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How many people do you know that play 40+ hours of chess a week? How many people do you know that don't work a job, are 25 and able bodied, and live at home wi
by brianwawok 6y ago
How many people do you know that play 40+ hours of chess a week?
How many people do you know that don't work a job, are 25 and able bodied, and live at home with their parents to play chess?
How many people do you know that work a dead-end factory job, and come home and put all of their effort into chess over advancing their career?
I know of 0 for any of those for chess, but I can think of at least 100 people that this applies for video games.
Video games are great! I get it. But when it starts to be the purpose of life, it seems a very sad life.
- Splendor 6y agoI'm glad to see you're doing something more productive with your time.
- brianwawok 6y agoHey hobbies are great. Everyone needs hobbies. I don't live with my parents so I can post on hacker news.
- Splendor 6y agoOf course. How convenient that you're the exception.
- slightwinder 6y agoHow many of those people do have intellectual potential that they waste in Factorio or Eve Online? How many of those people ended there because they played games? And how many started gaming because they were fed up with their lack of potential? Maybe majority of gamers would been the type who would waste themself in a pub or on some other meaningless thing otherwise? I don't think it's so easy to answer those aspects without hard numbers.
- brianwawok 6y agoHard to know! Are gamers just a holding pattern for society, because we have passed peak employment - and just need to keep a chunk of society busy doing "nothing" ?
- cgh 6y agoYeah, I'm blown away when I watch videos of people smashing Dark Souls 3 while almost never dying. Then I think of the 2000+ hours it must have taken to achieve that level of muscle memory and expertise. Then again, they are making money with their Twitch streams and walkthroughs simply by being Souls experts. So who am I to say they are wasting anything?