So some people have an unhealthy relationship with their hobbies and that means... what, exactly? I seem to have lost track of the point you're trying to make. I was just saying that "mostly a waste of time" is what hobbies are supposed to be.
He wants the world to go back to the 70-80s where kids went outside... and did drugs, smoked, and generally caused chaos regularly with their friends behind the school or at a 7-11, instead of going home and playing league or some other game with their friends online.
Modern video games are frequently engineered to be addictive, and even when they aren't they demonstrably have a lot of addictive potential. Somebody who gets addicted to skateboarding will get active, get fit, and maybe break a bone. A few weeks later the bone will heal but the active habits will remain. Somebody who gets addicted to video games will stay inside, get accustomed to sitting on their ass, and quite likely get fat. Statistically, that kind of damage tends to stick around for a person's whole life.
Saying "its a hobby like any hobby" glosses over the obvious fact that not all hobbies are made equal.
I didn't write that. I wrote it's "only a waste of time as much as any hobby" because the person I replied to wrote that they don't want to recommend video games as a hobby to children due in part to it being a waste of time. It's moot that the hobby is a waste of time because the point of it is to be a waste of time. They might not want to recommend games as a hobby to children for similar reasons as to what you detailed but that's different from not wanting to recommend the hobby because it's a waste of time.
So some people have an unhealthy relationship with their hobbies and that means... what, exactly? I seem to have lost track of the point you're trying to make. I was just saying that "mostly a waste of time" is what hobbies are supposed to be.
He wants the world to go back to the 70-80s where kids went outside... and did drugs, smoked, and generally caused chaos regularly with their friends behind the school or at a 7-11, instead of going home and playing league or some other game with their friends online.
Modern video games are frequently engineered to be addictive, and even when they aren't they demonstrably have a lot of addictive potential. Somebody who gets addicted to skateboarding will get active, get fit, and maybe break a bone. A few weeks later the bone will heal but the active habits will remain. Somebody who gets addicted to video games will stay inside, get accustomed to sitting on their ass, and quite likely get fat. Statistically, that kind of damage tends to stick around for a person's whole life.
Saying "its a hobby like any hobby" glosses over the obvious fact that not all hobbies are made equal.
> Saying "its a hobby like any hobby"
I didn't write that. I wrote it's "only a waste of time as much as any hobby" because the person I replied to wrote that they don't want to recommend video games as a hobby to children due in part to it being a waste of time. It's moot that the hobby is a waste of time because the point of it is to be a waste of time. They might not want to recommend games as a hobby to children for similar reasons as to what you detailed but that's different from not wanting to recommend the hobby because it's a waste of time.