>The gaming industry is undoubtedly huge and will continue to grow and evolve. We have seen games progress through our generations, from the original Pokémon Red and Blue, to the latest Call of Duty. However, all games are associated with being ‘bad’ for our health. Compared with the old social norms of outdoor activity, gaming is stereotyped as ‘lazy’ and a driver of aggressive behaviour. A recent study has shown this to be at least partially true. >In a study of hardcore gamers (those who play 10 or more hours a week) compared to the general population found gamers to indeed be lazier. >Hardcore gamers typically took three times as long to find employment than non-gamers. They also were found to be less ptoductive overall. This is an issue employers must deal with as lost productivity due to video games costs the global economy up to $500 billion a year. >In addition, hardcore gamers reported an average of three close friends in their lives compared to a dozen for non-gamers. Hardcore male gamers had sex 68% less frequently than non-gamers; however, female hardcore gamers had the same amount of sex as female non-gamers. Hardcore gamers were also found to be four times more likely to identify as LGBTQIA than non-gamers.
Were video games a mistake?
Elijah Ross
Your thread is a mistake Your life is a mistake
Michael Lopez
>Hardcore male gamers had sex 68% less frequently than non-gamers; however, female hardcore gamers had the same amount of sex as female non-gamers.
I really wish I was born a woman.
Jaxson Nguyen
>female hardcore gamers
Michael Wright
>No source >Somehow this thread will reach bump limit
Isaiah Price
Sorry women, it's not any complicated neuroscience. Video games are simply better than sex.
Nolan Cooper
>Hardcore gamers were also found to be four times more likely to identify as LGBTQIA than non-gamers.
So when I've called you guys fags, its been literal?
Camden Barnes
>10 or more hours a week
So does that mean my parents are hardcore TV watchers?
Nolan Taylor
>IA jesus christ they just keep adding more letters.
Leo Adams
I'm trans, so technically I'm straight
Ryder Reed
>gaming is the cause, not a consequence How can one possibly come up with that? Also, >10 hours per week >hardcore I don't even
Cameron Turner
How long until it's LGBTQIAOP?
Jacob Ward
10 hours a day or 6 houes a day would be far better. DSM is a joke
Luis Collins
Steam says i played 115 hours in the last 2 weeks. some are from a micromanagement shit game, so id say its 80, i leave it running a lot. Shit.
Levi Reed
If you spend an hour and 45 minutes browsing facebook or watching youtube then you are an internet addict according to those standards.
Eli Hall
>So does that mean my parents are hardcore TV watchers? O-oy vey, user. There's absolutely nothing wrong with watching our prop-- errr television. That's what all normal, well-rounded individuals do! Make sure to tell your fellow Millenials to stop melting their minds with video games and to subscribe back to cable!
Wyatt Wilson
They'll have the whole alphabet and a few numbers at this rate.
Evan Baker
>Steam says i played 115 hours in the last 2 weeks
How? What the fuck do you even play? I'm only on 45 every 2 weeks
Easton Baker
lol
Ethan Jackson
>LGBTQIA ???????? quit it with adding more nonsense
Michael Ross
>hardcore gamers >10 hours
Tyler Flores
who wrote this pseudo social science bullshit.
Sebastian Taylor
Every time I chuckle to myself.
Jack Sanders
>A recent study showed that OP is 100% gay and loves to take cocks up his ass
What could this mean?
Robert Hill
>pseudo social science No redundancy please.
Brayden Carter
>Hardcore gamers were also found to be four times more likely to identify as LGBTQIA than non-gamers. LGBTQIA isn't even a word, no source, heres your (you).
Ian Evans
i hope this clicker heroes think adds up a lot of hours to my counting, really. well i leave it open all night long sometimes, but im not really sure on how much i play. lets say 4 cs games a day. sometimes is nier, sometimes other shit, but id say 5 hours a day, someday more, someday less. 5x14=70. ye id say 70/80 is more accurate than steam. my life rn is wake up, work, go home, eat, play, go work, go home, eat, play, go bed. This thread made me realize im a failure.
Hunter Kelly
>LGBTQIA
What the fuck is that?
First they took the rainbow now they're going for the alphabet.
Adrian Ramirez
>normies still reference call of dooty
really....... makes u think..........
Blake Watson
>LGBTQIA isn't even a word its an acronym dummy
Samuel Jenkins
>This thread made me realize im a failure.
