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5.5 hours a day is easy when you have a job if you don't have anything else going on. I have much more time for games as an adult than I did when I was a kid.
Are you single?
I can only play 1-2 hours a day with a family. I could see that if I got home and just ate and gamed.
I'm single, and I eat while playing. The sad thing is that I'm not actually super interested in video games these days but I don't have much else going on.
Just you watch videos and play on your phone as you game? Also do you only play one game? I do the same thing and it makes me not care about anything?
So I'm not the guy you are replying to, but I work from home. My kid is still young with an 830pm bedtime. 2 hours is easy, 4 hours is possible, 6 hours is too much.
I really only have to drive my kid to school and I usually have groceries delivered, but that's a luxury I can afford. Splitting the time up with his mother frees up a bunch of extra time (we're separated). A good chunk of time playing comes from playing something with him too. Pokemon, Minecraft, Lego video games. Sometimes he asks me to play one of the games I'll tell him a story about, which I'll oblige if it won't scare him (for instance Elden Ring and Path of Exile are out, but monster hunter and Helldivers are ok [the Helldivers one I don't get, you'd think for a kid who thinks aliens and skeletons are terrifying he wouldn't enjoy that one as much as he does. That one I also didn't intend to show him, he woke up one night and I was playing it and he thought it was hilarious 🤷♂️]).
I don't really want to do other things. I've been told that it's a coping mechanism because I was in that unhealthy relationship for 15 years. My personal view is that it's a coping mechanism of how boring reality is.