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>If you see many, many people getting obsessed with a game, and you think it's boring, it's usually a sign that you're not understanding something. I love ches
by phaus 13y ago
>If you see many, many people getting obsessed with a game, and you think it's boring, it's usually a sign that you're not understanding something.
I love chess, but this type of thinking is flawed. Using this logic, the Twilight movies are misunderstood masterpieces, Justin Beiber is the millennials' Mozart, and WWE style wrestling should be in the Olympics alongside the decathlon.
- RBerenguel 13y agoI think it's the "game" wording that is wrong. I don't know what would suit better, but finding chess, shogi, go, xiangqi as boring would just mean you don't understand something. I was originally a chess player, but found the depth of go much more inspiring, once I "learnt the language."
- jrs99 13y agoyou're right. i should clarify that i mean "a life long pursuit" kind of interest and devotion. That something could offer that many stimulating moments to many people intellectually and aesthetically and socially.
- jrs99 13y agoand "usually" of course. I concede that there may exist a game that many people devote a lot of time to that is not a "good" game in an objective sense, if there can ever be an objective sense of that kind about games.