| > They ALWAYS said they wished they had more time with their loved ones. Yeah, but... doing what? Eating meals, playing board games, taking walks... I'm sure a lot of them would include time watching movies, plays, and TV with loved ones. Playing video games with friends and siblings is some of my most cherished memories of childhood. I don't play much now, but it is a shared, interactive, exciting experience where you can discover and learn together. Your interpretation of things doesn't sound judgmental, but it sounds like you don't understand that the entertainment is valuable for the same reason as a board game or a play -- it's a shared experience with a loved one. The details aren't important, and now the details are often that the games are digital. One of the only reasons I'm still socially connected to many people is that I am on social media with them and also occasionally play games with them. High school reunions are meaningless these days because we already see all the people we want to see -- we just see them digitally. I'd argue that the digital connections are hugely beneficial for exactly the death-bed stuff you're talking about, because digital connections have no geographical limitation. |