My roommate is a HUGE video game guy, I'm a die hard sports fan. The first time I met him was when we moved in (random assignment), and I shook his hand, introduced myself, asked where he's from, tried being as friendly as possible. He looked at me like he saw a ghost, barely said a word and was extremely awkward and unsociable. I tried sharing food with him, ask what he was up to today and other things to get to know him but gave up when he never left the apartment and constantly had headphones in plugged into his laptop or gameboy or whatever it was.
Obviously he's free to be interested in whatever he wants, it just seems like he's wasting his life away sitting by himself playing games that don't have much of an impact on things outside of his head. You could argue sports are just as pointless, but they're at least a social activity. You go to your friends place to watch games, or if you're by yourself go watch one at a bar or restaurant and meet new people. You get to experience big events that will have a lasting impact on history, whereas what happens in my roomate's video game is completely unknown to me.
Maybe he has friends that he plays with, but I've never once seen him leave or have someone over, and honestly how close can you get with someone you never physically interact with. I used to have virtually no interest or knowledge of sports, made fun of them and their fans, and spent all my free time playing WOW. That was about 8 years ago, and I was also really depressed and had occasional suicidal thoughts.
I stopped playing WOW because it literally became my life (don't play any video games now but that's because I can't afford it, definitely will buy a system when I can) and joined the High School football team. I was really bad, and was in no sense of the word a "jock" but I met new people, and gained valuable friends that I'm still in touch with. I'm in a much better place with my life, and grew out of my awkward shell because I started learning people aren't all assholes and are willing to get to know you if you don't prejudge them because they're in shape or into sports. I don't feel bad for people like my roommate because I can absolutely relate. i just wish he could escape his video games every now and then and experience more of what life has to offer. There's so many interests to take up that let you get out and gain friends and live life, and sports are a solid option. It's a huge contribution to what turned my life around. Wow's great too when you can do other things every now and then, and someone who sits inside watching sports alone all the time would probably not be too happy either.
Anyway, this was meant to be like one sentence and I got carried away, and I'm not even really sure if it's relevant or even will make sense and might even get downvoted who knows but fuck it.