Have video games benefited you in any way besides providing a form of escapism?

I've learned a lot because of them, and also met my current GF in a video game community. My spelling and grammar are much better thanks to roleplaying games like neverwinter nights.

>Expanded my musical taste.
>Greatly improved my ability to speak read and write English.
>Got me to learn two other languages.
>Met friends I've been dear to since 5th grade up until today through PS2 games.
>Let me appreciate cultures I never knew I would like let alone admire.
>Improved my rational thinking, resource and time management, typing speed and a couple more real life skills.
>Knowledge tidbits I managed to remember from the games I play got me praise from my high school and college teachers/professors whenever they were relevant.
>etc.
>mfw

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Every time I've met and befriended a ""girl"" online I get a reveal at some point "sorry man Im a guy. Dont hate me please".
Fuck my life, I even met one of my best friends like that while he was posing as a girl.

no

I need something else to fill the void and I can't find anything

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Hit up a gym on the reg. I'm in the same boat as you and I"m about to try that.

Unless gym is code for something it isn't doing enough

They are fun. The purpose in life is not to be a wage slave. It's to have fun.

They're a great way to kill time.

Believe it or not, playing Persona 4 in early middle-school helped me see romantic relationships in a realistic manner, far from the highly romanticized depiction in most media I'd been exposed to before that point.
It's in part thanks to it that I gained the emotional and social maturity necessary to develop a happy committed relationship later in life.

Also, as a kid, seeing FFVIII gradually break down Squall's early-game philosophy made me quit the mindset of "Better to never expect anything, that way you'll never be disappointed". Made me realize that trying to avoid unpleasant feelings at all cost didn't make your life better, it only contributed to making it miserable in the end.

Have you considering moving somewhere new?
It is a lot of work but it can be fulfilling in itself. A completely new environment helps you go out of your way to make your new life, and you find lots of new things on the way.
Good luck with whatever you try, user. Feel better soon

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substitute the act of watching tv for video games in this question & then realize how much time normalfags waste doing nothing but passively absorbing ideas about societal normative standards as presented by the SJW writers & the jew cuck producers, slowly standardizing the behaviors they observe in their vapid shows as acceptable vs unacceptable, idolizing horrible types of people who dont deserve respect, etc etc etc just basic NPC day to day brainwashing

think about that happening to billions of people all the time, & then stop feeling bad about your one mindless hobby where you get to test reflexes, hone problem solving skills, & hopefully meet some good people along the way.

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I live on the ass end of my country and have 2 years left for my degree if I don't fuck up again
I hope to move to get work afterwards but until then I'm stuck and don't even have any vidya to just relax and play

I played XI for a while and got into a good linkshell just from a dunes party.
The leader married one of the girls (RDM/WHM stereotype) but I was pretty chill with them considering I was like 11-12 at the time. Taught me a lot on socializing considering I didn't interact much before.
Another guy from the same linkshell and I would fish for moat carps in Windhurst. Kept in touch with him even for years after I stopped playing. He had some drug problems and stopped coming online.

Had an account on some weebshit MMO and met a girl into art there. Both had deviantart accounts, kept chatting for years. She even drew a portrait of me, was very sweet of her - and wasn't shit.
Wanted to meet up irl when she moved to my college but I was in a drug fueled haze so let that opportunity go.

Honestly, gaming has probably done more for my social skills and life than the actual people in this shit town ever have.
I have no qualms about being a shut in playing vidya all day.

My ability to analyze my opponent and react quickly. I can kill faster than they can even move. I can see their death clearly, I play simulations inside of my head. Even if they are stronger I hit the critical point and I move too fast to react to the pain, I plan moves 2 steps ahead and I can visualize my opponent's attack in slow motion, I calculate all the possibilities and choose the best one, and I use their own strength against them, until they're dead. THAT'S MY POWER

I watch highbrow cinema like Game of Thrones and read books like 50 Shades of Grey instead!

>In philosophy
>Professor asks me about the concept of evil
>Put on the spot, start panicking but remember a certain quote from Witcher 3
>"Evil is Evil. Lesser, greater, middling… Makes no difference. The degreee is arbitary. The definition’s blurred. If I’m to choose between one evil and another… I’d rather not choose at all"
>Professor looks stunned, class gives me a round of applause

I sell steam trading cards to buy more games.

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I'm a musician graduated in Audio engineering. Was always lazy as hell, spent more time playing and thinling about games than studying. Sudden trainee program for game audio in college. Interview is about music and gaming basically. Professor leading the program compliments my "huge gaming rerpertoire" all the time. We write a paper together, he says i have a knack for academics. End up doing a masters degree on immersive audio for games. Today i have my own college class of digital audio in which i basically teach them the basics about composing game music and foley. Want to do another graduation or to get a doctor degree in the near future.
I'm still starting, but so far everything went better than expected.

talking to chicks not even kidding

>Expanded my musical taste.
>dmc trash
HA good joke

The skills I learned as a guild leader of a progression raid guild in vanilla WoW translated very well to the business world.

>Board meeting
>Everyone dies
>Blame healer

I was thinking specifically about music from Fallout 1-New Vegas, Every GTA between 3 and 5, Bioshock 1-Infinite, etc. Mostly old western songs I've come to love.

Quite.

In all seriousness though, managing conflicts and blame (guild drama), making decisions about how best to allocate resources (loot, guild funds), hiring (recruiting members).

It's almost identical to the corporate world. You even have the same immature spats to mitigate, workers who are dating breaking up, causing one to quit fucking up your whole project... It's all the same shit, just in this one I'm getting paid and hating how boring it is

translate this into the business world
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Postal 2 gave me my personality

RTS, RTT, and some FPS games taught me team-work, patience, and helped develop useful critical thinking skills.

Dead Rising got me into photography in High School.

this place is for gamers your piece of shit. Get the fuck back to toilet diving you piece of shit.

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hand-eye-coordination, reflexes, intuition, reading the map and a few steps ahead, letting instinct take over and get into the zone. 100% focus

this shit pretty much puts me ahead at work

Bioshock interested me enough back in 2007 to read Atlas Shrugged, which led me to the rest of Rand's work, which led me to Aristotle and C.S. Lewis. Life is substantially better now with their instruction.
It's also something I can do with my brother on a nightly basis when he's over 1000 miles away. Same for college/high school friends.
I now have tons of fantastic music I wouldn't have otherwise discovered, and started learning piano to play Someday the Dream Will End from FFX.
I learned video editing to make videos related to vidya, which I've employed for family/friends and even a little bit professionally.

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>learned english
>learned german once i realised how easy it is to learn languages from games
>improved hand-eye coordination
>played fuckloads of puzzle games as a kid, definitely helped my brain development as a child
>played lots of driving/racing games with bros so got way into cars as a teenager
>probably picked up some history and mythology knowledge from games as well

If you're not a brainlet you pick these things up, but I'm relateively sure I would have picked up about as much doing something else with my time. I think it matters a lot though that I was having fun as well for the past 20 or so years.

Based and cringe

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Helped me keep my wizardhood application intact during the years of temptation of high school and college