[beeflet]

No. If you play 1000 hours of a sport, you will at least be stronger, more coordinated, more agile. But the downsides are more about repetitive strain injury and the possibility of screwing up your joints.

Different benefits and downsides.

Of course, a lot of guys are suckered into sports-related gambling these days too.

[immibis]

Video gaming has been shown to train some brain areas too. It's definitely better than 1000 hours of Netflix.

[jalapenos]

That's a very fair take

[user432678]

How about 1000 hours reading/commenting HN?

[bombcar]

dang should enable selling posts and create a secondary market. My posts with the most upvotes can be sold to you and now YOU’RE the famous one!

[ang_cire]

You don't think that you get better at CS the more you play it? Better coordination, better accuracy, etc?

[beeflet]

you don't get better at real life the more you play it

[Pooge]

Playing football for 1000 hours doesn't make you better at any other job (i.e real life).

Don't be so close-minded; playing games is not different from any other activity.

[beeflet]

only because the jobs of our time are fake.

Playing football or lacrosse is more "real" than working a desk job. For thousands of years, humans had to hunt and make tools and relied on their wits and strength to survive. Survival in the modern day is mostly a question of obedience.

I think the purpose of exploring virtual worlds like quake or counter-strike or something should not be to escape the real world but rather to experience a new kind of physicality. The purpose of playing games should be to engage in a deeper world which is more "real" than the tame one we are ordinarily subjected to.

It's why I am not opposed to video games. I opposed to overplaying video games because you ruin them, they become mundane and predictable.

[immibis]

It's not "more real" or "more useful" just because our ancient ancestors had to do it.

[jalapenos]

Saddest thing I've heard today

[asukachikaru]

How about 1000 hours of chess? Or 1000 hours of warhammer? Or D&D?

One may say you make social bonds playing them, but that stands true for video game as well. Speaking for myself, I definitely spent more than 1000 hours on summoner's rift; 15 years later me and my league friends still playing LOL together and chat about all kind of things on a daily basis.

[jalapenos]

Plus you'll have friends who play sports, rather than the kinds of people who spend all night clicking on each other