I'm sure your Eve Online relationship with your father is a absolute blessing and you'll be telling your children and he his grandchildren about the time you mined that virtual asteroid for half a dozen of hours only to get enough virtual currency to be able to participate in murdering some poor bastard in 0 sec space for the first time together, miles apart...but together.
Alright, but what do you expect people to do?
Unironically yes. Haven't you ever heard the expression "it's not what you're doing, it's who you're doing it with"? One of my best bros from high school went to college in a different state, and some of my fondest memories with him were us fucking around in Starcraft 2. Not every fond memory is going to be some profound experience where you watched the sun rise over a lake, man. Sometimes it's the little shit that sticks in your mind.
If you're struggling to get away from it then you should see a psychiatrist.
For real. There are so many times when I was a younger lad that I remember playing with my friends from school on Xbox (360) Live. I still remember when I first played Minecraft on the 360 (Christmas Day, 2012), me and my cousin were playing split-screen on a 36 inch flatscreen, in a snowy biome, trying to build a castle together.
That's a really complicated problem, but the root problem is a lack of community, especially church.
I caught on to that when he started trying to make some sweeping moral message. Dude just can't admit it's a personal issue that he possesses. No, it has to be because Gamers are Losers.
I have those memories too, I never said gaming as a kid is bad or dad joining in for a session is something to be alarmed at.
The folks who introduced me to gaming were more than capable of using their brains to critique politics and what's wrong with society. And yet they had no problems enjoying video games. Just as their parents had no problems enjoying comics and cartoons in their old age. Again, it all comes down to how you consume the media. And if I'm being honest, prior to gaming being infected by SJWs, gaming was one of the few mediums willing to challenge people and allow them a place to vent without the political bullshit that infected Hollywood. Whether it's Ocarina of Time's Water Temple testing your patience, or Gradius testing your motor skills, or Mass Effect 1 and 2 testing your morality, gaming was a place for people who wanted fun without the modern goyslop bullshit.
So we should all just return to the countryside and be farmers all day. Yes, that'll do........except the farmers with large land plots and machines would just render you obsolete and no one buys your crops because the guy who owns large tractors and larger plots of land can sell food at a lower rate than you. Have fun eking out a low-level livelihood.
Because he probably realized too late how stupid he sounded by basically saying "Gamers are all smelly autistic antisocial losers living in basements!", but phrased in a less overtly hostile way, and forgetting that most people here can see right through that pRedditor shit.
Which is stupid. Some people have the time and cash to spare to play EVE Online. That is their decision.
That's not necessarily a problem if someone plays EVE Online. For all you know, that someone could be a contributing member of society, and he just plays EVE Online on his down time as his way of relaxing.
I just wanna let everyone know I've never killed, raped, or eaten anyone
I did not say the situation was hopeless. You have many of the broad-strokes societal criticism correct, but you have the cause-and-effect inverted. I very seriously doubt if you took people's bread and circuses away they would suddenly take up arms and overthrow the system. It has less to do with those dang dirty video games sapping people's initiative and a lot more to do with people being divided over ticky-tack horseshit by government disinformation campaigns, and generally being unwilling to risk getting shot or going to prison.
So again, your point that gaming is bad isn't working. It's like people in the 1700s saying that attending plays is a sign of laziness. Or people in the 1800s saying that reading books is a waste of time.
False. That would be a failure on the side of the person, like when you have a guy who watches football games 24/7, or when you have a person who doesn't interact with people because they read books all the time. Also, gamers are some of the least passive and compliant people out there; any time there's an error, they bitch and complain. That's the opposite of say, MCU fans just blindly swallowing up content that was less substantial than the Sam Raimi Spider Man films or the Christopher Nolan Dark Knight films.
False. People in the past lived with far less without complaining. In fact, the 90s was a time when your average pleb lived better than most people in past centuries. And that was the decade when gaming began to truly take off. If you actually studied real history instead of just reading off the script of some tryhard who hates gaming, you'd know this.
