• Arthur_Leywin@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    I was 14 and the first time I talked with my uncle was him berating me over playing video games. That was also the last time I spoke to that fucker.

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      11 months ago

      Yeah it’s also a way to filter all assholes out of your life when they hate on video games. The inability of ‘being able to play’ to just find joy in life is usually a red flag of a raging type A. Like every moment of your life isn’t just for production. We’re not bees.

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        11 months ago

        Wow. It feels like you’re talking directly to me about one of my family members. It’s clear that this kind of apathy towards video games isn’t uncommon

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          11 months ago

          Oh yeah, You’d find these behaviours will be against almost anything that isn’t condincidered productive. They’ll insult a persons hobby just cuz it isn’t used to generate money. They don’t hold motivation by interest in any esteem. It’s like a symptom of a toxic work environment where every second has to be counted as how much money has been made or wasted. Then these people cannot turn off that part of their brain even when they’ve finished work and it creeps into every relationship they have.