Whats the attraction?

Of computer games, meta verses etc, I really don't get it, can anyone explain it to me, please? 

What do you get out of it?

I keep seeing all this stuff advertised and I hit a big concrete wall in my head and think, ouch and eh?

  • Escape, it’s a little like reading a good book for me if the stories good just without the book and it’s a game….on a tv screen. A feeling of control, it can feel like you are being productive too although that’s another argument. Also it’s an interest of mine, gaming on the whole, retro gaming, rare consoles and collectibles. 

  • I look at all this social media stuff and ask 'what's in for me?' and I can't find a lot, just more of what the late Robert Anton Wilson called 'Assholes looking for a human being to attach themselves too'.

  • Do you think I'm a troll?

    Nope. Let's call it a healthy scepticism for modern technology. We need more of you. Look at the state of the world!

    I don't have a FaceBook/Twitter/Instagram/Snapchat/MySpace account. I never saw the point. "Hey! Look at the wonderful time I'm pretending to have!" Meantime Zuckerberg is hoovering up all my details to sell me stuff I don't want or telling me that I should be hating on immigrants like everyone else in my "friend" group. No thanks, Mark. I don't want to be told what to think or what to be interested in. Maybe that's a PDA thing. PDA has its benefits, I suppose.

  • I've met a few ND's who go apoplectic at my inability to use technology well, I lost one previously good friend because he decided he was only going to communicate using FB, hardly anyone was using it then, so I think he lost touch with quite a few people.

    Nearly everyone I've met who is ND is really into tech and can't understand my difficulties, think I'm stupid and don't deserve to have a computer as I won't sue it "properly". There are a few NT's who agree with them too.

    Do you think I'm a troll?

  • having to learnt the game and how to beat it over a longer time which infact is more fun than beating it super quick

    Yeah, I never really like the pressure of PvP games. I don't have time to think things through and I haven't got the fine motor skills and reflexes to be anything other than cannon fodder. I prefer PvE, figuring out the patterns and taking my time.

  • In the worlds of Tay Tay and Brennan uri yoir the only one of you im the only one of me 

    be you people who follow trends only end up poor both in wealth and happiness

    i work in a shop and I always see what the cool new designer labels are such as new ballance obay white fox etc and it makes me laugh how these people are buying new brands every week to be cool

  • Also it’s weird how waxing is such a big thing sure society dictates body hair is had esspeicaly in women 

    but like in guys i see it as 100% normal and if your a lady/girl who has body hair and want to have body hair i say thats your choice 

    and infact shaved or waxed armpits are just weird 

    as long as your clean be that on your own doing or manor like me you need help thats all that matters 

    oh and the whole thing wirh wanting a band fitted to lose weight thats so unhealthy and should only be done if you have a rate condtion that means you have no apporsite control 

    being a certain weight doesn’t make you less of a person and it doesn’t even make you less attractive easpeicaly since attractiveness is two layers deep physical and personal 

    i had an ex who at the time I thought was the most attractive lady ever since ive discovered how horrible of a person she is (tangent here but I kind of feel her trying to say I have bpd when I don’t made me miss a chance to realise im autistic way sooner) every time I’ve seen her since knowing rhe real her she’s the most untractive person to me 

    • i think the world is too obbessed with Beautifulness but has no idea what being beautiful is 
  • You should be proud for being yourself and not letting someone else or even society tell you what you should be like. I’m glad I’m not the only one who can’t stand lip fillers etc. I mean how can these women think they look good? They say it’s because their fillers got botched up but I can’t say I can sympathise. Everyone just seems to want false in the world.

  • Omg finally I’m not the only one who thinks these things. These lip fillers are so stupid looking and I don’t see what is so fashionable about them. And yeah I’m not into false nails and eyelashes either. Don’t even get me started on the beards

  • Video games keep me sane from the things in the world. Some love the action packed nature of a simple hack n slash, others might benefit from a simple cozy fishing game.