You're not a failure, you're normal. Be less harsh on yourself, lad.
Isaiah Gray
What the fuck does the QIA stand for?
Luke Taylor
>Hardcore >11 hours a week
Fucking what
Adam Smith
Queer Incest-Anal
Juan Wood
Sauce me up senpai, I want know if video games really do make people gay. That'd be a dream come true.
Ian Lee
Queer, Intersex, Asexual
Jack Walker
Queer interspecies anthropomorph I think
Nathan Walker
>female hardcore gamers had the same amount of sex as female non-gamers
Isaiah Parker
>people play degenerate dumbed down and sjwfied mainstream nu-games >become braindead faggots
David Myers
Quantum integer anomaly
Logan Carter
Weird, it's almost like the modern world molded a generation of people who just want to die, because everything has become meaningless
Kevin Ross
I thought the Q was Questioning? I think this is why most people stop at T
Liam Lee
>500 billion a year in productivity costs We did it Sup Forums, by being slightly lazier office rats we have costed the global economy 500 fucking billions, lets keep it up, soon we can make a true anarcho capitalist wasteland.
Charles Edwards
I don't think it's right to say video games are the cause of it, it's more like a tool to cope with some problem be it addiction, uglyness, antisocial, laziness, or even just bad luck. If videogames didn't exist time consumption would be in other media like card games/DnD like it was decades ago.
Justin Martinez
Where do Japanese people get these bookcases that have just enough height on their shelves for whatever they put in?
Adrian Morgan
Isn't queer redundant since G is already there?
The fuck is Intersex??? Only having sex with yourself?
Asexual? We're mammals, not cells what the fuck.
James Moore
but do they cause cancer?
Aaron Howard
>LGBTQIA the what now
Julian Ward
Thank you user, i can get back to my daily routine then. Also, i think OP is bait, 10 hours a week cant be hardcore.
Logan Wilson
Welcome to current year
Ryan Moore
I just want games act and play like games again.
Hudson Green
>Hardcore male gamers had sex 68% less frequently than non-gamers; however, female hardcore gamers had the same amount of sex as female non-gamers.
Grrl gamurs confirmed sluts
Robert Foster
>female hardcore gamers had the same amount of sex as female non-gamers.
Life is fucking unfair.
>Hardcore gamers were also found to be four times more likely to identify as LGBTQIA than non-gamers.
I fucking knew that all of those trannies on Discord and in FFXIV threads weren't a coincidence!
What the fuck does I and A mean though? Do they just keep adding letters to it or what?
James Cruz
>this really really bothers me for some reason
this
Elijah Morris
I mean it. Be less harsh on yourself.
Jason Lee
don't look up intersex on google images lad, it's like some hermaphrodite shit
Daniel Hall
I've been ignoring it because it's all so retarded. I'm bi (love cock) and trans are a huge fetish of mine but come the fuck on. You don't see me making up acronyms for made up orientations.
Jonathan Diaz
I think thats called an adjustable shelf
Ian Hall
>>In a study of hardcore gamers (those who play 10 or more hours a week)
Gabriel Moore
Japan
Christian Davis
They literally are though. Look at any Twitch girl stream or hell, Lana Rain.
Noah Brooks
it shows just how foolish you are that you're going to make fun of it before even researching it.
Are you a child?
Ryder Gutierrez
I'm a fag and you probably wouldn't be able to tell just by my interests and mannerisms(you just have to take my word for it I guess), but you'd be surprised how much just the "sex drive" part can affect your life. Not to get all Freudian, but sex pervades everything people do, even things that we don't think of as explicitly sexual. Anything that alienates you from other people makes you more likely to lapse into escapism, i.e. gaming. It also has some self-reinforcing qualities, think for instance how many weird interests/fetishes/etc. you developed just from browsing sites like this.
Speaking for myself, I actually "identified" as asexual and wanted nothing to do with that whole LGBTBBQ clusterfuck or sex in general for a long time. I still kind of do tbqh; I've decided I'm "gay" because I tend to find abstract aesthetics, attitudes, etc. which are "masculine" to be more pleasing than those that are "feminine," not because I like muscles and dicks and shit like that(although going back to the "reinforcing" part, I've developed a taste for those things after watching lots of porn). I imagine there's a correlation between people who have a more abstract/fluid conception of sexuality and people who just generally view the world in the same idea-focused manner. /blogpost
John Young
>Hardcore gamers were also found to be four times more likely to identify as LGBTQIAWSZXCDERFVBGTYHNMJUKIOLP than non-gamers.
