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or over a year now, for a lot of us, being dropped off on an island and battling others for a winner-takes-all fight has become a way of life. This is no real-life <\/span>Hunger Games<\/span><\/i>. What I\u2019m referring to is Player Unknown\u2019s Battlegrounds, aka PUBG, a video game that has turned many of us into addicts since last December. PUBG is to teens and young adults what Tupperware dabbas are to our mothers \u2013 something we just can\u2019t live without. Sure, there was <\/span>Pok\u00e9mon Go!<\/span><\/a> in 2016 which saw players roaming wildly on the streets catching Pikachus, but like Salt Bae and man buns, we cringe about it today. <\/span>\n\nThe PUBG<\/span> epidemic, however, looks like it\u2019s going to last. <\/span>\n\nThe game has been downloaded and played by 400 million players. If you\u2019ve played PUBG, you\u2019ll know there is no greater thrill today as being dropped on an 8x8km island with 100 other people, for a battle royale winner-takes-all fight. Sign me up, please for this <\/span>orgasm<\/span><\/a> that lasts longer than a couple of minutes!<\/span>\n\nIt\u2019s hard to stay away from something when everyone around you is into it. Much like celebrating <\/span>Halloween<\/span><\/a> in India. Most of my friends and peers spend more time on PUBG these days than on Instagram; in fact we also have a dedicated PUBG WhatsApp group where we discuss gaming strategies and time of play. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\n\nI remember a time when weekends were about <\/span>drinking<\/span><\/a> at a cheap bar and heading to a club with my friends, then jamming on some random dude\u2019s terrace until the sun started hurting our hungover eyes. And there would always be that one guy from our group who\u2019d hook up with a complete stranger at the club and bring her along. This is back in the day when meeting girls at a pub was still a thing. Today, weekends are not about girls but about gaming. <\/span>\n\n

Instead of picking between pyaar and PUBG, he convinced his girlfriend to just try playing the game once.<\/p><\/blockquote> \n\nBut there are always some party poopers, who bring up the World Health Organisation study that classifies <\/span>gaming<\/span><\/a> addiction as a disorder. But I am not an addict, nor do I consider PUBG a disorder. After all, isn\u2019t cursing complete strangers over the internet at 3 am every night the hallmark of an orderly lifestyle? I could be getting a good night\u2019s sleep, cuddling with my partner, but I\u2019d rather unlock a better sniper rifle. In fact, I\u2019ve lost count of the number of times she\u2019s threatened to ship me off to Bengaluru, where there is now a clinic dedicated fully to treating people with technology addictions. What next? A clinic to treat people wearing white sneakers? \u00a0<\/span>\n\nStill, I\u2019m not as bad as some of my fellow PUBG<\/span> enthusiasts. My best friend had his house all to himself for two whole weeks while his parents were <\/span>vacationing<\/span><\/a>. He chose to have his friends over to play PUBG every day for two weeks, and did not meet his girlfriend even once. She dumped him of course, but it\u2019s the most PUBG<\/span> I\u2019ve ever played, so I have no regrets.<\/span>\n\nAnother friend was smarter. Instead of picking between pyaar and PUBG, he convinced his <\/span>girlfriend<\/span><\/a> to just try playing the game once. Not only did she give it a shot, but she\u2019s what I would call a fulfilled PUBG premika now. They don\u2019t just play the game together; they organise dates where they order dinner and play the game whenever one of their houses is empty. Move over #DeepVeer, this is what I call relationship goals. \u00a0<\/span>\n\nThe <\/span>couple<\/span><\/a> once told me they were up all night, and on seeing my awkward face, quickly clarified that they were playing PUBG. They\u2019ve asked me to join their in-game team a number of times, but I\u2019ve done enough third-wheeling in college.<\/span>\n\nMy girlfriend and I are far from being the ideal clan, but I\u2019m just glad she\u2019s cool about our new kind of threesome \u2013 she, I, and PUBG. All\u2019s well in paradise now that the rules of the game have changed a bit. So all I can say is, \u201cThere\u2019s nothing better than sex\u201d might have been true in a pre-PUBG era. But today I can find at least 400 million people who\u2019d disagree.<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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