Is six hours of playing video games really that much, or is Donald overreacting?
I agree with Donald Duck.
Between 4 to 6 hours is the sweet spot
i haven't spent 6 hours on vidya in a single day in months
>>728445643Donald just has no perspective. Imagine getting through a 70 hour RPG without doing some 6 hour sessions. You gotta just lock in and get deep in there into it. Mutiplayer games require even more like shit you might have to hit it 12 hoursIf you're gonna do anything, you deserve to put the time in to do it right, not just fuck around like a damn noob
>>728445643There should be roughly 17 hours in a healthy person's day, then take out 2 hours for food and hydration and you get 15, then 9 hours for work and commute if you're not a cuck for 6 hours left and the viyda took the rest of your day.
I think I've spent six hours on video games in one day perhaps twice in the last ten years.The first was when Elden Ring came out.The second was when I had Wuhan Flu and a recebtly purchased copy of Ape Escape 3.
>>728445761whats keeping you
>>728445643I fucking wish I could still spend 6 hours playing a game.
I remember when Ben Stein put his son in boarding school for playing Everquest for six hours a day. That used to be considered mental illness.
>>728446535you can. its sunday, what else have you got to do? I'll do the same, once I finish my coffee I'll be playing silent hill 2 for the rest of the day
Don't think I have ever done 6 hours in a row, but definitely more than 6 hours in a day
>>728445643>Boomers spending 12 hours in a day slackjawed, eyes glazed over, flicking between tv advertisements going "there's nothing to watch"no problem here>millenials, zoomers spending 12 hours a day actively socializing with people or interacting with puzzles, challenges, optimization problems, etc.REAL SHIT NIGGA GET A FUCKIN JOBnobody cares about you gen x
>>728445643he's chronically lazy and would definitely be proud of wasting 6 hours, but he's also a hypocrite
I'm 35 and still doing (longer than) 6 hour sessions regularly (as in multiple days every week)yes i am employed
>>728446631There aren't any games I could play for 6 hours. And I have shit to do too.
>>728446767Damn son, I didn't do that even as unemployed.I'd rather take a break to watch anime or something
One time I mentioned a particular game-crashing event in a VotV thread and leaned it only appears if you play for 10 hours straight to make you stop.
2 hours if playing singleplayer, 4-5 hours if I'm in a voice chat. After that I feel like I'm wasting my time and should do something productive
>>728446626well i mean, they were jews, have you seen their MI prevalence numbers?
>ANON YOU CANT JUST SIT IN FRONT OF THAT COMPUTER ALL DAY! YOU’RE ADDICTED!!!>no im not>mom: ITS ADDICTIVE *opens her second pack of smokes and plays another round of solitaire*>dad: listen to your mom *goes to the pub for the third time this week*now nobody gives a shit. we all constantly use our phones, use a smartTV, or are using a desktop/laptop for work. but i had this argument with my parents so many fucking times. i fucking WISH i was an ipad baby
>>728445643He's right, but mainly because they should break it up a little. No breaks is how you get clots and die.
>>728445643depends on the genre of the game and its linearity for me. I'm fully content with 2 hour sessions on linear games because the game will still get cleared within a week, give or take at a steady pace. if I'm committing to an RPG then I'll want to set time aside for 4/5 hour sessions to really get into it. then again 6 hour sessions are nothing if you're a degen grinding live service titles.
>>728446813wow. I'm sorry for you. that's really depressing.
>>728447045I've had the same experience, sans smoking, but now I think they were onto something. Not video games in particular, but the steady flow of CONTENT directly into your eyeballs is scary addictive.Also, screaming YOU'RE ADDICTED STOP BEING ADDICTED solves nothing.
>>728445643yes, 6 hours is a fucking lot retard6 hours of any activity is a lot
>>728445643Depend.Six hours of WoW? Not much.Six hours of Koikatsu? Probably time to stop them.
>>728446973>After that I feel like I'm wasting my time and should do something productiveSame here. It just doesn't feel good. Now 6 hours spread across the entire day, that's more in lineBut then again, whatever I do feels like a waste of time in one way or another
>>728447045same, but my parents are glued to the TV, watching literal slop.my best memories about my father is him excitedly telling me about a good movie he saw. he never told details tho, just>son, I saw a cool movie, dark city, lets watch it togetherand then he would quickly pirate it and we'd watch it. at some point, he asked me>will you ever stop playing video games?to which I answered, 'never'. he left my room in silence, unable to grasp why I have become exactly like him.
>>728446662>12 hours a day actively socializing with peopleAbout as worthwhile as socializing with people on /v/
>>728446626Only because MMOs are gay. Might as well have been down the bathhouses for 6 hours a day for the good it did him.
