Hello toomanymoths.. Since you did mention that you want to get better at art etc etc.. You could make a day plan for yourself because you're more likely to do it
I can relate to this pretty hard. I always feel like garbage when I'm playing games because I have so many better things to be doing. But when I start to do those things I feel incredibly bored and go back to the games after a bit.
Same. I tried to start to read in my free time instead of playing games but i eventually found myself reading Halo books. Thought it was funny when i realised i moved from games, to books about games which got me into halo so now im play through all the halo games lmao i went full circle.
I have quit video games for 2 years now. What am I doing with my free time you might ask? Pursuing my passion for art? Maybe a bit, but now 90% of my time has gon from games to watching TH-cam and Netflix. It's a slow journey my friends
Gabe Ebersohn i quit gaming 4 years ago. And during the 4 years i spent my free time on gardening (part time job which lasted a year), Instagram Facebook youtube and anime
Same. Why be a filthy casual who spends time playing CSGO, or LoL or PUBG. Never was into that. The only online games that I truly ever enjoyed were WoW and Warframe. Why? Because those have story. You have a story line you follow. But then I realised that even MMORPG's are ruined by the MMO concept, and completely switched to offline solo play. I'd rather play solo player games like the Mass Effect series, Fallout, TES series, Witcher, any rpg really, or the games like Castlevania or The Legend of Zelda, you know, adventurous games, that tell you a stroy, that give the opportunity to live through an adventure, save a universe or two, interact with the characters, experience beautiful landscapes...
the only games i consider time well spent are story driven ones with unique and interesting setting and mechanics, like half life or bioshock. everything else is a waste of time, especially RPGs, since you're wasting time doing boring, monotonous activities just to level up your character, instead of learning some real life skills.
@@WhoopEaterz if you watch 3 hours of this type of videos it's still better than 3 hours of nonsense videos where you watch it just because it feels good while watching. After finishing a trash video you usually feel shit (my personal opinion, don't attack me over this please)
Wanna hear the piece of advice that literally changed my life? I too felt like garbage when playing too much videogames, until I realized they were the sole reason I learned english at a very high level, higher than any of my peers, and without taking any courses (I'm not a native speaker) Then it all made sense, I immediately changed all of my games language to french, looked up the basics online and started playing again all day x) Now, fast forward 5 years I'm fluent in french and italian, almost in german and picking up russian These skills have helped me a lot, got me into some awesome places and landed me a pretty good job, I'm still playing like 2 hours a day and I enjoy every minute of it
@@seansin5603 When learning a foreign languge like that, it's good to absorb as much of it as possible whenever you can. So yeah, watching movies with French va or playing games that likewise have that would help you naturalize in it.
@@desertdevil6451 how long would it take, like a year or so? I have changed my phone's language to french so its a good start. I can kind of figure put what I'm pressing most of the time
Wait what lul, that actually works? I remember doing it for some reason as a kid, watching toy story in spanish and shit. Games will be easier to learn off I'd imagine however. Now that I think about it, I can plqy borderlands 2 over and over again on a different language and still know what they might be saying, so I guess it does get you familiar with certain sounding words so they'll be easyish to learn+remember after a while?
Kaden Wolf failed argument playing the deflection card, dangerous/unrealistic working hours proven harmful to health is the fault of a failed economy and lack of regulation. scientific facts regarding physical/mental health are inconvenient to businesses that try to pressure employee's into dangerous hours, and inconvenient to failed economy's where pay is so low in some jobs that people have to take extra hours (which then slows down productivity/health when the brain passes an X number of hours per week).
AtomicToyRobot the irony being here while some people attempt to argue that any time spent on fun is "wasted time", the same argument can be made against work because of countries like south korea where a work addiction culture (and #1 oecs suicide rates) finally lead to the government stepping and and whipping companies into submission and regulating maximum work hours allowed. too much time spent on fun is causes problems, too much time spent on work causes problems. the key is balance, but in the case of dangerously extreme work hours (that were scientifically proven harmful to health) being required for the minimum cost of living that's a failed economy without sufficent regulation to prevent corporation's from having employee's work extreme hours.
League of Legends has kept me a slave for a really long time, guess it's finally time I unshackle myself and start actually living my life. Thanks for the insightful video.
@Modern it's been over a month now since I've last played league, and oh boy do I feel better. I'm spending more time with family and friends, started putting more work into my college assignments, and picked up digital drawing to keep my mind off gaming. I don't regret my decision one bit.
man i miss tf2 3700 hours, own server network, amazing people but i have a career that has long had it coming and is now skyrocketing and takes all my time and effort. im quite proud that i could just stop playing. no exceptions. i hope tf2 will still be great when i come back because that will likely be years from now.
In other words, if you want to have fun with life, strike a fair balance between work and play; don't be a workaholic, but don't be a gamer that plays all day just to have one moment of a good time (especially with online games). Do your job, do your home chores, do your shopping, and play your games all together in moderation. You don't have to love your job though, just find something you don't hate.
The Traveler it’s not that easy, if you start playing a game you want to be good at it or become high level, and to reach that you have to play very much
@@avprince2672 Thankfully, it's very easy if you play game for fun, and avoid any notion of "competition" or the "git gud" stigma. If you ask me, it's a waste of time caring about the latter.
Some people misunderstood the meaning of this video In my opinion. It's not about playing video games is a waste of time, go away do productive stuff. Nope, it's not about it. It's about do not waste your live by not achiving things that are important to you, playing video games instead, cause it's easier. That's the point. Or ot least I think that it it.
what if I love them enough to let them take over my whole life? how about letting people live the way they want to and not dictate to them how much they should play eh? @@Carre4beta
@@KARTIKEYA007 You're totally right. That's how it should work. If I wouldn't learn on my own, just work. I probably would do the same and play through most of my day, as I was doing back in school
I had a 3 year length relationship. We used to go out every Friday on the first year, so that's 51 days for the first year. Let's say we went out 6 hours average per day so that's 306 hours the first year. We used to go out more time and see each other at college/work, and hang out at anyone's house and sleep together few times the last 2 years. So let's say thats 9 hours average a day, so 9 hours * 365 days = 3285 * 2 = 6570 + 306 of the first year = 6876 hours spent with her. She cheated on me multiple times having sex with her friend. I'd rather spent those hours on The Witcher 3, TES5 Skyrim, RDR2.
@@creature_of_fur Lol! Not much has changed then! That seens unhealthy as well. Some days it's hard to do anything though, but if it's everyday? Maaan, be carreful
Let me break it down for you. Realized video games is a waste of time, watches TH-cam instead. Realized TH-cam is a waste of time, watch Netflix instead You gonna find time wasters when you don't wanna do anything productive so it is one thing or the other.
Exactly. If video games got banned the addicted players would likely just move onto something else equally as pointless and get addicted to that instead. They wouldn't suddenly become productive and motivated people.
@@yungdomino4718 as a office working gamer who started limiting/balancing my game time in exchange for learning to cook, fiddle with guitar and Muay Thai I can say I very strongly disagree. Convincing yourself that playing games with do anything other than provide a bit of fun is delusional. There's nothing wrong with it in moderation but it needs to be treated like junk food it provides satisfaction in exchange for well-being
vid maker is childish, he's so far from the truth, whatdver a man do, it's wasting time because evetyhthins is conceptual, and illusion, we dont have inherent value or meaning
As a kid, video games were a rare activity for me. We had one game called Motor Storm and we were lucky to play it once every few weeks when our parents allowed. There was something special about it. On my thirteenth birthday, my parents bought me my first PS3. This introduced me to a wide variety of games. Most of my greatest early experiences with gaming revolved around connection - the thrill of playing with friends and discovering a world one level at a time. I used to ramble on and on about these games with my all friends at lunch breaks. However, there came a time where my friends moved on and stopped caring about video games. Each hour spent training hordes of zombies didn’t grant the same excitement it once had. Nevertheless, I continued to play hours on end devoting my life to these useless games. I now sit, many years later, and nothing much has changed. For the most part, I am still that same lonely kid stuck at home wasting his life away on a glorified video game; living a lie and chasing that high of connection he once felt. In all those thousands of hours spent playing, I’ve begun to realize that I will never be able to reclaim a single minute of it. I wasted over a month straight playing video games and I’m going to have to live with it. I think it’s time for me to go out and make a few stories of my own before my times up. I’m still young, but this is something I wish I’d realized sooner.
Beautiful comment. So insightful. I loved it. I find myself in the exact same situation. At first I would play them occasionally but once I got my own it became more of an obsession. All of my childhood memories, including those of friends, revolve around videogames. I find it even a bit freaky hearing how similarly you and I both came to grow up and self-reflect on our lives now. I know your comment is 8 months old from this one but I hope you've added new, real experiences to your life as I too am planning to do now having been inspired by your truthful comment. Let's go for it! Best wishes: someone like you :)
@@juanzilla6436 Its very freaky indeed, glad some of my friends still hang out and play games with me, otherwise i would be loner (not counting my gf) especially in corona times when pubs are closed and such here. The worst thing with gaming for me is the feeling of void and emptiness, like the weeks, months even years passed but are in my memory only as mere days, if not hours. Im trying slowly to get my self on track with learning about what i love beside video games, but its quite hard to be honest. Good luck in life kings. Stay strong.
For me, I stop when i get bored of a Game. I can't game for longer than 3 hours at a time without getting the urge to do something else. I still like playing games here and there tho.
definitelynotanormie when I was 15-16 I used to play LoL like a madman. If nobody stopped me, I couldn't stop playing. 4-5 hours a day easily wasted. Now I'm 18 and I can't play more than 3 games. It's not about the right game or boredom of a game, because I still enjoy LoL. It's only about the fact that you realise you're wasting time and you have the will power to do something else, eventually productive, with your time... friends, going out, parties (not clubbing necessarily), simply having walks in the park, doing a sport, learning something new etc. there's so much more to life and it is sooo short, so why waste it? you can game for as long as you want when you can't do anything else or when you are old etc. but why waste such important time when you can do something else with it?
You're 100% correct. After all, there are also a lot of things in life that can be considered a waste of time, like school for example, yeah, you can get the diploma from school which can make you able to get a job but you also learn a lot of useless things in school that you won't need in life.
Anything can be considered a waste of time. It's up to you if you want to call it a waste of time or not. It's up to you if murder is bad. It's up to you if Donald Trump is a good president. It's up to you if the sky is blue or green. All you're doing is applying terms to reality... creating a map of reality with symbols and sounds. But of course reality is what you experience with your senses in the moment of now
I always think „Instead of playing I could work on another video“. But when I’m actually editing a video I think „what a waste of time. Nobody is watching those anyways“. Both feel like a waste of time..
It’s hard for me to give up video games because I’m so passionate about some games I play and I’ve made so many amazing memories on it. The day I give up gaming will be one of the saddest days of my life. Sounds stupid but only few people would actually know what I mean.
I feel u bro I’ve been playing video games since I was a little kid and now I want to stop playing games so I can lvl up in real life but it’s just so fucking hard to quit bro 😞 I literally feel like this is the hardest thing I have ever tried to quit and I kinda feel like I’m losing the battle.. ps sorry I had to vent to you 😅
Honestly I don't encourage quitting if you love gaming so much especially if you got the passion for it bcuz if you quit then it's just going to give you depression instead. But I do highly encourage you limit your time in gaming and really schedule your lifestyle.
@@JackoBanon1 Yes, we continue to waste our time, no matter what we do with it. Therefore, instead of accepting the Fact that Life is nothing but a waste of time, how about we start to enjoy Life for as long as we have it, and let nothing stop you from smiling everyday in your life, because there are People out there that want you to laugh and enjoy life. even me
Your point isn't a 'video-game' problem. Tons of people don't know what they want to do/study/work on. Tons of people swear they'll get round to learning an instrument someday and never do. If it's not video games, it might be TH-cam, sports, reading etc. You can't expect to be productive 24/7, and some people fatigue quicker than others. Myself and plenty others are avid gamers - who are employed and/or in college. Also, another thought - the guitarist who practices 10 hours a day might think "what am I doing practicing 10 hours a day?". He might consider that wasting his life. It all depends how you look at it.
Morgan Blem Playing guitar can get you somewhere, gaming doesn't get you anywhere (unless it's your job). And yeah it isn't technically the fault of the video Game, but the same can be applied to drugs and food and literally anything pleasureable
@@shamicentertainment1262 gaming can expand your imagination and amplify your critical thinking skills which DEFINITELY helps you in certain professions and academic areas. You're crazy to think that nothing beneficial comes out of it.
