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a warning on video games

See i feel obligated to make this post, because I've recently seen a lot of people go and say 'fuck video games it's evil or trash' and try to cherry to pick a lot of flaws and problems to validate it, but most of the time the problem is that these people simply can't control their impulsiveness or manage time properly so naturally they look to shift the blame else where,
another reason why people go to video games and have problems putting it down is because their life sucks so they find the easiest way to escape reality which is usually video games as everyone has a computer these days and you can pirate games for free, so it's easily accessible, so rather than fix their shit so to say they play games to escape reality and then blame game for being fun and taking away from their lives.
or they're just strait up lazy ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ and are looking for a excuse valid it.

Wow, games can create a sense of accomplishment and achievement? how evil.
So do you know what a hobby is?
Hobby - noun: an activity done regularly in one's leisure time for pleasure.
Did you know that videos games besides being an entertainment product and be taken up as a hobby, blew your mind right?
They're a lot of hobbies people do to past time like origami, rock collecting, bird watching and such, it's done to past time, relax, pleasure etc.

Of course video games have things like milestones, collectibles and things to make you play them or in other words incentives.
You do know what this word means right?
Incentive - noun: a thing that motivates or encourages someone to do something.
Video game industry is a business, so they're obviously gonna provide incentives, all business do this to bring in customers and keep customers, this is not rocket science or anything, and i mean if someone buys a game they should be able to have fun in it or else they'd feel like they wasted their money and stop buying such things.

Yes most of the video game industry are owned by Yehuborim, but so is the music industry and many others.
How come you don't make posts saying music is evil and people shouldn't listen to it?
Or tell people not to buy fast food, meat from groceries and other mundane stuff that people depend on and is capitalized on by the Yehuborim?
yes, welcome to reality.

But you obviously won't go saying music is evil right?
because there're some great artists out there that make great works of art.
But guess what, there're great works of art in video games as well, millions of $ can go into a AAA video game you know why?
because it takes a lot of people, which creates a lot of jobs, modern art has degenerated into shit, but in most video games they're stunning works of art, music, and story writing.
and they're a lot of jobs created from making games - voice actors, actors, animators, musicians, composers, programmers, writers etc.

They're a lot of people who great artists, writers, composers etc and they've got to make a living, video game industries are the most likely to hire these talented people.
"And if you wish to be an independent developer be warned that most indie games never see the light of day and many developers see years of work go to waste."
Yes, so do artists and musicians who put their work out there and many other types of entrepreneurial endeavors, again, welcome to reality.

"Video games are a poison and have no redeeming qualities."
Depends on your what you consider or your definition of 'redeeming quality'
a lot of hobbies are tasks that are simply there to relax and past time.
they're obviously a lot of good traits to be had from playing games but again it depends on your definition of 'redeeming quality'.

Your affirmation to make someone bored of games is just plain retarded, the point of a hobby is NOT to be bored,
people who're bored usually spend time doing noting, masturbating excessively, or just end up sitting in front of a TV.

Yes they're obviously bad games just like they're shitty music that push Yehuborim BS etc, this is the reality of things, if you're playing a game that's bad for you then yes, drop it, this should be obvious.
But for the most part your arguments on why games are bad is baseless at best, as like i said before they're many industries the Yehuborim have capitalized on, and for the most part the practices in video games you mentioned are quite common in many other things and are not exclusive to video games.
 
As I have stated I'm not here to debate this topic those are my thoughts and personal advice on the matter you're all free to do whatever you want with your free time, and to create whatever justifications you desire for it.
 
Rook said:
I've recently seen a lot of people go and say 'fuck video games it's evil or trash' and try to cherry to pick a lot of flaws and problems to validate it
I have observed the same, as I'm sure many other also have.

I think it's a rather pointless discussion honestly. HC summed it up well in his answer to Fuchs.

HP. Hoodedcobra666 said:
Fuchs said:
Pardon my more off topic queston :

Is npc stuff like gaming not boring, compared to travel/explore the astral and other advanced spiritual techniques?
Yes, that is for sure for the spiritual, but also, a lot of simple things do actually have deeper meaning the more one advances. These include even simple things such as a walk in the park, or things like that.

People who waste their life in that stuff all day long like many people are doing now have a lot in parallel with drug users.

