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Would you say the same if someone played 1000 hours of a sport?
by mashlol 11mo ago
Would you say the same if someone played 1000 hours of a sport?
- beeflet 11mo agoNo. If you play 1000 hours of a sport, you will at least be stronger, more coordinated, more agile. But the downsides are more about repetitive strain injury and the possibility of screwing up your joints. Different benefits and downsides. Of course, a lot of guys are suckered into sports-related gambling these days too.
- ang_cire 11mo agoYou don't think that you get better at CS the more you play it? Better coordination, better accuracy, etc?
- beeflet 11mo agoyou don't get better at real life the more you play it
- Pooge 11mo agoPlaying football for 1000 hours doesn't make you better at any other job (i.e real life). Don't be so close-minded; playing games is not different from any other activity.
- beeflet 11mo agoonly because the jobs of our time are fake. Playing football or lacrosse is more "real" than working a desk job. For thousands of years, humans had to hunt and make tools and relied on their wits and strength to survive. Survival in the modern day is mostly a question of obedience. I think the purpose of exploring virtual worlds like quake or counter-strike or something should not be to escape the real world but rather to experience a new kind of physicality. The purpose of playing games should be to engage in a deeper world which is more "real" than the tame one we are ordinarily subjected to. It's why I am not opposed to video games. I opposed to overplaying video games because you ruin them, they become mundane and predictable.
- immibis 11mo agoIt's not "more real" or "more useful" just because our ancient ancestors had to do it.
- jalapenos 11mo agoSaddest thing I've heard today
- asukachikaru 11mo agoHow about 1000 hours of chess? Or 1000 hours of warhammer? Or D&D? One may say you make social bonds playing them, but that stands true for video game as well. Speaking for myself, I definitely spent more than 1000 hours on summoner's rift; 15 years later me and my league friends still playing LOL together and chat about all kind of things on a daily basis.
- user432678 11mo agoHow about 1000 hours reading/commenting HN?
- bombcar 11mo agodang should enable selling posts and create a secondary market. My posts with the most upvotes can be sold to you and now YOU’RE the famous one!
- immibis 11mo agoVideo gaming has been shown to train some brain areas too. It's definitely better than 1000 hours of Netflix.
- jalapenos 11mo agoThat's a very fair take
- jalapenos 11mo agoPlus you'll have friends who play sports, rather than the kinds of people who spend all night clicking on each other