Did career work kill your enjoyment of games?

[PipeDream]

maybe you just matured ----grew out of i

I think the notion that video games are a childish pastime is a relic of the older generations and will fade out as time goes on. Video games were certainly initially marketed toward children, but my generation has grown up playing them and continues to play them and the industry is reflecting that by exploring deeper and more mature themes.

For my generation, video games are seen much in the same way as watching movies or television. It's pretty standard for people in their 20s and 30s to have playing video games as one of their hobbies.

 

[mikemizanin729]

maybe you just matured ----grew out of it----personally I like mind games

Adults play video games. Some make a living from streaming them on Twitch and YouTube.

Ninja is one of the biggest players in the world right now and made millions from it. Watching Myth and Ninja stream fortnite is more entertaining than most the crap on TV now.

 

[Dominus]

You may have to disown them if it things don't go your way because not everyone has the aptitude to be a doctor or lawyer or even a project manager for a construction company.

Expectations mean a lot. My partner has 3 siblings. His parents and his 3 siblings have never worked any job other than minimum wage types of jobs. They have always been apartment dwellers. And here he is driving a luxury car to his professional job every day.

The only difference between him and his siblings is for the past 5 years I gave him better expectations than low wage jobs.

The new liberal mantra of every job is equally desirable and blah blah blah I think causes more harm than good. If you want to call being a waiter as equally a professional and specialized type of job as a project management type of job, then more power to you. But this doesn't change the reality that no one wished they would become a "professional" waiter when they were young, ever.

 

[MakeDigitalLove]

I think the notion that video games are a childish pastime is a relic of the older generations and will fade out as time goes on. Video games were certainly initially marketed toward children, but my generation has grown up playing them and continues to play them and the industry is reflecting that by exploring deeper and more mature themes.

For my generation, video games are seen much in the same way as watching movies or television. It's pretty standard for people in their 20s and 30s to have playing video games as one of their hobbies.

It’s pretty much a lot of what I do if I’m not at work. I get exhausted from the work I do and the hours, I just want to come home, relax and kill some Orcs.

 

[Telstra]

As adults,
you don't enjoy video games anymore. The adults who enjoy videos have too much time on their hands.

 

[rareboy]

I think the notion that video games are a childish pastime is a relic of the older generations and will fade out as time goes on. Video games were certainly initially marketed toward children, but my generation has grown up playing them and continues to play them and the industry is reflecting that by exploring deeper and more mature themes.

For my generation, video games are seen much in the same way as watching movies or television. It's pretty standard for people in their 20s and 30s to have playing video games as one of their hobbies.

In fact, games are an excellent way of keeping reflexes sharper and improving cognitive skills.

There are a lot of smart people out there who use them to decompress while still challenging their abilities to strategize, to improve decision making and to even help with problem solving away from the screen.

I have had several periods where I have had them on my laptop and would spend an hour or so in the morning after I get up at 5am playing through. To be honest, it is just as worthwhile , if not moreso, than scrolling through Facepage or trawling JUB.

 

[PrinceCory]

This is one of those topics that it would have been handy to have our age or age range listed under our avatar. If the OP was in his 20's and says he no longer as interest in video games, that would be more surprising to me than if he was in his 50's and made the same statements.

Although I love techy, nerdy, geeky things, I never got interested in video games. Played a few dozen times with my BFF many many years ago (he is 20 years younger) but could never get into playing the same scenario over and over and over and over until you get to the next level. I am very intrigued by the Star Trek VR game that came out last year. Would love to try it but playing with online strangers just seems boring.

 

[johaninsc]

As adults,
you don't enjoy video games anymore. The adults who enjoy videos have too much time on their hands.

In fact, games are an excellent way of keeping reflexes sharper and improving cognitive skills....

very true. I've seen therapists use them on many occasions with TBI patients

 

[Dominus]

This is one of those topics that it would have been handy to have our age or age range listed under our avatar. If the OP was in his 20's and says he no longer as interest in video games, that would be more surprising to me than if he was in his 50's and made the same statements.

I was in my mid 20s when it happened to me. My partner is now in his mid 20s as well.

 

[MakeDigitalLove]

This is one of those topics that it would have been handy to have our age or age range listed under our avatar. If the OP was in his 20's and says he no longer as interest in video games, that would be more surprising to me than if he was in his 50's and made the same statements.

