Experiment Do videogame developers deserve prison?

[Fontaine]

I am of the opinion that mentalcelling doesn't exist. If you were sufficiently good-looking, you would not feel any social inhibition. However, for those who rate 5 to 8 on the looks scale, I'm convinced video games and other solitary, low-T activities do make it worse on the front of relationships.

Inceldom aside, video games, especially RPGs and RTS, are a notorious time sink. Many gifted young men underperformed at school because of them, and the time spent by nerds on Civilization 4 could have been used for PhDs in physics or biology. I'm sincerely convinced that video games are currently slowing down greatly the progress of society, although this is mitigated by the money funneled into semiconductor research by hardware enthusiasts.

Do you think video game developers and producers deserve to be jailed for their negative impact on young men?

 

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Gamers are God's chosen people

 

[UBERCEL]

Yes they are slowing the progress of civilizations

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Gamers are God's chosen people

It should be Odin who chose them.
Cuz he doesn't exist

 

[RopeShow]

Nah, their life is already a hard lot, having to deal with corporate greed, bitching market and society in general.

 

[Mickeyonacid]

1) what law are they breaking?
2) how is it their fault that young men get hooked on video games?
my LDAR lifestyle NEEDS video games to survive, so no thanks

 

[Not_Important]

A large amount of game developers and programmers are truecels, not sure why you'd want to hate them so much

 

[Darthmat]

Fontaine what the hell is happening to you?

 

[Deleted member 7573]

If my games continues to get more and more cucked they deserve death by drowning in a pit of acid.

 

[Fontaine]

1) what law are they breaking?
2) how is it their fault that young men get hooked on video games?
my LDAR lifestyle NEEDS video games to survive, so no thanks

They perfectly know what they're doing. Most modern games, such as open-world RPGs with random loot, are designed to be addictive time sinks.

By the way, your argument could also apply to drug dealers. Not their fault if people get addicted.

 

[Mongolianwizard]

If you were sufficiently good-looking, you would not feel any social inhibition

holy shit are you making it a goal to make as many low-iq posts as you can today
are you an earth alt

 

[Maeror]

I concur, they are a massive waste of time that limits the potential a lot of individuals.

 

[deadman123]

Nah, their life is already a hard lot, having to deal with corporate greed, bitching market and society in general.

 

[Deleted member 8353]

I could say that I wasted a large amount of my life on video games, but what was I really doing? Chasing after that barely noticeable dopamine high which occurred once I achieved something in a game. So I guess you could say that I've been robbed of time which could've been spent doing more useful pursuits, but at the end of the day I was driven to video games due to social alienation as a kid.

Maybe I should've spent all that time I had alone with more reading, but I don't actually regret my time spent playing games.

 

[Gyros_Pretcel]

Every greedy capitalist exploiting human nature in the one or the other way deserves gulag.

But on a serious note. If you want to waste your time away you find something to do it. I was not addicted to computer games and stopped playing at all several times for semesters to prove my point to doctors and parents. Games only affect people who are vulnerable due to some brain defect. Compulsory gamblers, ADHS etc.. For the rest it's just a symptom of avoiding their shitty lifes and this is the point where we have come full circle, capitalistic alienation.

Should have said I am refering to the state of the gaming industry of 5 years before. Especially F2P is in a whole different subject today and purposely built around squeezing as much time out of you as possible while keeping the rewards to a minimum to milk your pockets. Another topic are shitty quality games. Another topic is cultivated fandom which is used to sell and let people play cheap low IQ games.

 

[Deleted member 5861]

No. "slowing down the progress of civilization" isn't a reason to ban them. Society is very cyclical with its rises and falls and tech has nothing to do with it. Plus fuck civilization anyways, we should want the world to burn.

 

[Fontaine]

I concur, they are a massive waste of time that limits the potential a lot of individuals.

That feeling when you have played Fallout or Oblivion all day... This admixture of bliss, shame and dread. The same a heroin addict must feel.

 

[orchis]

Personally I don't regret the time I wasted playing video games tbh. Real life is already boring enough.

 

[Modus Coperandi]

regret is the most useless of all emotions.
if you had fun doing what you did you did not waste your time, it's really simple.

 

[Fontaine]

No. "slowing down the progress of civilization" isn't a reason to ban them. Society is very cyclical with its rises and falls and tech has nothing to do with it. Plus fuck civilization anyways, we should want the world to burn.

We are a few decades away from solving aging, cancer and death. We already have the technical means (DNA sequencing, computers and CRISPR) it's just a question of time and effort now. But most white nerds are too busy slaying Draugrs in Skyrim or whatever crap Bethesda is making nowadays. This is a crime. A crime against humanity. Blood is on the hands of everyone complicit in this infamy.

 

[Deleted member 3291]

never enjoyed video games aside from the 5 I actually beat

 

[Fontaine]

regret is the most useless of all emotions.
if you had fun doing what you did you did not waste your time, it's really simple.

I did waste my time though. I'm a loser when I could have become a top neurosurgeon, scientist or engineer at SpaceX.

 

[Maeror]

That feeling when you have played Fallout or Oblivion all day... This admixture of bliss, shame and dread. The same a heroin addict must feel.

Indeed, they are exploiting your vulnerability after all. I highly suggest you to play these games in an another language; at least it will give you some benefits, help you in your path of being a logophile and a polyglot.

