What an awful article. It's like they spent 5 pages just waiting for an opportunity to called Trump supporters "Trumpists" and label people they dislike. Sad they are so bitter and angry, totally destroys any rational point they may have been trying to make.
Why Ever Stop Playing Video Games
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#102I've always leaned towards strategy games the most. Some of the best ones are nearly as educational as entertainment. When I was in college, I honestly think that the hours I poured into Europa Universalis and Victoria and Crusader Kings were as effective for learning history as a great deal of the readings I was assigned for class.
If nothing more, you learn a lot about geography...
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#103What an awful article. It's like they spent 5 pages just waiting for an opportunity to called Trump supporters "Trumpists" and label people they dislike. Sad they are so bitter and angry, totally destroys any rational point they may have been trying to make.
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#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
There's also probably going to be a huge market in making games that older people can play when this generation hits retirement age.
The aging of the gaming populace is I think a large part of why online CCGs (like Hearthstone, Shadowverse, Eternal) have been getting so popular - while there are obviously a lot of kids who play, many of the players are older. As I've gotten older I've lost the wherewithal to focus on mechanically difficult games like SC2.
Starcraft in particular always felt like work to me; the insane level of management required to simultaneously macro/micro...
I never enjoyed it.
Currently enjoying the apocalyptic wasteland / occasionally broken mess that is H1Z1: King of the Kill
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#105I've found learning and creating to be more fulfilling activities than videogames. That's not to advocate against gaming, or to generalize all games, but I've thought about how much time I spent playing games in the past and if I was happy with what I gained from it: I largely was not. I felt as if I was lacking in skills that I wished I had, and believe I could have learned in that time. I'm happier with myself afte…
I can relate to you. Ten years ago (with 20 yo) i was playing WOW and skipping college. Before that, i was playing competitive Counter Strike and doing bad on high school. Today i look back and think: if i studied and worked more, i would be much far by now. Probably rich. I´m creating an online business where i have to learn and create every day. And yes, i'm very happy doing it and not playing anymore (one year now…
> if i studied and worked more, i would be much far by now. Probably rich.
It's sad that we measure our progress in life in terms of material wealth.
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#106I've found learning and creating to be more fulfilling activities than videogames. That's not to advocate against gaming, or to generalize all games, but I've thought about how much time I spent playing games in the past and if I was happy with what I gained from it: I largely was not. I felt as if I was lacking in skills that I wished I had, and believe I could have learned in that time. I'm happier with myself afte…
Isn't improving at the game an enjoyable end in and of itself? Getting really good at chess has few extrinsic benefits but nobody's embarrassed about it. Why is getting really good at Street Fighter or whatever any different?
I think the difference is chess is more a mental planning game, Street Fighter is muscle memory.
(Disclaimer: I'm a huge gamer.)
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#107I have gone through several periods in my life where I have obsessively played video games, usually followed by me selling the console in disgust with myself and buying a new one ~1.5 years later. What has changed for me lately is building a gaming PC. I have found that this beast new PC, and the things I can do with it, are more interesting to me than most games. My single favorite game that has drawn me in the most…
Could you give some examples as to the benefits of building a killer PC? What interesting things can you do with it, that you previously couldn't? Or is it simply the speed and the ease of use? I'm also thinking of building a desktop PC, but I'm afraid that I won't be needing it. I don't game, I mostly write programs and browse the web. Does it really change things in terms of latency and if it does, does that have a…
For me it is doing big data processing that your average laptop cannot handle well. I have the top Core i7 and I see it as a challenge using it to the fullest. You can run the heaviest clunkiest IDE with ease. Also the flexibility and resiliency of having multiple hard drives (a sacrosanct SSD for the system, and a HDD for messing around). Plus I can run VMs with ease when I get tired of Windows.
Easily extendable RAM, tons of usb ports, the list goes on... Plus it was fun to build and I learned a lot.
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#108I don't really like when computer games are called video games. It kind of lessens their value.
Computers allow implementing a lot of different features in gaming, and not all of them are visual.
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#109Honestly I don't see the thirty something generation ever giving up video games. They've been a part of our entire lives at this point. Once we're old, it will be a case where no generation has ever been without video games in some capacity.
I thought this, but I've moved on to board games. I don't like being tied to the television and it feels like it puts the focus back on my friends instead of the game.
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#110Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sure, but these things aren't mutually exclusive: you can learn and create and play videogames too. Not every waking moment has to be productive. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, etc. As with most things, the key is moderation: finding a balance where you're getting enough relaxation/leisure to keep yourself happy, while not dedicating so much time to it that it completely takes over your life.
Thanks for this. I was hoping someone would cover the obvious: games are fun! Why is that we feel the need to justify fun? Isn't fun (a form of happiness) what we are all striving to be able to have more of?
Sometimes we feel the need to justify fun because it takes away from otherwise productive time we would have had.
In the past year, I've racked up more than 400 hours playing RimWorld, well over two weeks just playing that. I'm sure I could have found something more useful and interesting to do than that.