You may soon suffer from gaming disorder

[STEED]

Best thing I ever did was to stop playing video games years ago. More time to read books listen to music and go out for a nice walk.

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by STEED

Best thing I ever did was to stop playing video games years ago. More time to read books listen to music and go out for a nice walk.

Now you sound old, man. Really old.

Get a VR set. Its a fountain of youth.

Serious, my taste for games has changed, and much of the efforts I put into it time ago, I do no longer put into it anymore. But what I do, I still enjoy a smuch as 20 years ago, nmostly realistic racing. And this morning I did my first dive into orienting myself inside a B737 cockpit - in real 3D.

Completely new ball game. I found almost nothing, now that the panels stretch above and beside and below me, everywhere. After the PMDG 737 in 2D, I thought I would know where what is. But then , I havent flown since years, so that may serve as my excuse.

[STEED]

Originally Posted by Skybird

Now you sound old, man. Really old.

Get a VR set. Its a fountain of youth.

Treat yourself to some fresh air and a nice walk, get out the prison..i mean the house.

Yea parts of my body are older than my age.

[Rockstar]

I've take up astrophotography, currently locating and photographing landing areas of the old Soviet Luna and American Apollo missions.

[vienna]

"They'll get my controller when they pry it out of my cold, dead fingers!..."...












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[August]

Quite a few people in this forum have dismissed the whole idea that video gaming could have a negative mental effect.

[fireftr18]

Originally Posted by August

Quite a few people in this forum have dismissed the whole idea that video gaming could have a negative mental effect.

So you're saying if you're mental, video gaming will make you better?

Seriously, like anything else, it can be become an addiction.

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by August

Quite a few people in this forum have dismissed the whole idea that video gaming could have a negative mental effect.

I do not dismiss it. I just do not put too much trust in political or other administrative instances to assess when something has become addictive and when it still is not an addiction. In Germany, once or twice per year somebnody steps forward s and says video games kill the souls of out children. And then they com e up with stereotypes and examples that ride 15 years behind the actual time - and wonder why they are not being taken serious.

Its too often a clueless gang of pseudo-experts wanting to establish the standards by which to judge these things.

At the same time, the anti-social consequences of excessive use of Facebook and Twitter and what it means if the avertgae Joe, so they say, looks 150 times per day at his smartphone and does so almost by reflex, is being ignored.

There are dangers, no doubt. I only have doubts that it is the right people wanting to go after them.