A balance is required between spiritual/physical, mundane/advanced etc.

If one is gaming but they aren't like a crackhead about it, spending all their life energy and day into something solely like that, I personally see nothing bad with this. A lot of people with gaming have become crackheads and they do not understand it. There are people who use 15+ hours of their day into that.

Quite a few people have become crackheads with video games, but not all. This is called being a no lifer.
 
What did the player have to utilize in order to advance in the game?

Problem solving?
Logic?
Quick decision making?
Reflexes?
Motor skill development?
Pattern recognition?
Tactics/strategy?
Risk management?
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"Dont hate the player, hate the game"
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One game that was good is Portal 2. It helps develop your mind for solving complex problems and puzzles, with lasting benefits in this kind of creativity. The only problem is once you get through the game twice you remember how to do everything so it's not much fun anymore.

And I used to play Guitar Hero all the time when I was very young. I think this helped me a lot with my coordination and having perfect timing when I started playing real instruments. And helped train me in how I only play with my fingers and never use a pick. But still being so much better than most guitar players who do use a pick. But I think these are the only 2 games I know about that can give any real benefit from playing them.
 
Dahaarkan said:
I really can't understand how you guys can't figure out that Yehuborim companies are in charge of making the vast majority of games and somehow you can't connect the dots that maybe that's why people get hooked on this stuff, maybe there's more to it than meets the eye, maybe this is engineered to destroy people just like everything else Yehuborim create.

Instead you eagerly point fingers at your own people suffering as a result of this Yehuborim poison and codemn them as being worthless and lazy, gleefully writing walls of text shilling for Yehuborim products.

It's pathetic.
If people can’t manage their times because they can’t stop playing videogames that is their problem, not the one of those who play a heathy amount of time.
Also, why did you remove your crab picture, I always associated you by that lolz
 
Rook said:
:roll:
Perhaps you should've have actually read the wall of text so maybe you'd learn something but instead you reiterate the same non-sense you said before,
unless you actually read it and learnt noting, in which case that's quite pathetic tbh and even ironic that you left a wall of text to begin with.

Ya you got me, I didn't read it at all lol
 
Aquarius said:
If people can’t manage their times because they can’t stop playing videogames that is their problem, not the one of those who play a heathy amount of time.
Also, why did you remove your crab picture, I always associated you by that lolz
Games make it too easy to fall into that imo
 
Keanu MIGHT be a hybrid[ie badguy] idk....

So cyberpunk might be corrupt. Still looks like a good game though.
 
This whole discussion has only managed to re-open my appetite for NieR: Automata. It's time to check out that secondary storyline.
 
Dahaarkan said:
Aquarius said:
If people can’t manage their times because they can’t stop playing videogames that is their problem, not the one of those who play a heathy amount of time.
Also, why did you remove your crab picture, I always associated you by that lolz
Games make it too easy to fall into that imo
It does, but that’s where willpower comes into play.
 
You're correct, videogames are not entirely good, but definitely better than other hobbies or forms of entertainment. I would rather my [hypothetical] son play videogames and keep a calm and focused mind rather than smoking weed or becoming an alcoholic. Like some post above said, videogames are for leisure not waste your life on, and most people are aware of that.
 
Aquarius said:
Also, why did you remove your crab picture, I always associated you by that lolz

I'll put it back on just for you bb

Hope it gives you flashbacks of all the stupid shit I was saying back in the day lol
 
I like how you guys seem surprised the guy who stated in his post he isn't really up for debating turn out he doesn't really want to debate. This was a correction to a statement I made before because I felt the advice given before could be harmful, that's it.

My free time is more scarce and precious now than it ever was I'm not going to spend it reading and responding to long texts on video games of all things, sorry not sorry.


You like video games that's cool I think they have become pure shit and advise everyone I meet to avoid getting into gaming and spend their time on other things.

You don't have to get butthurt af because someone you've never met says they think your hobby is shit and bad for people. Why is my opinion so important to you and why do you spend so much time writing a bunch of crap to try to change it.
 
