I say no, not a waste of time. Video games have made many people who they are today, and introduced players to new friends at competitions, console waits, and gaming forums. I too have not been able to play console games as often recently (though I do play PC games way more often, and DS games less, now that I have a decent portable laptop computer), but I make sure to stop and go back to one of the games I used to find so fun whenever I'm feeling down or thinking I may as well sell off a few games or a console. Then I start to remember why I liked (most of) the games in the first place, and that I as I am now could never get rid of my games.
You don't know how much I appreciate this discussion. I was just starting to feel like games are pointless, and that's usually about when I break out Trace Memory, or an old PC CD game.
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