Video games are bad, but what about board games?

Are card games also childish?

Sports games?

Perhaps we should stop playing games altogather and tell everyone at the Olympic Games to stop being children!

Bloody chess players, don't they know how much they look like kids!

So according to you, playing a shooter game makes one a man-kid but watching an action movie doesn't? And if so, why?

A large number of people spent much of the early 2010s playing angry birds. Did they regress from being adults in the 00s to children in the 10s and then back to adults when they started doomscrolling instead?

So all the employees of companies that work in this industry are not adults if they play ? You are targeting a specific fringe of people too broadly.

So people who play games for a living are not adults? There are many people who create videos in Minecraft with complex builds, drawing inspiration from things like architecture, nature, etc.

And there are many adults who play video games to unwind after work.

And it's not just men who play video games. There are a lot of women who play video games including Minecraft and other games, including a huge range of more casual games.

Video games are indeed a child like activity, same way as other child like activities it remains fun forever and has many positives. But hackernews in general gets very triggered whenever you say that spending any less than 100% of your free time playing and thinking about games is childish.