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Seriously, I don't get it. It's just a thing people do. Sometimes to an extreme.. but if you are a extreme sports fan or extreme traveler... that's 'cool'. Meanwhile your mild dorky video game habit makes you persona non grata if people find out or you talk about it in public.

It's 2025. I don't understand.

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[–] Carrolade@lemmy.world 3 points 22 hours ago

Riding your bike is exercise, so I'll give that one a pass as a healthier hobby. Reading just depends on what you're reading I suppose. Going to restaurants is generally looked at as a bad habit in my experience. Waste of money basically.

Regarding what makes video games special, I will say that they can develop bad personal habits a little easier than a lot of other hobbies. I think they have greater addiction potential than say, reading or bike riding. More on par with sex or gambling. They also create a temptation to oversimplify/misunderstand things about real life in the same way tv/movies do.

But yeah, overall I don't think its a particularly bad hobby if you don't go overboard with them.