Taking the question at face value - probably because addiction is the business model now.
Only legislation will fix this.
Well it’s either that or heroin
Why not both?
Escapism in this world? Imagine that…
Why are so many old people addicted to propaganda?
It’s their form of escapism
Idk, same reason older generations liked TV so much. Keep in mind they had to air the “It’s X o’clock, do you know where your kids are” commercial because they literally were glued to the TV. So when an older person says some shit about video games, remind them of this.
Have a SIL that is convinced the exposure to tech is a good thing, and doesn’t believe in ‘time and place’ moderation. Guess what, her kid is addicted to his cellphone at every family gathering. Lol.
That’s so dumb. Exposure to technology is neutral on its own. It depends what the tech is being used for whether it’s a good or a bad thing.
Parents not being good at setting boundaries. Not setting times to go to bed, not limiting time spent playing games or on electronics, and not checking in on how they are doing with school work. They are the ones controlling the finances of what can be bought and used in the household, but they just become pushovers.
What else are you going to fill your hollow existence with before you kill yourself
just a cope for the shitty world that the people who write articles like this helped to create, nbd
I’m 29, started gaming at 7yo on the game boy color. Just did my resume and cited videogames for a bunch of skills they gave me. This article is 20years too old
Also of concern:
Why are so many people addicted to reading?Addicted to reading drivel.
I wouldn’t mind if my kids were glued to books all day, but newspaper opinion pieces should only be used as toilet paper.
If I were young I would totally play all the games I could. They young ones saw 2008, pandemic, wars, inflation. If not escapism then what?
What else are they gonna do? Play outside in the 100+heat highway adjacent parking lot?
We closed all the youth centers, made it illegal to loiter, banned them from places like coffee shops and malls, made parks miles away from residential home, prevented them from any mobility until they’re 16… It’s those damn video games!
I mean god forbid we let them go outside and have unstructured time. They might get addicted to something.
I mean god forbid we let them go outside and have unstructured time.
That wouldn’t make our capitalist overlords money
His first console was a gameboy advance? My first was a gameboy and I’m 31! How old is this jabroni from the article?
“Sixteen at the time” is doing a lot of work in this article.
