video games?

[dana510]

I'm still in question mode, but I think someone mentioned they used to love video games prior to HRT, and then poof, they were no longer interested. Has anyone had a similar experience?

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[kelly_aus]

I wouldn't say I've completely lost interest, but I certainly don't play as much as I used to.

[Annah]

I def have not lost interest.

Actually, my hobbies and enjoyments have stayed exactly the same. I am still me through and through. Before, during, and "after" HRT.

[Apples Mk.II]

I lost interest on games the moment I realized the dysphoria, but mostly because I used them as coping mechanism to fill my mind and have a fake sensation that I was ocuppying time instead of wasting it.


Maybe after I start with HRT I will be able to play again, after my mind stops being so obessed. Also, losing my Minecraft world was a nice horsekick on the nuts.

[Alainaluvsu]

I've lost a bunch of interest. I tend to play them more when I'm depressed or something to keep my mind off of everything now. Maybe that's why we do it pre HRT and all that, because we need something to take our mind off of life.

[Kevin Peña]

I will always love video games! I don't watch TV or read any novels, just encyclopedias, textbooks, and other non-fiction of math//science//history, so if anyone says I'm "wasting time", I just say that I'm having fun, like they do with TV or novels that don't actually teach them anything.

So bottom line, video games rock. It's better than staring at the TV since you actually have to do something, despite most of it being with your hands. 

I don't think HRT will ever change my core personality, just the container of said personality.

[Annah]

not all video gamers play video games as a blanket to cover depression.

Some of us actually play it because it's fun

[Stranger]

I don't doubt the individual case, but I wouldn't think it would be any kind of rule. Both cis-men and women play video games, stereotypes to the contrary, so I don't think a predilection to them would be hormonal.

I will always love video games! I don't watch TV or read any novels, just encyclopedias, textbooks, and other non-fiction of math//science//history, so if anyone says I'm "wasting time", I just say that I'm having fun, like they do with TV or novels that don't actually teach them anything.

I don't think anyone should have to justify what they do with their time, for sure. Still, I feel obliged to say that you can learn a lot from novels! I work in academia (my field is modern history), but the most important wisdom I've learned from reading has been through literature, not the endless historical and philosophical texts I read for a living. Intelligent TV, cinema, and - yes - video games teach us just as much as "educational" material. Besides, the more seriously we take our play, the more playful we can be when we're serious

[Kevin Peña]

I don't think anyone should have to justify what they do with their time, for sure. Still, I feel obliged to say that you can learn a lot from novels! I work in academia (my field is modern history), but the most important wisdom I've learned from reading has been through literature, not the endless historical and philosophical texts I read for a living. Intelligent TV, cinema, and - yes - video games teach us just as much as "educational" material. Besides, the more seriously we take our play, the more playful we can be when we're serious

Okay, maybe I put some hyperbole, but I just don't like novels. Any life lessons I can read in a novel I can learn from living. Just for curiosity, not judgement, what exactly did you learn from novels? I was always too bored to finish them. 

If you want a good read of what you can learn from history, "History's Worst Decisions and the People Who Made Them" by Stephen Weir. You'll see humanity's stupidity at its finest.

[Apples Mk.II]

So... Left 4 Dead 2 This night? (No voice practising on the headset, my throat is worse than ever)

Yeah, I wish. I wonder when I will get my interest back. After 160 hours of RPG this year, I'm completely drained. I must have like 20 games from the Steam Summer sale pending to be installed. To bad that I replaced the time I used to spend on videogames with exercising time. Crap.

[Kevin Peña]

So... Left 4 Dead 2 This night? (No voice practising on the headset, my throat is worse than ever)

Yeah, I wish. I wonder when I will get my interest back. After 160 hours of RPG this year, I'm completely drained. I must have like 20 games from the Steam Summer sale pending to be installed. To bad that I replaced the time I used to spend on videogames with exercising time. Crap.

