12yo son is doing dedicated research on gaming PC parts and binge-watches videos on how to build (he s not a native English speaker and has no real electronics skills, so this is quite impressive tbh). Me the dad, however, fears that I m witnessing a FPS addict being born.What s a good Middle Way here? Kid actually building the machine all by himself -- 100% yes, even if it s quite expensive; kid then Counter Striking, Call of Dutying etc for hours on dat 27 screen -- ugh!What complicates things is that I myself am more of a computational minimalist using 15 year old machines in a cli-only environment etc. I ve tried to show him That Path also ( dude, here s some Turbo Pascal for ya! ), but, well, obviously he s preferring those addictively engineered and GPU-hungry multiplayer games with his friends any day.He s a good kid all in all, actively engaged in competitive rowing, with good grades etc. Plays chess also (but all the other folks are FPSing or Minecrafting, so there s that).Being a gamer (and using ridiculously overpowered hardware) may well be just a stage of a teen s life, possibly even necessary to go through in order to understand that you don t really need all of this in you adult life. I do feel, however, that the fear of growing a computer gaming vegetable out of one s Good Kid is a little more than just overprotective dad syndrome these days. (I m afraid the gaming industry mostly wins. And, with real-world war going on in Ukraine, I fooking can t stand watching him actually using those ultra-realistic knives or pump action guns for, well, killing terrorists as a recreational activity...)Those of you facing (or having faced) a similar situation, what have you done? Thanks!