I personally have never played a video game on the computer since wolfenstein which was about 10-12 years ago, and even then I wasn't all that fond of it.
I study a lot and work a lot...and well, I just don't see how you guys justify to yourselves spending that much $ on computer parts and ESPECIALLY that much time to play games.
While I do understand everyone needs time to relax, and everyone deserves a hobby and some sort of entertainment... I used "hardcore gamers" as the subject here because that is who I am particularly concerned with.
My questions are basically these:
As stated above, how do you justify to yourself the $ and time spent playing these games?
Does it not cross your mind that your time could be used for more useful/beneficial tasks? If so, why are you still spending so much time gaming?
Finally, if you could somehow turn on a permanent switch would stop any urge you had from playing video games and it would make you use that time to work out (more), eat health(y/ier) or study/read (more) would you turn it on? Why or why not?
I know I'll get a lot of sarcastic remarks here, but I really hope a few of you do answer this seriously as I am very interested in your responses.
Thanks
EDIT:
Basically the reason I posted this question is because I was kind of interested in how games today looked and i did a google image search for BF2, since I seem to see that game name thrown around a lot here and well...I came across this:
http://sh.nu/download/images/dscn3905.jpg
Not to poke fun or anything, but that was just a really sad sight to me.
I study a lot and work a lot...and well, I just don't see how you guys justify to yourselves spending that much $ on computer parts and ESPECIALLY that much time to play games.
While I do understand everyone needs time to relax, and everyone deserves a hobby and some sort of entertainment... I used "hardcore gamers" as the subject here because that is who I am particularly concerned with.
My questions are basically these:
As stated above, how do you justify to yourself the $ and time spent playing these games?
Does it not cross your mind that your time could be used for more useful/beneficial tasks? If so, why are you still spending so much time gaming?
Finally, if you could somehow turn on a permanent switch would stop any urge you had from playing video games and it would make you use that time to work out (more), eat health(y/ier) or study/read (more) would you turn it on? Why or why not?
I know I'll get a lot of sarcastic remarks here, but I really hope a few of you do answer this seriously as I am very interested in your responses.
Thanks
EDIT:
Basically the reason I posted this question is because I was kind of interested in how games today looked and i did a google image search for BF2, since I seem to see that game name thrown around a lot here and well...I came across this:
http://sh.nu/download/images/dscn3905.jpg
Not to poke fun or anything, but that was just a really sad sight to me.