Have you ever wondered if video games have a negative impact on your life?

And if so, have you ever wondered exactly why you have a problem with gaming?

Here are a few questions about your gaming habits that I’d like to explore as part of a research paper.
The survey only takes five to ten minutes, and you can learn something about your reasons for gaming.

https://www.sosci.geronto.phil.fau.de/gaming_fau/?q=Gaming_Umfrage

If you have a few minutes to spare, please share your experience!

Thanks for your opinion about gaming!

Yeah a Marathon session of Elden Ring and Borderlands 4 required to to go to the clinic from leg swelling needed a knee effusion with 2 times. Now if I play extended periods of time I soak my legs in the Bathtub to reduce swelling.

I do know Videogames raise your BP but Im trying every trick in the book to avoid Heart problems. Mainly supplements I take and no stupid supplements.

I couldn't help myself, I just had to do this:

I had to stop doing Hearthstone because I was a sore loser. Likewise, WoW Arena though that was long ago.

Deleting my Blizzard account was the answer!

I still game daily, just other types of games, generally less antagonistic ones.

No. Whatever video games may do or be in terms of an addiction, it's not in the same universe as cigs, weed, drugs, alcohol, rampant sex and STDs, or gambling in terms of life destruction.

A hundred years ago you could have been addicted to wasting time playing solitaire with a deck of cards. But you weren't in the bar drinking yourself to death.

It's a HOBBY. Make peace with your life and enjoy living it. If you think you play too many games, go touch grass. I have a big property I have to maintain every year and I enjoy the outside work as much as the late night game sessions.

If you are married, at least you know where your partner is!

Comixbooks said:

I do know Videogames raise your BP but Im trying every trick in the book to avoid Heart problems. Mainly supplements I take and no stupid supplements.

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The relationship between videogames and the heart is a weird one for sure. I regularly have an issue while playing World of Warcraft, when raiding with my guild, where my heartrate will drop below 60, and my smartwatch even thinks that I'm sleeping.

Have you ever wondered if video games have a negative impact on your life?​

nope.

please provide me with a recipe for black forest cake.

Its only a problem if it becomes out of balance with living life in the "real world" and being a responsible adult and doing stuff like exercising and socializing
IMO gaming is a more productive use of time than phone scrolling or watching TV, which is something lots of people do in excess
Reading good novels or non-fiction is probably a better use of time though than gaming

All I need to do is step on the scale and confirm that it has.

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Yeah, obviously beats doom scrolling and other brainrot and/or mind numbing activities by a longshot. Very healthy activity as an alternative to those things. In addition, there's been times where I hadn't games in a while and some good gaming got me out of a mental funk that even benefited my job productivity.

At other times it has been unhealthy. Extra late nights hurts job performance. The "just one more turn/dungeon/run/quest" can make game time go too long. Also, has put strain on relationships at times before. Also, sometimes it's easier to just slide into a nice game instead of investing in relationships. Sometimes gaming helps you invest (two birds with one stone) but other times that just won't work.

It's a double edged sword.

It's very EZ to overdo it, you look up, and see it's 3am...on a work night.
O shit.

One time I stayed up to 2am playing Final Fantasy VII at a friend's house, I hadn't eaten that day. I got to the fight with Rufus and died. I was shaking and weak, so I decided to call it a night. Got some water and vomited shortly after.

I don't blame games for that, though. They didn't force me to starve and not sleep. That was my decision...well, the not sleeping part was. Not eating, it was because I hadn't before I left, and I just didn't think about it. That's normal for me though.

Not eating for a day and staying up to 2am doesn't make you shaky and vomit.

What was the rest of the story? Had you not had anything to drink for 48 hours? Because that's a whole different universe from simply not eating.

Hawkwing74 said:

I had to stop doing Hearthstone because I was a sore loser. Likewise, WoW Arena though that was long ago.

Deleting my Blizzard account was the answer!

I still game daily, just other types of games, generally less antagonistic ones.