>>728448210nothing wrong with socializing with people on /v/it's certainly better than being a boomer and watching 12 hours of advertisements while slipping in and out of consciousness
>>728448031i said that once or twice>but you’re behind a screen too!!>n-no no wait that’s DIFFERENT
>>728446626jews are born mentally ill
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3 hours sleep2 hours eating2 hours pooping30 minutes brushing teeth/showering/cleaning kitchenThat leaves almost 17 hours for browsing 4channel
>>728447512>Not video games in particular, but the steady flow of CONTENT directly into your eyeballs is scary addictive.Oh absolutely.I think we should all try and keep vidya sessions to 4hrs at most and try and get a couple of leisure hours with no screentime each day
>>728447045>*goes to the pub for the third time this week*Heaven forbid a man socialises.
>>728445643Normalfags have no concept of anything that isn't work related.
>>728445761Same. I genuinely can’t enjoy any of the hobbies I used to have: gaming, anime, reading, drawing, animating. I just don’t feel like doing anything. I don’t know if I’m bipolar or depressed, because this isn’t normal. At the start of the year I was active and having fun again, now I feel like an empty husk once more. I have no drive for anything anymore. Any psychiatrists here or anons with similar experiences? I genuinely want to get my head checked and see if something is holding me back, because this is not fucking normal
I wish I could play 24 hours a day
>>728448852If you haven't tried the standard diet+exercise combo for an extended time, you're a textbook case of needing pills.
>>728448990*have
>>728448990I ride my bike at least three times a week for at least 30 minutes, but besides that I usually stay at home. I don’t eat any junk food or sweets anymore, just three homemade meals a day. Maybe I just need to spend more time outside? But when I was working, I was constantly outside and active, and I was even more miserable. I don't know anymore
>>728445643Donald is a fucking hypocrite and probably spends more time than that sitting on his ass in front of the TV every day.
>>728449832>Donald get iPad
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>>728445643NO MORE HEROES 3 SAYS:PLEASE LIMIT YOUR GAMING TO 10 HOURS A DAY
>>728445643Donald is a wageslave.Slaves are astonished about free time they never have.
>>728445643anything past Carl Barks is not cannon
>>728448852I am similar.I am very high functioning autistic (aspergers) and I believe I have borderline personality based on the 9 criteria (out of which 5 or more must be met) due to various childhood trauma. I am very talented and very intelligent, very handsome and very strong, I go to the gym to cope, that is literally the last thing I do for months now. I dont really work, dont study.I wrote so much a few months ago now I am totally burnt out. I draw very well too, but I have not done that in years. Nowadays I only numb myself and seek out any sort of social moment with girls I can just to push the feeling of emptiness away.
>>728450070Christ, Sylvia looks terrible in that game. All of the facial animations (or lack thereof) in that game are horrible.
>>728450931She's 36...
>>728448559Do normalgoys really?
>>728445643I feel 6 hours is the cut off point. Once you pass that, it gets crazy.I did 12 hours once, where I beat a game in one sitting, and my brain felt fried afterwards. No idea how some people can play for 24 hours+ like some Koreans and streamers do.
>>728445761>Very rarely spend more than 2 hours straight playing vidya.>Can sit on here and Youtube all day long.My brain is fucking mush at this point.
I can still do 7-8 hour gaming sessions fairly regularly. It's very rare for me to do 12+ hour sessions unless I'm REALLY into the game, like addicted. If I can't game for more than 2-3 hours then I simply don't. One hour of gaming doesn't feel like anything to me, so if I only have an hour to play something then to me it isn't even worth playing. I also just prefer longer gaming sessions.
>>728451023so am I!
I'm a NEET, I read from anywhere from 1-4 hours at the start of the day and play games for the rest of it and get around 4-5 hours of sleep a night so six hours really isn't a lot to me Donald just cant comprehend what lifestyles emerge from not working for 10 + years
>>728445643I miss being able to play from dawn-ish till dusk and then shitposting myself to sleep
>>728451148Fake gamer and /pol/ tourist spottedYou propably a non-virgin as well
>>728450843>I am very high functioning autistic (aspergers)Same>and I believe I have borderline personality based on the 9 criteriaYou believe that? How can you be so sure when you haven’t been checked by a professional?>I am very talented and very intelligent, very handsome and very strongAnd very humble, right? Kek>I go to the gym to cope, that is literally the last thing I do for months nowDoes it help you? I used to exercise too, but I just can’t bring myself to do it regularly>I wrote so much a few months ago now I am totally burnt outWhat were you writing, and why? Sometimes I wonder if I also have burnout, but to have burnout you have to do something a lot…>Nowadays I only numb myself and seek out any sort of social moment with girls I can just to push the feeling of emptiness awayHow do you do that? Any tips? The older I get, the more I feel the need for female companionship
>>728448852It's called being profoundly unhappy, you really don't need some quack to tell you you're insane or neurodivergent
>>728445643what i do is spend a couple months doing useful stuff with really light gaming on the side (<= 3 hours daily), then I'll play a game like Rimworld or Dark Souls 1/2/3 back to back without taking a break (or it takes up half my day), I then go back to useful stuff and light gaming. 6 hours per day is way too much as a daily habit. If you spend 4 hours of that time you could learn a language or learn important skills that might free you from work in the future.
>>728451023Out of 100!