Although I love techy, nerdy, geeky things, I never got interested in video games. Played a few dozen times with my BFF many many years ago (he is 20 years younger) but could never get into playing the same scenario over and over and over and over until you get to the next level. I am very intrigued by the Star Trek VR game that came out last year. Would love to try it but playing with online strangers just seems boring.

Personally I have been playing video games since I was in the single digits and now I’m going on 35 in July. I don’t plan to stop any time soon. My retirement will be fun with the loads of games I’ll have to play.

 

[Pierresro]

Time is alwayss a factor but I have always been a fan of Flight Simulator. One time I dropped my partner at Heathrow Airport London and wennt home and flew a (FSSIM) 767 and my flight arrived 10 min after his lol And I did not drink that much lol

 

[peeonme]

The use of professional has become much more widespread recently, so that binmen, taxi drivers or whatever are referred to as professionals. I prefer the older distinction of trade, profession or vocation. I would include within trade shopkeepers, waiters, plumbers and similar. Professions include law, teaching, medicine and so on. Vocation I believe means ministers of religion. I would agree with the OP therefore that serving coffee is not a profession, no matter how well it's done.

In America it seems to follow the practice of giving an award or a medal to school children even if they lose just so their feelings won't be hurt. Everyone wants a title of some sort. I have known at least two men who told me that they were engineers, when I asked them what their degree was in as far as mechanical, electrical, chemical, civil etc., they didn't have a degree in engineering at all, it was a job title at their place of employment.

At our auto plants, the term "skilled trades" has been replaced with "trades" so everyone can fit in. A little clue as to whether or not a persons occupation is just a job is that if someone can walk in off of the street and take over what you do with minimal supervision... it ain't no career, it's just a job.

 

[Dominus]

In America it seems to follow the practice of giving an award or a medal to school children even if they lose just so their feelings won't be hurt. Everyone wants a title of some sort. I have known at least two men who told me that they were engineers, when I asked them what their degree was in as far as mechanical, electrical, chemical, civil etc., they didn't have a degree in engineering at all, it was a job title at their place of employment.

At our auto plants, the term "skilled trades" has been replaced with "trades" so everyone can fit in. A little clue as to whether or not a persons occupation is just a job is that if someone can walk in off of the street and take over what you do with minimal supervision... it ain't no career, it's just a job.

Funny story about this.

Last year, I went down to Arkansas to help out with an accelerated project there. The project was huge, so it was divided up into 2 different management groups: structural and roadway. I was in charge of the structural management team. In other words, I was "the engineer" for all the bridges, walls, etc.

Anyway, I checked into my hotel on Sunday. Monday morning, I went into my new office, shook a few hands, etc. Then I went out to visit my new site. Walked around a bit. Spotted one of the foremen out there. Shook his hands and introduced myself as the new engineer. He said good he needed me to do a test on soil strength over there. Puzzled, I said to him you don't understand I'm the new engineer. He said ok and I need you to do some soil testing over there. We went back and forth a little before I realized that down there everyone was an engineer. Soil testers, concrete testers, mechanics, operators, everyone was an engineer. And he was expecting a new soil test technician that day. When I was going through personnel list, it seemed like everyone had the word "engineer" next to their title even though it was a guy straight out of high school still in training to do concrete testing.

I think it cheapens the title. How do doctors feel if nurses, nurses' assistants, and even the high school intern get to have the word "doctor" next to their name?

But whatever. I know it's not politically correct for me to point out such thing. Everyone is a winner these days.

 

[peeonme]

Funny story about this.



I think it cheapens the title. How do doctors feel if nurses, nurses' assistants, and even the high school intern get to have the word "doctor" next to their name?

But whatever. I know it's not politically correct for me to point out such thing. Everyone is a winner these days.

In the trade that I retired from an employer would use the term "machine operator" as opposed to tool maker or even machinist to cheapen us while at the same time expecting us to know anything and everything. I have talked with a lot of guys who said that they had been machinists only to find that they ran production on a press. I think that engineer is the most misused of all.

 

[Nealm1]

The use of professional has become much more widespread recently, so that binmen, taxi drivers or whatever are referred to as professionals. I prefer the older distinction of trade, profession or vocation. I would include within trade shopkeepers, waiters, plumbers and similar. Professions include law, teaching, medicine and so on. Vocation I believe means ministers of religion. I would agree with the OP therefore that serving coffee is not a profession, no matter how well it's done.

A barista sounds very English professional