Comment on Anon is a gamer

• RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I have work today, I’m there now, and could still put in 6 hours if I felt like it or was deep enough in a game to do it.

  Im almost 30, work just over 20 hours a week (weekends for the extra $10/hr). No kids no partner.

  I have 3 games recorded over 1000 hours and Minecraft doesn’t record but would be 5000+ easily over the last decade.

  I am rural so there’s not really anything else to do unless gardening is your kind of thing.

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  • Kitathalla@lemy.lol ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I am rural

    This is a big factor. I think I doubled my time on the computer when I moved to an area with no true neighbors for miles.

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• ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  5.5 hours a day is easy when you have a job if you don’t have anything else going on. I have much more time for games as an adult than I did when I was a kid.

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  • ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Are you single?

    I can only play 1-2 hours a day with a family. I could see that if I got home and just ate and gamed.

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    • peoplebeproblems@midwest.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      So I’m not the guy you are replying to, but I work from home. My kid is still young with an 830pm bedtime. 2 hours is easy, 4 hours is possible, 6 hours is too much.

      I really only have to drive my kid to school and I usually have groceries delivered, but that’s a luxury I can afford. Splitting the time up with his mother frees up a bunch of extra time (we’re separated). A good chunk of time playing comes from playing something with him too. Pokemon, Minecraft, Lego video games. Sometimes he asks me to play one of the games I’ll tell him a story about, which I’ll oblige if it won’t scare him (for instance Elden Ring and Path of Exile are out, but monster hunter and Helldivers are ok [the Helldivers one I don’t get, you’d think for a kid who thinks aliens and skeletons are terrifying he wouldn’t enjoy that one as much as he does. That one I also didn’t intend to show him, he woke up one night and I was playing it and he thought it was hilarious 🤷‍♂️]).

      I don’t really want to do other things. I’ve been told that it’s a coping mechanism because I was in that unhealthy relationship for 15 years. My personal view is that it’s a coping mechanism of how boring reality is.

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    • ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m single, and I eat while playing. The funny thing is that I’m not actually super interested in video games these days but I don’t have much else going on.

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      • ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Just you watch videos and play on your phone as you game? Also do you only play one game? I do the same thing and it makes me not care about anything?

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• Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  In 3 months ~64 day would be weekdays and ~26 days would be weekends.

  So a likely scenario is 64*4+26*9.4

  For me this kind of distribution is plausible during phases when I’m really into a specific game. I’m 31, single, full time employed (which means 42 hours per week, or 8.4 a day, here in Switzerland).

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