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I think they’re roughly the same... if you spend four hours a day playing video games or watching TV most people will judge you negatively for it
by dwoozle 7y ago
I think they’re roughly the same... if you spend four hours a day playing video games or watching TV most people will judge you negatively for it
- riversflow 7y agoI think they are night and day. The amount of engagement that video games demand on the brain makes them completely different. I enjoy documentaries, but otherwise find television insanely boring and that it tends to make people dull, unlike video games.
- blacksmith_tb 7y agoI am skeptical, given that the in the US the average household watches more than 8hrs per day[1] (kind of an odd measure, but it seems likely that most members of the household are at least making it to your 4hr threshold, unless there's just one doing some real binge-watching). 1: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/05/when-did-tv-watching-peak/561464/ https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/05/when-...
- whywhywhywhy 7y agoOnes passive and ones active though, they’re completely different. If you fall asleep playing a video game the game doesn’t finish itself. This is anecdotal but I’ve definitely heard people who will happily talk about binge watching a box set (easily a 50+ hour investment) also say they can’t understand how people can waste so much time playing videogames.