Do you ever feel bad about playing video games?

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#1  Edited By NarcolepticBat

I will sometimes, and not only because it will interrupt my normal life as a student. But occasionally i feel like im giving in, like this is what they want me to do. This is what keeps me distracted from whats really going on. Anyway, do you? dont you? to all the trolls; am I a fucking retard? lol. GO

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#2  Edited By TheMustacheHero

Nah.

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#3  Edited By ez123

  @NarcolepticBat said:

"i feel like im giving in, like this is what they want me to do. This is what keeps me distracted from whats really going on.  "

    
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#4  Edited By breadfan

I'm pretty sure my grades would have been a hell of a lot better during high school, but no I don't feel bad about playing games. 

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@NarcolepticBat:
I think it's easy to get sucked into video games. They are a huge time-sink, especially for someone like me who gets rather addicted to them. Sometimes I have to play them compulsively.  
 
But people's actions are mostly habitual, and if you ween yourself from gaming you can break yourself of the habit. If not, it can totally interfere with your productivity. Take me, for instance. I'm a fiction writer, that's definitely my spiritual livelihood, but there is something more immediately satisfying about video games that steers me away from sitting down and taking the time to do the thing I truly love. Then, I'd say, there is significant guilt for such an impulsive act.  
 
I don't know, I could be a extensively unique case. And I don't feel bad all the time, or even most of the time, but I'm conscious of the moments when it is impeding my own work, and it's then when the negative feeling comes in.
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#7  Edited By Metroid545

on my DS in public, it feels like something a kid would do, playing elite beat agents on it doesn't help much either

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#8  Edited By DanielJW

I only feel bad if I should be doing something else, and even then not right away. It's usually the next day in class when the teacher asks for that assignment, then I realize that I was playing de Blob until 2 am and didn't finish. Then I feel bad.

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#9  Edited By CSXLoser

video games and my personality are the main reasons why i procrasinate on my schoolwork :P
 
Sometimes i do feel bad because i know its so dumb to pile up so much homework on the last day just for a few extra hours of gaming.

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#10  Edited By wefwefasdf

Sometimes I'll look at what I did that day and feel as if I have accomplished nothing. It doesn't bother me too much though. I just need to practice my piano a little bit more. :p

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#11  Edited By Death_Unicorn
NEVER!
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#12  Edited By ArcBorealis

Not really.

I still get my homework and other stuff done, even if I procrastinate ALOT.

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#13  Edited By tearhead

Only when I know I should be doing something else that is more important.

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#14  Edited By JoelTGM

To me, being "successful" is having enough money and free time to keep my hobbies going.

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#15  Edited By natetodamax
@JeffGoldblum said:
" "Time wasted having fun was not wasted"
- John Lennon "
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#16  Edited By eclipsesis
@JeffGoldblum said:
" "Time wasted having fun was not wasted"
- John Lennon "
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#17  Edited By spankingaddict
@Death_Unicorn said:
" NEVER! "
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#18  Edited By Vitefish

Yes, I feel that my life is just slipping away to RE4.

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#19  Edited By djstyles92
@JeffGoldblum said:
" "Time wasted having fun was not wasted"
- John Lennon "
I don't like his music but that is a damn good quote
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#20  Edited By zombie2011
@NarcolepticBat: Get all your work done then game, that way you won't feel guilty.
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#21  Edited By The_Tolman
@JeffGoldblum said:
""Time wasted having fun was not wasted"
- John Lennon "

you sir are correct sir.