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A chat on subreddit /r/NoStupidQuestions
human
sounds like a very patient gf! 
 
The “problem” with gaming for most people — and don’t get me wrong, there’s nothing wrong with it — is that it takes most or 100% of your attention away from everything else. You have to stare at the screen, you can’t really chat or interact with your household, you can’t pop up quickly to do a load of laundry or even grab a snack. It’s not communal in the way that tv is; it’s a mentally isolating activity. Your hands and body aren’t even free to cuddle; it is an active, not passive, activity. Even the non-crazy games. 
 
I think a lot of gamers underestimate how much time and attention their game takes away from them, how many “just one more game!”s are destroying the flow of their regular everyday life. My roommate’s bf was like this — if you asked him, he would swear he only spent an hour or two every day gaming, but he was playing league of legends with headphones on for like 8 to 10 hour stretches sometimes. he just didn’t realize it. The rest of us would spend a weekend binging a season of a tv show, passing a joint around, chatting, eating food etc, all together. 
 
But while both us and him were technically “consuming” the same amount of “media” every day, he’s over there in the corner with headphones on, in his own little world, totally separate from the rest of the group, zoned out and isolated. He might as well have been in a separate apartment. 
 
It’s just not the same. And to me, honestly, watching someone else play a video game is hell on earth.
gpt
There is a pretty big difference between online, multiplayer games and single player story driven games. In the latter you can actually pause and take a lot of breaks, combined with frequent cut scenes and dialog that don’t require your unwavering attention