I think what the parent comment was hinting at is that there is no absolute separator between a non-adult and an adult. It is a thousand different things and the type of game you enjoy playing is not necessarily a good indicator on its own.
I've heard many stories of parents that have their toddlers locked up in a room crying while mom is working and dad's home playing CoD.
The line is just obvious if you just use your head. Video games in particular has a serious mind-altering affect on men. (It's actually very similar to porn and both have been discussed on the internet at great extent).
At least no one can accuse you of not living up to your username.
We understand where your line is.
Maybe consider that whatever has made you so “salty” is really just trauma that has made you callous, inconsiderate, and closed off.
You accuse people of not being as much of a man as presumably you are, but regardless of the negatives of video games, could it just be that those you have disdain for are just victims of a different type of abuse you were subjected to that made you such a man?
Are you a man because you killed people in foreign countries for a ruling class that hated you and has destroyed and plundered your country and community to enrich themselves maybe?
Or maybe you just support those who have done that due to the ruling class TV/Hollywood propaganda about how “manly” it is to kill people and die for the ruling class and how virtuous it is to support them?
Your generation may have just been abused with propaganda about being a man, going to kill and die for the ruling class aristocrats; this generation may have just been propagandized that “video games and drugs” are the best way to manage the peasantry, as Yuval Noah Harari said about what the ruling class would do with all the people who become obsolete due to AI and robotics.
I ask you may consider redirecting your ire towards the abusers, not other abused in your international disdain. You do after all also forget, if you’re the old man, then as the elder you are in one way or another responsible for the world you created and left behind. The parent is always responsible for the child, especially when the parent has caused, brought about all the damage the child must deal with.
Oh yeah, one person is responsible for how an entire generation grew up.
You're really looking into it more than necessary. Many people that play video games past their 20s (I mean habit forming level) are totally lost man. You'll see it in everything that they do - ambitions, capabilities and connections.
It is unfortunate that the world we have right now is leaving so many people dead inside. I happen to not be one of them. I have a purposeful mission, and I strive to always have one.
All the stuff you're saying just a simple definition of "toxic masculinity" and I am not any of that. But being a man is definitely being purposeful in life and living to the fullest. Being a protector and taking care of others. I can't say that about a lot of these people floating out there.
