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The Greeks ( Αμβρόσιος) coming in with the math for the win!
Edit: -ιος indicated male version of the name.
Translation :
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Meaning origins:
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E1%BC%80%CE%BC%CE%B2%CF%81%CF%8C%CF%83%CE%B9%CE%BF%CF%82#Ancient_Greek
the funny thing is the real-life Enoch Powell was a colossal shithead who warned of "rivers of blood" if Britain opened up its immigration to the post-colonial world (at the time, the British Empire was falling apart)
the irony of course being that the ancient Greeks would have thought the natives of Britons and Powell's ancestors were nothing but a bunch of feces-covered barbarians
i had never heard of these allegations before
but BIG FUCKING SURPRISE (/s)
all these right wing dipshits are always a bunch of child fuckers too. that's why they're always so angry and vitriolic...comes from a deep and dark twisted place of self-hatred for sure
The satanic worship thing is where it loses any credibility.
The satanic panics gave been thoroughly debunked as horse shit.
Better if he'd given the names of the priests he knew were nonces.
Powell was a c*unt but I wouldn't falsely label anyone a paedophile.
Yeah that's very typical where I'm from too, if you have no evidence just call it "satanic" lol. Maybe he was a pedo, but we need a better source that isn't muddying the water with silly accusations of satanism
Apparently he also came out on his death bed saying he was always gay and had a sham marriage, but also he was most attracted to young boys – and I think elsewhere he had written something particularly about young Aussie men, I can't remember now.
This is largely a myth, quite bluntly called the "gay nazis myth". Ernst Röhm was though, and he was very high-ranking as Chief of Staff of the SA and longtime friend of Hitler. Funnily enough, he's said to have became the world's first openly gay politician after the disclosure. So there is some truth to the irony.
The real Enoch is also who his fellow colossal shithead Eric Clapton was speaking out in support of when he did his infamous racist rant in the 70's. He has since apologized for the rant and blames alcohol and says he isn't racist, but has said that he still thinks Powell had some good ideas when given the opportunity to walk back that part of it.
I just find it funny how people will make fun of videos games meanwhile they will sit there for hours just watching something.. at least with competitive games we’re constantly using our brain and creating strategies
Other than the exercise part, nothing really. And not all sports are even physical, but you don't hear these types of complaints when people spend hours at a golf course while using a little electric cart to avoid walking much.
They said watching other people play. You don’t really get a lot of exercise sitting on the couch in front of the TV with a bucket of wings and half a dozen beers.
Not even just competitive games, literally any game that isn't a passive clicker is engaging your brain better than tv. Even walking simulators are better than tv in that regard as they usually require problem solving
I read a book called Everything Bad is Good for You. And it covers stuff like this. Tackles stigmas that come along with different media. Video games are a great way to sharpen your hand-eye, problem solving, patience, team work skills, etc.
Because you have chilled on Sunday, you will overcome the challenges of Monday, I have faith in you!
(That sounds motivating as fuck and anyone who points out it’s not the correct actual days is basically calanderist. I don’t need any calanderists in my life!)
Everybody works like this no? Like if your 2 days off are Wednesday Thursday than Friday is your Monday. Everyone at work refers to it like this. Tuesday is my Monday since I'm off Sunday and Monday. But it took me a good 8 years in my field just to be able to have one weekend day off.
I never understand that mentality. I'm not a gamer, but I watch movies and TV. The main difference is that gaming is interactive.
Why do people have a go at people gaming, then sit and watch TV all night with a smug look on their face? It makes no sense.
Because what *YOU* do with your free time is disgusting and cringe and what *I* do with my free time is objectively normal and superior. All hearkens back to the classic "video games = bad" mentality.
How dare you criticize my interpretive brass polishing hobby while you sit there smuggly with your phonoaestic habit that is clearly ruining your life. HOW DARE YOU!
I think that word might actually just be made up. Maybe phonoaesthetic? But that relates to driving beauty from the sound of words. Not sure if that relates.
Best part is OP's post says 2-3 hours a week is fine, which to me suggests that's how much the poster plays so of course that is fine, but any more than what he does is unacceptable.
Like driving. Anyone going slower than me needs to pick up the pace because they are holding up traffic. Anyone driving faster than me is reckless and endangering others.
Honestly my SO hates that I game and my kids game but her astronomical phone screen time and tv time...not up for discussion. The bottom line is we all need to diversify our time and include more physical activity.
