Daniel Quits Video Games. @hiding in my room
07 October 2021 [link youtube]
The artist formerly known as "Hiding in My Room" (Daniel Lord, a.k.a. @Professional Gaming Reviews) has come to a life-altering realization… #quitvideogames #satire #notsatire And, yes, I would just like to point out that (in the year 2021) a-bas-le-ciel is now the #1 Hiding-in-My-Room commentary channel. 😂 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZEkgohG7k7rQ4hg5fjqvUNHRXHH2bRHC (Yeah, that's a playlist of videos devoted to the subject.)
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every day is kind of the same i wake up i have my coffee i watch some news and i play some video games and then i just play video games for the rest of the day and when i was a kid that's what i wanted to do most people they have jobs and they go to work not because they want to but because they have to but then they also don't realize that even though they might think having to go to work sucks and they wish they could stay at home well what happens is when you get to stay at home every day and not have to go to work is you end up feeling like me really really miserable i just can't help but feel really really bored and kind of depressed these days and now compared to them even though i've got money now it seems like a great thing in a way it's also like a like a self-imposed self-created prison there's not really anything that interests me you could suggest all kinds of things you could say why don't you try fishing why don't you try an art class why don't you try pottery why don't you take up ballet and the problem is none of those things sound interesting to me i can't think of a single thing that actually interests me outside of video games like a self-imposed self-created prison video games are all good and well and everything but it's not really a productive thing it's not something you you put work into and create something meaningful i mean you could put work into your character and level up and get new gear and get level 50 logging skills and stuff like that but at the end of the day it's just a video game and it doesn't really make me feel fulfilled i can get to max level on a video game become really powerful and it still feels kind of empty at the end of the day as i got older i just kind of lost any willpower to do anything difficult or challenging and it kind of sucks because i don't feel proud of anything now i don't feel like i'm developing any kind of skill or i'm not creating anything cool and i just think it would be really nice if i could find something i actually felt passionate towards and i guess having a girlfriend is not really going to make things a lot better anyway because i had a girlfriend last year and to be honest i still felt miserable and sad and bored as well last year i didn't know what to do i didn't have anything i felt passionate towards i just spent all day playing games just spent all day playing games i'm watching porn and yeah that's probably why she dumped me because i was just miserable and boring and depressed all the time and not really fun to be around i get emails from younger guys asking these kinds of questions they tell me they want to quit video games they tell me that it just doesn't make them happy the way they used to like when they were 11 years old all they wanted to do was drop out of school stay at home sit on that couch and watch sonic the hedgehog bounce onto his enemies again and again play mario super mario mario 64 again and again again and now they feel like they've gotten out in the real world they're an adult and it's somehow hollow it's somehow meaningless someone just just doesn't make them happy the way they used to no no man the the problem is the controller you're using okay so dude i've seen some of your videos on this i see you're using like the nintendo switch with that crappy control comes no man you've got to invest in like a better quality controller like the the hori commander 4 here it's excellent and then go back and play those same video games that made you happy when you were 11 years old and i promise you man it'll clear right up all this stuff you're saying about like not having enough meaning in your life not having a sense of purpose not having a sense of motivation you'd really be surprised man i think it's the it's the tactility of the buttons and like the responsiveness of the deep end that is probably what's getting you down anytime you question video games this way and think it's not going to make you happy like keep in mind you know fundamentally as human beings we're products of evolution we came out of the jungle so it makes sense that sitting in front of the tv and watching sonic the hedgehog bounce on his enemies again and again trying to get a higher score and a faster time in super mario brothers that is what is going to make you happy not just when you're 11 years old when you're 31 years old like daniel when you're 61 it's not gonna it's not going to change right look think back to when you were maybe 13 years old maybe maybe 11 years old and you thought like the thing that would make you happiest of all would be to have completely meaningless non-committal sex with a stranger you have no relationship you have nothing you don't even talk to her after that you just think oh if only i could get into bed with this woman and then get out of bed and never talk that's what you thought would make you happy well it's still true right does it doesn't matter you're 31 for it never changes you never move past that you never get dissatisfied with that right and if it's not working for you right again maybe you got to spend like 200 on a higher quality full-size arcade stick you know and some of you are going to say you could get something cheaper on ebay but no once you switch out the parts san jose mitsu new circuit board dude it's going to be over it's going to be over 200 okay saying that is like saying to a fat person when you just go to the gym it's like saying to an alcoholic why don't you just stop drinking even if i know what i'm supposed to do i don't really want to do it and i think most people [Music]
