I lean toward "efficient entertainment", but I do sometimes wonder what that chunk of my free time would look like otherwise.
Do what brings you joy? Like being a ππ¦!
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So if someone wants to watch those videos on collecting all the rings in Sonic games, where might a link to said list be? You know asking for a friend.
I donβt know but I know if you raise this topic usually you will get stoned to death by downdoots and comments like βI could be doing meth or killing people but I am a gamer insteadβ
In my opinion it is delusional to not notice that these things are mostly just slop. Sure there are some games that actually enriched your life and changed your perspective but compared to movies they are few and between. Itβs the lowest entertainment for pleb in most cases.
Take something like call of duty what does that game brings into your life? Itβs nothing just digital heroin straight to the brain. On the other hand there are sophisticated games such as disco elysium.
Thereβs nothing bad with slop but if you only consume slop your brain will turn into it. Itβs all common sense
TL;DR :
-There are good games and bad games but both are inferior to movies since videogames are "the lowest entertainment for pleb in most cases"
-Good games entertain you
-Bad games entertain you, buuuuuut they are bad games
Damn, you sound like that one asshole elitist teacher
They probably have a gun collection that would make people pause.
I just like to face reality and not pretend that dopamine escapism is cool. Sorry if that personally hurt you but itβs better to be self aware and still do the thing than delusional that it is the same as more worthwhile forms of time spending.
Dopamine escapism IS cool. It's fucking amazing we can hack our electric meat that hallucinates "reality" and has cool memetic self reproductive patterns.
Pretending we're anything but wet sacks of chemical reactions is weird to me..
I find the best games are challenging ones where I can watch myself improving at them, like training a skill. It's not a transferable skill, of course, but I think the act of building your tenacity and accepting success/failure is healthy and good for the ego.
When I try games that I would consider "slop": fetch quests and walking simulators in between cutscenes, I can feel my brain rotting and I don't enjoy it.
Efficient entertainment, almost certainly. People in past eras had completely useless time-consuming hobbies too, like memorizing chess openings
completely useless time-consuming hobbies too, like memorizing chess openings
...yes, those silly people in the past.
It's not video games keeping me from doing my niche interests. It's my 60 hour a week job consuming all my mental resources. Then I have to go home and do all the other things necessary to keep myself alive. Not much left for getting immersed in cool projects after that.
Guy probably never heard of Tom Scott. Or CGP Grey.
Two of the best, let alone all the cool content you can find on local beetles.
Iβd like to see the author prove that beetle counting is more productive than creating game tutorials. People make all kinds of baseless assumptions that are biased by their personal values.
Iβd like to see the author prove that beetle counting is more productive than creating game tutorials. People make all kinds of baseless assumptions that are biased by their personal values.
I hear if you read the book it will give you +1 on farming or +1 on survival (depending on your class), so...
Since we live under the hell that is capitalism, I'd argue the game tutorials are better!
- Revenue generation via ad views
- Will likely encourage additional sold copies from people that stumble on the series
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Β - A book about beetles in some niche village somewhere no one will ever go.
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Fuck your beetles.
(this is a joke, beetles are cool)
Yeah the people who were cataloging all the species of beetles in Germany were upper class types. Most people in 1820 were tilling fields or working in desperately terrible factories.
The 1800s gave us the likes of Michael Faraday the 2000s gave us the likes of Hank Green.
Came here to effectively say this. If we were people in 1820's Germany, 99% of us wouldn't have nearly enough spare time to even think about cataloging those beetles.
Don't forget the insane rates of drinking and alcoholism in the 19th century.
That reminds me I need to swing by the liquor store I'm out of bourbon.
Hank Green is awesome.
I think this way about sports savants, which makes me think that maybe it's a bad take and that I should let sports nerds have their fun, without everyone having to worry about creating communal value in the world (explicitly, I am speaking here, as much as possible, in an acapitalist context).
I thought they were going to say now there's a 26 part video on beetles. The beetle man never went anywhere. He's also on YouTube lol
I can't remember the name of the channel, but I've followed a guy rehabilitating a grocery lobster, one that took care otters, another with sea monkeys, and people just cleaning carpets. People with niche interests didn't go anywhere. If anything, they're more accessible because of the internet.
Leon the lobster! The channel just uploaded a new video a week ago. Channel name is Brady Brentwood, if you want the update. I haven't watched it myself yet.
Thank you!
Oh man, those videos of people cleaning rugs are fantastic.
Right? That and power washing videos. Just ππΎ
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