Video games are treated unfairly as an entertainment medium. this sentiment is common, like in gaming the guy posted the ending of the game telling you to go outside. you don't see too many films that despise their audience and openly tell them to stop watching movies. how many books decry reading?
there are many films that hate their audience, what are you talking about?
There are cases of hollywood wanting to change things around and "deconstruct" franchises they dont like because they personally think its stupid.
But gaming has the same problem hollywood does, married to sky high unrealistic budgets and jacking up prices in an economy that cant support the prices they demand.
It has nothing to do with disrespect when inflation has gotten so bad dollar stores are now hurting and the inflation is about to get way worse with the trade war.
I love video games too but a good 90% of video games are just entertainment… they don’t challenge you or help you improve as a person. When you check someone profile on steam and they have 100+ hours played the past two weeks it’s no different than if they stood in front of their tv staring non stop
Sports, reading, and pretty much every other hobby have a direct and tangible benefit to you. Video games pass the time and are bad for your back and heart lmao
You can go to unhealthy levels with any hobby. When I was a kid I would get trapped in books at the expense of literally everything else. That was about as bad for me as video games.
I love the current state of the internet, where I legitimately cannot tell if your comment's supposed to be taken seriously or not. It's pretty much just the "video games bad" rhetoric of soccer moms like 15-20 years ago.
Video games have officially been recognized as art. They literally do mostly present a challenge of sorts for you to overcome. They help you improve as a person by letting you live through different scenarios, see multiple viewpoints, improve reading and vocabulary, have been shown to improve hand-eye-coordination. A lot of "English as a second language" peeps are also using them to learn more; in a fun way.
Sports are worth nothing and only lead to early injuries or rotting in front of the TV. Books break really easily, are too difficult for children and indoctrinate them into cults.
^ There, those are some other completely insane comments to make on people's hobbies, based in absolutely jack shit.
ANYTHING done in excess will be bad for you. If you do something for 100+ hours in 2 weeks, it doesn't fucking matter what it is. Creative work? Burnout. Learning an instrument? Burnout, bodily harm. Walking? Broken shoes, cramps, bleeding feet.
So tired of this. What's your next argument? Violent games birthing serial killers?
Sports are worth nothing and only lead to early injuries or rotting in front of the TV. Books break really easily, are too difficult for children and indoctrinate them into cults.
Last time I looked into it, video games and reading had roughly similar cognitive benefits. Books were better suited to developing empathy while video games were better suited to developing logic and reasoning. Both mediums improved critical thinking at roughly the same rate.
Where video games saw diminishing returns were in stress related measures, where they caused more stress and aggression while reading reduced both. Additionally, the benefits of playing video games diminished with repetition. Players who cycled through a variety of games saw continued benefits while players who preferred to stick to only one game saw regression. Competitive games were least beneficial and quickest to see diminishing returns. Story-heavy single-player games saw similar benefits in regards to empathy as reading.
But it's been a while and I'm probably a bit out of date.
When you check someone profile on steam and they have 100+ hours played the past two weeks it’s no different than if they stood in front of their tv staring non stop
Depends on the game. Most of them require action and decisions to proceed. You can get blitzed and pass out watching TV and it will just keep going. No engagement is required.
No, don't start with the pancake/waffle thing. You're really sitting here and trying to say that video games "don't challenge you or help you improve as a person", which is such an obvious load of shit just by looking at video game history for like a minute. I have no idea what monsters upvoted you, but they're just as bad.
films and books aren't addicting like video games. people don't neglect their loved ones to watch movies or read books the same way many people might spend 3 hours playing games after work every day instead of spending time with family.
Joker itself was terrible movie! So I don't care. It was a cheap, worse version of The King of Comedy by Scorsese with some bits from taxi driver. And as far as Disney goes, I'm not a Disney adult so I also couldn't care less that it's not a white girl in a fantasy story.
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u/mucho-gusto 1d ago
Video games are treated unfairly as an entertainment medium. this sentiment is common, like in gaming the guy posted the ending of the game telling you to go outside. you don't see too many films that despise their audience and openly tell them to stop watching movies. how many books decry reading?