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I am convinced that Hearthstone is rigged or some other fucktardary going on. Shit drove my crazy! I uninstalled and never looked back.

Advil said:

Not eating for a day and staying up to 2am doesn't make you shaky and vomit.

What was the rest of the story? Had you not had anything to drink for 48 hours? Because that's a whole different universe from simply not eating.

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It's possible I didn't drink anything either. It's not something I think about.

Playing World of Warcraft probably saved my life. I hurt my back in 2013 and pretty much gave up. I was able to stay social and keep my mind off things while staying at home and learning to deal with my disability.

Never thought of it actually having a negative impact. In fact it has helped me get through some rough times and some needed stress relief.

Hedgehog_77 said:

And if so, have you ever wondered exactly why you have a problem with gaming?

Here are a few questions about your gaming habits that I’d like to explore as part of a research paper.

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1. Is your video game activity constantly on your mind? Here are a few examples: Do you find yourself thinking about past video game sessions or looking forward to your next chance to play? Do you feel that video games have become your most important or dominant activity in your daily life?

This feels like it should be 2 separate questions. Yes I think about my previous sessions and what I want to do the next time I play, but no I wouldn't consider it the most important activity in my daily life

Scubagon said:

I couldn't help myself, I just had to do this:

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Video games have been great for me, I have only accidentally ran into one person in the office.
In games I have been trained starting pulling the trigger if I see a shadow behind a blind corner. In real life I know to stop asap as not to spill my coffee over the person.
The only time I ran into someone was when I was in a room with no lights. (I thought I was one of the last people in the office) Strange though, the floor boards did not creak, I assume they were hacking so not my fault.

Nobu said:

One time I stayed up to 2am playing Final Fantasy VII at a friend's house, I hadn't eaten that day. I got to the fight with Rufus and died. I was shaking and weak, so I decided to call it a night. Got some water and vomited shortly after.

I don't blame games for that, though. They didn't force me to starve and not sleep. That was my decision...well, the not sleeping part was. Not eating, it was because I hadn't before I left, and I just didn't think about it. That's normal for me though.

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I have gone four days without eating before (not because of video games) and that never happened to me.

Armenius said:

I have gone four days without eating before (not because of video games) and that never happened to me.

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Sounds like a personal problem

Video games created a massive social outlet for me when I was younger. I grew up in the arcade era. Back when there were crowds of people competing with one another. I made lifelong friends that way. I went to some zany out of the way places looking for arcades to play in and people to play with, too. It was a social ice breaker. I found kinship with people I would never have spoken to if it weren't for video games. Granted, I've also had my life threatened over video game tactics a time or two, but I'd say the positive outweighed the bad 9-to-1.

Ultima Exodus for NES. This game had me graphing maps and keeping a journal. I was playing one night and suddenly heard my mom coming down the stairs. I glanced at the clock.... WHAT!?! I checked it out again. CRAP, no time to save. I unplugged the video cable covered the tattle tail red led of the NES. I turned it to any TV station fell over, sent some drool out of my mouth, closed my eyes. Mom says my name, I make a slight movement. She says it again. "What?" I have sleepily say squinting. She said I should sleep in my bed. I said thanks. As soon as her car left for work. I was back at it. I think I was a bit ill after staying awake that long.
I requested my wife never buy me Ultima online.

My grades probably suffered. Would you rather do boring ass school work or game?
Life, compared to gaming, was dull as a child.

A different time when it was making my life worse I was climbing the ranks in a game in a specific map (my clan only played the one map in AA). I was in the top 100, I did the math and scheduled play time so I would not get kicked by mods for cheating (I was that good, I knew the points, I knew the sounds, I knew the different room floorboard sounds I knew if I was getting shot at from the dark, where you would be standing. I then relized I made the game a job. I quit gaming for a few years.

I am back and know the value of gaming but I also have balance. Do the things in real life first, then game.

That said, I have woke up thinking about trade routes in Anno. The balance comes from not launching it "quick" to make a change in the middle of the night.