Poll: If you knew FOR A FACT that playing video games were slowly killing you...
- Thread starter floppylobster
- Start date
Smokers do know that it's slowly killing them, yet they continue.
Doubt it would be much different with video games xP (except there's no physical addictive drug in them I guess)
Doubt it would be much different with video games xP (except there's no physical addictive drug in them I guess)
Well, considering there is 8760 hours in a year, which would mean dying 4 years earlier, I think I'd continue playing games, because I doubt I'd even reach that many hours of gameplay. The game I have spent the longest completing are Persona 3 and 4, both around 50-60 hours. That means I could complete those games 159 times in my life and lose 4 years. Considering the games took me roughly a month each to complete, and that's with not much else going on, so with work etc. on top of that say it takes 2 months to complete 55 hours of gameplay, that would mean it would take 26 years to do one year of solid gaming. Would I play that many games as an adult? Probably not.
So what I have done here is really over thought this topic and done some maths. But it lets me say yes, yes I'd continue gaming. Even if I lost 4-6 years of my life, it would come off the end, and by the time I get old life expectancy will probably be well into the 80's anyway, and who wants to be that old?
So what I have done here is really over thought this topic and done some maths. But it lets me say yes, yes I'd continue gaming. Even if I lost 4-6 years of my life, it would come off the end, and by the time I get old life expectancy will probably be well into the 80's anyway, and who wants to be that old?
Phew. That's a doozy.
Look, in the end, I'd probably stop playing. Much as I love games, I have someone I love more, and I'd be crazy not to keep every second that I can to be with her.
Look, in the end, I'd probably stop playing. Much as I love games, I have someone I love more, and I'd be crazy not to keep every second that I can to be with her.
nah. fictional credits and commendations dont hold a candle to my real lifespan, i'd drop the games if that were the case and get out and do other stuff. no matter how hard or how long it took.
If videogames took on the property of drugs, then I would quit while I was ahead. After all, the people in charge would probably make gaming illegal and I don't have the time to spend in jail just because I wanted to get the gold chocobo.
It also depends how it 'sucks away _ years of life'. It's not as simple as "Suddenly... You die!" I mean, if you get lung cancer, you're in some serious agony for quite a while. What if gaming addiction leads to something like your eyes and thumbs turning necrotic, or your body rotting away like with krokodil - but much, much slower. If you think of it like that, then it really isn't worth it.
It also depends how it 'sucks away _ years of life'. It's not as simple as "Suddenly... You die!" I mean, if you get lung cancer, you're in some serious agony for quite a while. What if gaming addiction leads to something like your eyes and thumbs turning necrotic, or your body rotting away like with krokodil - but much, much slower. If you think of it like that, then it really isn't worth it.