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.
KRAW@linux.community 6 days ago
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.
badgermurphy@lemmy.world 6 days ago
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.