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by Pooge 233 days ago
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.

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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.

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