    The brain thrives off of rewards, and games reward you for playing or completing simple tasks. Like Minecraft rewards you with achievements, fishing games can give you money to upgrade your rod, bait, or cosmetics.

  • This is true like some games I feel sick watching but not playing also Fortnite it makes me feel less overloaded playing it but only by a fractction becuse thats a hectic game that I hate playing 

    I think as wrll when your watching people play gamrs online  they go for the fastest reflex settings which look aweful even when playing i have fun nice looking settings and just grin and bear having to learnt the game and how to beat it over a longer time which infact is more fun than beating it super quick you feel a part of the world this way 

  • For me they're to bright and fast

    I think it's different if you're playing them, rather than looking at them being played. When you're playing, you're in control. You never hear an Autistic person complain about the sound of their own chewing, if you know what I mean.

  • I don't think they're losers

    I know. They would be imagining it.

  • Metaverse I dotn get I go to a game universe tj eacape as I understand a metaverse is gaming without the gaming i dont mind chatting but I’d rather not unless it about the game and agknowlging that it’s a game not pretending it’s the two world 

  • I don't think they're losers, as others like ArchaeC have given good answers, I supose those who would think me a troll wouldn't understand why I like cooking so much, but they'd probably be quite happy to eat what I cook, lol.

    For me they're to bright and fast, I don't feel the emotional connection that others do, its like modern cartoons they're all brght and jaggy, sharp lines and bright colours.

    I'm a bit curious, others who often say they feel overwhelmed by the world and have sensory issues with bright colours and thingsd being to fast seem to love them.

    It's also a bit of an autistic trope, that if you're autistic then you must be really into games and all things digital, I'm not at all competitive which is probably another reason I'm confused and bemused by others being so into them, but then I'm not into board games eithers. People seem to take games so seriously and get so het up about wining and losing. I seem to be a bit of an outlier that I don't understand all this digital stuff. But then I'm also just to old to have grown up with it, things like pacman and that ping pong video game were just coming along when I was a teenager and I was probably off doing teenage things.

  • I’m not into gaming and maybe I am not taking your question the way you intend, but I would think that it’s a case of why does anyone like anything. 

     

    What do you get out of it?

    That, I can’t answer, but you have some great replies.

    i used to think about likes and dislikes a lot. I wondered how much of our hobby or academic subject choices were down to genetics or family and social pressure. 

  • You're in an online forum with a bunch of adults. The demographic is going to include an unusually high proportion of people who are really, REALLY into gaming. You post, "I really don't get it". What happens next?

    NT gamers would probably have gone apoplectic with rage and foamed at the mouth at the mere idea that you think that they are losers (because they're good at reading minds and subtexts like that). NT's would think that obviously you're just a troll (someone who posts just to start an argument) because they couldn't possibly be wrong about games being awesome for everyone!!!! (#NotAllNeurotypicals)

    Here, however, the nice ND gamers, who are probably even more passionate about their gaming, just take your question at face value and gently and lovingly try to explain what gaming means to them. If it still means nothing to you, well then, that's just OK, too. (#NeurodivergentsAreLovely)

    Does that answer your question?

  • Why would I be called a troll?

  • Women seem to think big lips are attractive when really most men dont notice lips unless they are UNatractive which lip filler ones are 

    I never got the obsession with fake finger nails or long eyelashes either 

    and why are modern men obsessed with having beards they make you look old and they feel horrible to have 

  • I mean is it not ok to be different? The amount of times I’ve been asked to have Botox and lip fillers

    Don't get me started on lip fillers! What the hell is up with all of these women who want to look like sink plungers?

    Since I was a young kid (and I mean young, say about 4) I've been very conscious of what other people think is cool or fashionable. For some reason, maybe it's a form of PDA, I never want to follow the trend. I actively want to dig my heels in and say, "No!" Weirdly, I've always liked that about myself—that I'm very independent-minded—it's one of the few things I don't give myself a hard time about. But, boy, does it get me in a lot of trouble! "Why can't you just...?", "Why do you always have to...?", "Everybody else is..."

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