Is your Family supportive of your gaming hobby or do they stand against it

[Retro Doomer]

So how does your Family stand to your hobby are they more open minded or are they even gamers themselves or are they very old fashioned and see gaming as a waste of time and purely as a children's hobby ?
And did you have any conflicts with your family because of you hobby or not ?
As we all know that some folks still believe that games are for children only and not for Adults and that we should get a ''real'' hobby instead according to there opinions.
I myself are lucky in that Regard as my Ma is not a gamer yet is Supportive of my hobby.

 

[Vexicrypt]

I guess my dad is partially responsible for my obsession with games. One day he brought a fat PS1 to our home and started playing Metal Gear Solid, Parasite Eve and Crash Bandicoot (among many others), trying to cover his own interest in games and technology by saying "hey, I bought it for the kid". So I was hooked almost from the start. With years my parents kinda accepted the fact that I have more passion for videogames than contributing to the society by making a family or whatever, so they are pretty chill about it now. We all cope with reality in different ways afterall and this is mine.

 

[Dr.Kisaragi]

Well my parents are the ones introduce me into gaming, I mean they taught to play nes before jumping to ps1 at least play nes as a training for baby gamers and I did beat two nes game and jump to playstation 1

Our whole family is a gamer my mom was a puzzle point and click adventure and master of cards and mahjong and my dad was a rpg horror action and farm simulator.

So our ritual in family if your are new gamer play the Nes first before jumping to big console learn the basic and master the timing thinking and hard before jumping to big adventure.

 

[Bonkers225]

I'm a grown ass man. They don't care.

 

[Pearly]

I'm a grown ass man. They don't care.

I would have no interest in technology and as such my career choice without video games and everything related to it, many games compounded my other interests by being a version of it that I could interact with.

But to second this comment. I am an adult, I do what I want!!

To address OP specifically, nothing was ever really said about it when I was younger, my dad was negative about it for a stint, but he passed away and as for my mother she saw it as something that kept me occupied. It's really not much different from someone that reads books for hours every week, except that is seen as a positive trait and not negative in some way.

I do think living on discord and playing games you don't like to appease a group for many hours every day at the expense of everything else in your life is bad though. There's many that think they have to stop playing games because all they did was play online games with a group all the time, destiny 2 was the big one for many quitting games all together, like an abusive book club, it's the books fault and not the club. I can assure them, it's not the books.

I've seen this happen to two people and they literally spent years not going outdoors so they can play games in a specific discord group, so I can definitely understand that negative view point of games at the very least. All the other viewpoints are based in ignorance of some kind.

 

[PrismRed]

Mostly indifferent, I picked up gaming thanks to my uncle, dad is pretty much supportive of any activities that doesn't involve drugs or anything bad.