I spend hours a day playing guitar and sometimes ask myself that. It was until I started writing my own music made a band and played gigs for other people that I felt practice was justified.
@@TriFekt Yes, in moderation. 10 hours a day of game playing doesn't though, while 10 hours of practising literally any other skill will get you somewhere. Plus even if you are getting a cognitive boost from gaming, it kind of goes to waste if you aren't using your mind on other things. Gaming is not a problem in moderation, every one knows that and I'm not talking about that. I am specifically talking about gaming for many hours each day
I grew up alone as an only child for the first 8 years of my life in a single parent household. My mother always worked, so I stayed alone at home in a furnished, but quiet apartment. To cure my loneliness and boredom, I took solace in my GameCube, playing Legend of Zelda: Collector's Edition. Since I was 3, i've gamed for almost 10 hours each day. It gets especially bad if it's a new game that i've never played before, and VERY bad if it's an online multiplayer. Sometimes I feel like my actual life is a mere conduit for me to play video games- that whatever happens doesn't matter, as long as I can play them. I'm 18. All of my friends have jobs, girlfriends, or are college bound...While I sit at home in my room all day, bathing every 3rd day and wallowing in self-pity. I hate myself and I constantly work myself up...To calm myself down, I play a video game. I'm stuck.
I disagree, as this is highly subjective. For example: I got a friend, who`s building his own model railway. This building stretches across 3 out of 6 rooms that he lives in. He dumps hundreds, if not thousands of € into new locomotives, decorative stuff (houses, trees, bushes, benches etc.) and new railways. He sits there all day long, fiddling around with details and stuff, repaints things, you name it. He pours his heart and soul into this. If it makes him happy, I won`t ever tell him that this would be a huge waste of time. If it makes him happy, it`s not a waste of time at all..
I agree. If you are happy and successful in life, good for you. But what if your friend just spent all this money without a job, just more layers of debt. Spend the time and money only if you can. He’s not wasting his time, but he can definitely be doing something better for him.
mazze1091 well u just turned my back on Comp, i’ve played up to 2400 Hours CS until Global and played more than 900 Hours Rainbow but after some time it just gets boring and it makes you so stressed. Playing single player is really relaxing and no one should judge you because you aren’t some Tryhard somewhere in the Gold Nova Hell of CS:GO.
What exactly is a waste of time? Reading a book? Watching a movie? Riding your bike? Technically everything could be considered a “waste of time” so why not just enjoy whatever it is you’re doing for fun? People have hobbies for a reason...they want something fun to do that is a waste of time. Drinking, bowling, billiards, skating, laser tag, board games!! I mean come on the list goes on and on...some people just like video games! Edit: Now there’s a difference between a hobby and an addiction hahaha when something takes over your life and you can’t live without it, that’s a problem.
Exactly what I think! People being told, they should stop with their hobbies because other people don't see the appeal in it and say it's something bad. It happened to me, but I don't listen to this crap and follow my passions. I don't know why someone wants to read a book if they like video games much more, it's not like you become a better human or smarter because of books, it's a different thing to entertain yourself and everyone got their preferences in life. If you would call that addiction then EVERY SINGLE PERSON would be addicted to sonething, like videogames, sports, reading, phoning, chatting or whatever someone just LIKES to do! Enjoy your life, do what you like and don't overthink too much! Ignore toxic people and those, who dislike your hobbies. Life is not about them, it's about you!
Balance and moderation is everything. Just like with diet and health, you can't always eat junk foods all the time without suffering bad consequences. But, you have to give yourself some time to relax every now and then. You can't always keep on working hard all the time. That's why things like video games exist. Think of it as a reward after working for some time and after achieving something in life.
I practice moderation by only working part time. Oh wait? The only thing that matters is serving your life sentence at work you say? "You better not have too much fun there bud, get back to making me money".
Thats exacly what i have done, i set myself a goal, be productive all day, and if you acomplish your goals, you can be rewarded with a couple of hours playing your favourite vide game.
There many good habits that you can relax without wasting your time to a pointless virtual world. Videogames are highly addictive and can mess with your mental health. Exercise, reading books, socializing are all better ways to relax with many benefits to your personal development You have one life, don't waste your time with addictive digital products like videogames.
@@Stri4ker21 so I should off my autistic butt now, because I do all of that, while still playing video games from Time to time? Work 40 hour weeks with a physical labor job needing the weekends to just relax and get my brain calmed down to work full time again all week (alone, I might add) With how basically everyone with your mindset has been treating me for years, along with all the people who have tried to off me for liking pineapple on pizza and for being a furry, I'm seriously at the end of my ropes, even though I have a dog and partner and Tons of friends, I'm not this super happy person that all of these non-video game things should bring me, but the anti video game people, and just horrible Humans where that get away with being horrid people are the problem, are the things dragging me back down to wanting to off myself.
I think video games are just a way to escape reality for a bit so when you have a bad home situation you dont want to do shit and this is the fault of how much pressure there is set on kids these days
If you have great self control, it's a blast playing games for just the right amount of time for you and being able to quit playing when you get annoyed. I can't do that though, but I will keep trying.
My mom spends several hours a day on Facebook without realizing. But will say I am wasting time on my DS. Social media almost always makes me feel like shit after, not just looking at highlight reels of peoples lives, but the polarizing content and clickbait to get your attention. I often found myself arguing in the comments and just generally getting angry at the shit I saw online. Everyday I encounter a story of murder or theft or someone being cancelled for something and it’s just so toxic to me. Mario, Kirby, etc don’t give me these feelings. Then again, I’m a handheld, single player gamer. I’m not a big fan of the online gaming considering it gives those same feelings listed above. Unless I’m playing with friends, I prefer single player games. The music, art, and gameplay is so relaxing to me and I always feel better after playing. Never felt shame or anger. It’s a relaxation method for me. And because of this I can complete some tasks, and then shut off the system to play another time.
frankly we've all come to a point where we can be paralyzed and game all day and poof when were 30 get a job like everyone else and be equally succesful
@@DarkSunStudios1 thats hard to do though, he explains its hard to "just stop playing". it is not that simple and often people just come back to the games...theres a reason this is video game "addiction" it literally is like an addiction
My friend is literally 21, has never had a job, and lives with his parents spending 8 hrs a day on the computer playing video games. Video game addiction is for real a U.S. health epedimic.
@@Spamjim0211 that's wearied but I can see When I lived in the US there was gamers Normal ones And this stupids you talked about They were mostly in rich countries But when I got back to syria 8 years ago from today I didn't find that They try to find job They have friends Idk why they are really stupid to waste their life I mean It's not a prob I think to game on But not a lot
I love video games and I don't see them as a waste of time. I do many things to control my play time. This also makes me enjoy it even more. 1. I usually don't play at daylight. I mostly play when its dark outside. At least when there is good sunny wheather outside, I don't enjoy playing video games at all. Spending time outside is much more enjoyable in this situation for me. 2. I differ singleplayer from multiplayer: singleplayer is pure enjoyment and relaxing. Fun is the main point. I haven't regret playing any singleplayer game whatsoever, because I enjoyed it. So there is absolutely no waste of time. Multiplayer is different. I can relate to what you said in your video. Expectations and willing to be good at it can ruin it. However, as long as you play with your friends and enjoy it, everything's good. You can also reduce your anger potential by eliminating risk factors. E.g. make sure to play in a full team of 5 of your friends in ts at e.g. csgo. Or generally lower your expectations. Also be aware of the fact that there is always a high chance that there will be a guy who is better then you (because hes more talented or has more hours etc whatever). It's simple pretty unrealistic or even impossible to be the best at a game - be aware of that. 3. Make sure to play only if you have time for it. So doing your work that has to be done is key. Stuff like working, studying, sports, etc. For me this works great!
you didn't really waste it compared to like 99% here. You have a TH-cam channel which somewhat benefits from your video game 'addiction'. Rarely anything in this world can ever be wasted
Video games are something so special to me because they allowed amazing worlds and experiences and journeys to come alive. Games are so much more than "fun" or "addictive", it's what we get out of them. And I get so much out of them than I can quit for a couple of months, try different hobbies, be happy and content, and still feel like video games are such an amazing art form and that making them a part of my life only adds more value to it. That being said, don't expect to play video games all day and feel fulfilled, cause video games only add value to your life, they shouldn't define it. And you shouldn't cope with your problems and insecurities by immersing in them. You should breath through them to find inspiration and value and beauty or just to have some fun, but never let them breath through you. With great power comes great responsibility, you guys, and I'm sure that video games have the power to break lives, but also to make life one of the most amazing experiences ever. That is the magic of the video game art form.
No video games don't "break lives" nor are they "addictive", fun yes, but not "addictive", it DEPENDS on the people & how we use them. But yes, video games are amazing art form!
This video was spot on with my past League of Legends Addiction. I would play just to have fun and I did in season 2,3,4,5 (2012-2015) . But like this guy , I got pretty good at it and hit Diamond elo, the games pissed me off when they weren't going my way. I took out my anger on my family who did nothing wrong and I kept playing to gain back the points I lost in ranked. I would play just to go even in my ranked points, 2017 was probably the worst year of my life as I got so addicted I would cut class to go to internet cafes to play, I didn't socialize AT ALL even if girls were hitting on me in class :(, I gained weight, was depressed,I played 12 hours a day. I woke up ran to my computer and played untill night, I only got up to eat food,use bathroom,I would only go outside once every 5 days because I considered it a waste of time and pointless. At the time I was addicted to porn and sugar like soda,chocolate,etc too, yeah....I could go on and on. But now I do none of those things , lost 25 pounds or so ,socialize, am the happiest I been. I still play League but only like 2 games opposed to the 12-13 games a day. If I could do it you can do it , reply to this comment if you are in a similar situation right now. The change didn't happen instantly it took months of effort.......
Sad story bro, I'm in the same situation I'm playing Dofus and I get more and more progress every day, but I have to replace play games for progranming.
I was in the army, I got discharged and have been looking for work for over 12 months with no luck. I play the new call of duty for 16 hrs a day but I don’t want to do it I just can’t afford to go out and do anything else and I want to socialise and get friends but I have none I don’t even have any friends online yet in real life. I haven’t even been to a party, been drunk or had sleep overs and I’m 20. I want to experience life.
My brother is 22 years old and is addicted to games. He is depressed too. He is all those things you mentioned. I lent him money so he can look for a job, made a CV for him and even applied to some jobs online for him. He didn't attend the appointments... and I can't do that for him. I talked to him about his future a million times, he pretends to change for a day or two and goes back to sleeping all day, not showering and playing games all night. This scares me because I will have to move eventually. What is his life going to become?
Lol I just stopped playing after gold 3. Probably could grind more, but I wouldn't spend my whole life on this toxic game. I'm way better at enjoying my passions, dancing, playing piano and driving trains.
Right now I'm stuck on a forced abstinence of gaming because my laptop died, my mind is a mix of excitement so that I can start figuring out my future and anxiety because I don't know yet what to do with the free time since I'm on vacation. When I was daily playing games I always felt distracted from all of this, but since the day I sent my laptop to repair I've been feeling down and anxious
It has a lot do with instant gratification. When you finally finish that quest or win a game of ranked you are instantly rewarded and feel a sense of accomplishment. This behavior is very similar to partying, smoking weed, or drinking alcohol. The result is an instant pleasure that you put relatively little to no effort to enjoy. Now compare this to the thousands of hours needed to master a musical instrument and it becomes clear why you and so many others find it easier to rely on video games for gratification; because its quick and convenient. Unfortunately, as is the case for many gamers, we become exposed to instant gratification at a very young age. The only solution is to re-wire ourselves and engage our minds to be more responsive to productive behavior. Masturbating to porn has to be one of the most detrimental of all. Which is why I've since stopped doing it, as it also dulls the mind and breeds complacency. Since I've stopped, I feel like I'm significantly more focused and powerful. As men, our sexual drive is what gives us strength and motivation; If we're constantly depleting it, then we're simply wasting our potential.
