[usrusr]

And top e-sports drivers will likely have far more hours behind the virtual wheel than the real drivers have in reality and virtual combined.

I used to do online ww2 combat flight sim as a hobby and one day I realized that all those virtual aces had not only the skill advantage of virtual death trial and error, most had also been flying virtual ww2 planes for longer than than the entire duration of the original war (in years, not in stick-hours).

[nikofeyn]

i have always wondered if society could get something useful out of gaming other than entertainment (not saying entertainment isn't good or not useful). gamers seem to have this uncanny ability to focus in on a game for hundreds, if not thousands, of hours, becoming skilled well beyond any of the developers' dreams. even when i was younger i could poor hours into games like that. it's pretty amazing, because i don't really feel like i see as many people doing that for other things.