Well, exercise is good, so don't give that up. Also, be careful with the girl voice on the headset. Some of those boys never talked to a girl before. 

[Apples Mk.II]

Well, exercise is good, so don't give that up. Also, be careful with the girl voice on the headset. Some of those boys never talked to a girl before. 

You just made me remember the first time I entered a chat with a girl name. I won't translate it, but you should be able to understand it.

"¿Quieres conocer el gran nardo de Abelardo?"

Men...


Next week I have an appointment with the otolaryngologist, so maybe we will be able to find the cause for my dysphonia and why I can't raise the pitch... No voice therapy before that.

[Ugla]

I'm still in question mode, but I think someone mentioned they used to love video games prior to HRT, and then poof, they were no longer interested. Has anyone had a similar experience?

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I did not experience this much, although I somehow feel I let myself have time for more things now, as in actually going out and enjoying things, instead of the way it was before. Then I was so very isolated, and video games were my only comfort. So for me, it was more that I actually went and did something else and didn't isolate myself as much.

[Stranger]

Okay, maybe I put some hyperbole, but I just don't like novels. Any life lessons I can read in a novel I can learn from living. Just for curiosity, not judgement, what exactly did you learn from novels? I was always too bored to finish them. 

Oh, lots of things. Sure, you learn life by living it, but a great novelist or poet is like a master painter (or photographer, or director): they capture life from such an angle and in such a way that it takes on a whole new significance. I'm all the better for being taught about compassion by Tennesee Williams, spirituality and redemption by Dostoyevsky, hope and foolishness by Márquez, the imagination by Borges, life and love by Raymond Carver... and so on. Intangible but significant things. I've had academic works of history published (nothing big, no books yet), and wouldn't consider what I write to be anywhere as important.

A lot of my colleagues would disagree, of course!

[Kevin Peña]

Oh, lots of things. Sure, you learn life by living it, but a great novelist or poet is like a master painter (or photographer, or director): they capture life from such an angle and in such a way that it takes on a whole new significance. I'm all the better for being taught about compassion by Tennesee Williams, spirituality and redemption by Dostoyevsky, hope and foolishness by Márquez, the imagination by Borges, life and love by Raymond Carver... and so on. Intangible but significant things. I've had academic works of history published (nothing big, no books yet), and wouldn't consider what I write to be anywhere as important.

A lot of my colleagues would disagree, of course!

Well, good for you! I still take life over novels though, never had much of an attention span for literature. 

[Carolina1983]

Yep it almost went away :S. And its the same for other interests.



Oh and I hate the job I have which I loved before. It confuses me alot.

[Jayne]

I hope to god I don't lose my interest in videogames.

I've spent over 200 hrs exploring Gransys (Dragons Dogma)
I know Liberty City better than my home town (GTAIV)
I rule the skies on Ace Combat 6

The list of games that have fallen in defeat before me are too many to mention, i've spent the last few years building my gamerscore & am due to hit 80,000 before xmas (I hope)

Being a gamer is such a big part of my life that losing that addiction would be like losing an arm!

[JennX]

I was a big gamer as a kid... say up until 15-16... then other things like work, school, and new hobbies took it's place. I still have plenty of friends my age that are still very much in to gaming, and if I had a bunch of free time with absolutely nothing to do, maybe so would I. But me loosing interest in games (console/online) had more to do with me growing up, and less to do with HRT.


I do occasionally still love busting some random guy's @$$ at Street Fighter II though... especially if he says he could never loose to a "girl". 

[Apples Mk.II]

Allright, enough "gaming" for today. And tomorrow, back to the gym. I'm getting incredibly lazy again.

[Jayne]

I do occasionally still love busting some random guy's @$$ at Street Fighter II though... especially if he says he could never loose to a "girl". 

I'd never manage that, years ago (on the mega drive) a mate put his joypad on the floor & kicked my ass on street fighter using his feet!!
I can handle flying, driving & shooting but put a fighting game infront of me & i'm done for