A 2017 study from Princeton University and the University of Chicago revealed some staggering figures — essentially...

>A 2017 study from Princeton University and the University of Chicago revealed some staggering figures — essentially, young white American men are choosing video gaming over work.
>By 2016, 15 percent of predominately white males between the ages of 21 and 30 were either not working nor enrolled as full-time students. 67 percent of them now live with a parent or relative.
>This same group of young men is said to spend approximately 2520 hours on computers/consoles annually.
>The problem with young men’s obsession with video gaming is that too often they are using real-life, role-playing games, as a substitute for living.
>Male video gamers are forgetting how to be men. Or they’re not learning how to be real men, right out of the gate.
>Gaming on this level is nothing more than social isolation, with the barriers of cloud networks of “friends” and “connections” to buffer the sting of a desperate need for face-to-face camaraderie.
>Young men are no longer stimulating the “reward centers” of their brains by old-fashioned work, dating, competitive sports, or academia. They’re sitting in front of a video game console with their eyes glazed over — their reward centers may as well be hardwired to the console through electrodes.

Thoughts?

>Male video gamers are forgetting how to be men

Why do you associate working with being a man? Working is quite literally the job of slaves.

>Male video gamers are forgetting how to be men.

Literally lost IQ reading this. thx burgermen

I'm trying to sort myself out.

It's hard to repair yourself after being a nobody in hs and luck with girls going three ways

> Not even acknowledging you
> Thinking you're a creep
> Getting bored of you

Its the future.

Why live "reality" which sucks and its a place where the 99.99% of the people never fulfill all their dreams. If instead you can live in a virtual universe that you can do exactly what you want. Given enough technology, our brain simply cant differentiate between real or fantasy, in fact one could argue that videogames are as real as reality( both are our neural simulation of physical phenomena)

Work is shit, gaming is fun, not to mention that in modern world there's literally nothing valuable to work towards - just endless slavery and cuckening.

>young white men
>implying this is limited to whites
The biggest reason for the decline in violent crimes in the past decade has been because niggers finally discovered console games.

mr melodramatic over here thinks one needs to "repair himself" After HIGH SCHOOL experiences

rofl

>2520 hours on computers/consoles annually
Fucking casuals.

as much as I dont like it, it pretty much describes me.

>Work your ass off so you can support LaQuanda and Tyrone DeShawn's 50 children

Or

>Don't

So in other words, young men are unemployed and playing games with all that time they have.

>men try to be men
>get chastised for "toxic masculinity"
>be surprised when men drop out of a society that doesn't want them

I was told by liberals that emasculation is masculinity now though.

Oh, OP, I forgot to add:
>young men who play video games are lazy manchildren
>and are also driven implacable misogynistic nazis hellbent on eliminating all wimminz and pocks from the internet

So which one is it?

Mfw time is going too fast and it feels like the last 10 years happened in the blink of an eye, -10 years of my life all gone to waste it feels.

>>Male video gamers are forgetting how to be men. Or they’re not learning how to be real men, right out of the gate.

If males aren't becoming men once they become adults, it's the result of the society and parental structures that forged them, video games and becoming NEETs are just the results of that failure of upbringing.

If you spend most of your life being told that straight white males are the devil, there is no incentive to do anything, which is exactly the point.

Nah i'm not scarred by hs experiences I just picked up bad habits that I got stuck in. All i did was play video games all night and go to school.

- Video games are cheaper than irl activities
- irl pay is shit while video games have a better economy in world.
- People in video games need you, people irl will stab you in the back.
- You receive praise and reward for accomplishing video game tasks. Your boss bitches because you didn't do it faster irl.
- Actually changing the world vs helping JWO.
- 3D waifus more interesting than actual women.

I don't know, you tell me your thoughts.

This is the most bullshit excuse I keep hearing. Nobody is going to whine at you for being manly. If someone does, you weren't manly to begin with. You were an easy-looking target.

Are there NEETs in Honduras? Someone said there are a rising number of NEETs and autists in El Salvador, and that there are psychologists now who mostly handle those kinds of cases in San Salvador.

>oy vey our commu-socialist systems cant function with all of the goys not working and being elsaved to support them oy vey

>15 percent

It's literally nothing lol

Why is this article enforcing gender stereotypes?

No you're wrong tejas
We're playing games because reality doesn't suck enough.
Why hone your physical health and martial prowess when some dickcheese behind a screen can drop a bomb on you from 3000 miles away?

>Nobody is going to whine at you for being manly.

Spotted the feminine manlet.

>have job
>pay mortgage
>have fiance
>AMAGAD MEN ARENT MEN CAUSE THEY PLAY VIDEO GAMES
can I just play games in my free time in peace with out having to hear this stupid shit all the time please?

