I never really took interest as a kid, and we don’t have any in our house. There’s a big world outside full of stuff to do. My oldest son’s goal is to play baseball for UT. I tell him if he truly wants to achieve that he needs to put the work in while everyone else is playing video games. He gets it. The best part is, my boys love to go hunting and fishing with me. Doesn’t get any better than watching their excitement fighting that fish or when a deer steps out. No video game can offer that. The downside is when his teammates or friends get together and they’re talking about the latest game, he’s left out. I’ve done my best to offset that by providing ways to spend time that are way more fun. Dirtbikes, bows, hunting/fishing. It takes a lot more time, money and effort but I think it’s the right thing to do.

No.

When I hear a few young single men making plans for the weekend talking, and all they have going on is spending the night at one guys house so they can play video games all weekend...............SMH, I can't imagine choosing that over chasing girls or hunting.

can't imagine it either, yet thousands of young guys do it.


I have a college freshman son. Much of his time spent here at home over the break was him and buddies playing games online. Could have gone fishing for trout, hunting on a few different places, or messing with his pretty blond ex-girlfriend that was also in town on break, but nope, they like the video games.



Can't understand it

On GTA3, you can pick up a hooker in your car jacked vehicle, go to a dark alley and the car rocks and squeaks back in forth. Your life bar goes up but your money goes down. When it’s over and she gets out to barf, you can crack her with a bat and get your money back.

That version has been out since 2001. I’m sure that never contributed to the crime problem here.

WTF are you talking about? This is a video game?

I was more into pinball.

That game was a lot of fun

Born in 1973. Had a killer Atari Setup as a kid, loved Mario Bro's in the 90's, then had a PS 1 And a PS 2. Still have the PS 2 but it hasn't been touched in 10 years plus. I played Madden, golf and a couple of car racing games mostly towards the end.
Have never played any of the killing/ war games.

My hands play that stuff at work all the time. I can see the allure, but it gets boring to me after a few minutes.

I think it’s better than adults watching cartoons. Caught my hands the other day watching those Japanese cartoons. I gave them hell about that. They don’t seem to understand why.

WTF are you talking about? This is a video game?

No wonder she's an "ex". The guys I was referring to were at the gym which is a very target rich environment, I don't think they even notice. It's a really anti-social behavior, even when they get together to do it. Changing times.