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10 Ways That Gaming Is Destroying Your Life

Gaming is a fantastic pastime if you're the type of creature who enjoys wasting hours of your real-life spent in various sham universes playing out the stories of fake heroes and villains. But so what? Everyone needs a hobby to help them survive the soul-crushing monotony of this screen filled, social media nightmare… with yet another screen. Yes, as games are interactive, they are far better for you than gawking at a television screen, unwashed and shirtless. However, because games are interactive, they tend to create strong emotional attachments that trick gamer's brains into systematically ruining their life from the inside out.

7) Cleanliness

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Be honest with yourself. You’ve missed a few days’ worth of showers because you were trying to best that stage of Dark Souls or trying to level up your World of Warcraft avatar. Cleanliness is something that flutters out the window with neither a tip of the hat or a flick of the wrist when a big game session is involved. Just speaking from my own experiences, being friends with gamers and living with four of the most repulsive, loathsome Runescape players I’ve met, the stereotype rings true.

Am I a little biased? You bet your sweet arse I am, but when you associate with gamers enough, you begin to notice little things like, “He’s worn that Cake is a Lie t-shirt for the last four days,” and “God, where on this dreadful planet is that odour coming from?”