Did I accidentally restart my video game interests?

Honestly I'm trying to decide what games I would like to play soon, but I can't decide on a single one on Steam. It also doesn't help that I'm not even sure if my life is going to be stable long enough for me to really invest money into a game. I'm really just trying to focus on learning Linux.

For some reason I've been wanting to try disc golf lately.

 

Unless a game is so high end you want it right now, if you have a console (aside from Nintendo maybe), just wait a year and you'll see prices of games cut in half, easily. Buying second hand is a wise option as well.

Just be smart about it and only stick to the games/genre you know you are going to enjoy.

 

Here's what came to my mind when I first read the topic title.

"There is not accidentally restarting an interest. The interest never stopped, it was just filed away in the back."

Becoming and adult and actually having to take care of our selves?

My recommendation is to stay away from the games. I didn't and I feel like it's harder for me to focus on other things now that I'm in my late thirties. My opinion is that video games, gaming sites and forums, YouTube and any other online community gave me a false sense of socialization. Basically, out of high school I delved into online communities and games like Phantasy Star Online. I didn't start going out places until my mid twenties, by that time I was a fish out of the water.

In the past few weeks I've gone from playing The Battle for Wesnoth, to watching a King's Quest Six play through, looking back into Starmade and last night installing StarCraft II. This is not counting netflix, anime, and other YouTube and internet wandering.

Porn is behind me and tapping on my back. All this other stuff rushes in to fill the porn void. If I'm not careful, porn will jump back in.

I do believe it is possible for a person to revisit some interests from youth. Without the right maturity I find it to be a hindrance to life. Some things have there time to be set aside. Attempting to hold onto them can harm our potential enjoyment of them later in life. Call it delayed gratification.

The best to every ones journey.

 

I’d argue games are worse than porn, by going “back” all you’re doing is not only setting yourself up for complete failure, but also giving into your addiction.

Both are unnatural, and that’s why the people of society are so mindless and brainwashed today to play mindless things as useless as games... a video game is nothing more than corrupt companies looking to make a profit off the weak man, who cares about “endings” to such a trivial thing? I mean really ask yourself, Is this advancing your career? Making you a stronger man? Or just improving literally any aspect of your life for the better? No, it’s just making you look like a beta, and honestly a fool.

Start acting like a man and do real things that are difficult in life like heavy lifting at the gym, running a marathon, cold showers every day, thinking and acting like an Alpha, etc. Because the only thing people would know about you after death, would be that you’re “that guy” who just sat on his ass and played games all the time.

Trust me man, you don’t want to go down that road. God certainly wants you to live a more challenging life than this...

 

@Fractured Mindset To me it sounds like porn had replaced gaming as a higher charged emotional coping mechanism. Gaming is now rushing back in to fill that void. I do recommend finding something else to fill it. You are at a turning point in your life. Where are you going to go? (This is a question I still struggle with.)