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While an answer in the affirmative would tickle your confirmation bias activations, I'll counter with my anecdote that I play "video games" and have been happil
by knicholes 5y ago
While an answer in the affirmative would tickle your confirmation bias activations, I'll counter with my anecdote that I play "video games" and have been happily married for 13 years and have two kids.
- jdrc 5y agoIn any case it would be a symptom
- ratww 5y agoAccording to statistics websites, around 65% of adults in the US play video games, and around the same percentage of residences own gaming devices. At this rate, playing video games could be a "symptom" for virtually anything imaginable. You probably mean stereotype.
- jdrc 5y agoi mean a symptom of having too much time because of no family. dont think there is much stigma around gaming beyond old people
- ratww 5y agoNo, it's not really a symptom of too much time, considering this is an activity done by 65% of americans. If anything, people could be using video games to replace more more time-consuming hobbies like spending the night at the bar or building a motorcycle, which are better signals of spending a lot of free time away from the family.
- jdrc 5y agoright i m not disagreeing with you, just saying that if they are gaming more than average, it would probably be a symptom of having more free time, not a cause of something
- dgfitz 5y ago3 kids here and I’m tickled pink that I just landed a PS5, married 9 years.
- sandworm101 5y agoFrom the wives I've talked to, a husband who is at home playing video games is still at home, which is a significant step up from 'at the bar' or any number of escapist male activities that involve dads spending free time far away from their children.