Red Dead Redemption 2 fan with 6k hours on Stadia begs for character transfer

Re:Red Dead Redemption 2 fan with 6k hours on Stadia begs fo... by behaveEc0n00 on Friday September 30, 2022 @10:15AM (#33035114)

I know there have been gamers like this for years but in this case 2 of the 4 years were during a mandatory isolate at home public health crisis. It’s possible this was actually a positive escape to help cope.

Personally I’m not attached to digital ephemera. I’ve already lost more save games and files of one type of content over another to be used to it. I’d call the clingy-ness the real issue. Others have to put in a bunch of work to manage this persons figurative video game identity?

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Re:Red Dead Redemption 2 fan with 6k hours on Stadia begs fo... by gamebrothrow2 on Friday September 30, 2022 @10:29AM (#33035346)

> positive escape to help cope.

This is certainly true. Though public health analysis only shows correlations, not causations, between video game playing and decreased alcohol and drug use. And in my life, whenever I knew men whose girlfriends would relentlessly harp on their video game playing, it gets substituted by alcohol.

In medicine it is called video game fixation. I’m concerned though that it is not open as a possibility that what they are calling a disease is closer to a medicine than certainly alcohol, tobacco or drug use are. Closer to how coffee is used for tiredness, maybe, for a depressed 15-25yo male, than to any of those things. That said this guy is spending 33% of his life, and video game fixation can also look like 90%, which is certainly pathological.

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