@Lethaldrizzle
the longest I have ever done anything like that is watch 4 episodes of a tv drama back to back! That's probs less than 4 hours.
What is your point? That you have a relatively short attention span, or that once you found something you enjoyed so much, you devoted an amount of time to it?
No I'm not a gamer but I just dont get it.
And yet here you are, pontificating.
A film has an end point. A book has a last page. Tv dramas have endings. Online/video games can go on indefinitely.
Since by your own admission, you're not a gamer, and don't understand videogames, this is a fallacious statement.
Videogames do not go on indefinitely. Unless you count playing through them again. But the same can be said of re-watching TV shows and movies, or re-reading books. Online games also do not go on indefinitely, and do have an end point.
I'm just gobsmacked that anyone from the games designers to the consumers think it's in anyway ok for a young adult to be plugged into a mostly sedentary game for 15 hours!
I am not a young adult - I've been playing games for more than 40 years. I spent decades working in the games industry; no one sets out to make a game with the intention of ensnaring young people, and turning them into vegetative, antisocial zombies, so you're safe - you have nothing to be gobsmacked about.
It's insane.
It's not. You know nothing, and yet deign to have an opinion. Here's the rub; in the absence of information and facts, you cannot have an opinion. What you have is prejudice and an ill-held bias. It's not the same.
And don't even get me started on the barriers it puts up to the people around you. Staring into your phone or tablet or tv screen for hours on end not communicating with those around you.
Just like people who are avid book-readers, then.
Should we be castigating novelists for writing material with the sole intention of immersing people for hours on end in a make-believe world, to the exclusion of other human beings?
What do you think? Should I sent a Tweet to JK Rowling, and tell her how wrong she is? Should I, in fact, be gobsmacked that authors absolutely intend for their readers to lose themselves in books?
But hey you're playing with someone on the opposite side of the world so that's ok
You weren't going to start, remember?
I will say this, however; there is absolutely nothing wrong with casting a wide social net. It may not be the same as your social net but it's still valid.
Anecdotally, I know three couples from almost opposite sides of the planet who would not be together if not for the MMOs they played together. I know literally hundreds more who've made friends with people from many different countries because of online gaming. And almost every developer I've ever worked, or am friends, with was a gamer before gaming became their job.
But, yeah, you're right, all serious gamers are sad, antisocial, jobless losers who sit in their bedrooms all day with the curtains closed, never venturing forth unless it's to shamble to the fridge. How have I not noticed this over the past four decades?
Sarcasm aside, my point is that just because you see no value in something you have little desire to understand, it doesn't mean no one else does or should. And it most certainly does not make you right. It may make it right for you but you are one person among a whole world of people who live their lives differently to you. Why does that make you angry? Or outraged? Or whatever emotion it was that prompted you to write the comment above?
Why does how other people live even matter to you? Do you not have anything better to do with your time than concern yourself with what others are doing?
Should I be concerned that you spent four hours watching a TV show, which in all likelihood, I wouldn't enjoy? Ooh, here's an idea - how does this sound?
"I just don't understand how people can spend four hours watching TV dramas back-to-back. I don't watch TV but I just don't get it. And don't even get me started on the barriers it puts up to the people around you. Staring into your TV screen for hours on end, and not communicating with those around you. It's insane."
Fair?
I personally despise reality TV, chick flicks, and soap operas but do I feel that anyone who is into those things are wrong? No, of course I don't because I'm a rational, logical-thinking grown-up who understands that we're all made differently, and we all find our happiness in different places.
Also, I'm not an arse. 