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Gardening and playing music are both timeless activities, what do you mean? Kind of unfair to jump down the throat of someone who’s only offering friendly advic

Gardening and playing music are both timeless activities, what do you mean? Kind of unfair to jump down the throat of someone who’s only offering friendly advice.

Grimm1 6y ago
Both are equivalent leisure time activities that I would never say improve your life as the OP claimed. They improve your life in so much the same way games do, leisure, so their comment is purely "I don't like them so they can't be good" which is complete crap.
- karatestomp 6y ago
  I do think, say, acquiring the skill to play piano or guitar tolerably well gains one more general social standing (not just with a subset of gamers) than "I'm fairly good at Rocket League" and also builds a better understanding of music generally, which can be useful and/or pleasant, and gardening produces good food and also carries more social benefits than "I caught all the Pokemon". I'd agree they're not wildly better. Though if I put as much time into one of those activities as I have into games I'd probably be really really good at them, which I bet would open up some doors if I went looking for them, rather than just being alright at games and knowing some stuff about them, for whatever that's worth (nothing at all).
  - Grimm1 6y ago
    I think pursuing leisure for some end goal loses the point of leisure itself and is an unfortunate side effect of the times we live in. That said I'm a workaholic with my job and 2 active projects outside of that who likes to lift and go outside so I can't really take fault with that mode of thinking since I've never quite captured my own idea of how I should be doing leisure.
    - watwut 6y ago
      > That said I'm a workaholic with my job and 2 active projects I kind of dont see how you could play The Witcher while working overtime and having two side projects and going outside.
      - Grimm1 6y ago
        You've never taken a week off?
        watwut 6y ago
        We use weeks off when there is no school to go together somewhere as a family. Around half time with friends too. I don't have that much time off that I could take week off for the game.
        Grimm1 6y ago
        Yeah, that's totally fair, I believe I'm just in an earlier stage of my life where I don't have a family yet so I can sometimes burn the time like that versus prioritizing my social relationships.

Gardening and playing music are both timeless activities, what do you mean? Kind of unfair to jump down the throat of someone who’s only offering friendly advice.

Grimm1 6y ago

Both are equivalent leisure time activities that I would never say improve your life as the OP claimed. They improve your life in so much the same way games do, leisure, so their comment is purely "I don't like them so they can't be good" which is complete crap.

karatestomp 6y ago
I do think, say, acquiring the skill to play piano or guitar tolerably well gains one more general social standing (not just with a subset of gamers) than "I'm fairly good at Rocket League" and also builds a better understanding of music generally, which can be useful and/or pleasant, and gardening produces good food and also carries more social benefits than "I caught all the Pokemon". I'd agree they're not wildly better. Though if I put as much time into one of those activities as I have into games I'd probably be really really good at them, which I bet would open up some doors if I went looking for them, rather than just being alright at games and knowing some stuff about them, for whatever that's worth (nothing at all).
- Grimm1 6y ago
  I think pursuing leisure for some end goal loses the point of leisure itself and is an unfortunate side effect of the times we live in. That said I'm a workaholic with my job and 2 active projects outside of that who likes to lift and go outside so I can't really take fault with that mode of thinking since I've never quite captured my own idea of how I should be doing leisure.
  - watwut 6y ago
    > That said I'm a workaholic with my job and 2 active projects I kind of dont see how you could play The Witcher while working overtime and having two side projects and going outside.
    - Grimm1 6y ago
      You've never taken a week off?
      - watwut 6y ago
        We use weeks off when there is no school to go together somewhere as a family. Around half time with friends too. I don't have that much time off that I could take week off for the game.
        Grimm1 6y ago
        Yeah, that's totally fair, I believe I'm just in an earlier stage of my life where I don't have a family yet so I can sometimes burn the time like that versus prioritizing my social relationships.