I recently ran across an article titled “Study: Games are depressing…or are they?” (written by Mike Smith on Yahoo’s “Games” website), and I decided to add some of my thoughts on this topic.
He gets right to the point:
“The average gamer is 35, overweight, and more likely to be depressed, says a new study conducted by researchers at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. It also indicated a curious difference between male and female gamers: the former proved more overweight and reported more Internet usage than non-gamer men, while female gamers reported more depression and lower general health than non-gamer women.”
And that all makes some sense. The real question is causality … is it the game-playing that causes depression or is it the depression that in turn leads to the game-playing?
The researchers here surmise that it’s the latter: “depressed individuals might be turning to games as a means of self-medication”. And I suspect they may be correct about that.
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it used to be said … that really plain girls tended to be more studious than really hot and sexy girls
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It used to be said (prior to the emergence of political correctness) that really plain girls tended to be more studious than really hot and sexy girls. Why?
Because they did not have the better option (partying hearty) thanks to faring poorly in the genetic lottery.
Girls who could have long lines of cute guys competing to spend money on them didn’t have to be studious to succeed in life. They had better options (such as finding a guy who was successful in life and then riding on his coattails).
I suspect that there’s a similar dynamic at play when it comes to gaming.
The hottest hunks who can be bedding a different supermodel every night probably don’t instead choose to hole up in their den and play electronic games every day. They have better options.
So if it turns out that overweight depressed guys are more apt to be gamers, that also makes sense as they’d likely not have a better option either.
Is this your fate right now?
On the scale of one to ten, if you’re a guy and you’re a three in terms of looks, money and game, you’ll strike out with women a lot if you pursue them.
And even if you do snare one eventually, she’s apt not to be much fun to be with (she’ll likely be bitter that she couldn’t attract anyone hotter and she’ll take that out on you).
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that can get pretty discouraging (depressing) after enough years of it
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And that can get pretty discouraging (depressing) after enough years of it.
So, if that’s the hand that life has dealt to you, you’ve basically got three options:
(1) Squander a fortune chasing women, most of whom will harshly reject you out-of-hand and the remaining few of whom will humiliate you in other ways;
(2) Spend your time playing electronic games; or
(3) Improve your “game” with women (so that your batting average improves, you feast higher up on the “food chain” and you learn how to become impervious to women’s humiliation attempts).
How to get to Option (3)
Depending on your sex drive and interests, either #2 or #3 would seem the best choice (with #1 not having much to recommend it).
If you have much of a libido, then #3 is the way to go if you can find the right source that can teach you how to understand and interact successfully with women.
The catch there is that there’s so much misinformation out there on women and how to do well with them. But with the right dating and relationship coach, you’d be amazed at how interesting your life can become.
We can be that coach.
Stay tuned,
-Mack Doppler