Absolutely agree. More so, people who use to get easy pleasure gratification are becoming less responsive to pleasure hormones, like dopamine, so they need more and more dopamine to be satisfied. So usual life activities are becoming very dull and boring for such people
But what about hard games that require skill like dota or sc2 are those also part of the addiction or similar to learning a new skill to develop the mind. That’s where I found a flaw with the video he talks about playing relaxing games to stop frustration then plays hard games and says the frustration is bad. But I thought he said frustration is a good thing and video games ruin the sense of working hard, but then he plays video games that make him work hard and says that those games being hard is bad
elida dlr if you tried to forget that this point was your own you’d see that your “applied to anything” logic ignores his point. Of course everything is addictive because we are emotionally creatures, nobody is saying that only certain things are addictive but it’s almost always universally true that things that are easy aren’t worth doing! You should absolutely work smart not hard but that saying is incredibly enabling for lazy behaviour. You should absolutely bike to the store it’s great for your mind and body. That’s harder the driving but it’s smart. The point you miss about the instant gratification argument is that it’s the factor that makes gaming more addicting then doing homework for a high grade in a class you need! Work hard not smart and things like video games and porn give the mind chemical satisfaction without any reality based satisfaction. If not a hindering or crippling addiction due to the instant gratification factor it’s the bias towards laziness, inaction and procrastination. The factor towards doing what you want not what you need. I hope you’re able to consider the points I’m making honestly.
I just deleted the game I was most addicted to about a month ago. It's been a tough journey, but I am proud that I made it through a month. I hope that I can continue this for the rest of this year. Fingers crossed...
Games are not the problem, people who doesn't have self-control are. I follow a philosophy in which willpower is the way to achieve any goal. I play as much as I want, because my will leads me to do it and that leads me to do other activities
Truth, it’s your own fault if you are 22 and have no job living at home an not going to uni. Like you can’t blame that on gaming because it’s his fault for not making sure he had a path in life planned
I was wasting all my time with videogames for years. I still went to university and graduated, but continued playing all throughout, and even after I found my first job. I had something like 50+ days in league of legends, 2000+ hrs in Rocket league, 2000+ hrs in Fortnite, and more. I've reached top 50 on the global leaderboard in the rocket league solo duel playlist. After some time I sat down and really thought hard about the way I utilize my free time, and came to the conclusion that videogames have never paid off in any way. They've always only given me short term pleasure, and long term guilt. Once it was clear that videogames were useless to me, I deleted all of them from my computer, and began improving my software engineering skills by solving algorithm challenges / working on side projects. Doing this I am investing into my long term future. Once you get over the need for constant short term gratification, it all begins to make sense. The reason why it's so difficult for people to become successful is because they take the greedy approach to life. Their actions are meant to give them the most instant gratification that they can find. The actions that will make you successful are those that may not give you gratification for weeks, months, or even years. But after you wither the storm, and overcome the obstacles, you'll be happy that you embarked on the journey, and will reap the rewards.
Nah man I'm an instant gratification kind of guy, I ain't doing all that shit on the off chance that something good will come of it, and I'll always take the greedy approach to everything.
Accepting I have a guitar addiction when I instantly recognized the guitar tabs from Steve Vai's Tender Surrender at 1:20 haha. Computer games mess with my mind and dopamine levels and completely waste my time. Guitars don't. Play guitars guys! :D
To got nearly no negative experience means that u obviously didn't got the opportunity to learn from them. To not risk anything isn't good or helpful. It's just Cowardness. I have been in the same spot. Go out, meet girls, take risks, u won't regret it.
@@purpleandthetiger6848 lmao alright let me do heroin, get a bitch pregnant and start gambling to learn from my mistakes. You got it wrong buddy, not everyone needs to do those things to realize they're retarded
I love video games and always will. BUT so far my life has been ruined because of addiction. Before I bought myself a Xbox one for Christmas (Yes my parents made me pay 75% of the price.) I was destroying school, smashing out A+’s in every subject. I nearly had an idea for a possible career, played Basketball (Still do but only in my spare time, which isn’t often.) hang out with friends, all the good stuff. I quickly became addicted to the Xbox. After 4 years of gaming I’m now in my final year of school and I’m failing every subject, I have severe depression, I no longer play games for fun just for the sake of it, I have social anxiety, I left my friends because I didn’t want to dedicate myself the time to spend with them, I get anxious at work and screw up a lot, I’m skinny and unhealthy, I don’t talk to anyone even online. I also have no ambition and motivation in life. My parents tried really hard to discipline me on technology but I always found a way to game. They didn’t understand technology enough to help me. Please if you are still young, consider worrying about the time in your future not the time you missed gaming. Please. Edit: I really appreciate the support I am receiving and I will be setting out on changing my attitude towards my life at once. I have also noticed that a lot of people are believe it's my own fault and not video games. And I agree. Video games are a blessing for our generation and the last thing I want to do is dump my problems on them. My life has been ruined because of my attitude towards my addiction. I could say that I am addicted to anything other than video games but I still must admit that it's my attitude that needs to change not the problem itself. I must now work on my self control if I want a better future. (Update) - 11 months later. I’ve never been happier. For the last 9 months I have completely disciplined myself with self-control. On average I spend maybe 10 hours a month on video games, because I don’t know what ticked, but the thought of sitting there playing it bores me and makes me feel useless in some sense. And yes the few minutes I play feel great but they soon evaporate which is fine. It all started with reading and meditation. This year alone I have clocked about 27 books, 250 pages of journaling and a daily routine of 20 meditation. I managed to turn myself around in the final part of my year and I topped English with one of the highest scores. I have no idea how or what set this reaction to video games off but I could explain it as a hyperactive sensation that requires me to fill my time with meaningful tasks. I can’t remember the last type I felt depressed or lethargic. And my fitness has never been better. I’ve been hanging out with friends at the gym playing basketball for the local team and I get along with my family so well. Everything feels great. I know this transition may seem hard to believe, and trust me, I am in disbelief! The only advice I can give is to pace yourself. Only play games that have no competition (to begin with). Start by playing an hour everyday and cut your internet at a certain time to restrict yourself. Then, take a walk. Come inside and grab a book. Read for 30 minutes. Those 30 minutes earns you 30 minutes of more gaming. Soon you’ll start to feel the motivation kick in. Start to consider the things you do in the day as health benefits or harms and learn to seperate yourself from the bad. My new found passion for learning and reading makes gaming feel like a waste of time, but then I think about it as time well spent to relax and loosen the mind. Start thinking about your health and the impacts of everything you do. That’s my advice. Thanks again for all the support and criticism, because it all helped! Gaming is awesome, but life has better graphics.
This is definitely me like right now this year, sorry you’re going through this. I guess the solution would be to keep on striving man, to fill the void inside and to balance out our lives. Have work, a social life, get educated in school and have spare time for yourself where you can play games or basketball in your example or maybe some other form of entertainment. It’s just hard when none of those things make you happy and you stop striving. Maybe we should tell ourselves to stop whining and just go for it, to not give up and to keep grinding to become happier... idk you tell me what you think
agreed man, currently in senior year of hs and I play video games as an escape mechanism and just waste away. Started failing subjects and my depression picked up hard. People that think addiction is not real or is “just in your head” need to stop, this shit is real and it’s happening every day with games like fortnite and tf2. You are responsible for your actions and that’s why it’s so scary.
Sometimes , u can't escape a certain game , and just keep on playing , grinding and playing , sometimes i think about "What can give me this? And what will i achieve with this?"
yeah but you could literally find any excuse to justify your lack of ambition.. you think discipline and self control just comes naturally to everyone? maybe 1percent have a genetic predisposition to that kind of thing, but also, a lot of these highly ambitious people end up being workaholics, make some okay money, have "it all", burn out, endure a devastating existential crisis, and the stress kills them in the end.. i dunno man, just, if your inner voice says play less games, listen to that.. not having integrity is far worse than too much xbox
@Grailer most of people didn't have food shoved right into their mouth sweetheart, we need money to support ourselves, and job provide one, I'm sorry if you parents put you in cage and throw banana every now and then, it must be convenient for you
I dropped out of school because I'd played video games too much, I have not done anything for my self, I tried to learn Japanese but I failed because I'd played video games too much and don't spent the time to learn Japanese. And I realize I stop playing video games and I began to learn English, its have been 3 months I have a lot of improvement in English cause I have lot free time when I'm not playing video games, I notice that instead, I spent a thousand hours of video games I could learn a lot of things else like reading book and I might know 3 languages and play instrument.
I can't thank you enough for this wonderful video, I have been looking everywhere for information on my addiction and they just say to find a hobby. But then I'm like, I got a hobby, playing video games, and I like that better than anything else. Then you said, we don't do these hobbies because they tire us out too quick, and I realized that it's not that I don't like anything, it's that I am too lazy to improve myself! Thank you!
6k hours of csgo here. Cant relate to the things you`re stressed out of tho. The key to enjoy your lifestyle is time management. As for me i do sports 5 times a week, working in a retail job and visit university. But i can still game as long as i want because i mostly start if i have finished my to do list. I think this is possible for everyone if they just spend time on planing their day
@@gater9639 csgo is an old game I've had it since 2012 I got 3k hours, and maybe 5-6k total on Steam I've only played about 3 hours in the past two weeks mind I spent way more when I was younger at school but there is plenty of time in the day to do shit if you don't waste time. I've been playing less because I need to focus right now on irl shit and I realised games were getting in the way at times.
I dropped out of school at 14 , I felt depressed in school and I started playing video games a few months after I left , ... now i have well over 7000 hours in video games and archieved nothing in my life im 19 no degree unemployed with no prospect in the future ... My life will defenly suck very hard because I wasted the time to get what I want on video games ,quees the only thing I can do at this time is warn others to not go down the same way I did , who ever read this ,its my only productive thing I did for the world at this point warning others for the danger of addiction pls take it with you thrue your education !
seppe mees its not too late, you have a whole world out there which with plenty of elements you’re yet to discover! You are in control of your life. Go learn some new things in the real world :D
Same. It cost me 3 years and the most wonderful girl in the world. Why am I still playing? I don't know. Almost every session ends in rage... It's stupid. The cinematics and art are great tho
It is hard these days to balance play time vs being productive, as most modern games are designed to keep you playing them as long as possible and to keep going back with things such as daily/weekly objectives, limited timed events, log in bonuses and long play times required for 'good' unlockables (or alternatively an attached price tag to those unlockables). At least with older games they had an end point. The older I get the more I realise I have much less time to play, but the games themselves demand more of my time to be played. Without giving up your entire life you will never outplay the game, so IMO it is much better to devote that energy to some form of personal development. Now I use the time I have to persue other interests, however I still keep informed about game news for the games I am interested in.
Completely with you man. And I would like to suggest to anyone who's reading this to stop playing mobile games, even casually. I only played them for 2 years as an "experiment" and they really fuck with your brain. If you really want to spend your time with videogames just BUY a good console or PC game.
Just dont play games...when u will realize it will be way too late....instead read books.....just read..dont fall into the trap of anime........and yah that news part i also do but i have got over my pubg mobile addiction
This hits really close to home. I don't play games for 24 hours straight and refuse to sleep or eat, but i do stay up late and procrastinate my goals to play games. I've wasted a lot of time playing video games; time that could have been used to learn to code, learn to write a book, exercise, etc. You only get one shot at life, and it's a crime to waste it.
I think the best way to solve this problem is to connect “fun” with “work” together. Best work when you love it, enjoy it, and has passion to this. I know that you have 1 question - “But, What is it?”. Sometimes “this” is closer than you think, sometimes ppl can steer you is right detection. Look at your interested directions, and you will see all questions that you ask before.
Right, if you find something to work with and you LOVE it, it wont be a work...because u Will have fun with It or like It a lot. But you need to know that anything Big in Life needs effort...
I once met someone on ARK survival evolve who had 489 days played, that’s 11,746 hours of his life sunk into that trash heap of a game. He’s probably well over 500 days played now at this point
Funny thing though. RUST (and I presume Ark) have crafting timers, sometimes long ones. You can set up a crafting queue in safety, that will run for an hour. Then you go have some dinner or do some chores. I once did this to craft enough C4 and rockets to wipe out a clan base. Every hour i'd come back, place the item in a box, grab more raw materials i had saved up, start up the queue again. I wasn't actively playing but it counted to my total play time because i was logged in.