 

[Deleted member 60]

I haven't played games in over a year. Feelsbadman

 

[Deleted member 8353]

Indeed, they are exploiting your vulnerability after all.

Looking back on it(as I barely even play anything now, only still do to socialize with my one online friend), maybe I should actually feel more angry about this, but I don't know. I guess I was pretty addicted to them.

 

[JovanD]

Don't blame creative professionals because you have low self control.

 

[Fontaine]

Indeed, they are exploiting your vulnerability after all. I highly suggest you to play these games in an another language; at least it will give you some benefits, help you in your path of being a logophile and a polyglot.

This is what I did to perfect my English back in the early 2010s and it did help. However this only works if you have already mastered 75%+ of a language. Otherwise you don't understand anything through context and it's merely frustrating.

Don't blame creative professionals because you have low self control.

Gamers with self-control are a myth. The self-control always falls apart at some point. There's a reason the medical community sees video games with great suspicion.

I guess the depressed and lonely are more likely to become addicted, though, you're right.

 

[Stoiccel]

I would've still ended up a shut-in loser, just with a different hobby.

 

[Gigacel]

Hell no. It’s my only form of cope. And also I chose to play video games and should be the one to be held responsible.

The thing to blame is not video games or porn. Society has decided that men are “privileged” and pushed hard for gynocentrism to “keep things equal”. However, all they did was push males out of their roles and purpose. With women being the center of focus and their hypergamy, the rise of incels began.

 

[Maeror]

Looking back on it(as I barely even play anything now, only still do to socialize with my one online friend), maybe I should actually feel more angry about this, but I don't know. I guess I was pretty addicted to them.

Yes indeed, you should. We both should.

This is what I did to perfect my English back in the early 2010s and it did help. However this only works if you have already mastered 75%+ of a language. Otherwise you don't understand anything through context and it's merely frustrating.

Perhaps but i am inclined to think that it depends on the game itself.


Also getting your ass kicked in that game force you to adapt, in the end pain is what improves you.

 

[Fontaine]

I would've still ended up a shut-in loser, just with a different hobby.

I agree somewhat. My topic was mostly an intellectual experiment designed to provoke controversy. Elon Musk succeeded while being a videogame fan, proving that it's more about intrinsic personality and willpower than about external circumstances.

 

[Modus Coperandi]

We are a few decades away from solving aging, cancer and death. We already have the technical means (DNA sequencing, computers and CRISPR) it's just a question of time and effort now. But most white nerds are too busy slaying Draugrs in Skyrim or whatever crap Bethesda is making nowadays. This is a crime. A crime against humanity. Blood is on the hands of everyone complicit in this infamy.

stop roleplaying as smart.
it's not working.
I remember a thread where I wasted my time dismantling your positivity to prove it's unjustified, so I will not do it again, because I see it's futile.

Immortality would be the worst thing to ever happen to humanity since death is the only truly fair thing in this world.

I just don't know why you keep mentioning stem stuff, which you obviously only read about in some clickbaity sources.
You should do in depth research before you have so strong opinions.

I did waste my time though. I'm a loser when I could have become a top neurosurgeon, scientist or engineer at SpaceX.

this has to be a joke right?
you are completely detached from reality at this point.
I think you need another TMS session.

Elon Musk.

ah a Musk fanboy. that explains alot.

 

[DeusPro]

I think this has less to do with the video games themselves but more to do with video games being cope. We’d have found a different cope had video games never existed, video games just happened to be a major cope for most of us.

 

[Solitarian_Walker]

holy shit are you making it a goal to make as many low-iq posts as you can today
are you an earth alt

He's right.

 

[Mickeyonacid]

By the way, your argument could also apply to drug dealers. Not their fault if people get addicted.

That's fair

 

[virgin4life]

Well I wasted entire years of my life on computer games so yeah you are right in a way. On the other hand I do not know what my life had been like without this form of cope. Would it have been better or would I just have LDARed in more boring ways?

 

[grayjedi90]

I am of the opinion that mentalcelling doesn't exist. If you were sufficiently good-looking, you would not feel any social inhibition. However, for those who rate 5 to 8 on the looks scale, I'm convinced video games and other solitary, low-T activities do make it worse on the front of relationships.

Inceldom aside, video games, especially RPGs and RTS, are a notorious time sink. Many gifted young men underperformed at school because of them, and the time spent by nerds on Civilization 4 could have been used for PhDs in physics or biology. I'm sincerely convinced that video games are currently slowing down greatly the progress of society, although this is mitigated by the money funneled into semiconductor research by hardware enthusiasts.

Do you think video game developers and producers deserve to be jailed for their negative impact on young men?

No, why should they? Videogames are, compared to other copes like alcohol or drugs, pretty harmless. It's not their fault that some gamers can't control themselves. People can get addicted to so many different kind of things. It's up to the people to balance their time spend on copes.

 

[gstvtrp]

holy shit are you making it a goal to make as many low-iq posts as you can today
are you an earth alt

 

[Golden Blue]

A much better option is banning alcohol, but people need their releases.

 

[misanthropekun]

If anything videogames like Hatred or Japanese ones are created by incels, but hey let's ban anything that distracts incels from being good slaves of a society that hates and torments them since kindergarten bro. Ban anime, food except for the dictated meals, couches and beds outside society's imposed hours and so on...

 

[PersonalityChad]

It depends. Pozzed bideogame developers deserve the oven imho