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Video games are even more pointless than sports.
by leptons 1y ago
Video games are even more pointless than sports.
- amelius 1y agoWhat is your opinion on chess?
- leptons 1y agoPushing pieces around a board is not all that interesting to me, no board game is. YMMV. What does interest me is solving real problems, not manufactured problems.
- musicale 1y agoGames and game-like systems provide many benefits: Simulations are particularly valuable because they allow you to test out strategies for risky activities (wars, investments or business ventures, gambling, etc.) without actual risk. Twitch/reflex games like first-person shooters can improve eye-hand coordination. It's a fun recreational and social activity that can also help surgeons make fewer mistakes. Narrative games are largely a modern form of storytelling, one of humanity's oldest and most important cultural practices. Social games can build connection and teamwork; cozy games can facilitate relaxation; construction games can facilitate creative expression and spatial reasoning.... The reason people like games is because they are fun; but the reason games are fun is that they engage - and often challenge - the abilities that we use to interact with the real world.