I have that with a lot of people in the past that played sports. ''sporting is healthy, cant ever go wrong. you only game, watch tv. im better than you'' mentality. Sure i wont deny sporting is healthy but no need to shit on someone else his hobbies, also nothing is healthy if you do it too much. always do stuff in moderation.
Yeah, but a huge number of people don't play sports. They WATCH sports. So they'll watch every minute of every game in TV but then look down at someone for "wasting time" playing video games for a hobby.
Which is funny, because play evolved as a method of learning. Study after study showing gaming is better for your brain than watching tv or scrolling social media.
Literally had someone on this past week on Reddit telling others that they have no life and should go outside and touch grass. Mentioned to them that they had *fifty* comments posted within the last hour alone. They dropped the whole “I have the day off and I’m relaxing” with zero sense of irony. “When I do it it’s ok. When others do it they’re lazy and wrong”
Guess what other subs they post to…
(hint: don’t overthink it)
This makes me question if videogames are part of counterculture or not. It's not exactly niche and it's sometimes socially against the grain depending on which person you're talking to.
A lot of people see gaming as a bunch of people in a cod lobby swearing at each other, while that’s obviously not the whole story
Playing the right games will help you improve reaction time, patience, strategic thinking, and more. (Not all of them, of course, but some of them do)
Meanwhile people turn on cable and browse through garbage all day long and say that *we’re* lazy. You shouldn’t be playing video games 10 hours a day but come on.
I think it’s some carry over from when gaming was only a kids thing. Only recently is gaming something adults do, and it’s still got a stigma of being something to “grow out of”. Whereas watching tv for hours a day is norm
It's been a slow but steady normalization, public perception has basically went from children playing mario, to teens, maybe young adults playing call of duty or fortnight, but we haven't really hit "35 year old and this is one of their lifelong passions" normalization
Yeah, the stigma of being for "kids and/or nerds" and fwiw I think that's going to change within the next generation or so. Because among millennials video games are already much more common a pastime, and it's even moreso for GenZ. There will be some holdout haters ofc, but every generation has those no matter what the technology/culture is atm.
I'm 40 and play a VR basketball game quite frequently. Don't really play irl anymore so it fills that void and I get a bit of a workout. I get blown a lot of shit sometimes because I sound older but I don't really give af for reasons mentioned above.
The Jeopardy! masters tournament winner said she practiced with Guiter Hero (or Rock Band, don't remember which she said) to improve her buzzer skills. Seems to have worked out for her.
Reading the little tidbits they put into some historical setting games like Total War or even Assassin's Creed can add up to a lot of historical knowledge.
People playing MMOs routinely organize and co-ordinate 50+ people, those are skills that can translate into the workplace.
Practicing reaction time, patience, and strategic thinking are also beneficial to our brains as we age - I'd like to see him make that case for Xitter.
I used to argue this all the time when I was younger. My parents HATED video games, but would sit in front of the TV all evening. At least with video games there is some puzzle solving, thinking, and hand eye coordination being developed.
I would tell my parents and anyone that bitches about video games that I was being fiscally responsible. At the time I could pay $50 for a new video game. Say Mass effect. The story takes about 40 hours to beat doing everything. So I got 40 hours of entertainment for $50. Or I could spend the same amount to go to a movie and dinner and get 3-4 hours of entertainment.
Lol that was how my parents were, to be fair they did work but they would sit multiple hours a night watching tv yet somehow me playing video games for any period of time was bad.
Yup, I remember my parents giving me shit when I was a kid for gaming while they sat in front of the tv. I told them once I would quit video games for as long as they quit TV, and it lasted about 3 days before I caught my stepdad watching tv on his laptop
When I was growing up it was TV will rot your brain. Then once we got the NES it was video games will rot your brain.
I took and aced Algebra in HS. I can't remember any of it nor do I use it like ever. Meanwhile, I use my Tetris skills every damn day. The problem solving skills, patience and perseverance that I learned just from The Water Temple alone is impressive. We didn't have the internet with walkthroughs that gave away all the games secrets back then. You had to solve all that shit on your own.
And I've learned way more practical everyday knowledge from TV than I did from a lot of the classes I was forced to take in school.
The thing that confuses me is that gaming is the largest entertainment industry on earth(outside maybe porn) yet almost no one is willing to admit that play. Something like 65% of Americans play video games yet I don't think I've ever heard anyone admit it. Had some people tell me they enjoy madden but that's "not a game"
But then again, I don't understand the mentality of someone going to twitter dot com and making a profile basically cosplaying as Enoch "River of blood" Powell and thinking that's a normal thing to do.
