Current Events > Why do YOU spend more time playing video games than reading books?

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Let's see what people say.

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Because it's the superior way.
Books I can only read.
Video-games I can play, read and listen.
3 to 1.

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Visual media is more interesting tbh

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It's about actively interacting with the world before you versus passively going though it. Same reason I prefer gaming over movie watching. Gaming is also a quicker and easier form of entertainment where it can take a bit to get lost in a good book.

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Games are interactive books.

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which category would visual novels fall under

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My attention span is too fucked even for most video games, let alone books.

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Because if I followed my dreams I'd be a diplomat

Unless reading CE counts

Oh, books, see line 1

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re...re...what? boo... books? what are these things

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SrRd_RacinG posted...

Games are interactive books.

Books were first, which automatically makes them smarter some how.

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Dont really.

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Lost_All_Senses posted...

Books were first, which automatically makes them smarter some how.

lol, people don't learn from Lord of the Rings... unless they actually do and I am gravely mistaken about something

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Video games as a media incorporate reading. Books do not incorporate interactivity. Well, aside from choose-your-own-adventure books I guess

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Lost_All_Senses posted...

Books were first, which automatically makes them smarter some how.

I remember the argument being that books stimulate your imagination, but video games don't. I disagree, but what are you gonna do?

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I used to read a lot actually. There's no real reason why I stopped. I didn't always play video games. There's no real reason why I decided to do so. The two have no real connection to each other. It's not that I choose to spend more time on video games. It's that I choose not to spend time on books now. Even if I stopped playing video games, I would not change that decision as a result.

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Some of the games I play are basically books. Have y'all played Sunless Sea/Skies? Everything short of basic combat involves a few pages of text.

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Giblet_Enjoyer posted...

Video games as a media incorporate reading. Books do not incorporate interactivity. Well, aside from choose-your-own-adventure books I guess

Actually... reading Normal People made me realize that Voice is pretty interactive

But Plato taught me that all me do is remember shit that we used to know

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I enjoy playing more than reading.

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NoxObscuras posted...

I remember the argument being that books stimulate your imagination, but video games don't. I disagree, but what are you gonna do?

Does having an imagination make you smart tho. Did they create vaccines by imagining it >_>. Pretty sure those people had to avoid fairytale land and actually deal with real life, along with everyone else making an actual difference. This is obviously assuming by reading we don't mean books written to actually teach you a life skill. Cause at that point, why would games even be a relevant comparison in any way.

Id say to win at entertainment, you like what you like and don't be pretentious about it. That way others enjoy sharing with you and you make a network of people that might actually help you out with something important eventually lol. Or just go live in a log cabin alone with books feeling too smart for everyone else :3.

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Lost_All_Senses posted...

This is obviously assuming by reading we don't mean books written to actually teach you a life skill.

I see you were only pretending to be

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I don't know how to read

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I dont like reading books not enough passive enough for me, i prefer a movie over a book

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Turbam posted...

I don't know how to read

Do you wish you did or did you turn it into a vine

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MedeaLysistrata posted...

Do you wish you did or did you turn it into a vine

I can't read that

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Btw. My mom tells me I learned to read so I could understand games >_>. I dunno how true that is. But it's funny how well it goes with this topic.

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GregShmedley posted...

Huh. I actually don't. It's about 50/50, with reading taking the slight edge.

yeah I read a lot so this

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Lost_All_Senses posted...

Does having an imagination make you smart tho.

Kiiinda. Like, you have to know your shit already, but you need imagination to innovate.

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im bad at reading my eyes skip across the page a lot

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Its actually the other way around for me. Always loved books. I can thank rl stine for that. Real books not ebooks.

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I don't really read anymore, never really enjoyed it. Play games like 10+ hours a week though.

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I probably spend slightly more time reading than playing games.

Bad eyes
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I spend far more time reading books, and almost no time playing games.

Granted, all my reading is children's books to my son

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SrRd_RacinG posted...

Games are interactive books.

This.

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Guide posted...

Kiiinda. Like, you have to know your shit already, but you need imagination to innovate.

True. I think oldschool RPGs definitely take a lot of imagination too tho. The only real difference is you basically have a large still frame of each setting and the idea of a person. We're not all imagining the same exact people when we play FF4. Especially not when playing 1 lol. I dunno. How do you even compare imaginations? Tell people to draw something much bigger by only giving them very vague details or something. Cause even my own imagination confuses me. I could never tell if it was good or bad. Self esteem and what not plays heavy into your evaluation of your own imagination.

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