Carson Nelson
>It's a "correlation implies causation" pseudoscience bullshit being posted on Sup Forums >10 hours a WEEK is hardcore There's no way this expects me to take it as anything but a complete joke.
Jackson Green
If i can't tell you're gay from your mannerism, and you have to tell me you're gay, then you're gay not a fag.
t. guy who fucking hates fags
Josiah Taylor
>video games are bad >watching television is not
really makes a man think
Dominic Baker
Not even making of it mate. Take your hurt feelings elsewhere.
Alexander Turner
shut up gay lord
Lincoln Phillips
This.
You can be gay but not a fag, white but not a wigger, black but not a nigger, so on. If you dont go and do that shitty gay voice, act like you inhale dicks and so on, enjoy your shit you la la homo man in peace, shove it down my throat and you can honestly just go shove a drill in your dick.
Justin Garcia
>t. 17 year old closeted homosexual
grow the fuck up and stop basing your happiness and anger on how other people are acting.
Dominic Collins
>just act white and straight like me >dialect doesn't exist >anything outside of my own personal experience makes me extremely uncomfortable >everyone else is the problem! >pfft special snowflakes
Josiah Ward
>70 posterinos >ctrf f source >2 matches
WEW LAD
Grayson Morales
Exactly.
Lefty detected. I didn't mention my happiness or anger, or implied anything about it. You're projecting, you triggered snowflake.
Cameron Hughes
Im asking for you not to act like a exagerated stereotype, not to act white user. Whats with the sudden triggering?
Blake Cook
Nice b8 but there are no fish in this sea
Jack Cox
hate=anger buddy! hate is an emotion don't try to argue that
>t.guy who fucking hates fags >bitch detected
Jeremiah Rodriguez
>Trying to reason with leftists >Not just laughing at them
Step it up, my son.
Ryan Watson
>that last image Holy shit lol
Adrian Barnes
>hate=anger buddy!
So you hate me then? Because I appear to have made you pretty angry.
Daniel Foster
>Hardcore gamers were found to be four times more likely to identify as LGBTQIA
First of all, what the fuck is IA And secondly where is your source
Jose Moore
FAQ NOOSE
Dominic Clark
everyone acts like an exaggerated stereotype that's just society buddy. In fact the shit your saying sounds like political views I had when I was 14 and I'm being 100% literal when I say that. Not shitty, I literally believed this shit like 10 years ago and thought it made me so much more pragmatic than everyone. All you're doing is feeding your own confirmation bias. >resorts to pigeon holing people via american political spectrum kek
Samuel Young
Its more fun to disect their reasons and in the rare times where it isnt bait, point out how bullshit it all is and convince them to change mentalities.
Redpilling is stupid, but so is bluepilling.
Ryder Cruz
This post is the cherry on top of the kek, I can't take it anymore.
Camden Rogers
>everyone acts like an exaggerated stereotype
I shudder to imagine the snowflakes that comprise your social circle.
Gabriel Thomas
>Hardcore gamers were also found to be four times more likely to identify as LGBTQIA than non-gamers.
This is the most disturbing part.
Ethan Brown
Nah I don't hate you (those were your or other anons words), I am only pointing out the inconsistencies in your argument. Nice deflection though, maybe you should own up to you words. It'd be the responsible thing to do.
Henry Lopez
>everyone acts like a exagerated sterotype No, they dont. Nowhere near "everyone", hell, if everyone was their steretype then racism would actually be justified sometimes. >you believed what I believed when I was younger so what you believe cant be true Nice argument
Blake Morgan
Their acronym is simply a clever metaphor for how bloated and cumbersome their ideology is become. As they struggle to accept more and more "oppressed" into their movement, the acronym grows and grows.
Daniel Gray
>I-i-i'm not mad or hateful!
Calm down, son. Nobody was even talking to you but you butt in full of anger and lefty nonsense.
Noah Martin
I don't have a social circle. I have some really close friends (3) that I've known since child hood and my immediate family. I'm pretty introverted and keep to myself for the most part. Been that way my whole life