Comment on Is gaming better as a kid or an adult?
badgermurphy@lemmy.world 1 week ago
If you’re asking us adults, most of us wouldn’t know. Most of us dont have time for it anymore.
Am adult, have a full time job, raised a kid, and never had a point in time where I couldn’t game for without needing to make it a priority. Time spent watching shows and movies went down because I enjoyed games more, but if one has some down time they can choose to play games as an adult.
Gaming as a kid was fun because it was new, it is still fun as an adult because I can pick and choose what to play and when to play it.
TV is the biggest waste of time. I enjoy some shows, but I can acknowledge that a lot of it really is just something to fill time rather than “art.” I’ve cut back my TV and YouTube consumption a lot, and it enables me to do a lot more non-passive hobbies. Worst case scenario I read or game, which I consider a much better use of my time.
Agreed, but I already watch maybe 1 hour of TV per week, and wouldn’t even have one if I didn’t have kids. Trust me, I’ve already looked for low-hanging fruit; I do not love being this busy.
I dont think its at all productive for us to compare responsibilities and measure. I invite you to consider that the level of responsibility in one’s life varies a great deal from one person to the next, even within the same demographic group.
In your own post you stated that you never had a time where you couldn’t game without prioritizing it, and in my post I stated nearly the opposite. Either one of is is lying, we have a very different baseline level of “priority” for gaming, or we lead different lives in which mine is busier than yours.
People often are dismissive of people’s responsibilities they have no way of knowing and offer the platitude, “You have to make time for what’s important to you,” but it is just that. Everyone experiences a finite amount of time, and it absolutely can all get used up on critical things before leisure things can be considered. I know I personally have many important things I’d very much love to stop leaving idle, but there are, quite literally, not enough hours in the day. As I’ve aged I’ve gone from needing 4 hours of sleep to at least 6, for example. That’s 2 hours per day that are simply deleted from my calendar. Once you get to 24 hours, there’s no more hours.
That whole line of thinking seems to me to be in the same family of thought as blaming poor people for not working more or harder-- it ignored a mountain of circumstances that make that impossible.
I was disagreeing with your statement that most adults don’t have time and gave a counter example. Never said that zero adults didn’t have time.
For me personally the steam deck was a game changer, now I have a little pc I can carry around with me. I no longer needed to worry about those long ass quests or lack of save points because I can just put it to sleep and pick it up later when I have a moment.
It’s still not as great as being able to sit down and just get lost in a game but it’s better than not having time at all.
That’s a good tip, thank you!
zewm@lemmy.world 1 week ago
_haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Yeah, because the priority is not becoming destitute lol
zewm@lemmy.world 1 week ago
_haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
You know nothing about me and your response reeks of being an entitled asshat. Do you even have kids or a career or do you just live in mommy’s basement?
badgermurphy@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Exactly, thank you. Of course I could prioritize gaming over nearly anything, but no reasonable person would for important things. I guess I have more things I feel are important going on than this guy and some others find believable. I assure you, I am not making up a story to earn fake Internet points that could not have less meaning.
_haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
As someone who once worked 3 jobs and went to college full time while also being a parent, that poster came off as a wildly ignorant asshole. Possibly a clueless child or a troll? IDK, but damn.
badgermurphy@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Ackshually, we don’t. If we prioritized gaming, we would not have any money for the games and hardware or the place to hook it up and use it.
otp@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
“Prioritize” doesn’t mean putting it above everything else.
How do you think most gamers have money for games?
badgermurphy@lemmy.world 6 days ago
I am using that word as follows:
Prioritize: to adjust the priority ranking of something to a higher level than it was previously.
not
Prioritze: to assign something the highest priority.
Maybe I am using the word wrong, but I believe both definitions to be valid. Sorry for the confusion.
What I meant was that I do not have anything on my docket that I think a reasonable person would demote in priority to make room for gaming. That day may come, but it has not for many years now. You may be surprised how wildly varied people’s level of responsibility is and how busy that makes them.
zewm@lemmy.world 1 week ago
It’s okay to prioritize family or whatever instead of gaming. But I know plenty of older gamers that don’t struggle or use “don’t have time” as an excuse to not play games.
badgermurphy@lemmy.world 6 days ago
I know older gamers too, and can tell you firsthand that the amount of “busy” in a person’s life varies wildly. I am the second busiest person I have ever met, and the busiest person does not have children and I do, for example.
If I were to carve out more time for leisure, something else would absolutely have to suffer. Sure, that is a choice I could make, but I dont think any reasonable person evaluating the trade-offs in good faith would consider that choice to be on the table, hence why I used the “ackshually”. It is technically a choice to a pedant, but not really a choice to anyone acting sane.