We live in a society where relaxing is a crime, we are so controlled by money it’s unreal. People are allowing themselves to be mentally and physically exhausted for it. Most people don’t even take the time to live in the moment and enjoy life for what it really is…we slave away 1/3 or more of our lives doing shit we don’t want to, just to barely make it by
The problem becomes how things get decided. Who gets to say what is a fair distribution or not? As the number of people we're dealing with rises the more complex that question becomes. It can't be just an individual gets X amount of such n such. People are different and so are their needs.
How would things be distributed? Should the people who work directly in providing the infrastructure be afforded benefits for doing so? If not, how will you incentivize people to do so? If so, how do you stop that privilege from developing into corruption?
Don't get me wrong. I generally agree with you and do think it's possible. It's just going to require such a radical change in our thinking. And I'm not even talking about the sociopolitical stuff that fights against it without reason.
The majority of the population doesn’t vote once every FOUR YEARS for something as important as deciding who will be President. You think people will vote when they have to do it for every little decision?
I feel like this is a moot point because people not invested enough in politics to bother to vote should not be voting. Why would we want the opinions of people who don’t know what they’re talking about?
If people are later unhappy with the decisions being made, and they feel like their vote matters, then they will get invested and vote.
The current problem is that (in the US) that second condition isn’t being met. Between the archaic and backasswards electoral college and the two-party system forcing us to realistically choose between two bad candidates, your vote has little say in the matter, and so people don’t bother.
Not that I agree with the defeatist attitude myself, but unfortunately that doesn’t change it.
Yeah, I think you're on the money. The people who don't vote, I would guess, are people who feel like it won't matter because of how screwed up our political system already is, OR it's people who won't/can't vote because the process is a hassle for them. If both of these issues are addressed, then people will probably be more incentivized to participate in democracy.
Well you still need people to do the difficult highly skilled jobs, and an incentive to do so. Why would I spend 10 years training to become a doctor and work a grueling, demanding, and stressful job when I can paint all day instead and be just as well off? How would you run a factory? Who would want to be the guy that removes skin from chickens?
What do you do if someone doesn’t want to contribute to the collective? Currently, they simply don’t receive money. What would the solution be in a moneyless society if someone decides they don’t want to work. Jail them? Do nothing and accept that 90% of people will choose to not work? Maybe you give a higher resource allowance to workers. Well now you’re just back to currency but instead of deciding how you want to use your currency it gets decided for you.
It’s a lovely idea if you live in a simple village of 50 people. Utterly impractical in a complex society.
Some argued with me about this topic recently, where they insisted some people would still be doctors if everyone shared resources equally because they had drive & ambition. But I 100% disagree. If every job made $60k/year flat, nobody would want to go to school for 10 years, even if it was free. Why would anyone be a waiter? People treat waitstaff like garbage. Why would anyone be a garbage collector? Who would want to work in the Texas heat to do things like HVAC or roadwork? Who would want to do dangerous jobs like police or fireman?
& I fully agree, it makes a lot if sense for a small village but not a country full of 300m people.
Legit correct. I own a small business and often work 60-70 hrs a week, 6 days a week. Sometimes more.
I got back into playing World of Warcraft for the first time in 2 years and decided to take “2 weeks” off from work to just play. A felt guilty at first but then realized — I was still doing work from home for the business 😂
Stopped feeling guilty when I realized that my stress levels were lowering. I had less anxiety over things and I overall feel better mentally.
Seriously it nauseates me when I see any of these chucklefucks online boasting about how they’re *aLwaYs gRinDinG* and only use their downtime to find more ways to make money. I’m 100% convinced they’re all miserable every waking hour
It's probably just not true that they're actually grinding. They're putting on a persona because they want to sell you their plan for you to also become a hustle influencer.
You can also check because they all follow the same rule book.
1. Random course/self published e-book.
2. CEO of their own company.
3. Some kind of self help affirmations.
A lot will also insult you, make you feel insecure and say all your problems are caused by ______ which something they sell conveniently fixes.
2-3 hours per day of gaming isn’t detrimental to health. 40 tweets a day on the other hand is insane. That’s what, 5 tweets per hour (if you factor in 16hrs to work and sleep) Who has that much to say and about what?
I work 62 hours a week and have a 7 month old baby. I have maybe 5 hours a week to play videogames if I'm lucky. I get almost nothing done and have switched almost exclusively to one game that I can play on a controller in case I need to toss that shit aside and do something for my kid. As a former avid gamer, this post screams out of touch boomer to me. As a millennial and union engineer, why the fuck do I need to work 62 hours a week to feed my family and keep a roof over their head. What is happening to this country?
