1. Repetitiveness and Lack of Purpose
• Many games involve doing the same tasks over and over: grinding, farming, leveling.
• For some, it feels like wasting time chasing fake rewards (e.g., XP, skins, ranks).
• This is especially frustrating when the end goal has no real-life impact.
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2. Time Sink with No Real-World Return
• You can spend hundreds or thousands of hours and not come out with anything tangible.
• Games often give a false sense of progress—you’re improving in the game, not in life.
• Compared to learning a skill or building something, it can feel hollow.
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3. Mental and Emotional Drain
• Competitive games can lead to rage, tilt, burnout, or even addiction.
• Many gamers report feeling empty or frustrated after long sessions.
• Games designed to be addictive (with dopamine loops and rewards) can hijack your focus.
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4. Monetization and Exploitation
• Some games are filled with pay-to-win mechanics, manipulative microtransactions, or “battle passes” that create artificial FOMO.
• Players can end up spending large sums on cosmetics or upgrades that are meaningless outside the game.
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5. Social Isolation or Fake Socialization
• Online games may create the illusion of community, but don’t always foster deep or real relationships.
• People might choose gaming over real-world interaction or responsibilities.
• In some cases, games numb people from facing reality or their own growth.
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6. Mediocre Storytelling or Art
• Many games recycle the same tropes or offer shallow, juvenile writing.
• If you care about depth, originality, or artistic expression, most games can feel dumb or empty.
• Some people just don’t connect with the culture or aesthetics of gaming.
Sounds like work all of the time propaganda. Work can be an escape for people with family problems. Everything in moderation. The mind and body have to work together in life I see that as I get older. The body will see a homeless person and a feeling will strike you I should help. Without the mind interrupting a person could go broke donating to charities. The mind could say I can work all of the time neglecting the body until the body screams back I can’t do it and a person has a nervous breakdown. The mind and body need to work together. Video games neglect the body. Maybe tend your own garden sometimes and play video games in moderation and take care of the business of life the other times you’re not playing video games. Don’t take extremist views. I only work. I only play video games. I only read philosophy books. Do a little of everything and live a rich life. Now, during certain periods in life you will be pushed to be an extremist. Go to college you’ll learn all the time for 4 to 6 years. If you don’t spend your time learning you’ll fail. So this requires an extremist philosophy. But that doesn’t mean you spend your whole life being a societally conditioned robot. Good things.
I like to game here and there, but more as a way of emptying my mind. A repetitive task is good for pushing noise in my head to the side. I do adult colouring books for the same reason.
All the time wasted. I could’ve been the next Beethoven if I just didn’t waste my time on nothing.
No but seriously. If you don’t enjoy playing video games then don’t do it.
And you are absolutely right about games having repetitiveness in them. I stopped playing Zelda because it was constantly the same sh-tt over and over again which made it very boring.
I think everyone needs decompression time to relax from everyday stresses and, if you have a nice rig, gaming is attractive because you can scratch your techie itch at the same time as having a blast at them pesky zombies or demons. I’m not a gamer myself but I like to watch Youtube about building machines LTT etc.
I will still play videogames. Bottom line is I sleep 8 hrs leaving 16 hrs left in the day. It is summer so I have work to do on property for couple hours, exercise for couple hours on bike etc, two hrs for meals- that still leaves ten hours left of day to kill time. So I play few hrs video games a day. I will do nothing better with this time. Only thing else worth doing is paid work at a job. I might do that eventually, but realistically there is nothing else I will do with my time that I couldnt have done in other 16 hrs
I am not going to write book, or do art or anything. I can’t concentrate on stuff like that anymore. Videogames help pass the time when I would be suffering with boredom of stagnant mind.
1. Repetitiveness and Lack of Purpose
2. Time Sink with No Real-World Return
3. Mental and Emotional Drain
4. Monetization and Exploitation
5. Social Isolation or Fake Socialization
6. Mediocre Storytelling or Art