That was actually a very reasonable video. Some people watch Netflix after work. Some people read books. Some people do nothing but try to get parties going. Some people play video games. I'm the latter, like you. Everyone has a hobby, something they do for fun. If you don't, something is wrong. Addiction is not the same. If what you want to do for fun the most is play video games, that's not an addiction. That's just what you enjoy doing. And I think every hobby can have its bad moments. Maybe you feel you've wasted your time reading a bad book or watching a bad movie, or you get frustrated when you still can't play that song on the guitar after all that training, or you've ended up hating the painting you've worked on for a couple days. Just like you can get frustrated at your own skills in multiplayer games - it's certainly not limited to gaming. Also, maybe your job is the most fun thing to you, and I suppose that means you're lucky... or not, because I've also read some studies on how being forced to do what would usually be fun to you has the potential to completely ruin that, but I don't know which is true. I design websites at work. That's not the most fun thing to me, but it's not a job I hate either, because it is close to what I do for fun, which is drawing cartoons and cartoon characters (aside from playing video games). I don't know if that's the most ideal kind of job in relation to your hobbies, all I can say is that I'm happy with it, and I'm not getting fatigued of gaming or drawing, either. Don't feel bad for "wasting" time doing things you enjoy. They don't have to be productive, that is just a byproduct for people who do happen to have productive hobbies. It's like feeling bad about wasting time while sleeping. You're just covering your basic human needs. @Moths, I can't help but say it... your Soldier SFM ending is getting extremely depressing :( It went from being fun to ending the video on an awkward note. I don't even know what it's supposed to mean, I just see the association with death in it. I dunno.
For me I've noticed it's much easier to regulate single player games than multiplayer games. In single player stories there's a beginning and an end. Once I get to that end I stop playing. I'm also not competing with anyone else and since it's a story based game I feel like I can leave and come back anytime. With multiplayer games it's neverending. There's always that "one more match" urge and the desire to rank up. Whenever you lose a game and are doing bad you want to keep playing so you can "end on a good note". Nowadays I mainly stick to single player games and I play games for the story. I don't want to spend my whole life sitting in my apartment playing games trying to achieve some rank that really doesn't matter. There's so much more to life than being diamond rank in league of legends or whatever game you play.
Yep, I stick to single player games as well. If I want to play witb friends, there's always co-op games like borderlands. With co-op, you're not competing with anyone and you can stop and comeback whenever you want just like singleplayer games
@@ifacecamp717 I just personally prefer single player games over multiplayer games. I'm willing to pay $60 for a game like red dead or the Witcher and I found myself not willing to pay that much for the next cod, destiny, or whatever. Many multiplayer games are designed to be addictive to keep you coming back forever and usually ends up in frustration and annoyance after enough game time. I still play some games like rainbow six siege from time to time with friends but I stopped chancing the rank. I use to just go to work from 8 to 4:30, go home, load up siege(or whatever game we're into at the time) and play with my friends until I go to bed. Then one day I noticed my life was just flying by and I had to stop and get out of my apartment more.
I also felt this kind of urge back then when I was so addicted to games such as MOBA, FPS and MMO, I always have this feeling to play more to win and get better which is why it's never ending. I never thought about this idea playing single player games which is indeed a good idea of not getting addicted in my opinion.
Pro tip: Don't play games, which you find frustrating, just because it can be amazing rarely. This is especially true in online games. And also games with a lot of grind, mostly games with microtransactions. Just uninstall them.
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Thank you so much for 1 million views! I never believed it could happen, but you proved me wrong! :D
seems like your buisness isnt dead anymore..?
2700 hours only lul
I started in 2016 and I have 3800 hours. you found out about it in 2012 why not talk about it then so I couldve played it sooner.
Hello toomanymoths.. Since you did mention that you want to get better at art etc etc.. You could make a day plan for yourself because you're more likely to do it
How to waste your life: watch your videos
I can relate to this pretty hard. I always feel like garbage when I'm playing games because I have so many better things to be doing. But when I start to do those things I feel incredibly bored and go back to the games after a bit.
@@a-1291 Can you read?
*ｒｅｌａｔａｂｌｅ*
@@a-1291 it's literally explained in the video
Same. I tried to start to read in my free time instead of playing games but i eventually found myself reading Halo books. Thought it was funny when i realised i moved from games, to books about games which got me into halo so now im play through all the halo games lmao i went full circle.
I can relate a lot. though i found programming really fucking fun and it pulled me out
*I think that im wasting 12 mins and 54 sec bcs mine YT addiction*
TH-cam + gaming addiction rip my life
@@harnageaa i got the same addiction i cant pass a day without playing or watching
How many hours do u guys do ?
@@paraskaith5027 8 hours a day
@@seitakiiiii Well, then I'm not alone I guess .
I have quit video games for 2 years now.
What am I doing with my free time you might ask?
Pursuing my passion for art?
Maybe a bit, but now 90% of my time has gon from games to watching TH-cam and Netflix.
It's a slow journey my friends
Ahaxx. Funny
I'm exactly in the same boat. Id just add discord onto the list.
Gabe Ebersohn i quit gaming 4 years ago. And during the 4 years i spent my free time on gardening (part time job which lasted a year), Instagram Facebook youtube and anime
Sounds like me xD
WHY IS THIS SO FKING RELATABLE XD
I quit online gaming and switched to single player games they are way more fun and less frustrating than ever
Iنو نيم
I never started online gaming
True, online is just eating your time away with all the ‘camos’ and cool guns
Noob
edboss lol just ignore those things
Same. Why be a filthy casual who spends time playing CSGO, or LoL or PUBG. Never was into that. The only online games that I truly ever enjoyed were WoW and Warframe. Why? Because those have story. You have a story line you follow. But then I realised that even MMORPG's are ruined by the MMO concept, and completely switched to offline solo play.
I'd rather play solo player games like the Mass Effect series, Fallout, TES series, Witcher, any rpg really, or the games like Castlevania or The Legend of Zelda, you know, adventurous games, that tell you a stroy, that give the opportunity to live through an adventure, save a universe or two, interact with the characters, experience beautiful landscapes...
This is so addicting,
Alexa, play tf2 for 10k hours
Truly, addicting.
PEPSI MAN
@@vow.autumn Eyy, what up, let me give you a tip, Coca-cola is bad.
Drink Pepsi, it's better.
That's hot
Genius comment I am dying xD
This video explained everything. I feel the same way. Well off to playing tf2 for another 1,000 hours.
Truly, incredible
i got addicted to animating. it lead to a whole career and job.
The original Justin Y.
Das p cool
Eyy I'm just jumping into the industry too!
Pikapetey Animations you haven't uploaded since last year
W e i r d
F l e x
B u t
O k a y
When the fun stops, stop.
Ah yes the trademark of gambling
@ShadoW_775 That is just pathetic
aight but in minecraft it has not yet and it never mifght cause i have just so many modes of games init ot play\
I have nothing else
@@Jakentosh HvH is very popular for CSGO, not that pathetic
In my opinion, my time on youtube feels more wasted than playing games.
Soviet Loli that’s because games are amazing at tricking u into thinking you’ve actually achieved something. super depressing
the only games i consider time well spent are story driven ones with unique and interesting setting and mechanics, like half life or bioshock. everything else is a waste of time, especially RPGs, since you're wasting time doing boring, monotonous activities just to level up your character, instead of learning some real life skills.
Not if your watching the informal kind of vids where you learn about something
@@beanerwithaweaner1017 how much you actually retain that information depends on whether you binge watch
@@WhoopEaterz if you watch 3 hours of this type of videos it's still better than 3 hours of nonsense videos where you watch it just because it feels good while watching. After finishing a trash video you usually feel shit (my personal opinion, don't attack me over this please)
the animation has improved! From 1fps to 2fps OH MY GOD
Truly, outstanding.
Your profile picture makes this comment even better.
Just like my frames in tf2
your profile picture fits this comment perfectly
Laugh as much as you want but thats *double the fps*
Wanna hear the piece of advice that literally changed my life?
I too felt like garbage when playing too much videogames, until I realized they were the sole reason I learned english at a very high level, higher than any of my peers, and without taking any courses (I'm not a native speaker)
Then it all made sense, I immediately changed all of my games language to french, looked up the basics online and started playing again all day x)
Now, fast forward 5 years I'm fluent in french and italian, almost in german and picking up russian
These skills have helped me a lot, got me into some awesome places and landed me a pretty good job, I'm still playing like 2 hours a day and I enjoy every minute of it
I'm trying to learn french, so would that method work well? I'm trying to watch french TH-camrs sometimes but there aren't a lot of them :/
@@seansin5603 When learning a foreign languge like that, it's good to absorb as much of it as possible whenever you can. So yeah, watching movies with French va or playing games that likewise have that would help you naturalize in it.
@@desertdevil6451 how long would it take, like a year or so? I have changed my phone's language to french so its a good start. I can kind of figure put what I'm pressing most of the time
Wait what lul, that actually works? I remember doing it for some reason as a kid, watching toy story in spanish and shit. Games will be easier to learn off I'd imagine however. Now that I think about it, I can plqy borderlands 2 over and over again on a different language and still know what they might be saying, so I guess it does get you familiar with certain sounding words so they'll be easyish to learn+remember after a while?
@@seansin5603 I have no idea, to be honest. But it works.
Sees 2710 hours played in the thumbnail.
Has 3001 hours in Dota...
At least you don't have 10,000 hours on Runescape
sonidanis damn lol
@@sonidanis at least you dont have 5 k hours in ark
I have 2,000 *ingame* hours in league of legends. Probably close to 4000 with the game open
3001hours still herald😂😂
Yeah I'm wasting my life Workin a 60 hr work week to survive.
I can't do the things I wish I could do either.
That hit hard
AtomicToyRobot Playing the victim card, but it was your own fault.
AtomicToyRobot There's always a way to change thing
Kaden Wolf failed argument playing the deflection card, dangerous/unrealistic working hours proven harmful to health is the fault of a failed economy and lack of regulation.
scientific facts regarding physical/mental health are inconvenient to businesses that try to pressure employee's into dangerous hours, and inconvenient to failed economy's where pay is so low in some jobs that people have to take extra hours (which then slows down productivity/health when the brain passes an X number of hours per week).
AtomicToyRobot the irony being here while some people attempt to argue that any time spent on fun is "wasted time", the same argument can be made against work because of countries like south korea where a work addiction culture (and #1 oecs suicide rates) finally lead to the government stepping and and whipping companies into submission and regulating maximum work hours allowed.
too much time spent on fun is causes problems, too much time spent on work causes problems. the key is balance, but in the case of dangerously extreme work hours (that were scientifically proven harmful to health) being required for the minimum cost of living that's a failed economy without sufficent regulation to prevent corporation's from having employee's work extreme hours.
Plays video game after videos ends
noahrocks11now plays video games while watching this video
@@theverminator8048 LOL XD
Damn 😂😂😂
finishes 50 hour rpg game
@BruderShaft1 lol you're right XD
2000 hours on tf2 is rookie numbers, i have 4658 on gmod. also 5th
in gmod? WHAT?
@@TheGarbageMann A friend of mine has 11,217 hours (or 1.3 years) invested in Gmod
true, 2k hours on tf2 is like the average.
You get an achivement called "addict" in Gmod if you do a complete year of playtime.
@@Unirule it hurts to think of the daily time that represents.
League of Legends has kept me a slave for a really long time, guess it's finally time I unshackle myself and start actually living my life. Thanks for the insightful video.
Modern He is Diamond I now
@Modern it's been over a month now since I've last played league, and oh boy do I feel better. I'm spending more time with family and friends, started putting more work into my college assignments, and picked up digital drawing to keep my mind off gaming. I don't regret my decision one bit.
@@DannySharkas drawing sound like a great alternative to compulsive gaming
After 6 months, how is going?
@@PevidesJokinha he is in diamond I by now
I have found a good balance between playing games, socializing and physical activity. And that balance has made me better at games too.
I've found a balance. It's called being forced to go to school.
@@eastlemon9477 ^_^
Tell us your secret
FAKE NEWS
HiGPS Let’s play TF2 together
man i miss tf2
3700 hours, own server network, amazing people
but i have a career that has long had it coming and is now skyrocketing and takes all my time and effort.
im quite proud that i could just stop playing. no exceptions.
i hope tf2 will still be great when i come back because that will likely be years from now.
These updates are becoming scarce though. :(
Wishful thinking. ;-;
Right now, the playerbase is good and the game as well, I believe it has a long life yet
Same I had like 4200 hours..ivent played it in 6 years
Gaston 😍
The answer is moderation... You do your things to be productive and THEN you can play whatever you want
Ezequiel Reis exactly
Your choice what you want to do
Exactly. Or just don't play to a point where it ruins your life
It's easier said than done. Sometimes time just passes too quickly
irish rover - For yourself loser. Lol.
In other words, if you want to have fun with life, strike a fair balance between work and play; don't be a workaholic, but don't be a gamer that plays all day just to have one moment of a good time (especially with online games). Do your job, do your home chores, do your shopping, and play your games all together in moderation.
