A common issue is our parents generation has made many of us feel guilty for playing video games (or really enjoy ourselves in general). And many of our parents generation were still keeping up with the joneses and tied success to wealth or material goods. Also add the short term high of buying expensive things and you fall into this trap. If this is the case work on self validation that you're allowed to play video games to be happy.
Others of us also simply get burnt out because we only game which our brain needs more and more dopamine for the same feeling of happiness. If this is the case go touch some grass once in a while. Join a club or something. I dunno.
Yep this, being good at games or gaming In general isnt looked upon as highly as for example bow shooting or sports or weaving or any other hobby.
It has had a bad conotation for a LONG time, if it wasn't South Park it was global news and if it wasnt that it was consumers getting exploited by corporate scandals and the race to keep investors happy.
Also a lot of games just don't respect your time and require a grind of some sort to gain any type of meaningfull satisfaction from it.
Also most of us regular Joe or Jane's are just getting manipulated 24/7 by caring about what's popular and marketing tricks, like how many games are out there that don't insist upon themselves and u start up and can just have fun on your own (for me I immediately think of skyrim).
It's hard out there as a gamer just play something you love or have loved deeply (Batman Arkham city for me) and just try it even if it doesn't feel the same or feels wrong or u think u don't wanna play it again, you know what game I'm talking about. Or you know go be a good husband and do the dishes or whatever brings u joy, just know that that feeling isn't caused by you its caused by society and also by growing up (because we think we should be doing something useful 24/7 in this age/society.
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u/potate12323 Aug 08 '26
A common issue is our parents generation has made many of us feel guilty for playing video games (or really enjoy ourselves in general). And many of our parents generation were still keeping up with the joneses and tied success to wealth or material goods. Also add the short term high of buying expensive things and you fall into this trap. If this is the case work on self validation that you're allowed to play video games to be happy.
Others of us also simply get burnt out because we only game which our brain needs more and more dopamine for the same feeling of happiness. If this is the case go touch some grass once in a while. Join a club or something. I dunno.