[digitalboss]

Another obscene stat - We've Spent 5.93M Years Playing WoW... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiE2czrG0MI

Jane McGonigal, author of Reality Is Broken, points to the 3 billion hours the world invests every week in online gaming as a clear indicator that many people are not being sufficiently challenged in their day-to-day lives. "5.93 million years is how long people have spent tackling unnecessary obstacles in World of Warcraft," says McGonigal. "We've spent as long playing World of Warcraft as we have evolving as a human species."

[eurleif]

>"We've spent as long playing World of Warcraft as we have evolving as a human species."

That's obviously a meaningless and unfair comparison (world time vs. cumulative individual time). Here's a better one: how much cumulative time has been spent watching and playing baseball? If it's more than 5.93M years, is baseball evidence for the same thing? Is any form of recreation evidence that reality is broken?