You don't have to love your job though, just find something you don't hate.
The Traveler it’s not that easy, if you start playing a game you want to be good at it or become high level, and to reach that you have to play very much
@@avprince2672 Thankfully, it's very easy if you play game for fun, and avoid any notion of "competition" or the "git gud" stigma. If you ask me, it's a waste of time caring about the latter.
@@TheTraveler980 It really is, the moment you get off of the PC all vanishes.
@@aoxiang What do you mean? PC isn't the only platform with competitive games.
@@TheTraveler980 Ok.
Some people misunderstood the meaning of this video In my opinion.
It's not about playing video games is a waste of time, go away do productive stuff.
Nope, it's not about it.
It's about do not waste your live by not achiving things that are important to you, playing video games instead, cause it's easier.
That's the point. Or ot least I think that it it.
What if video games are important to me?
@@KARTIKEYA007 Then play them everyday as well as me dude. :D
Just don't let them take over all of your live I guess.
Carrie what if you play a game like runescape but I’m making money off it is that wasting time? Or nah?
what if I love them enough to let them take over my whole life? how about letting people live the way they want to and not dictate to them how much they should play eh? @@Carre4beta
@@KARTIKEYA007 You're totally right. That's how it should work. If I wouldn't learn on my own, just work. I probably would do the same and play through most of my day, as I was doing back in school
I had a 3 year length relationship. We used to go out every Friday on the first year, so that's 51 days for the first year. Let's say we went out 6 hours average per day so that's 306 hours the first year. We used to go out more time and see each other at college/work, and hang out at anyone's house and sleep together few times the last 2 years. So let's say thats 9 hours average a day, so 9 hours * 365 days = 3285 * 2 = 6570 + 306 of the first year = 6876 hours spent with her. She cheated on me multiple times having sex with her friend.
I'd rather spent those hours on The Witcher 3, TES5 Skyrim, RDR2.
The witcher 3 is the best
Hang in there bro, there's a lot of Thots out there but there are more honest people as well. Hopefully one day you'll meet one.
Feels bad man
Best wishes! I hope u do better in the future
Enjoy thots in moderation to preserve your powerlevels. Kappa
WE
ARE IN THE BEAM
Da body has decomposed
Not anymore
Ded, not big soup rice
We died and decomposed a long time ago
Bonus Ducks!
Too relatable
I declare that I won’t play anymore... back on in 30 minutes
I used to be addicted to soap, but now I’m clean.
You've seen me
OUT DAMN YOU!!!! THAT JOKE WAS SO GOOD!!!!! GET OUT!!!! XD
The first time I saw this joke was like 2 years ago...UNORIGINAL.
10+ intelligence
Oh yeah?
Video games are a hobby, to have fun and pass the time. If you play then all day long... something is wrong. Moderation is key
Scorch from Republic Commando? Nostalgia...
I remember at one point I was spending my whole Saturday playing games, 10 hours straight...
Now I just spend this whole time in youtube...
@@dinoluka11 Yep, best commando, that game was amazing
@@creature_of_fur Lol! Not much has changed then! That seens unhealthy as well. Some days it's hard to do anything though, but if it's everyday? Maaan, be carreful
@@scorch6208 i tried to do moderation
and didnt end well.everything else is boring as shit.so i just game until i cant find fun on other things
Let me break it down for you.
Realized video games is a waste of time, watches TH-cam instead.
Realized TH-cam is a waste of time, watch Netflix instead
You gonna find time wasters when you don't wanna do anything productive so it is one thing or the other.
Its not like reading novels does any good. Or playing football or wrestling. Every hobby has its ups and downs. Nothing is a waste of time really.
I can second this. It's literally me the past few months
Exactly. If video games got banned the addicted players would likely just move onto something else equally as pointless and get addicted to that instead. They wouldn't suddenly become productive and motivated people.
@@yungdomino4718 as a office working gamer who started limiting/balancing my game time in exchange for learning to cook, fiddle with guitar and Muay Thai I can say I very strongly disagree.
Convincing yourself that playing games with do anything other than provide a bit of fun is delusional. There's nothing wrong with it in moderation but it needs to be treated like junk food it provides satisfaction in exchange for well-being
vid maker is childish, he's so far from the truth, whatdver a man do, it's wasting time because evetyhthins is conceptual, and illusion, we dont have inherent value or meaning
As a kid, video games were a rare activity for me. We had one game called Motor Storm and we were lucky to play it once every few weeks when our parents allowed. There was something special about it. On my thirteenth birthday, my parents bought me my first PS3. This introduced me to a wide variety of games. Most of my greatest early experiences with gaming revolved around connection - the thrill of playing with friends and discovering a world one level at a time. I used to ramble on and on about these games with my all friends at lunch breaks. However, there came a time where my friends moved on and stopped caring about video games. Each hour spent training hordes of zombies didn’t grant the same excitement it once had. Nevertheless, I continued to play hours on end devoting my life to these useless games. I now sit, many years later, and nothing much has changed. For the most part, I am still that same lonely kid stuck at home wasting his life away on a glorified video game; living a lie and chasing that high of connection he once felt. In all those thousands of hours spent playing, I’ve begun to realize that I will never be able to reclaim a single minute of it. I wasted over a month straight playing video games and I’m going to have to live with it. I think it’s time for me to go out and make a few stories of my own before my times up.
I’m still young, but this is something I wish I’d realized sooner.
Beautiful comment. So insightful. I loved it. I find myself in the exact same situation. At first I would play them occasionally but once I got my own it became more of an obsession. All of my childhood memories, including those of friends, revolve around videogames. I find it even a bit freaky hearing how similarly you and I both came to grow up and self-reflect on our lives now. I know your comment is 8 months old from this one but I hope you've added new, real experiences to your life as I too am planning to do now having been inspired by your truthful comment. Let's go for it! Best wishes: someone like you :)
@@juanzilla6436 Its very freaky indeed, glad some of my friends still hang out and play games with me, otherwise i would be loner (not counting my gf) especially in corona times when pubs are closed and such here. The worst thing with gaming for me is the feeling of void and emptiness, like the weeks, months even years passed but are in my memory only as mere days, if not hours. Im trying slowly to get my self on track with learning about what i love beside video games, but its quite hard to be honest. Good luck in life kings. Stay strong.
You will just respawn when you die.
Or just completly
@@mokie7421 sad
@@HeartMype wot
@@adarksidecry Pls no what?
@Chuck Nourrizzz thats badass, its like freecam-ing places youve never been to before
2710 hours phhhh, those are newbie numbers
Finally, someone says something proper
ikr
@@zertoz3062 ew
@@zertoz3062
No you don't lmao
@@zertoz3062 you dont have life?
For me, I stop when i get bored of a Game.
I can't game for longer than 3 hours at a time without getting the urge to do something else. I still like playing games here and there tho.
Same I can only play about 2 games of siege before I go do something else
U just havenr found the right game an online one specifically hahah
definitelynotanormie when I was 15-16 I used to play LoL like a madman. If nobody stopped me, I couldn't stop playing. 4-5 hours a day easily wasted. Now I'm 18 and I can't play more than 3 games. It's not about the right game or boredom of a game, because I still enjoy LoL. It's only about the fact that you realise you're wasting time and you have the will power to do something else, eventually productive, with your time... friends, going out, parties (not clubbing necessarily), simply having walks in the park, doing a sport, learning something new etc. there's so much more to life and it is sooo short, so why waste it? you can game for as long as you want when you can't do anything else or when you are old etc. but why waste such important time when you can do something else with it?
I wish i were the same
Yeah, I feel you. Plus, my back starts to hurt and I get jittery from sitting in a chair for too long.
"You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think." - Marcus Aurelius
instructions unclear, 3700 hours of DOTA2 complete...
5.4k here LUL
8774 on my main account
4676 hours csgo on same acc
Only 1200 hours on DOTA2
Only 60 I'm proud
"Yeah glad I'm not addicted to video games, that must be awful"
*lights up crack pipe
DonCon Gaming haha
lol
Im not but it's one of the worst and one of the grosest addiction
DonCon Gaming hahaha i laughed out loud 😂
Yeah that's some good logic.... fucking imbeciles...
How to waste your life:
Step 1. Live.
Clever
Wrong.
Kesh The Opposite is true
@@KeshArt nope, he is right, there is no point in anything in life, life is what you make it to be.
Technically
as with everything, the key is moderation.
You're 100% correct. After all, there are also a lot of things in life that can be considered a waste of time, like school for example, yeah, you can get the diploma from school which can make you able to get a job but you also learn a lot of useless things in school that you won't need in life.
Yes this needs more likes
No, “moderation is key”.
There ya go
fax
what about sext
I feel personally attacked.
Truly, offended
same
Same,i hate my life i will sooner or later kill myself.
@@rustyshackelford4613 huh
@@46Bax Maybe you should do it
Anyone else still going to “waste their life” after watching this video?
yes!
game a few hours day:you are an addict
watch 10 hours tv a day: no problem.
@@ferdiekiller
Who are you comparing that to? 10 hours of TV? What? Addict?
No bro i willl not gonna play from now on this hit so hard I literally wasted so much time
@@ferdiekiller except no one watches 10 hours of tv a day. nice try
my point is watching tv a few hours a day is socialy accepted.
game a few hours per day not.
doing literally anything can be considered a waste of time
maybe for someone who is a severely limited thinker
suh my fuh dih bih You’re clearly one of them. Derived from your profile, that is.
Umm no. If it’s productive. No.
Anything can be considered a waste of time. It's up to you if you want to call it a waste of time or not. It's up to you if murder is bad. It's up to you if Donald Trump is a good president. It's up to you if the sky is blue or green. All you're doing is applying terms to reality... creating a map of reality with symbols and sounds. But of course reality is what you experience with your senses in the moment of now
I always think „Instead of playing I could work on another video“. But when I’m actually editing a video I think „what a waste of time. Nobody is watching those anyways“.
Both feel like a waste of time..
Instructions unclear, had a fulfilling life.
weird flex but ok
ko tub xelf driew
Instructions unclear,had something to help me when Im stressed and make me happy when I need it
I'm wasting my life on TH-cam
Truly, relatable
Relatable
My first year in uni is already shit because of TH-cam.
Why did I pick a harder course..
I went from video game to TH-cam addiction my average per day is 3 hours
It's all fine, as long as you're not addicted. You learn a shit ton from youtube
When you are watching this vídeo instead studying
Sergio GD wtf, how did you know?
@@kenneth3289 same
Holy shit yeah
Same here
Same
I appreciate this perspective
twomad Twomad?!?
Wtf
Where’s Anthony Pit? Is he dead again????🤔🤔🤔 Im still waiting on a Videos
Wack
Go fuck yourself since your videos are the exact reason why people come back to video games while feeling bad playing it
It’s hard for me to give up video games because I’m so passionate about some games I play and I’ve made so many amazing memories on it. The day I give up gaming will be one of the saddest days of my life. Sounds stupid but only few people would actually know what I mean.
I feel tou
I feel u bro I’ve been playing video games since I was a little kid and now I want to stop playing games so I can lvl up in real life but it’s just so fucking hard to quit bro 😞 I literally feel like this is the hardest thing I have ever tried to quit and I kinda feel like I’m losing the battle.. ps sorry I had to vent to you 😅
We get into different world while gaming especially fps games. This is reason we get good memories and want to go to that world often
Honestly I don't encourage quitting if you love gaming so much especially if you got the passion for it bcuz if you quit then it's just going to give you depression instead. But I do highly encourage you limit your time in gaming and really schedule your lifestyle.
Bro its your choice if you wanna quit or not
1:19
*Alright you're gonna have to explain the bottom left picture*
Omg 😂😂😂😂
I don't understand.
Lmao
I didn’t think anything of it until now
@Mauricio Landos lots of experience
you only waste your time when you dont have fun
You waste your time either way because life is senseless.
Here we have an Optimist and a Pessimist.
@@JackoBanon1
Yes, we continue to waste our time, no matter what we do with it.
Therefore, instead of accepting the Fact that Life is nothing but a waste of time, how about we start to enjoy Life for as long as we have it, and let nothing stop you from smiling everyday in your life, because there are People out there that want you to laugh and enjoy life.
even me
@Prince Gnanaraj
I did not expected that message and am therefore unable to properly respond to this.
@@JackoBanon1 We were put here to live. Life has any meaning each person puts on it.