I could do 12-15 hour gaming days. Some food and occasionally small walks in-between. Games like Space Station 13, Overwatch, Chivalry 2. Even goon games if they're good. I did this with Witch Trainer, for example.If I can still move a mouse when I'm 70, my retirement days are set.
>>728448852Do you have friends or a girlfriend to spend time with?
>>728448852i know it sounds like gay woman advice but traveling unironically made me enjoy drawing again. being surrounding by the same shit all the time doesn't give you much to feed your imagination.
>>728452629>If I can still move a mouse when I'm 70, my retirement days are set.Don't forget your eyes, ankles, and back
>>728445761>check eshop play times>last time I did 6 hours+ was 2022Ah the unhappy days
>>7284494681. get your testosterone levels checked, if you're not 500-600 test despite what your doctor will tell you, you are in fact below what should be "normal", some doctors will tell you a value 250 or 300 is fine but that's too low for a young man2. try intermittent fasting and a largely meat based diet
eh i game instead of watching tv or netflix or a myriad of other things people do like browsing social media.
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>>728452075No, I don’t think so. I know the difference between being unhappy and having no drive to do anything.>>728452697I have two friends and many internet ‘friends.’ The real life ones are busy and we don’t have that much in common, while the online ones probably wouldn’t even notice if I died. It’s nice to talk to them from time to time, but it’s all so superficial that I’m tired of it.Also no gf. No girl has ever been interested in me>>728452851I understand you. I recently went into the city and actually had a good time just walking around and noticing how much it had changed since the last time I was there. I wish I weren’t stuck in the countryside, besides forests, mountains, and a reservoir, there’s nothing to do here>>728453109>get your testosterone levels checkedHmmm, okay? Why not, buy why do you think it's beacues of my tstosteron?>intermittent fastingWhat type would you recommend?>a largely meat based dietToo broke for that
I dislike Donald Duck stories set in modern day. The best ones are the ones set before the digital age.
>>728451938Even if it isnt borderline it is so close that I may as well learn about borderline because clearly I am not stable.I am pretty humble, I am just realistic. You would agree if you saw and knew me.I don't really have to prove myself but whatever I am saying is the truth.If you wanna talk some more, let me know. 4chan isnt really a good place to develop a conversation desu.
>>728453109This is BS btw
>>728448852Classic case of depression.It won't get any better as depression is an incurable mental disease.
>>728456294>clearly I am not stableHow does it manifest for you? Where does this instability come from?>If you wanna talk some more, let me know. 4chan isnt really a good place to develop a conversation desu.Meh, I don’t really like talking to smart people. I’m dumb, so I know the conversation wouldn’t last long. But if you feel like it, you can drop your discord
>>728456741how nice
>>728448852If this is a recurring thing you've been dealing with years it's depression, if it's only a recent thing then it's likely your lifestyle.
>>728456748Suddenly and sometimes out of nowhere you go from having a good day to feeling utterly hopeless and devoid of all desire to live, then you realize you're so numb and that you're stuck inside yourself, everything feels weightless and yet there is this oppressive feeling inside yourself, as if there is an enormous void that suffocates you, an absence that is crushing, and then you feel like you would rather be dead than to live another day, because every single day is a lie and you know there is no hope, no matter how much you are and how "loved" you are because even that love feels unreal, then you desire to just be dead and to get out you either just have to go through these feelings for a few minutes or hours, or you hit yourself, or hit a wall, or slam your head into something. I dont want to bleed, but the pain even if its dull feels sharper and that allows me to forget myself. Talking to others or listening to music distracts me from myself. Sometimes you hate yourself and youre so disgusted with your body, even though its a beautiful body and totally healthy, but it reminds you of all the times in which you were full of shame and felt like a failure...I don't know. I can't sleep without sounds lately. I am essentially wearing my airpods all day and night.
>>728455358Nta but testosterone basically = driveYour urges to go out and achieve and fuck will go up. Since a lot of things are subconsciously fueled by those things if u are low test then yeah ur gonna be low motivation
I'll have periods of time where I don't play video games much, then I'll play them more often.I just don't trust men between the ages of 20 to 40 who don't play video games and haven't played video games much. There's something wrong with them, like no internal monologue. Like they stop rendering when out of sight to save on processing power
>>728457884this testosterone meme is utter midwit materialist bullshityou can have insane testosterone and still be in a bad spot due to a multitude of reasons, everyone who obsesses so much over test is usually not very masculine in the first place
>>728457469Apart from wanting to die, I understand that feeling. The void is unbearable, no music or drugs can even hide it for a moment. It’s just miserable. I have way too many insecurities, yet I try to act like I have a huge ego, and at the same time I feel like I’m wasting my potential. Which is pretty pathetic, because no matter what I create, everything will be forgotten or not even noticed.I want to work on something. I want to create. I want people to notice me and what I could bring into this world. I feel stupid and pathetic. I envy people who are logical and smart. I would rather be brain‑dead so I wouldn’t notice any remarks or my sad existenceDo you have any friends? Like irl friends, not internet friends?
>>728450283Don Rosa is great, though. William van Horn is pretty cool too. Lara Molinari is alright.
>>728446626>play gay games>becomes gaylol
