sitting on their asses staring at a screen and they call that a hobby while their bodies atrophy and their spines develop kyphosis and that’s my opinion on that.

                  • maniclucky@lemmy.world
                    1·
                    8 months ago

                    And your opinion is myopic and generally wrong. The rationalizations you’re mentioning are pretty useless and only come up when assholes demand people justify the things that make people happy.

                    First: Hobbies have the utility of being stress relievers, no different than TV or reading or stamp collecting. These activities have no huge social value, other than when they are done together to increase social cohesion and provide a touchpoint of connection with others. Dismissing a hobby as being useless really misses the point of a hobby. As an example, in addition to video games, I also lift weights as a hobby, I have friend groups for each of these. And they provide little to no utility beyond being a thing I enjoy. Because as much as I enjoy bodybuilding, it’s inherently unhealthy, just in the other direction. My knees will not be forgiving me in the future, and that’s because of a ‘healthy’ hobby (insert running here if you are anti-bodybuilding, same issue).

                    Second: A lot of health problems that you’re describing can also be attributed to the rise of office work, the availability of unhealthy food, reduced quality of life at the hands of unrestrained capitalism. Believing that all those societal woes are exclusively at the hands of gaming is akin to the satanic panic. It’s a strawman distracting from the actual problems. Big things like that are rarely explained by one thing. Stop watching Fox and learn some nuance.