Your point isn't a 'video-game' problem. Tons of people don't know what they want to do/study/work on. Tons of people swear they'll get round to learning an instrument someday and never do. If it's not video games, it might be TH-cam, sports, reading etc. You can't expect to be productive 24/7, and some people fatigue quicker than others. Myself and plenty others are avid gamers - who are employed and/or in college.
Also, another thought - the guitarist who practices 10 hours a day might think "what am I doing practicing 10 hours a day?". He might consider that wasting his life. It all depends how you look at it.
Morgan Blem
Playing guitar can get you somewhere, gaming doesn't get you anywhere (unless it's your job). And yeah it isn't technically the fault of the video Game, but the same can be applied to drugs and food and literally anything pleasureable
@@shamicentertainment1262 gaming can expand your imagination and amplify your critical thinking skills which DEFINITELY helps you in certain professions and academic areas. You're crazy to think that nothing beneficial comes out of it.
I spend hours a day playing guitar and sometimes ask myself that. It was until I started writing my own music made a band and played gigs for other people that I felt practice was justified.
@@TriFekt Yes, in moderation. 10 hours a day of game playing doesn't though, while 10 hours of practising literally any other skill will get you somewhere. Plus even if you are getting a cognitive boost from gaming, it kind of goes to waste if you aren't using your mind on other things. Gaming is not a problem in moderation, every one knows that and I'm not talking about that. I am specifically talking about gaming for many hours each day
Morgan Blem it all depends if the guitarist loves playing the guitar.
I grew up alone as an only child for the first 8 years of my life in a single parent household. My mother always worked, so I stayed alone at home in a furnished, but quiet apartment. To cure my loneliness and boredom, I took solace in my GameCube, playing Legend of Zelda: Collector's Edition.
Since I was 3, i've gamed for almost 10 hours each day. It gets especially bad if it's a new game that i've never played before, and VERY bad if it's an online multiplayer. Sometimes I feel like my actual life is a mere conduit for me to play video games- that whatever happens doesn't matter, as long as I can play them.
I'm 18. All of my friends have jobs, girlfriends, or are college bound...While I sit at home in my room all day, bathing every 3rd day and wallowing in self-pity. I hate myself and I constantly work myself up...To calm myself down, I play a video game.
I'm stuck.
you are not alone bro PUBG and FORTNITE are wasting my life
Try web development. There are plenty of free courses. For example, freecodecamp, harvard cs50, and many more.
@Heddes Jesse Here
@@bittybuyy754 Good advice, i'll give it a go.
Its time you do the game quitters 90 day detox
How to waste your life: Watch a video telling you how to waste your life.
Thank u I am in the middle of the video and you have enlightened me. I am leaving now.
How to really waste your life: write a pointless comment replying to someone in the comments section of a video on how to waste your life.
how to waste your life : read a comment telling you how to waste your life on a video telling you how to waste your life
@@khalidali6637 And waste your life replying to that comment that told you to waste your life by watching a video on TH-cam on how to waste your life.
@@fearsome6682 this is getting out of hand lol
I disagree, as this is highly subjective. For example: I got a friend, who`s building his own model railway. This building stretches across 3 out of 6 rooms that he lives in. He dumps hundreds, if not thousands of € into new locomotives, decorative stuff (houses, trees, bushes, benches etc.) and new railways. He sits there all day long, fiddling around with details and stuff, repaints things, you name it. He pours his heart and soul into this. If it makes him happy, I won`t ever tell him that this would be a huge waste of time. If it makes him happy, it`s not a waste of time at all..
when you think about how much time people waste on relationships/marriages......
"makes him happy" video game is competitive and no one is happy when losing
He clearly stated on his video that most of the time he was not happy
I agree. If you are happy and successful in life, good for you. But what if your friend just spent all this money without a job, just more layers of debt. Spend the time and money only if you can. He’s not wasting his time, but he can definitely be doing something better for him.
EDWARD G.y you would not find pleasure in just Winning
Problem is not video games, it's addiction.
And videogames are designed to be addictive .
@@cyre9188 A lot of things are
@@cyre9188 So let's ban them all?
@@P07AT0 Yes.
Problem is not heroin, it's addiction. Legalize heroin.
**sobs in 6k hours tf2**
Lol
That’s sad
du? HIER??
Damn that actually is really sad
10K hours in DotA)) 6K hours in CoD series and more than 5K hours in Minecraft)
That's why I don't play competitive games. I only play singleplayer
Pussy
Fckn casul
mazze1091 well u just turned my back on Comp, i’ve played up to 2400 Hours CS until Global and played more than 900 Hours Rainbow but after some time it just gets boring and it makes you so stressed. Playing single player is really relaxing and no one should judge you because you aren’t some Tryhard somewhere in the Gold Nova Hell of CS:GO.
They get boring after 1 week
@@spectrent that means you are trash
"Then I go play a video game... they are relaxing... they are EASY"
**plays Super Meat Boy in background**
Supeeeerrrr meattt booyyyyy
That's the binding of Isaac
@@papalevan hmm idk both look really similar and both are quite difficult so I don't think it matters
How did you come to that conclusion though
@@limboproductions224 probably because the game looks like the binding of isaac
@@shlabedeshlub3334 I think I just ascertained that both the games look similar
What exactly is a waste of time? Reading a book? Watching a movie? Riding your bike? Technically everything could be considered a “waste of time” so why not just enjoy whatever it is you’re doing for fun? People have hobbies for a reason...they want something fun to do that is a waste of time. Drinking, bowling, billiards, skating, laser tag, board games!! I mean come on the list goes on and on...some people just like video games!
Edit: Now there’s a difference between a hobby and an addiction hahaha when something takes over your life and you can’t live without it, that’s a problem.
Exactly, that's why I didn't agreed fully I'm this video
I do agree
Video games are my fav hobby
but sometimes a hobby can lead to addiction.. because not everyone can stop themselves from playing too much..
I guess I can say I can’t go a day without video games. Then again I love working and going for walks especially under the full moon.
Exactly what I think!
People being told, they should stop with their hobbies because other people don't see the appeal in it and say it's something bad. It happened to me, but I don't listen to this crap and follow my passions.
I don't know why someone wants to read a book if they like video games much more, it's not like you become a better human or smarter because of books, it's a different thing to entertain yourself and everyone got their preferences in life.
If you would call that addiction then EVERY SINGLE PERSON would be addicted to sonething, like videogames, sports, reading, phoning, chatting or whatever someone just LIKES to do!
Enjoy your life, do what you like and don't overthink too much!
Ignore toxic people and those, who dislike your hobbies. Life is not about them, it's about you!
Balance and moderation is everything. Just like with diet and health, you can't always eat junk foods all the time without suffering bad consequences. But, you have to give yourself some time to relax every now and then. You can't always keep on working hard all the time. That's why things like video games exist. Think of it as a reward after working for some time and after achieving something in life.
No vIdEo gAmEs bRaInWaSh YoU
I practice moderation by only working part time. Oh wait? The only thing that matters is serving your life sentence at work you say? "You better not have too much fun there bud, get back to making me money".
Thats exacly what i have done, i set myself a goal, be productive all day, and if you acomplish your goals, you can be rewarded with a couple of hours playing your favourite vide game.
There many good habits that you can relax without wasting your time to a pointless virtual world. Videogames are highly addictive and can mess with your mental health. Exercise, reading books, socializing are all better ways to relax with many benefits to your personal development You have one life, don't waste your time with addictive digital products like videogames.
@@Stri4ker21 so I should off my autistic butt now, because I do all of that, while still playing video games from Time to time? Work 40 hour weeks with a physical labor job needing the weekends to just relax and get my brain calmed down to work full time again all week (alone, I might add)
With how basically everyone with your mindset has been treating me for years, along with all the people who have tried to off me for liking pineapple on pizza and for being a furry, I'm seriously at the end of my ropes, even though I have a dog and partner and Tons of friends, I'm not this super happy person that all of these non-video game things should bring me, but the anti video game people, and just horrible Humans where that get away with being horrid people are the problem, are the things dragging me back down to wanting to off myself.
I think video games are just a way to escape reality for a bit so when you have a bad home situation you dont want to do shit and this is the fault of how much pressure there is set on kids these days
That's just poor excusr
If you use them like that ur seriously fucked
Video games are there for u to have fun
You are completely wrong
Dutch Van der linde I guess 90% of people are “fucked” then....
2706 hours thats a rookie number pump those number up
:O
actually wouldn't surprise me if some dropped a screen shot of some one over 10k hrs
Bro me and some of my dota friends got 4k hours each .
Ooo and dont forget all the outher games ...
Just saying pro players got more then 10 k hours
@@giazadag1348 lol that's because they're literally payed to be good they can afford to have 10k hours
5500 Hours wasted on lol lmaoo
If you have great self control, it's a blast playing games for just the right amount of time for you and being able to quit playing when you get annoyed. I can't do that though, but I will keep trying.
My mom spends several hours a day on Facebook without realizing. But will say I am wasting time on my DS. Social media almost always makes me feel like shit after, not just looking at highlight reels of peoples lives, but the polarizing content and clickbait to get your attention. I often found myself arguing in the comments and just generally getting angry at the shit I saw online. Everyday I encounter a story of murder or theft or someone being cancelled for something and it’s just so toxic to me. Mario, Kirby, etc don’t give me these feelings.
Then again, I’m a handheld, single player gamer. I’m not a big fan of the online gaming considering it gives those same feelings listed above. Unless I’m playing with friends, I prefer single player games. The music, art, and gameplay is so relaxing to me and I always feel better after playing. Never felt shame or anger. It’s a relaxation method for me. And because of this I can complete some tasks, and then shut off the system to play another time.
frankly we've all come to a point where we can be paralyzed and game all day and poof when were 30 get a job like everyone else and be equally succesful
Gamers, we should just stop playing when we stop having fun.
This is all. If you're not having a good time just stop playing. It helps a lot and you won't get frustrated
@Marek Tužák hahaha yup
@@DarkSunStudios1 thats hard to do though, he explains its hard to "just stop playing". it is not that simple and often people just come back to the games...theres a reason this is video game "addiction" it literally is like an addiction
@@DarkSunStudios1 But you have to get that Platinum trophy.
@Marek Tužák Yeah but you shouldn't play another one after playing a frustrating match
Imagine having a match of TF2 so bad you make this video.
SteelThunderAxe yeaahh idk it just sounds like he had a bad game that caused an existential crisis. That, and he’s playing dota2 lmao
Osmium this lol
well said
Hahahah
Classic
My friend is literally 21, has never had a job, and lives with his parents spending 8 hrs a day on the computer playing video games. Video game addiction is for real a U.S. health epedimic.
It’s not just the US. It’s an international problem.
Tell him to go to twitch
You should the 3rd/2nd world countries where people will literally spend days on end gaming to escape their harsher realities
@@Spamjim0211 that's wearied but I can see
When I lived in the US
there was gamers
Normal ones
And this stupids you talked about
They were mostly in rich countries
But when I got back to syria 8 years ago from today
I didn't find that
They try to find job
They have friends
Idk why they are really stupid to waste their life
I mean
It's not a prob I think to game on
But not a lot
You know you could earn money by playing video games too you just have to be smart about it
I recently quit gaming after wasting about 10000 hours in 4-5years of gaming. The 1 month after I stopped gaming I was happier then ever
Good job
💯 enjoy your life 🙌🏾
For us black people, that's kind of a problem.
Well there you go you just did something productive of your life.
is that right
Pttf scrub xd I wasted 5k hours on Dota 2 :v
I love video games and I don't see them as a waste of time.
I do many things to control my play time. This also makes me enjoy it even more.
1. I usually don't play at daylight. I mostly play when its dark outside. At least when there is good sunny wheather outside, I don't enjoy playing video games at all. Spending time outside is much more enjoyable in this situation for me.
2. I differ singleplayer from multiplayer: singleplayer is pure enjoyment and relaxing. Fun is the main point. I haven't regret playing any singleplayer game whatsoever, because I enjoyed it. So there is absolutely no waste of time.
Multiplayer is different. I can relate to what you said in your video. Expectations and willing to be good at it can ruin it. However, as long as you play with your friends and enjoy it, everything's good. You can also reduce your anger potential by eliminating risk factors. E.g. make sure to play in a full team of 5 of your friends in ts at e.g. csgo. Or generally lower your expectations. Also be aware of the fact that there is always a high chance that there will be a guy who is better then you (because hes more talented or has more hours etc whatever). It's simple pretty unrealistic or even impossible to be the best at a game - be aware of that.
