TaroYamada
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I'm 26 but i'm already too tired of prioritising my life around gaming. Been gaming heavily since i was 7 and this addiction stopped when i started uni. 6 years later, now that i'm working, i feel too stressed, feels like i'm not completing anything, it's like endless pressure. So i started playing video games again, but only single player without going through the side quests.etc and i'm having a good time and i'm better at managing my time. I respect Joe rogan and he have a point but he couldn't explain it clearly, with the way he said it we can say the same thing for many pointless entertainment hobbies like watching sports, so many people addicted to that nonesense and very religious to it, at least i'm here going through new stories and competing online instead of watching someone else competing.
I had mostly stopped gaming outside specific special circumstances. COVID restarted me and now I'm playing a lot.
Things I had started to use that time instead of were definitely healthier: going to the gym 4x a week, learning guitar finally. But the gym went out the window with covid, mine's reopened but by appointment only and almost exclusively during hours where I'm working -- the window I could make is usually around the time I'm eating dinner with the wife. So gym is gone, need to probably just put a weight rack in my house at some point.
Guitar I still play a few times a week, but the gym time is now spent gaming. Definitely less healthy/productive, but I've had some great experiences since playing more. Finally got around to Witcher 3 (excellent), Streets of Rage 4 was a very good game. Before COVID I was mostly playing Switch when I traveled for work, nothing better to do than watch cable/play Switch in a hotel room at night. Now travel's gone so my Switch isn't actually getting much attention vs. my PC.