every day is kind of the same i wake up i have my coffee i watch some news and i play some video games and then i just play video games for the rest of the day and when i was a kid that's what i wanted to do most people they have jobs and they go to work not because they want to but because they have to but then they also don't realize that even though they might think having to go to work sucks and they wish they could stay at home well what happens is when you get to stay at home every day and not have to go to work is you end up feeling like me really really miserable i just can't help but feel really really bored and kind of depressed these days and now compared to them even though i've got money now it seems like a great thing in a way it's also like a like a self-imposed self-created prison there's not really anything that interests me you could suggest all kinds of things you could say why don't you try fishing why don't you try an art class why don't you try pottery why don't you take up ballet and the problem is none of those things sound interesting to me i can't think of a single thing that actually interests me outside of video games like a self-imposed self-created prison video games are all good and well and everything but it's not really a productive thing it's not something you you put work into and create something meaningful i mean you could put work into your character and level up and get new gear and get level 50 logging skills and stuff like that but at the end of the day it's just a video game and it doesn't really make me feel fulfilled i can get to max level on a video game become really powerful and it still feels kind of empty at the end of the day as i got older i just kind of lost any willpower to do anything difficult or challenging and it kind of sucks because i don't feel proud of anything now i don't feel like i'm developing any kind of skill or i'm not creating anything cool and i just think it would be really nice if i could find something i actually felt passionate towards and i guess having a girlfriend is not really going to make things a lot better anyway because i had a girlfriend last year and to be honest i still felt miserable and sad and bored as well last year i didn't know what to do i didn't have anything i felt passionate towards i just spent all day playing games just spent all day playing games i'm watching porn and yeah that's probably why she dumped me because i was just miserable and boring and depressed all the time and not really fun to be around i get emails from younger guys asking these kinds of questions they tell me they want to quit video games they tell me that it just doesn't make them happy the way they used to like when they were 11 years old all they wanted to do was drop out of school stay at home sit on that couch and watch sonic the hedgehog bounce onto his enemies again and again play mario super mario mario 64 again and again again and now they feel like they've gotten out in the real world they're an adult and it's somehow hollow it's somehow meaningless someone just just doesn't make them happy the way they used to no no man the the problem is the controller you're using okay so dude i've seen some of your videos on this i see you're using like the nintendo switch with that crappy control comes no man you've got to invest in like a better quality controller like the the hori commander 4 here it's excellent and then go back and play those same video games that made you happy when you were 11 years old and i promise you man it'll clear right up all this stuff you're saying about like not having enough meaning in your life not having a sense of purpose not having a sense of motivation you'd really be surprised man i think it's the it's the tactility of the buttons and like the responsiveness of the deep end that is probably what's getting you down anytime you question video games this way and think it's not going to make you happy like keep in mind you know fundamentally as human beings we're products of evolution we came out of the jungle so it makes sense that sitting in front of the tv and watching sonic the hedgehog bounce on his enemies again and again trying to get a higher score and a faster time in super mario brothers that is what is going to make you happy not just when you're 11 years old when you're 31 years old like daniel when you're 61 it's not gonna it's not going to change right look think back to when you were maybe 13 years old maybe maybe 11 years old and you thought like the thing that would make you happiest of all would be to have completely meaningless non-committal sex with a stranger you have no relationship you have nothing you don't even talk to her after that you just think oh if only i could get into bed with this woman and then get out of bed and never talk that's what you thought would make you happy well it's still true right does it doesn't matter you're 31 for it never changes you never move past that you never get dissatisfied with that right and if it's not working for you right again maybe you got to spend like 200 on a higher quality full-size arcade stick you know and some of you are going to say you could get something cheaper on ebay but no once you switch out the parts san jose mitsu new circuit board dude it's going to be over it's going to be over 200 okay saying that is like saying to a fat person when you just go to the gym it's like saying to an alcoholic why don't you just stop drinking even if i know what i'm supposed to do i don't really want to do it and i think most people [Music]