(November 1, 2013 at 12:44 am)Cinjin Wrote:

(November 1, 2013 at 12:38 am)Sejanus Wrote: Youtubers who upload videos of them gaming, which people then watch, and they make money off it. Quite a lot of money too, the popular ones. There are also competitions with cash prizes for some multiplayer games that require a lot of skill.

That sounds excellent. Kudos to those players. I'm sure history will remember them as a great human talent and a benefit to all mankind.
I do however wonder what the percent of winners is in comparison to the total amount of world wide gamers? .0000001% perhaps?

Just a thought.

Another thought you might wish to consider: sometimes going for simple entertainment, in order to escape the day-to-day stresses or ennui of life, is not necessarily a useless thing.

Also, since when are we required to benefit all mankind? And since that is your standard, can you show specifically what you have done in that regard?

Or, alternatively, you could go easy on the sanctimony.

(August 20, 2014 at 7:29 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:

(November 1, 2013 at 12:44 am)Cinjin Wrote: That sounds excellent. Kudos to those players. I'm sure history will remember them as a great human talent and a benefit to all mankind.
I do however wonder what the percent of winners is in comparison to the total amount of world wide gamers? .0000001% perhaps?

Just a thought.

Another thought you might wish to consider: sometimes going for simple entertainment, in order to escape the day-to-day stresses or ennui of life, is not necessarily a useless thing.

Also, since when are we required to benefit all mankind? And since that is your standard, can you show specifically what you have done in that regard?

Or, alternatively, you could go easy on the sanctimony.

Again, if we're going to be sanctimonious like the fell you're quoting above, then every book, movie, and TV show ever, no matter how entertaining and well made, would be similarly useless.

(August 20, 2014 at 9:46 pm)StealthySkeptic Wrote:

(August 20, 2014 at 7:29 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Another thought you might wish to consider: sometimes going for simple entertainment, in order to escape the day-to-day stresses or ennui of life, is not necessarily a useless thing.

Also, since when are we required to benefit all mankind? And since that is your standard, can you show specifically what you have done in that regard?

Or, alternatively, you could go easy on the sanctimony.

Again, if we're going to be sanctimonious like the fell you're quoting above, then every book, movie, and TV show ever, no matter how entertaining and well made, would be similarly useless.

As a musician myself, it's often seemed to me that the only thing my bands did at gigs was help people get away from the stresses of real life.

That may not help all mankind, but it surely is doing someone a good turn, y'know?

they are both over-rated masters of manipulation

like cocaine

or gambling

Is this thing really going the route of which hobbies are superior to others? If so that's just hilarious..

I just want to spoon but she won't stop playing....


http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/fema...mographic/

"Adult female gamers have unseated boys under the age of 18 as the largest video game-playing demographic in the U.S..."

(August 22, 2014 at 11:04 am)Zack Wrote: "Adult female gamers have unseated boys under the age of 18 as the largest video game-playing demographic in the U.S..."

Technically yes



Hardcore gamers need a new word.

Tangential reply.

My wife plays Candy Crush on Facebook. I nearly shit myself laughing when I first saw this advertisement.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHMzVlmVFBI

I agree. I would hardly call someone that plays Kim Kardashian: whatever that game is and Candy Crush gamers. It's not like you need a shitbucket to be good at those.


Edit: Speaking of shitbuckets... The person I play BF with just got handed a 5 year ban from EA Stiv for pointing out people aren't going to want to buy/play Hardline if they don't do a better job of regional server support. They didn't even lock the thread. It was deleted like it had never existed.