3. Make sure to play only if you have time for it. So doing your work that has to be done is key. Stuff like working, studying, sports, etc.
For me this works great!
I strongly agree wiith your 2nd point. Singleplayer games dont stress me out, only multiplayer ones do Cheers
Dark souls stresses me
This.
Whatt I thought single player ones for kids 😵
@@faikerdogan2802 don't think so at all bro. Why would you think so?
"addiciton"
this is just propaganda against gamers, gamers rise up
Seriously tho good vidya
Addiction to lamps. HA GOT EM HA
TooManyMoths What life?
delet ur chanel plox
Do you compose music?
At least I don't have a gaming addiction.
*Pops a bottle of alcohol
lmfao
demoman gaming
Lmao
Why am I watching this video
When I could be gaming
HAHAHA I'm dying! 😂😂😂
Lol same
Because your brain wants answers.
You are watching this video.
Yeah
Those are rookie numbers! Gotta pump those numbers up!
i play fortnite on steam
10k hours or noob
@@jrich8130 *likes own comment* 0w0
you didn't really waste it compared to like 99% here. You have a TH-cam channel which somewhat benefits from your video game 'addiction'.
Rarely anything in this world can ever be wasted
Video games are something so special to me because they allowed amazing worlds and experiences and journeys to come alive. Games are so much more than "fun" or "addictive", it's what we get out of them. And I get so much out of them than I can quit for a couple of months, try different hobbies, be happy and content, and still feel like video games are such an amazing art form and that making them a part of my life only adds more value to it. That being said, don't expect to play video games all day and feel fulfilled, cause video games only add value to your life, they shouldn't define it. And you shouldn't cope with your problems and insecurities by immersing in them. You should breath through them to find inspiration and value and beauty or just to have some fun, but never let them breath through you. With great power comes great responsibility, you guys, and I'm sure that video games have the power to break lives, but also to make life one of the most amazing experiences ever.
That is the magic of the video game art form.
Gay
@@odysseus8403 ?
No video games don't "break lives" nor are they "addictive", fun yes, but not "addictive", it DEPENDS on the people & how we use them. But yes, video games are amazing art form!
This video was spot on with my past League of Legends Addiction. I would play just to have fun and I did in season 2,3,4,5 (2012-2015) . But like this guy , I got pretty good at it and hit Diamond elo, the games pissed me off when they weren't going my way. I took out my anger on my family who did nothing wrong and I kept playing to gain back the points I lost in ranked. I would play just to go even in my ranked points, 2017 was probably the worst year of my life as I got so addicted I would cut class to go to internet cafes to play, I didn't socialize AT ALL even if girls were hitting on me in class :(, I gained weight, was depressed,I played 12 hours a day. I woke up ran to my computer and played untill night, I only got up to eat food,use bathroom,I would only go outside once every 5 days because I considered it a waste of time and pointless. At the time I was addicted to porn and sugar like soda,chocolate,etc too, yeah....I could go on and on. But now I do none of those things , lost 25 pounds or so ,socialize, am the happiest I been. I still play League but only like 2 games opposed to the 12-13 games a day. If I could do it you can do it , reply to this comment if you are in a similar situation right now. The change didn't happen instantly it took months of effort.......
Sad story bro, I'm in the same situation I'm playing Dofus and I get more and more progress every day, but I have to replace play games for progranming.
I was in the army, I got discharged and have been looking for work for over 12 months with no luck. I play the new call of duty for 16 hrs a day but I don’t want to do it I just can’t afford to go out and do anything else and I want to socialise and get friends but I have none I don’t even have any friends online yet in real life. I haven’t even been to a party, been drunk or had sleep overs and I’m 20. I want to experience life.
My brother is 22 years old and is addicted to games. He is depressed too. He is all those things you mentioned. I lent him money so he can look for a job, made a CV for him and even applied to some jobs online for him. He didn't attend the appointments... and I can't do that for him. I talked to him about his future a million times, he pretends to change for a day or two and goes back to sleeping all day, not showering and playing games all night. This scares me because I will have to move eventually. What is his life going to become?
Lol I just stopped playing after gold 3. Probably could grind more, but I wouldn't spend my whole life on this toxic game. I'm way better at enjoying my passions, dancing, playing piano and driving trains.
Right now I'm stuck on a forced abstinence of gaming because my laptop died, my mind is a mix of excitement so that I can start figuring out my future and anxiety because I don't know yet what to do with the free time since I'm on vacation. When I was daily playing games I always felt distracted from all of this, but since the day I sent my laptop to repair I've been feeling down and anxious
It has a lot do with instant gratification. When you finally finish that quest or win a game of ranked you are instantly rewarded and feel a sense of accomplishment. This behavior is very similar to partying, smoking weed, or drinking alcohol. The result is an instant pleasure that you put relatively little to no effort to enjoy. Now compare this to the thousands of hours needed to master a musical instrument and it becomes clear why you and so many others find it easier to rely on video games for gratification; because its quick and convenient. Unfortunately, as is the case for many gamers, we become exposed to instant gratification at a very young age. The only solution is to re-wire ourselves and engage our minds to be more responsive to productive behavior.
Masturbating to porn has to be one of the most detrimental of all. Which is why I've since stopped doing it, as it also dulls the mind and breeds complacency. Since I've stopped, I feel like I'm significantly more focused and powerful. As men, our sexual drive is what gives us strength and motivation; If we're constantly depleting it, then we're simply wasting our potential.
Wow this should have more likes
Absolutely agree. More so, people who use to get easy pleasure gratification are becoming less responsive to pleasure hormones, like dopamine, so they need more and more dopamine to be satisfied. So usual life activities are becoming very dull and boring for such people
Straight Facts!! Thank you sir
But what about hard games that require skill like dota or sc2 are those also part of the addiction or similar to learning a new skill to develop the mind. That’s where I found a flaw with the video he talks about playing relaxing games to stop frustration then plays hard games and says the frustration is bad. But I thought he said frustration is a good thing and video games ruin the sense of working hard, but then he plays video games that make him work hard and says that those games being hard is bad
elida dlr if you tried to forget that this point was your own you’d see that your “applied to anything” logic ignores his point. Of course everything is addictive because we are emotionally creatures, nobody is saying that only certain things are addictive but it’s almost always universally true that things that are easy aren’t worth doing! You should absolutely work smart not hard but that saying is incredibly enabling for lazy behaviour. You should absolutely bike to the store it’s great for your mind and body. That’s harder the driving but it’s smart. The point you miss about the instant gratification argument is that it’s the factor that makes gaming more addicting then doing homework for a high grade in a class you need! Work hard not smart and things like video games and porn give the mind chemical satisfaction without any reality based satisfaction. If not a hindering or crippling addiction due to the instant gratification factor it’s the bias towards laziness, inaction and procrastination. The factor towards doing what you want not what you need. I hope you’re able to consider the points I’m making honestly.
-Hello, my name is Carlos. I have 3000 hours played in Warband
-*rehab crew: hello Carlos*
@Dale Winton lol so true
Problem is it took tooo loooonnnng
Imagine if those 3000 hours were spent on something like sports you could be a star
@@sabus1265 or just an average joe watching sports wishing he was a star
@Deadpoppin yes
I just deleted the game I was most addicted to about a month ago. It's been a tough journey, but I am proud that I made it through a month. I hope that I can continue this for the rest of this year. Fingers crossed...
Hope you doing good man
Games are not the problem, people who doesn't have self-control are. I follow a philosophy in which willpower is the way to achieve any goal. I play as much as I want, because my will leads me to do it and that leads me to do other activities
Your comment just helped me figure something out, thank you!
@@Karl-pu5cn I hope you have a great day, dude.
Truth, it’s your own fault if you are 22 and have no job living at home an not going to uni. Like you can’t blame that on gaming because it’s his fault for not making sure he had a path in life planned
@@Bruno-rb2ou Same goes bro, thanks again!
Bless bro I feel the same
Its only game why you have to be mad?
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I was wasting all my time with videogames for years.
I still went to university and graduated, but continued playing all throughout, and even after I found my first job.
I had something like 50+ days in league of legends, 2000+ hrs in Rocket league, 2000+ hrs in Fortnite, and more.
I've reached top 50 on the global leaderboard in the rocket league solo duel playlist.
After some time I sat down and really thought hard about the way I utilize my free time, and came to the conclusion that videogames have never paid off in any way. They've always only given me short term pleasure, and long term guilt.
Once it was clear that videogames were useless to me, I deleted all of them from my computer, and began improving my software engineering skills by solving algorithm challenges / working on side projects. Doing this I am investing into my long term future.
Once you get over the need for constant short term gratification, it all begins to make sense. The reason why it's so difficult for people to become successful is because they take the greedy approach to life. Their actions are meant to give them the most instant gratification that they can find. The actions that will make you successful are those that may not give you gratification for weeks, months, or even years. But after you wither the storm, and overcome the obstacles, you'll be happy that you embarked on the journey, and will reap the rewards.
Ew fortnite Minecraft is better
Thank you.
In university now and have no problem balancing work school and games some people just need to live in a bubble i guess
@@ebolamonkay7847 Keyword is addiction. Good thoughts, weather the storm though not wither. 😉
Nah man I'm an instant gratification kind of guy, I ain't doing all that shit on the off chance that something good will come of it, and I'll always take the greedy approach to everything.
Accepting I have a guitar addiction when I instantly recognized the guitar tabs from Steve Vai's Tender Surrender at 1:20 haha. Computer games mess with my mind and dopamine levels and completely waste my time. Guitars don't. Play guitars guys! :D
Playing video games saved me money, kept me out of trouble and away from the wrong women so... 🤷🏾♂️
You can do all that stuff anyway tho so...
To got nearly no negative experience means that u obviously didn't got the opportunity to learn from them. To not risk anything isn't good or helpful. It's just Cowardness. I have been in the same spot. Go out, meet girls, take risks, u won't regret it.
gRich odt I’m 30+ I spent the majority of my 20’s having fun and learning gaming was just the safer most fun thing for me
nice rationalization.
@@purpleandthetiger6848 lmao alright let me do heroin, get a bitch pregnant and start gambling to learn from my mistakes. You got it wrong buddy, not everyone needs to do those things to realize they're retarded
I love video games and always will.
BUT so far my life has been ruined because of addiction.
Before I bought myself a Xbox one for Christmas (Yes my parents made me pay 75% of the price.) I was destroying school, smashing out A+’s in every subject. I nearly had an idea for a possible career, played Basketball (Still do but only in my spare time, which isn’t often.) hang out with friends, all the good stuff.
I quickly became addicted to the Xbox.
After 4 years of gaming I’m now in my final year of school and I’m failing every subject, I have severe depression, I no longer play games for fun just for the sake of it, I have social anxiety, I left my friends because I didn’t want to dedicate myself the time to spend with them, I get anxious at work and screw up a lot, I’m skinny and unhealthy, I don’t talk to anyone even online.
I also have no ambition and motivation in life.
My parents tried really hard to discipline me on technology but I always found a way to game.
They didn’t understand technology enough to help me.
Please if you are still young, consider worrying about the time in your future not the time you missed gaming.
Please.
Edit: I really appreciate the support I am receiving and I will be setting out on changing my attitude towards my life at once. I have also noticed that a lot of people are believe it's my own fault and not video games. And I agree. Video games are a blessing for our generation and the last thing I want to do is dump my problems on them. My life has been ruined because of my attitude towards my addiction. I could say that I am addicted to anything other than video games but I still must admit that it's my attitude that needs to change not the problem itself. I must now work on my self control if I want a better future.
(Update) - 11 months later.
I’ve never been happier.
For the last 9 months I have completely disciplined myself with self-control. On average I spend maybe 10 hours a month on video games, because I don’t know what ticked, but the thought of sitting there playing it bores me and makes me feel useless in some sense. And yes the few minutes I play feel great but they soon evaporate which is fine.
It all started with reading and meditation.
This year alone I have clocked about 27 books, 250 pages of journaling and a daily routine of 20 meditation.
I managed to turn myself around in the final part of my year and I topped English with one of the highest scores.
I have no idea how or what set this reaction to video games off but I could explain it as a hyperactive sensation that requires me to fill my time with meaningful tasks.
I can’t remember the last type I felt depressed or lethargic.
And my fitness has never been better. I’ve been hanging out with friends at the gym playing basketball for the local team and I get along with my family so well. Everything feels great.
I know this transition may seem hard to believe, and trust me, I am in disbelief!
