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 wouldn't say I've completely lost interest, but I certainly don't play as much as I used to.
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.
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.
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.
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.
not all video gamers play video games as a blanket to cover depression.
Some of us actually play it because it's fun
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.
Quote from: DianaP on August 31, 2012, 11:02:02 AM
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 :)
Quote from: Stranger on August 31, 2012, 12:47:47 PM
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.
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.
Quote from: Apples Mk.II on August 31, 2012, 01:53:41 PM
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. ;)
Quote from: DianaP on August 31, 2012, 01:57:37 PM
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.
Quote from: dana510 on August 31, 2012, 03:05:47 AM
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.
Quote from: DianaP on August 31, 2012, 01:34:02 PM
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!
Quote from: Stranger on August 31, 2012, 02:25:44 PM
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. :)
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.
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!
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 @$$ at Street Fighter II though... especially if he says he could never loose to a "girl". :icon_wink: :icon_mrhappy:
Allright, enough "gaming" for today. And tomorrow, back to the gym. I'm getting incredibly lazy again.
Quote from: JennX on August 31, 2012, 04:20:17 PM
I do occasionally still love busting some random guy's @$$ at Street Fighter II though... especially if he says he could never loose to a "girl". :icon_wink: :icon_mrhappy:
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
Month and a half ago, I lived with my fiancé, and we played games and watched movies all day (when we weren't working). Now I've got no job, no girl, I'm back at home, and my Xbox's disk drive is broken :(
All I've got now is MW3,Oblivion (which I've already put hundreds of hours into), some XBLA games, and Netflix :(
Skyrim, Mass Effect, and Dark Souls just sit there on the shelf, taunting me :<
Quote from: kristin? on August 31, 2012, 08:24:43 PM
Now I've got no job, no girl, I'm back at home, and my Xbox's disk drive is broken :(
No video games?!?!?! I would just cry. (Then again, I like Nintendo, not XBOX, so :P)
Quote from: TessaM on August 31, 2012, 09:07:41 PM
I used to be ultimate ninendo whore. I had snes, n64,gamecube all plugged into my zenith tube tv. Good times spent with Resident Evil Remakes , rogue squadron, mario64, super star wars... ok i can type for hours.
Since your a nintendo fan, can you recomend me a good ds game? (or three lol) I bought my ds like 2 months ago, I played it hard for a week (mario kart) and I swear I have touched it since. Im thinking a resident evil game or pokemon (both maybe? ive the budget dont worry... and its a 3ds ive got.) Which pokemon game would you recomend? id prefer something more in line with like gold version (childhood memories, yes!) because I cant take all these new pokemon.
Also, I wanna get a wii but aperantly the new wii is coming out? what do you know about this?
/ end interogation
Unfortunately for you, I never liked pokemon. However, my friend does and he wants to get the new upcoming pokemon black 2 game (to be released october 7th in America, not sure about Canada). I would also not get a wii if you want to play the new Wii U games. The wii U doesn't play gamecube games or accept gamecube remotes, so keep your gamecube. The wii U will play wii and wii U games. Keeping with tradition, this new console for nintendo means a new super smash bros game to be titled Universe (wii's Super Smash Bros. Brawl). The wii U will be taking nintendo into a new client base by producing kids' games along with some more adult-friendly titles, including a Nintendo Assassin's Creed. The wii U will be coming out around Christmas 2012, so you'll have to wait.
All games with * are "Recommended with Honor"
As for good DS games:
-New Super Mario Bros. 1 and 2*
-Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass*
-Any Professor Layton game (They all have good puzzles and really nice stories)
-Kid Icarus: Uprising*
-Sonic Generations
-Super Mario 3D land (Definitely)*
-Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3DS*
-Brain Age games, if you're into them. (Wouldn't recommend unless you actually want to use them)
As for good Wii games (Note that I can't speak for Wii U games since the system isn't out yet)
-Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess*
-Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword (Not as good as Twilight Princess in my opinion, but still good)*
-Super Mario Galaxy 1 and 2 (Imagine super mario with the ability to use multiple dimensional planes, including UPSIDE DOWN)*
-Kirby's Return to Dreamland
-Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Great when friends come over)*
-Sin and Punishment: Star Successor
-Kirby's Epic Yarn (Kirby is just too cute)
-Sonic Colors
-No more heroes 1 and 2 (If you like gore)
-New Super Mario Bros. Wii*
-Donkey Kong Country Returns
Guys like nerdy girls..., right? :-\
PS--> Note that you should do research and look into game play videos online to see if the games are your style. I am very hard to not please with a fun game. Have fun.
Pant, Pant.. Agh. All right, 180 minutes on the gym. I guess now I can sit down and play videogames without feeling guilty (I am afraid I will get lazy and sedentary again if I start playing)
Now, let´s see. What was I playing two months ago?
- Metroid Zero Mission
- Cave Story +
- Discworld
Probably I will be incredibly rusty, but having to get and install a new SPDI/F sound cable for the PC across the room... Too lazy for that.
PS: 3DS will be my last console. I used to have all of them and be a collector of retro titles, but in the end it was another thing for filling time. Now only the Snes remains in use (thanks to a Powerpak).
I guess I must have been using games to keep myself from thinking about things as well as to have fun and I have always had an interest in
computer games since I saw my first game on my brothers friends PC ... it was some DOS game I think...
and I've blown a lot of money on them... but PC games are the cheapest form of entertainment out here...
anyways looking at my "small" collection of games I am wondering what to do with them since only a few of them still hold my interest.
ok here goes... *takes a deep breath* :
PC:
games that I still like:
Company of heroes - Tales of Valor, Opposing Fronts, and 1st one - my favourite game ever.
Sims3 + Sims3 Late Night. - the only "girly" games that I've got.
games just lying there:
Modern Warfare 3
Modern Warfare 2
Modern Warfare
Call Of Duty Black ops
Mass Effect 2
Mass Effect 1 - awesome game - will play it again sometime.
Dragon Age Origins - awesome game - but after loosing savegames thrice and having to start all over I just got fed up.
Escape from Butcher Bay.
Skyrim
Grand Theft Auto 4
Prototype
Assassins Creed
Red Alert 3
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Oblivion Lost
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Clear Sky
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Call Of Pripyat - still play it now and then - good game.
Half Life 2
lots of other games that I don't care to remember, as well as my brother's games.
then 2 years ago - got a good deal on a colleague's Xbox
so got these:
Halo - Fall of Reach - best game I've ever played.
Halo 3
Gears of War 1 & 2
Mass Effect 2
sorry if I am showing off ;D but I guess no-one would have guessed why a girl would like these games.
Quote from: DianaP on August 31, 2012, 08:33:16 PM
No video games?!?!?! I would just cry. (Then again, I like Nintendo, not XBOX, so :P)
I've still got
some video games, it's just limited to my games on demand and arcade games on my hard drive. Traded in like half my collection to get MW3 On Demand just so I'd have something social to do until I get a new system :<
Hopefully that'll be soon, don't wanna miss out on Borderlands 2 and Resident Evil 6 releases >.<