In aggregate or the average time each individual spends on vidya, cause 7 hours per day seems like a very high demographic average for unemployed white males living with their parents.

shut up, mr shekelstein needs you to get back to work

Not hiring white males is the culprit, that and systematically removing the employed ones.

Can't say for sure. I just know the NEET life is the desirable life but that's hardly affordable when there's no money.

basically

video games are bad, i admit that. but there is no other way to appeal to my interests in fantasy. im not going to LARP like some cringy aspie. i'll simply play oblivion, dragons age, dragons dogma, etc etc. what other activity can come close to explosing castles, using magic and swords, and running into mythical beings?

Yeah. Play video games for a living.

I tend to agree with this. Although I love video games, my first intention after I completed high school was to get a good-paying job. Back in 1990, they weren't hard to find. These days, not so much. Following that, I chased pussy for a few years and fucked quite a few girls. By the time I was 22, I wanted to settle down with one of them and fuck some more and make some babies. That's what I did too. Having a family made me more ambitious and productive in my job and that made me successful. Playing video games all the time doesn't make a man. It's that fucking simple.

Why hire a white man when you hire a Chink or a Mexican?
Why hire a man when diversity hires force you to choose a woman or a Black over a white

In a video game, you are more likely to be rewarded for intelligent dedication/hard work than you are in real life.

But fucking a bitch of roasties does?

Probably because we feel alienated.Going out in public, only to roam among the packs of feral animal, and their screeching niglet children. Or, I could sit at home, and not be culturally enriched. It isn't a tough choice.

>life is shit
Yes yes it is
In any other age these conditions imposed upon us would've caused us to take up arms.
Video games are a way for (((them))) to channel our hatred into nothingness
We must find a way to stop it.

Maybe if I could actually hear back from all the places I'm applying to I wouldn't be a neet.

R A R E .

Pretty much this.

Mil vet. Work part-time & finishing a bachelors' online. I don't understand the irrational hatred of video games. Gaming in general, really -- this leaves the same nasty taste in my mouth as being made fun of for playing D&D with friends. It's far better than simply sitting and watching TV, constantly exposed to the non-stop stream of advertisements. Balance is important, but there's nothing wrong with games.

>they’re not learning how to be real men
>The problem with young men’s obsession with video gaming is that too often they are using real-life, role-playing games,

lol so these are the kind of people in universities.. i guess "higher education" in this day and age is only a measure how many weed dealers you have on campus.

>you can improve in vidya if you try hard and there is a reward
How can jobs even compete?

>choosing
when will the boomers die already

This

Having an offspring does

He said that after he fucked a bunch of roasties.

Good. Let it all burn down.

Video games are fun. Having to work 40+ hours a week, dealing with the modern American female and normalfags are not fun.

I gave up because I've always been shat on as individual, never been rewarded for all the hard work and diligence I did and becoming more and more alienated from my peers as I grew up. I mean why bother trying if nothing you do improves your quality of life and you're treated as an idiot no matter how well you perform?

They just had to r e t i r e!

Seriously, if they can't retire at this point, they did something wrong.

OP is basically describing me, except the only vidya I play is LoL and more of my time is spent shitposting or watching por

My dilemma is that I don't want to go back to school just yet as I don't know if I have the habits to do well. And I'm discinlined toward the jobs I can find because they are retail or customer service where I have to listen to horrible pop all day and be insulted by my manager even though I genuinely enjoy working hard and then being forced out because they don't want to keep you long enough for you to get on their healthcare plan

What's left is just succumbing to delusion and because the only way to really get off the vidya or forum or porn Jew is to be as far away from your computer as possible, I wind up wasting my day without even realizing it looking at shit that were designed by PhDs in behavioral science to keep me maximally addicted

There's nothing for someone in his early 20s to do in his free time if he's not in college or gainfully employed that isn't degenerate. I can exercise, which I do, but that's solitary. There's no young people at church so where tf can I meet others and form a social group without college or a job?

Thats why im talking about, fulfilling human power fantasies. Vidya designers are good at doing this, make the game easy enough so people can feel they did it by their own new ability ( the feel of progression) and hard enough so its not boring and feels challenging

Google toxic masculinity and be amazed.

might as well waste the rest

kek

So?
I have a really good job and I'm extremely well paid but I have 0 social interactions outside of work. I spend every free second I have in front of my PC and I love it. Currently I have tens of thousands in my bank account (no social life and no roastie girlfriend = no expenses) and I plan on leaving my job this January and living off my savings for as long as I can.
Dunno about the time after that and I don't really care. I expect WWIII will start by then so I don't really care.

yea seriously. I bet half the people who criticize others for being man children fall asleep in front of a TV every night.

>15 years ago
video games are making men too violent
>3 years ago
video games are too masculine
>today
>video games are emasculating men

its almost like academic studies about this subject are all shit

When I was NEET I would play Japanese RPGs for days on end until I was hallucinating that the onscreen characters were real.

