Does anyone else remember when this board had its anti-gaming phase? People here acted like video games were a waste of time and you're a faggot if you spend even a second playing videogames, but those same people watched hours upon hours of anime, which is no better than video games in terms of productivity or "wasting your time"You can tell it stemmed from the fact that Linux couldn't really run games. When proton came and gaming on Linux became infinitely easier, people started acting like gaming is fine.Very odd era
>>107533626statistically almost half of Arch Linux users run Steam while crying and screeching about "muh free open sores"interesting indeed, on a pathological level even
>>107533626Video games are still a huge waste of time. Probably the worst hobby anyone can have.
>>107533949better hobby than watching anime though
I try not to pay attention to people like that, let alone remember it.There's always someone complaining about something.
>>107533626its always depended on the kind of game we're talking about
>>107533626Games ARE for plebs,Anime is for children.>phaseMore like, for short while, we outnumbered the normies and the /v/ermin, even if it was with aid of college/undergrads, who were in their "anime is not for kids" phase.>ProductivityHard to relate to anime once you sever your tees with education.>GamesIt's mostly normie stuff now. Fortnite is like THE capitalist burger-punk. AAA games are rebranded Hollywood slop. Indie slop is basically rubbish shovelware and political remakes of old games.
>>107533626All entertainment is a waste of time by the standards of a certain kind of anxious teenager and of decrepid senilesThat said you can't argue that this hobby isn't populated with some of the dumbest mfs on the planet
>>107533949>>107533958It's better than jerking off, but not superior to actually, you know, reading or learning something or watching older movies. Video games are just there to not go insane completely, there are better coping mechanisms, but it does its job considering you aren't playing total dogshit or have a steam account where you waste your money on it and not just your time.
>>107533949Define "waste of time"
I'm playing Civ 4 right NOW. I'm even letting the window touch /g/. You're all getting gamer cooties as we speak.
>>107533626>Does anyone else remember when this board had its anti-gaming phase?What are you talking about? Most of /g/ still thinks that, because it's a tech board, and you have your videogames board to talk about videogames. You shouldn't have made a reddit tier thread for this
>>107536874We all play video games here unc
>>107536825unproductive unhealthy brainrot
>>107536998You're on 4chan
>>107536832>stacks of doom spam is a game
>>107533626>video gaymes and animei get playing a gayme a few times and then, not playing anything for 1-2 years, or watching 3-4 animes in a spam of 30 years, but some people are just obsessed with these things, and they aren't really rewarding or interesting
>>107537028Yeah, it's great
>>107537017not him, but i've learned a lot of things from some anons by using /g/ though
>>107536998>Unproductive Explain >Unhealthy How? It's no more unhealthy than browsing this place or doing anything on a computer >Brainrot What?
>>107537113Are foxes good for you?
I'm not anti-gaming per se, I play games occasionally, but the type that makes it their entire identity, who has a steam account with hundreds of games, or who uses a "gaming distro" like bazzite, is a completely subhuman nigger and has nothing valuable to contribute to any discussion.And unfortunately the people who regularly talk about games online tend to fall into this category, so many are understandably hostile to "gamers"
>>1075370174chan is a better hobby than video games and it's not even close. It's unlikely, but there's at least a very small chance that your writing will improve or that you'll read something interesting and learn something. That's not the case with video games. Video games really are the most vapid and useless form of consumption possible. They have the potential to change but it's extremely unlikely based on market pressure.
>>107537094civ 5 > civ 4 (save for Leonard Nimoy's voice acting)
>>107537592>4chan improves your writing and education Lmao, you'll learn to write like a chronically online retard and you'll learn about the new hip memes shared by NEETs. Truly a valuable waste of your time
>>107537173i love cute racist foxes ^_^
