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Tales of an Aging Gamer: Why Don’t I Pick up a Controller as Often as I Used to?

posted by martyb on Monday January 07 2019, @07:43PM   Printer-friendly
from the Figured-it-out dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

ArsTechnica:

Gaming was like breathing. It was the biggest part of my life as a teenager, one of my priorities as a college student, and eventually one of my most expensive “hobbies” as a young professional.

Then all of a sudden, after thousands of hours spent playing across genres and platforms, boredom hit me hard for the very first time in my early thirties. Some of my favorite games soon gave me the impression of being terribly long. I couldn’t help but notice all the repeating tropes and similarities in game design between franchises.

I figured it was just a matter of time before I found the right game to stimulate my interest again, but time continued to go by and nothing changed.

Is it that games have failed to innovate, or that real life is ultimately more engaging?

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  • (Score: 2) by Immerman on Monday January 07 2019, @10:42PM (5 children)

    by Immerman (3985) on Monday January 07 2019, @10:42PM (#783421)

    Meh, if you don't sweat, it's not a sport.

    And if you while sweat playing Starcraft, then you're doing something very wrong.

    Golf... maybe - but you better be making good time, and not using a cart.

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by JoeMerchant on Monday January 07 2019, @10:54PM

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Monday January 07 2019, @10:54PM (#783426)

    Unless sweaty palms count, I don't sweat in Starcraft, but the physical stress is real, and the mental focus required just isn't compatible with parenthood.

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by c0lo on Tuesday January 08 2019, @02:34AM (3 children)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday January 08 2019, @02:34AM (#783529) Journal

    Meh, if you don't sweat, it's not a sport.

    Are you saying that playing Starcraft in a sauna makes it a sport?

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    • (Score: 2) by Immerman on Tuesday January 08 2019, @06:54PM (2 children)

      by Immerman (3985) on Tuesday January 08 2019, @06:54PM (#783784)

      Ha! I almost made that joke myself.

      Breaks the logic though
      "If !a then !b" does not imply the inverse statement "if a then b"
      It does however imply the contrapositive: "if b then a".

      In this case, "if it's a sport, then you will sweat" is an equivalent statement
      but
      "if you sweat, then it's a sport" is logically unrelated to the original claim.

      • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday January 08 2019, @11:19PM (1 child)

        by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday January 08 2019, @11:19PM (#783879) Journal

        That's why the question.
        Which didn't get answered, btw.

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        • (Score: 2) by Immerman on Wednesday January 09 2019, @03:44AM

          by Immerman (3985) on Wednesday January 09 2019, @03:44AM (#783972)

          Fine, fine, I'll go with "No". But only because otherwise reading in the sauna should count too, and I'm not buff enough to be an athlete. :-D