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comment by ArtemusBlank
ArtemusBlank  ·  2500 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Young Men Are Playing Video Games Instead of Getting Jobs. That's OK. (For Now.)

Personally as a young man in his 20s, I would never be able to play video games all day. It would get so boring. Even when I had a job I extremely hated as a janitor in my early 20s never did it occur to me to just play video games all day. I used to play video games a good deal when I was in my teens but nowadays I just can't get into them the way I used to. If I play any games, they are usually short games like Way of the Samurai for the PS2. I slice people up with a sword, compete it's quick story and just run around looking for people to kill for two hours. Something longer than that, I will just forget about it after a while.

There's just something about doing nothing but playing video games that's not attractive to me. Sure I could I have a good time and get better but it wouldn't make me feel better.