I'm a middle manager at a large company now.

you know what helps the reward center?
Paying enough for work instead hiring of cheap fucking labor from elsewhere.
I choose gaming every fucking time then. better be gameslave then workslave.

I guess

Weird.. once I got into college I stopped gaming altogether like immediately. Part-time jobs, booze, parties and then girffriends were more fun I guess.

But I heard colleges are not like this anymore. People don't socialize like they used to. Even alcohol consumption among the youth dropped like a rock too.

Oy Vey Goy Gay!
Don't you homos want to keep earning shekels?
Stop playing Barbies Mall Adventures you fucking turds, we need more Arab oil!

Considering they let women join the workforce and effectively carved their own wage in half in doing so, yes they did something wrong.

This desu

>men are the problem

Women are more likely to be neets

Life is pointless

May as well just play video games and defend Israel in comment sections

What little money I have is spent on mainstream consumer products

Go on Sup Forums discords and find local anons.

There always seems to be a bunch in any happening thread like hurricane generals talking about their county or state. So your neighbors might even be anons.

>luck with girls going three ways
You're focusing on the wrong thing, which is understandable if you're just out of highschool, you're still swimming in hormones.
I'm not a materialist, but if you chase women, you will lose money. If you chase money, women will follow.

Srsly don't worry about roasties

My African relative.

how can someone forget how to be what they never were

>get college degree
>apply to many jobs, get no call back
>get interviews, get no call back
>you're either under/overqualified, out of the job for too long, or no job experience so (((they))) don't want you
>get depressed and alienated from all the failed interviews and give up job searching
>start playing RPG games to feel wanted in the virtual world and be the hero because the real world doesn't give a shit about you
>businesses bitch and moan about decreasing sales because stupid gamers won't get a job, business declares bankruptcy and boss of company begins playing RPG games

And people wonder why everyone is checking out of society.

>boss bitches that you didn't do it faster
>never gives you a raise
>your pay to work efficiency gap widens as you preform better and better for no further pay
>you quit and look for a new job because fuck those newbs.

What the fuck games are they playing? There aren't even any good games worth skipping work for. A tequila binge, or an over-extended acid trip.. yes I could see skipping a day of work, but not over some shitty (((vidya))).

Games are really really good now

You could even debate that fantasy is more real that reality is.
Think about this; you have the ''best story's'' and the best moments of everyone you have met, the ''realest'' moments of there lifes if you phrase it like that, and put that in 1 game or movie ect.

Aren't all the best moments of life the only thing real in your life, put all those moments in 1 place and isn't that place more real than your life is?

The most important moments of my life are the things that actually happened to me.
>tfw first love
>tfw first mushroom/acid/dmt trip
>tfw first time hitting rock bottom
>tfw first time getting in a car crash
>tfw first funeral

Vidya is a lame distraction, nowhere near as important as the events you could learn from in real life.

YES !!

IT WAS VIDEO GAMES !!!!

i only play racing games really. I dont have money to have a race car and to take it to the trackevery week. Playing racing games is the next best thing

>Work so you can get rich but don't spend the money on enjoying yourself!

Don't you mean Masculating them'!

...

>work, dating, sports, academia

I cant possibly fathom why men would rather escape into their playstations

delet

No, faggoty liberal policy is emasculating young men. The fact you started pushing that garbage into western games isn't their fault.

Most of the guys I game with arent nearly as cucked as the faggots I work with. We're able to speak our mind. You cant do that in the modern work environment. Funny enough, even the neets who dont work arguably have more life skills then some hipster cuck who pours coffee for a living.

NEETs are pretty good at learning off the cuff too.
I've got two left hands but by the power of necessity and dedication I managed to fix the brakes on my bike without taking it for a service.
It's part of not liking people I guess, to wanna DIY everything. Quite a useful resource for the times to come.

>pls go to work and pay taxes for services for women and """poc""", who fucking loathe and hate you and want you dead, to be able to sit on their asses and fuck around

"no"

This is true, why work in real life than you can grind in MMO. Im already working my ass of fuck off society

Come to Australia. It's literally a full time (government funded) profession to whine at and about men for being "toxic".

>this is what Gamergate was fighting to save
Guys... I think we fucked up.

>t. arbeitsscheu

>muh video games are bad

Video games are a psychological escape to avoid the nightmare that is the West today for the heterosexual white man.

>UGH FUCKING LOSERS, GET OFF THE INTERNET AND PUT DOWN THE CONTROLLER AND GET INVOLVED IRL

okay

>OMG FUCKING PLS GO BACK IN YOUR BASEMENTS YOU'RE RUINING WESTERN CIVILIZATION

What do you fucking roasties want from us?

What games are they playing? I stopped playing all video games a few years ago because they're so cucked now.

Move out (((((Melbourne/Sydney)))) then

Basically this,