 I got some serious questions about video games. Some honest questions. Can some of you out there help me? Hey there, njroot22.com here with another general interest vlog and this time it's about video games. I guess my main honest question is, are they worth it? Is it a complete or is it a complete waste of time for every kid or an adult that plays them extensively? Now a little background here. I grew up with video games. I played them a lot when I was younger. We had the Atari 2600. We even had, believe it or not, we had the Sears version of it. It was a Sears branded Atari 2600 because I believe it was cheaper and my family liked to save money. But, and I had, you know, I played PlayStation. I had all sorts of video games growing up and I wasted a lot of my time and money on them when I was in my youth. And in the last 10 years, I don't play games anymore. I just stopped. I think the last game I played was on the PC and it was called Crisis 2. I think I played that in 2012 and I didn't really play many games before that. Either, I think I played Stalker and I think I played Halo on the computer and or Xbox. But I never really became a crazy gamer and in the last decade or so, online gaming has become sort of the norm. Like multiplayer gaming environments has really taken off and so many people play these games. And just a little reference here. You know, a week ago, I bought, used online was a game called Crisis 3. So I'm like, let me try this again. I remember that being fun and challenging and so on. But I realized after trying this game for an hour so that games like in general, these online games, whether it's a PlayStation or Xbox or Nintendo, so many people just spend like insane amounts of time playing them. And there's a lot of, I guess, this is where the word gamification came from. You just want to get to the next level or get more kills or what have you. And kids, I can spend hundreds, if not thousands of hours a year playing video games in their basement or whatever. And I think there was one video circulating online where a mom, I think it was in Thailand somewhere, she had to bring food to her son that was sort of pretty much feed him. He was attached to the game so much he could not separate himself from this experience that he was having. And what I guess what I'm wondering is, is, you know, I hear some people justify, oh well, you can make money playing it. And that is true. The same way you can make money playing, you know, Texas Hold'em Poker in the World Series of Poker Tournament. Or the same way you can make money playing professional basketball or baseball. But I think the same applies to all these kind of media or popular entertainment kind of events is that only like the .0001 top and a percent of the top players really ever score. I think one person was playing some sort of online tournament in World of Warcraft. I have no idea what game it was, but I think the kid won three million bucks and it probably is the exception to this. And I just really wonder if the games are just, you know, addictive and they kind of keep you hopeful that you can make some money. And I know a lot of people also make money of filming themselves playing video games online, which is insane. I guess it's entertaining if you like playing the video games to watch other people play games. Oh, that was an insane kill he did from a mile away with his sniper rifle or, wow. You know, like all these multiplayer games, I think there was, I forget what game it was recently that it ended and everybody was, it was like this big dramatic worldwide emotional event. And it's just a game that profits the people that made it. And I just don't, I just, I wonder if people would benefit more individually if they did things, other things, that's the word. So I'm just wondering like what's the big justification for playing video games other than personal entertainment? And if someone says I just like to entertain myself and waste my time, that's an honest answer and I respect that. But is there, it just seems like that people are claiming it's something else. When you're done with these games or the next big game system comes out, you forgot about that game. It didn't really add anything to your life. What are you gonna say like at your 50 year high school reunion or whatever? Oh yeah, seven years ago, I really had a good time playing this game. And people are gonna look at you like really? I mean, it's not like you climbed Mount Kilimanjaro or went on this incredible adventure or built a house or had a family. I don't know, it seems to me to be shallow and empty. So does anybody have any real reasons like why? Like why play video games? All right, see you next video. Hit the like and subscribe. It was just philosophical questions for today. See you next time.