I have played several games in my Steam library for more hours than it takes to become a police officer. - eviltoast
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    11 months ago

    Imagine spending 12k hours on something productive, like learning a language or a new skill etc.

    1000-2000h (depending on language) is enough to become communicative in that language, theoretically you could speak 3 to 10 languages by now if you spent this time learning instead of staring at a mediocre game’s screen.

    Or even get a real PhD. On average it takes 10k hours.

    Entertainment is not 🚫 a thing you want to master. Watching 1000 movies gets you nowhere. Reading 1000 self care and business books will get you higher than binging TV.

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      11 months ago

      Or you could spend 12k hours enjoying your life and not worrying what others consider “productive”

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      11 months ago

      Entertainment is not 🚫 a thing you want to master. Watching 1000 movies gets you nowhere. Reading 1000 self care and business books will get you higher than binging TV.

      Lmao fam really thought they were doing something with this

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      11 months ago

      1000 self care and business books

      Will rot your brain thoroughly. If you had spent that time instead reading 1000 pieces of actually good literature, there’s plenty of stuff you could’ve actually learned, instead of just having people tell you that you can count your golf trips as business expenses, and “stop being depressed it’s all about your growth grindset”, and “please buy the next book in this course it will really tell you how to make a bunch of money” and then it’s just a pyramid scheme.

      You could’ve learned some sort shit like the vimes boot theory, which is pretty good, and is a pretty good example of something you could learn from a totally random book. You could’ve learned all about medieval speech and castle architecture. if you were addicted to hardcore pulp sci-fi, you could’ve learned about xenobiology and a bunch of different math and science that those books tend to use as the basis for their outlandish premises. If you’d read a bunch of classic french literature, you could’ve become a pretty good expert in that very particular field, same with watching 1000 random french movies from like the 50’s or 60’s. If you’d spent 10,000 hours skateboarding, instead, you’d probably be able to do a kickflip, and at that point, the world’s your oyster. You’ve won, you might as well quit now, since you can kickflip. 10,000 hours hacky sacking and you can probably juggle almost anything with your feet, and that’s pretty cool, I would think. 10,000 hours playing modded fallout 4, even though I don’t like that game very much and think it sucks, 10,000 hours doing that, and you might know enough just based on the shit you have to do to be able to play the mods, to be able to do some professional tech work. You might even just know how to make your own mod, at that point, if you’re interested enough in it. I know that 10,000 hours of dwarf fortress will basically have gotten you there.

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          11 months ago

          Bro’s like “oh nah you should go read some books, that’s a better use of your time” and then is also like “that’s too long I can’t read that shit”.

          Trolling used to be impressive, you know?

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      11 months ago

      I speak 7 languages and have an MfA in Design and Technology from Parsons. I also know several programming languages.

      go judge someone else.

      edit: I’m happy, and that’s what matters. I’m sorry you’re not.

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          11 months ago

          you should probably take your own advice rather than getting so twisted up about how random strangers live their lives.

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              11 months ago

              wow, I feel sorry for you that my talking about my gaming habits triggered this level of insecurity in you. I suggest you talk to someone about that.

              I hope you feel better.