Somewhat of a drunken stupor

[termis]

So... as I sit here in some shitty motel in Korea after drinking a couple bottles of soju, it makes me think...

Fack, I would love to just f*cking quit work and play video games a good 8+ hours a day, but with all the pressures of adult life, it ain't so easy.  Forget about 8 hours of video games, I haven't had a chance to play f*cking half an hour of video games a day these past few months.  Work (65+ hrs a week), grad school applications, and family matters as of late (ill father in homeland -- hence I'm in Korea), make things such as video games a back-seat matter.

Shitty thing is, when I DID get to play video games for say, 2~3+ hours a day, I feel guilty.  I feel like I wasted my time. 

Damn, am I just getting old?  Any of you feel the same when playing video games for extended amounts of time?

[Necromancer]

I don't get to spend anywhere near as much time playing games anymore, and I'm not ashamed when I do get some game time.  I'd only feel guilty if I was neglecting some other important chore - like working or watching porn.

[nat]

I feel guilty when I don't play them. True story... There are certain days after work, when my wife is working, and I have the place to myself that I try and devote to getting some good game time in.

Like you, as I get older I sadly find less and less time to devote to my beloved games. I'm at the point now where I have SO MANY f*cking games I'm not sure I will ever play through them all in this lifetime. It doesn't help that I'm still accumulating them.

I find myself using that time I used to devote to games for taking care of life necessities, work around the home, bills, etc. Too much stuff to do and so little time.

It's funny you bring up the quitting work thing, though... I've recently been considering getting into a new line of work and I'd love to take a week or so off between jobs and just f*cking RELAX. With plenty of video games, of course.

[Joe Redifer]

I used to work as a game tester and it wasn't very fun.  But then again it was PC games, so there was never the potential for any fun.

[Turbo D]

I feel you man. Getting older sux. There are some weeks that I don't play any games at all 

[Kitsunexus]

Yeah, I've pretty much given up on BEATING games, I still make time to play them, however. I kinda feel guilty playing them as well, go fig...

[termis]

On re-reading my message - damn, I was rather drunk. 

Anyway, I go back on my word.  Feeling guilty for 2-3 hours is maybe a stretch, but 4-5 hrs+ (a solid RPG playing stretch) -- definitely. 

I used to work as a game tester and it wasn't very fun. 

Well, as some video game reviewer once wrote -- it's not all that fun because they HAVE to play all the shitty games as well.  Once a hobby becomes a job, there's a good chance that you'll end up hating the whole thing.  It sure happened to me (like programming).

[Golgo13]

My game playing and collecting hobby slowed down considerably at the age of 14 or so, mostly because of soft wet holes called women.  Usually after I would get a steady girlfriend, I would start playing games more, and ignoring the woman. Almost as if my brain was like "Ok, now that you have that taken care of, go back to playing games"   

When a woman talks to you when your playing turbo grafx, you have to learn to pretend to listen convincingly,  what I do is I switch it up, like for instance.  Ok, uh huh,  yeah.... And then you have to ask a stupid question while your playing, this is key because it makes them think your still listening and gives them an excuse to talk more like, "So are you gonna go shopping at the outlet mall again?".  Sometimes your just gonna fail and there is no way out, but sometimes it works.