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Video games have won! It's time to emerge from the defensive bunker that they must be "productive" by improving your creativity or problem solving or reflexes o
by ahelwer 7y ago
Video games have won! It's time to emerge from the defensive bunker that they must be "productive" by improving your creativity or problem solving or reflexes or whatever. They're a form of entertainment on par or even beyond movies, shows, etc. Time spent enjoying video games is no more wasted than when enjoying those other forms of media, although it is true some video games demand much greater time investment (the entirety of Game of Thrones is only 63.5 hours in length, for example, which is easily surpassed in length by many popular single-player games).
I do think things like LoL are a huge drain on some people's lives, though, honestly.
- wpietri 7y agoAnd that huge drain is related to the addictiveness that cdiamand was talking about. I haven't heard of Game of Thrones ending relationships, but I know WoW has caused divorces. I'll leave out the people I know personally, but stories are legion. E.g.: https://www.olganon.org/node/20104 https://www.olganon.org/node/20104
- topkai22 7y agoA "game of thrones" divorce sounds like quite a bloody affair.