Games that require strategy, coordination, skill, etc. are potential Manly games. The addition of well crafted stories, quality artwork and inspiring music don’t hurt either.

Games that rely on mindless button smashing or involve children’s television characters most likely are not Manly. That being said, enjoying said types of games with one’s children will lean these games into neutral territories. However certain typed of actions, such as intentionally causing distress and mis-givings among other gamers though intentional player killing and stealing the hard won items and rewards of others, are not and likely never will be Manly.

When it’s all said and done, the Manliness or lack there of with regards to video games is all dependent upon which games one is speaking of, how one interacts with others while playing and what the circumstances are when one is playing them.

Some people were talking shit about what a real man does o does not and the truth is that a real man does whatever the fuck he wants. A real man follows his own path not whatever other people thinks it’s right or wrong.

Does it also make sense to have a poll asking, “Are books manly?”

Logically it may be surmised thusly:
Order is a manly virtue according to Benjamin Franklin.
Disorder is the opposite of order.
Thus disorder cannot be virtuous.
Entropy is that state of lowest energy and highest disorder.
Playing video games vice contributing to the greater good does not improve order and is of a lower energy state.
Thus playing video games is a state of higher disorder.
If disorder is not virtuous.
Then, playing video games is not virtuous.
If virtue is manly.
And playing video games cannot be virtuous.

Then playing video games cannot be manly!

They are the modern form of ritualized violence