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> Most of the rest of us post because we think we have something worth saying on its own merits If that were truly the case, why not simply talk to yourself in

> Most of the rest of us post because we think we have something worth saying on its own merits If that were truly the case, why not simply talk to yourself in the shower or keep a private journal? HN would serve no purpose. The only thing it offers, that is not offered by a shower or private journal, is the gameplay.

piva00 2y ago
> The only thing it offers, that is not offered by a shower or private journal, is the gameplay. No, for God's sake, it offers other people, sharing their knowledge or opinion. If that's not important to you then I have absolutely no idea why you are here.
- randomdata 2y ago
  > No, for God's sake, it offers [...] sharing their knowledge or opinion. Games cannot also provide knowledge or opinion...? But you literally said you don't come for the reaction. Where is the knowledge or opinion coming from if there is no reaction? > it offers other people I see no evidence of other people. What people are you seeing?
  - fuzzfactor 2y ago
    >I see no evidence of other people. Me neither ;) I might as well be a bot myself for how little I get out of so much scanned material :) >why not simply talk to yourself in the shower or keep a private journal? You can't get much better advice than this. This is like a true gut response. These have been proven so effective for so long it can often be assumed that people are already doing it :) And then some. Well I like it. All kinds of people earn points from me for all kinds of reasons. I wouldn't want to downvote either without being motivated by something meaningful enough to comment on. So I'm one-sided and generous, enjoy it that way, and will ante up again. But it's nothing like an actual game, there is no strategy for me and I'm not playing anything. Literally, I spend dozens of hours reading articles and comments for every hour spent gaming, but so much of it falls into the category of amusement. But people can and do "game" the system or play for points or only in ways geared toward "winning a popularity contest", that's them, I see that. Looks like you're coming from different places which are all normal and have good "points". Not that much different really, depends on where you draw the line. At the extreme you could put video gaming, facebook, youtube, blogging, and anything slightly like that into the category of "amusements" unless it's entirely very serious with no amusement component at all. It's another impossible line to accurately draw and probably a moving target at all times, but is it a big percentage? And are "serious" people getting their computing dollar's worth if so much is being diverted to amusement? Or is it the other way around? Where those craving more of the amusement wondered why it took so long for the hardware & software to finally become widely capable of playing multiple video ads at once. While the real tech-types were doing nothing amusing at all, just trying to get their share of more computations out of computers whether it is entertaining or not. What a way to shortchange those who thought they were due for greater amusement ;) Some of them where the sky's the limit on how big a screen they will spend on, to amuse more boldly than the neighbors :/

piva00 2y ago

> The only thing it offers, that is not offered by a shower or private journal, is the gameplay. No, for God's sake, it offers other people, sharing their knowledge or opinion. If that's not important to you then I have absolutely no idea why you are here.

randomdata 2y ago
> No, for God's sake, it offers [...] sharing their knowledge or opinion. Games cannot also provide knowledge or opinion...? But you literally said you don't come for the reaction. Where is the knowledge or opinion coming from if there is no reaction? > it offers other people I see no evidence of other people. What people are you seeing?
- fuzzfactor 2y ago
  >I see no evidence of other people. Me neither ;) I might as well be a bot myself for how little I get out of so much scanned material :) >why not simply talk to yourself in the shower or keep a private journal? You can't get much better advice than this. This is like a true gut response. These have been proven so effective for so long it can often be assumed that people are already doing it :) And then some. Well I like it. All kinds of people earn points from me for all kinds of reasons. I wouldn't want to downvote either without being motivated by something meaningful enough to comment on. So I'm one-sided and generous, enjoy it that way, and will ante up again. But it's nothing like an actual game, there is no strategy for me and I'm not playing anything. Literally, I spend dozens of hours reading articles and comments for every hour spent gaming, but so much of it falls into the category of amusement. But people can and do "game" the system or play for points or only in ways geared toward "winning a popularity contest", that's them, I see that. Looks like you're coming from different places which are all normal and have good "points". Not that much different really, depends on where you draw the line. At the extreme you could put video gaming, facebook, youtube, blogging, and anything slightly like that into the category of "amusements" unless it's entirely very serious with no amusement component at all. It's another impossible line to accurately draw and probably a moving target at all times, but is it a big percentage? And are "serious" people getting their computing dollar's worth if so much is being diverted to amusement? Or is it the other way around? Where those craving more of the amusement wondered why it took so long for the hardware & software to finally become widely capable of playing multiple video ads at once. While the real tech-types were doing nothing amusing at all, just trying to get their share of more computations out of computers whether it is entertaining or not. What a way to shortchange those who thought they were due for greater amusement ;) Some of them where the sky's the limit on how big a screen they will spend on, to amuse more boldly than the neighbors :/