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I think it's important to teach kids that achievement takes serious effort, and that making a blob move around the screen is so much more important than reachin
by 3chelon 10y ago
I think it's important to teach kids that achievement takes serious effort, and that making a blob move around the screen is so much more important than reaching the top of the leaderboard in Call of Duty - which according to my son, many kids just don't get.
I suppose it's a lack of imagination, combined with laziness, which has been reinforced by decades of "Make learning fun!" and "Science is easy!" slogans that the government education tzars love to produce.
- k__ 10y agowell, there are people who make good money with gaming haha but there are more who make good money with coding
- Cpoll 10y ago>but there are more who make good money with coding You should emphasize orders of magnitude more. Of course, the other problem is that people who make "good money with gaming" aren't actually gaming - they're following a practice regimen that the average gamer wouldn't stick with for more than an hour - refining repetitive mechanical motions, analyzing gameplay to identify faults, fixing those faults through repetitive practice. An amateur will ask "how do I get better at this game?" and, when you tell them, say "no thanks, I'd rather just play the game."
- k__ 10y agoWhen people hear the term "pro gamer" they think, well these people just sat around all day playing games and suddendly they get paid mad bucks.
- HemanHeartYou 10y agoYou're forgetting youtubers.
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