Why am I so Anti-Video Gaymes?

are video games a pathetic waste of time or am i just anti-fun let's find out so the answer could actually be both so i'm going to talk about video games in this video i'm going to be doing the read the email that i printed out kind of video a lot of people have been talking about video games recently because apparently in linux there's some kind of new thing with the kernel where it's easier to play games or something i don't know anything about it you'd have to ask someone else because i don't care about video games i don't care about no video games actually that's going to be what this video is about why why on so many occasions speak about a speak out about video games i'm going to explain my point using this email that i got so this email is from one allison allison says in on setting a good example for kids zoomers one of my videos uh some other videos and the hermetic answer that's an article on my website you said something along the lines of gaming games in porn aren't worth spending time on because they're inert activities that don't get you back give you anything from them which makes some sense uh in a comment you also said that video consumption i guess watching youtube a lot uh is also wasteful which stuck with me because it was very honest games are art and it is not worthwhile to spend time with them for you get nothing in return but paintings are also art does this mean it's not worthwhile to spend time with them movies poems literature or is it more the kind of art that matters like maybe that some post-modernist art wouldn't be worthwhile uh but then that raises the question of what criteria the worthwhile art should meet uh et cetera et cetera okay so i think this brings up a good point he compares i assume this alison is a boy i mean in the u.s it's a girl name but i'm assuming this is a boy uh has some he has some uh uh portuguese last name um so video games they're art right well first off a lot of people be like oh no video games are an art but i'm actually gonna i'm gonna cuck out on this and i'm gonna say yes video games are art uh there is there's lots of narrative involved there of course there's lots of graphical art involved there is it actually takes a lot to put together a video game sometimes a lot more than a book actually definitely a lot more nowadays you have these big aaa video games so if there are why why would it be wrong why would it be wasteful to consume that kind of art and not other kinds of art now let me give you an example okay um i once had a girlfriend okay and she is notable because she was like she read hours and hours and hours like she read these books like wheel of time kind of stuff where it's like not just it's like one book that's like hundreds of pages but then there's like a bajillion volumes in the series she was a big fan of what is it um brandon sanderson okay like these kind of book actually i think i have i think i have one wheel of time book back here that i've never read okay it's like books like this but they're like 30 000 of them in the series she loved these stuff loved these things she would read lots of them she probably read hours and hours of her life uh spent hours of her hours of her life reading that kind of stuff um now that said she wasn't weird because of it that is she didn't uh want to skip out on social things because she wanted to get home and read her books um she just did it so if she had time she'd open a book and that was it it wasn't like an addictive thing to her now if you asked her about it she might she would talk about it she'd talk very glowingly about the book she read but it wasn't even something that she was like obsessively pushing on everyone uh where i feel like that is very much the case a lot of the times with video games um the one thing about video games that separates them from literature even even if like consuming this kind of literature might be it might take the same amount of time as playing like playing a triple a game through or something like that depending on depending on how fast your how fast you read it might be a couple games right um so you know i don't think it's just the time issue i think the issue is more like if you video games are crafted nowadays to be maximally addicting they are designed like the quests and the characters and the the mechanics of the game incentivize you they conspire to incentivize you to play more and more you have things like steam you have things like xbox that give you achievements for doing minutia in the game all of it is just putting you on a big hamster wheel where you have this illusion of accomplishment uh where oh i got to go home you sort of feel like it's your job you feel like you're doing something oh i gotta get this done you know um so people will spend more and more time playing these video games not just mind you it starts oh i have some time i'll play some video games because i'm bored but it eventually devolves into oh i'm at a social event oh i'm at school oh i'm at church oh i'm somewhere else and i'm thinking about playing video games whereas i do not feel that that you know ex-girlfriend i use as an example i don't feel that i ever felt like she was oh i've got to get home and read my books like it never came up like if i knocked on her door she might be reading one but uh you know it's not the kind of thing that is that takes over your life even if you're using an equivalent amount of time uh if you happen to have more time and you you read literature uh i don't feel like it's addictive in the same way same thing you know other kinds of art you know painting stuff like that i mean to say if you take a painting if you take some kind of simple form of art okay look there's a work of art oh that's pretty okay you've now enjoyed this there might be deep layers in here there might be like subtext to this painting but it does not take hours and hours to consummately enjoy a painting or something like that or or even a movie and i think video games um you know video games especially the same thing i actually this has happened with television okay used to be back in the day a couple decades ago um that if you had video a video game or television it was a very small thing you know you had pong okay pong is only going to be so addictive i'm sure there are people who loved pong and played it all the time and were addicted to it functionally but it has nothing on the kind of games that come out nowadays that are like designed around your psychology to get you thinking about them to get you laying in your bed at night thinking about the mechanics of that game i remember one time in college there's some period where me and my roommate uh we were playing like what is it um like fallout 3 which was actually sort of a sucky game but we played it so much for so like a day in day out for like a full weekend and then then some that when we finally left the room you like forget that you're not in the game you're like oh i got a drink from this does it have radiation you know you it takes over your brain in a way that uh uh you know only a video game can um and video games as time has gone on have become more like that they've become they suck more and more of you their time sinks their time vampires that are taking more and more of you same thing is true with television actually because television you know it used to be the thing oh you know here in my boomer family we're gonna turn on the tube and watch a show because we're too awkward to talk to each other during dinner okay and that was it okay that's as bad as it got nowadays it's here netflix released this television show it has 20 episodes each of them are movie length and you know have movie quality and they're engrossing and people watch them all and if they binge watch them all in a big row it's something that sucks up your life a lot of the times now uh i'm i don't think television is quite as addicting as video games frankly because i don't really see uh you know many people out there who are like oh i gotta get home and watch my show i'm sure that happens okay uh if you're really engrossed in it but video games it just seems a little worse okay that that's just my opinion uh or at least i shouldn't say my opinion it's what i've observed in my life and in other people's lives um so i definitely feel like media has definitely you know it has more clause in people now nowadays because it's it's more it's it's basically psychologically designed to take more and more of you which with each passing year they get better and better at what they're supposed to do um so what ends up happening is people you know they are no longer invested in the li their actual life if they're just more invested in this this video game or something else and you know for me even if you're you know i could even look at a video game and say oh wow this is very well done wow the plot is brilliant the graphics are great wow it is a work of art in fact even the the psychological manipulation of it is appreciable wow they did so good in that um but uh you know it's just not the kind of thing um you know i i just don't feel right about it like i can't i i think uh it is something that you have to be a little you have to treat it as sacred you have to to sort of be careful around it because it's one of those things that's gonna manipulate you so um yeah that's my opinion on video games and you know in a social event if i'm you know if i'm at a party and people are playing like super super smash brothers or something like that i'm not gonna be like oh i'm against video games i'm not gonna play them but it's just one of those things it's just a severe opportunity cost i wish i could have all those you know years back frankly of playing video games i wish i could have all that time back but i i never will and you know again one of the best assets they have in your life just be bored for a little bit because when you're bored you start playing with things you start fixing things you start accomplishing things you know boredom inspires you to do things better than you know just latching on to whatever media consumption you do so that's why that's my opinion on video games okay i just hopefully i clarified some of them

Channel: Luke Smith

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Length: 9min 52sec (592 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 01 2021