The only advice I can give is to pace yourself. Only play games that have no competition (to begin with). Start by playing an hour everyday and cut your internet at a certain time to restrict yourself. Then, take a walk. Come inside and grab a book. Read for 30 minutes. Those 30 minutes earns you 30 minutes of more gaming. Soon you’ll start to feel the motivation kick in. Start to consider the things you do in the day as health benefits or harms and learn to seperate yourself from the bad.
My new found passion for learning and reading makes gaming feel like a waste of time, but then I think about it as time well spent to relax and loosen the mind.
Start thinking about your health and the impacts of everything you do.
That’s my advice. Thanks again for all the support and criticism, because it all helped!
Gaming is awesome, but life has better graphics.
LuKeS yikes being on youtube dosnt help bud
(tho i get the point)
This is definitely me like right now this year, sorry you’re going through this. I guess the solution would be to keep on striving man, to fill the void inside and to balance out our lives. Have work, a social life, get educated in school and have spare time for yourself where you can play games or basketball in your example or maybe some other form of entertainment. It’s just hard when none of those things make you happy and you stop striving. Maybe we should tell ourselves to stop whining and just go for it, to not give up and to keep grinding to become happier... idk you tell me what you think
agreed man, currently in senior year of hs and I play video games as an escape mechanism and just waste away. Started failing subjects and my depression picked up hard. People that think addiction is not real or is “just in your head” need to stop, this shit is real and it’s happening every day with games like fortnite and tf2.
You are responsible for your actions and that’s why it’s so scary.
Sometimes , u can't escape a certain game , and just keep on playing , grinding and playing , sometimes i think about "What can give me this? And what will i achieve with this?"
yeah but you could literally find any excuse to justify your lack of ambition.. you think discipline and self control just comes naturally to everyone? maybe 1percent have a genetic predisposition to that kind of thing, but also, a lot of these highly ambitious people end up being workaholics, make some okay money, have "it all", burn out, endure a devastating existential crisis, and the stress kills them in the end.. i dunno man, just, if your inner voice says play less games, listen to that.. not having integrity is far worse than too much xbox
“Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.” -John Lennon
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Grailer It’s your choice working at a shitty job.
@Grailer most of people didn't have food shoved right into their mouth sweetheart, we need money to support ourselves, and job provide one, I'm sorry if you parents put you in cage and throw banana every now and then, it must be convenient for you
I dropped out of school because I'd played video games too much, I have not done anything for my self, I tried to learn Japanese but I failed because I'd played video games too much and don't spent the time to learn Japanese. And I realize I stop playing video games and I began to learn English, its have been 3 months I have a lot of improvement in English cause I have lot free time when I'm not playing video games, I notice that instead, I spent a thousand hours of video games I could learn a lot of things else like reading book and I might know 3 languages and play instrument.
@Dangerous Thinking They know it's wrong but they're addicted and they chose that lifestyle. Can't always help them unless they help themselves.
I can't thank you enough for this wonderful video, I have been looking everywhere for information on my addiction and they just say to find a hobby. But then I'm like, I got a hobby, playing video games, and I like that better than anything else. Then you said, we don't do these hobbies because they tire us out too quick, and I realized that it's not that I don't like anything, it's that I am too lazy to improve myself! Thank you!
You forgot to mention that you haven’t made a video since last year 🙃
WRYYYYYYYYYY you are very bad and yes I get the joke
“2710 HOURS, TODAY”
Sounds like a normal day on my life
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6k hours of csgo here. Cant relate to the things you`re stressed out of tho. The key to enjoy your lifestyle is time management. As for me i do sports 5 times a week, working in a retail job and visit university. But i can still game as long as i want because i mostly start if i have finished my to do list. I think this is possible for everyone if they just spend time on planing their day
Stan do you sleep?
gavin bathagte there are a lot of hours in a day i guess
@@gater9639 csgo is an old game I've had it since 2012 I got 3k hours, and maybe 5-6k total on Steam I've only played about 3 hours in the past two weeks mind I spent way more when I was younger at school but there is plenty of time in the day to do shit if you don't waste time. I've been playing less because I need to focus right now on irl shit and I realised games were getting in the way at times.
Addiction is the narrowing of things that give you pleasure.
I dropped out of school at 14 , I felt depressed in school and I started playing video games a few months after I left , ... now i have well over 7000 hours in video games and archieved nothing in my life im 19 no degree unemployed with no prospect in the future ... My life will defenly suck very hard because I wasted the time to get what I want on video games ,quees the only thing I can do at this time is warn others to not go down the same way I did , who ever read this ,its my only productive thing I did for the world at this point warning others for the danger of addiction pls take it with you thrue your education !
seppe mees yo, bruh, you are still young, and have a whole life, u still have future, dont think its over, keep up trying!
It's never too late brother ;)
You’re still very young, you have the time to go back to school and get the education you missed out on.
seppe mees its not too late, you have a whole world out there which with plenty of elements you’re yet to discover! You are in control of your life. Go learn some new things in the real world :D
Learn a skill ask your parents they may either support you or you may have to work for it and just follow that
League of Legends ruined 3 years of my life in this cycle. There is hope.
Adam R Fisher dota and cs ruined my life since 2009. ty
5 years of my life too man, high school was fun.
Over 2k hours on lol over 4 years + probably over 10k unrecorded hours in cs 1.6...
Luckily, all these numbers are just memories now
I was chasing platinum hard at one point. I failed my plat promos and went on tilt after that. Eventually I gave up.
Same. It cost me 3 years and the most wonderful girl in the world. Why am I still playing? I don't know. Almost every session ends in rage... It's stupid. The cinematics and art are great tho
It is hard these days to balance play time vs being productive, as most modern games are designed to keep you playing them as long as possible and to keep going back with things such as daily/weekly objectives, limited timed events, log in bonuses and long play times required for 'good' unlockables (or alternatively an attached price tag to those unlockables).
At least with older games they had an end point.
The older I get the more I realise I have much less time to play, but the games themselves demand more of my time to be played.
Without giving up your entire life you will never outplay the game, so IMO it is much better to devote that energy to some form of personal development.
Now I use the time I have to persue other interests, however I still keep informed about game news for the games I am interested in.
Completely with you man. And I would like to suggest to anyone who's reading this to stop playing mobile games, even casually. I only played them for 2 years as an "experiment" and they really fuck with your brain. If you really want to spend your time with videogames just BUY a good console or PC game.
Just dont play games...when u will realize it will be way too late....instead read books.....just read..dont fall into the trap of anime........and yah that news part i also do but i have got over my pubg mobile addiction
This hits really close to home. I don't play games for 24 hours straight and refuse to sleep or eat, but i do stay up late and procrastinate my goals to play games. I've wasted a lot of time playing video games; time that could have been used to learn to code, learn to write a book, exercise, etc. You only get one shot at life, and it's a crime to waste it.
I think the best way to solve this problem is to connect “fun” with “work” together. Best work when you love it, enjoy it, and has passion to this. I know that you have 1 question - “But, What is it?”. Sometimes “this” is closer than you think, sometimes ppl can steer you is right detection. Look at your interested directions, and you will see all questions that you ask before.
Nice pink theory. Doesn't work.
Yeah oh yeah
Right, if you find something to work with and you LOVE it, it wont be a work...because u Will have fun with It or like It a lot. But you need to know that anything Big in Life needs effort...
I have no ambitions in life. Fuck
Ram Tech Connecting FUN AND WORK is one of the most complicated things in life kkkkk but its worth it
I once met someone on ARK survival evolve who had 489 days played, that’s 11,746 hours of his life sunk into that trash heap of a game. He’s probably well over 500 days played now at this point
555666 I’ll that game can steal your life
Bradford Todd yeah man I know, I played about 100 days of it before I realised it was controlling my life so I uninstalled it
Ouch. Rust is also addictive like that.
Ivan Soto man, rust is probably the most addictive out there, you’re so right haha
Funny thing though. RUST (and I presume Ark) have crafting timers, sometimes long ones.
You can set up a crafting queue in safety, that will run for an hour. Then you go have some dinner or do some chores.
I once did this to craft enough C4 and rockets to wipe out a clan base. Every hour i'd come back, place the item in a box, grab more raw materials i had saved up, start up the queue again.
I wasn't actively playing but it counted to my total play time because i was logged in.
That was actually a very reasonable video.
Some people watch Netflix after work. Some people read books. Some people do nothing but try to get parties going. Some people play video games. I'm the latter, like you.
Everyone has a hobby, something they do for fun. If you don't, something is wrong. Addiction is not the same. If what you want to do for fun the most is play video games, that's not an addiction. That's just what you enjoy doing. And I think every hobby can have its bad moments. Maybe you feel you've wasted your time reading a bad book or watching a bad movie, or you get frustrated when you still can't play that song on the guitar after all that training, or you've ended up hating the painting you've worked on for a couple days. Just like you can get frustrated at your own skills in multiplayer games - it's certainly not limited to gaming.
Also, maybe your job is the most fun thing to you, and I suppose that means you're lucky... or not, because I've also read some studies on how being forced to do what would usually be fun to you has the potential to completely ruin that, but I don't know which is true. I design websites at work. That's not the most fun thing to me, but it's not a job I hate either, because it is close to what I do for fun, which is drawing cartoons and cartoon characters (aside from playing video games). I don't know if that's the most ideal kind of job in relation to your hobbies, all I can say is that I'm happy with it, and I'm not getting fatigued of gaming or drawing, either. Don't feel bad for "wasting" time doing things you enjoy. They don't have to be productive, that is just a byproduct for people who do happen to have productive hobbies. It's like feeling bad about wasting time while sleeping. You're just covering your basic human needs.
@Moths, I can't help but say it... your Soldier SFM ending is getting extremely depressing :( It went from being fun to ending the video on an awkward note. I don't even know what it's supposed to mean, I just see the association with death in it. I dunno.
Thurbo2 basically my opinion
Agreed bro amazing (:
I don’t want to play this much games but my focus span is so short for other things so.. :(
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Thank you for opening my eye,I have to stop playing all day.
For me I've noticed it's much easier to regulate single player games than multiplayer games. In single player stories there's a beginning and an end. Once I get to that end I stop playing. I'm also not competing with anyone else and since it's a story based game I feel like I can leave and come back anytime.
With multiplayer games it's neverending. There's always that "one more match" urge and the desire to rank up. Whenever you lose a game and are doing bad you want to keep playing so you can "end on a good note".
Nowadays I mainly stick to single player games and I play games for the story. I don't want to spend my whole life sitting in my apartment playing games trying to achieve some rank that really doesn't matter. There's so much more to life than being diamond rank in league of legends or whatever game you play.
But I have alot of good times with friends in multiplayer games. You dont have that in singleplayer games.
Yep, I stick to single player games as well. If I want to play witb friends, there's always co-op games like borderlands. With co-op, you're not competing with anyone and you can stop and comeback whenever you want just like singleplayer games
I like to keep it social so I do not play singleplayer games.
@@ifacecamp717 I just personally prefer single player games over multiplayer games. I'm willing to pay $60 for a game like red dead or the Witcher and I found myself not willing to pay that much for the next cod, destiny, or whatever. Many multiplayer games are designed to be addictive to keep you coming back forever and usually ends up in frustration and annoyance after enough game time.
I still play some games like rainbow six siege from time to time with friends but I stopped chancing the rank. I use to just go to work from 8 to 4:30, go home, load up siege(or whatever game we're into at the time) and play with my friends until I go to bed. Then one day I noticed my life was just flying by and I had to stop and get out of my apartment more.
I also felt this kind of urge back then when I was so addicted to games such as MOBA, FPS and MMO, I always have this feeling to play more to win and get better which is why it's never ending. I never thought about this idea playing single player games which is indeed a good idea of not getting addicted in my opinion.
"Video games are easy and relaxing"
Play Dark souls.
Nah play cuphead
@@coffee-tz3lm no just by seki shadow die twice
Can't. Got angry before downloading
that guy not that bad if you are A GAMER like me.
Play Bloodborne for the first time and run into the second boss. Everyone has PTSD from that.
Pro tip:
Don't play games, which you find frustrating, just because it can be amazing rarely.
This is especially true in online games.
And also games with a lot of grind, mostly games with microtransactions.
Just uninstall them.
Truth. I stopped playing Battle Royale games entirely 😂
Such a good tip.
Cant stop playing CS:GO
What game doesnt have microtransations
Transactions* autocorrect is the dumbest thing invented