If you guys are going to shill for games here you better be shilling for new vegas or you gotta shut that shit down
 
Dahaarkan said:
Aquarius said:
Also, why did you remove your crab picture, I always associated you by that lolz

I'll put it back on just for you bb

Hope it gives you flashbacks of all the stupid shit I was saying back in the day lol
Now that’s the dahaarkan who gives me flashbacks of when I was new to the forums :D
 
Ol argedco luciftias said:
No, you gotta shill for Battlefield 4, the online Conquest.

I don't know what that is but it's not better than new vegas
 
What the hell does one do when they need to relax around here? Watch movies, oh wait that's wasting time. Browse some youtube, oh wait that's wasting time. Read a story book, oh shit wasting time. Take a nap, no holy fuck why would you do that?

In all seriousness video games are just a form of amusement and a method of destressing, just like watching movies, tv or reading a book. If video games however stop you from meditating and advancing, etc, or you spend hours on a game when you have work to do like homework, an assignment, project, etc, then a bit of self-discipline is what is needed... not eternal cold-turkey absence.
 
Ol argedco luciftias said:
Dahaarkan said:
If you guys are going to shill for games here you better be shilling for new vegas or you gotta shut that shit down
No, you gotta shill for Battlefield 4, the online Conquest.
u guys are completely offroad, you gotta shill for crash team racing remake.
 
Ghost in the Machine said:
What the hell does one do when they need to relax around here? Watch movies, oh wait that's wasting time. Browse some youtube, oh wait that's wasting time. Read a story book, oh shit wasting time. Take a nap, no holy fuck why would you do that?

In all seriousness video games are just a form of amusement and a method of destressing, just like watching movies, tv or reading a book. If video games however stop you from meditating and advancing, etc, or you spend hours on a game when you have work to do like homework, an assignment, project, etc, then a bit of self-discipline is what is needed... not eternal cold-turkey absence.

This is why I don't debate this topic the arguments are always derailing into some other shit and it's quite boring.

The reality is you have kids spending thousands of hours playing this shit to the point where this "hobby" becomes all consuming of their lives, and games are designed to do this because its more profitable, and it's brutally effective at that.

And I don't think it's entirely fair to blame only them when the product is designed to be addicting.

How about making games with a design philosophy of simply making a fun game instead of trying to purposefully make it as addicting and time consuming as possible like most games are today. Games are also getting worse as a result of this too. Lootboxes, gambling schemes, grind systems and all this dogshit comes from this idea that a good game has to be addicting.


I don't know why you guys feel so butthurt when I pull this up you all know it's true. There are ways to relax more healthy than something specifically designed to be addicting. Just because it doesn't affect you personally doesn't mean it doesn't fuck up other people. The argument is always "sO yOuRe SaYiNg mOvIeS aRe bAd"
or
"bUt dOrKaN xIaNs aLsO sAy gAeMs bAd uR a XiAn"

And somehow all the shady shit that happens in this industry fades. I'm complaining about the way games are designed but for some reason you guys seem to feel like I'm roasting you for your hobby (which is a shit hobby imo).
 
Aquarius said:
u guys are completely offroad, you gotta shill for crash team racing remake.

Crash team racing??

Somebody ban this guy
 
Those war games are nuts call of duty is not even a good simulator I've played it a few times. It's so easy to get killed in that game that if the person go to war and is in these situations they could become frightened and end up dead, but they are good for strategy I guess, maybe the strategy in this game saved someones life? Even though you could just use your mind for that...All around video games are no good, no.
 
Affirmations examples
I am totally free in always and from any curses.
I am completely and permanently free of any video game in a positive and healthy way.

I am at my highest potential into getting money that is mine to spend or keep as i wish.
I am investing time in to getting large amounts of money and material wealth in a safe and healthy way.

For the people who want to program their subcounscious mind to get rid of video games from their lives and getting money focus first on only the affirmation for getting rid of the video game then after sucessfully getting rid of it and maintaining it do the affirmations for money and wealth.
 
My experience is difference.


Games do not make me feel like I “accomplished something”. Games make me feel good by immersing myself in virtual world, where I completely forget who I am, and how much fucked up my life is. While that lasts, I am living inside that game, and I lose almost all connection to this world.


Only downside is that you have to move away from monitor from time to time, and then you are back to “reality”.


Kinda like a drug, ain’t it? You feel wonderful while it’s working, but when it wears out, you realize it was only a delusion. But you want to go back.


That’s what games are for me.
 

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