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| notanoob74 09/18/17 12:48:33 PM #80 | Haha, what did I expect from the same board that unanimously agrees Bruce Lee would beat Mike Tyson in a fight? --- FEAR ME THESEUS, FOR I AM THE MIGHTY MINOTAUR! Superman vs Goku: http://i.imgur.com/6jWuZ84.jpg |
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| notanoob74 09/17/17 8:47:31 PM #49 | mooreandrew58 posted... notanoob74 posted...Judgmenl posted...notanoob74 posted..."For most film critics, film games represent a loss of those precious hours we have available to make ourselves more cultured, civilized and empathetic" - Roger Ebert, the world's most renowned film critic. Films and novels will heighten your vocabulary, give you knowledge of stories that can be discussed and enhance your own creativity thus making you better at storytelling in day to day conversation, and they will make you more empathetic to viewpoints you otherwise never thought of, whereas a thousand hours in DotA will likely make you bitter and unsociable with nothing to show for those hours. --- FEAR ME THESEUS, FOR I AM THE MIGHTY MINOTAUR! Superman vs Goku: http://i.imgur.com/6jWuZ84.jpg |
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| notanoob74 09/17/17 6:45:04 PM #42 | Judgmenl posted... notanoob74 posted..."For most film critics, film games represent a loss of those precious hours we have available to make ourselves more cultured, civilized and empathetic" - Roger Ebert, the world's most renowned film critic. Who has more to talk about, someone who has played 4000 hours of DotA or someone who has watched 2000 films? I'm sure showing a girl your invoker stats will get her soaking wet. --- FEAR ME THESEUS, FOR I AM THE MIGHTY MINOTAUR! Superman vs Goku: http://i.imgur.com/6jWuZ84.jpg |
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| notanoob74 09/17/17 5:06:41 PM #34 | MasterGakke posted...
alright so would you agree that there is a problem with spending thousands of hours in those types of games? if I can get one person to agree with that, I will feel that I've succeeded with this thread. --- FEAR ME THESEUS, FOR I AM THE MIGHTY MINOTAUR! Superman vs Goku: http://i.imgur.com/6jWuZ84.jpg |
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| notanoob74 09/17/17 4:18:16 PM #24 | Broken_Zeus posted... notanoob74 posted...Broken_Zeus posted...SkynyrdRocker posted...If you're having fun playing those games, you haven't wasted your time ok so say you're right that in many games you gain culture. What about people who spend thousands of hours in League, DotA, CS:GO, and similar games? After they learn all of the characters, all of the moves, what else is there to gain? --- FEAR ME THESEUS, FOR I AM THE MIGHTY MINOTAUR! Superman vs Goku: http://i.imgur.com/6jWuZ84.jpg |
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| notanoob74 09/17/17 3:55:52 PM #17 | SkynyrdRocker posted... If you're having fun playing those games, you haven't wasted your time So if you spend every single hour of your life "having fun" while only being a drain on society, you aren't wasting your time. By that logic, a drug addict who lives an entirely hedonistic life is also not wasting his time. It's a matter of opinion I guess. Broken_Zeus posted... SkynyrdRocker posted...If you're having fun playing those games, you haven't wasted your time You're gaining culture vs gaining nothing. Culture is critical in society because it's the only thing that separates us humans from an alien society where they are all just mindless drones focused only on research and production. --- FEAR ME THESEUS, FOR I AM THE MIGHTY MINOTAUR! Superman vs Goku: http://i.imgur.com/6jWuZ84.jpg |
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| notanoob74 09/17/17 3:40:16 PM #1 | "For most gamers, video games represent a loss of those precious hours we have available to make ourselves more cultured, civilized and empathetic" - Roger Ebert, the world's most renowned film critic. I can't help but to agree. Especially for games that you can sink thousands of hours into with no actual ending such DotA, League(I have over 4000 hours in this game and was basically addicted to from 2010-2015), WoW, etc. You have basically sunk thousands of hours into a worthless skill and have looked at the same map, the same characters, the same repetitive task to the point where you've been basically working a job for free without producing anything for society. And what do you gain from it? If I had spent those hours instead watching 2000 films or 500 books, I would have become more cultured and way more interesting and nuanced of a person to talk to. Go ahead, rationalize away fellas. --- FEAR ME THESEUS, FOR I AM THE MIGHTY MINOTAUR! Superman vs Goku: http://i.imgur.com/6jWuZ84.jpg |
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