This flash really made me think about my time wasted.

I watched the video earlier before visiting this thread, and I have to say, the guy presents a pretty convincing case for his case, evoking empathy from the audience (least it did for me). However, what had me even more than the whole part about how one spends their time on video games is the ending, about how video games are able to unite people or further people's lives. Like many things, there's nothing wrong with the thing itself, and what often goes wrong is how people over-indulge or take too seriously something that wasnt meant to be taken that way.

Personally, while I do think he is regretting his use of time in relation to videogames, I dont think that was his point. I felt his point was that "there are so many things better than video games, and while they are awesome, we often get so indulged in them, or we're so reluctant to change, to experience new things, that we miss out even greater things". In some of my other posts in the speakeasy/rubik's cube, I've mentioned the term, "magical moments" and I feel that's what he's getting at: Video games are not worth skipping these "magical moments". Say you're married and just had a child. Think about missing his or her first word of "daddy" or "mommy" because you were too busy grinding your bishop to 200. Some things only come once, and once you miss it, its gone. The video games will always be there.