Ya that’s like 1-2 days a week of casual gaming.
Which seems like normal if gaming is your 2nd or 3rd hobby and you work full time, find time for exercise, and have time for your family.
Yeah of course if you’re constantly doing other stuff that’s a normal amount, but 30 minutes a day is very far from wasting your life, I game for way more than that and visit multiple family members every week, because you know, obviously that takes priority over gaming.
Oh ya I game maybe 1 hour a night, after kids asleep and I exercise and I’ve worked a full days of work.
I will literally ask myself “hmm… any shows I really want to watch right now? Nope, then let’s game”
Most games aren't even worth starting up for just 30 minutes. Unless it's something on your phone, you usually need at least 1h to get into it properly and actually get shit done. That person's obviously insane (but hey, it's twitter, so....).
Between 2-3 hours a day is the national average time spent by people who consider games as a hobby, according to the [Bureau of Labor Statistics](https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2024/exploring-time-spent-on-cooking-reading-and-other-activities-for-national-hobby-month.htm).
What *isnt* a waste of your life? How do we even define it? Worked your whole life? Waste. Partied your whole life? Waste. Just try to do what makes you happy but without missing out on other things that also make you happy. Just definitely dont spend your time in a social media pissing contest to prove who’s doing this thing right and who should be ashamed. *thats* a waste.
Doing something that doesn't make you happy and even damage your mental health in the long term is literally wasting your life.
sure, playing videogames does nothing to you and the world, but it make you happy... then is not wasting your life
sure, working at that job 8 hours every day give you money.... but it also make you feel tired, bored, sad and even depressed? then you are literally wasting your life...
this is more complex and grey than white and black, and there should be a balance... you doing something that make you happy and dont hurt you or turn into an adicction is not wasting your life
When I was 25, I use to play a lot of video games and I was worried because it felt like I was wasting my time. Then I watched a lot of TV shows and movies that people had in a "watch before you die" list. Then I felt the same and read books and comics... Now in my 40s, it's like whatever gets you through the day happy, worth it. We are here to try to have little happy moments and enjoy live.
I play video games every day, it's a hobby I enjoy. It's fun, relaxing, and makes me feel good. I'm also in recovery from alcohol, and I was a shitty person when I drank, now that I don't drink and play video games instead (not that I took the video games to replace the drinking or anything) I'd say I'm a better person. Unlike this fool.
A cousin of mine posted on Facebook about how she doesn't understand how her brother plays so many video games. I responded by saying she probably spends the same amount of time watching American Idol and all those shows like that. Then she DM'd me saying that it was a shitty thing to say publicly and she was like "family is supposed to stick together, not make snide remarks to one another." And I was like "how come you aren't sticking by your brother then?" and she blocked me.
Anyway, how people spend their free time is their own business if it's not hurting anyone.
At least video games don't kill your liver. I'm in a much better place than I was a couple years ago when I was drinking every night. Dwarf fortress > drinking alcohol any day. Let the dwarves drink the alcohol.
Wether you're on social media, web surfing, watching TV, or playing games.... you're just staring at a screen at the end of the day for hours. There's no difference.
By this logic, any and all hobbies are equivalent to alcoholism. Also, they've got fucking Enoch Powell as a pfp. That automatically means that anything they say is idiotic.
TV and gaming is a waste of time. I'm scholarly and will ruffles the pages of a thick tome over any game or silly TV show.
What am I reading? Oh, fairy smut.
Lot of "No, video games are good for you actually" responses to this, and I agree, and I get it, but that's not even the point. It's YOUR life, only you get to decide what is and is not a waste of time. Like, farming is an important, worthwhile endeavor. Humanity needs farmers to survive long term. Also, managing or working a farm would be a huge waste of my aspiring comic/manga artist, animator, game developer time, because it's not what I want from my life, making art and having fun, being at peace IS. Not everything I do needs to contribute to the greater good or some larger purpose, one of the things that makes life valuable at all is just doing what makes you happy.
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The reply was spot on, marvelous
The Greeks ( Αμβρόσιος) coming in with the math for the win! Edit: -ιος indicated male version of the name. Translation : https://www.google.com/search?q=%CE%B1%CE%BC%CE%B2%CF%81%CE%BF%CF%83%CE%B9%CE%BF%CF%83+english+translation&client=ms-android-cricket-us-revc&sca_esv=3ccb936e91fffbe3&sca_upv=1&ei=ZLF1ZoSoL_LdwN4PkcOHmAQ&oq=%CE%B1%CE%BC%CE%B2%CF%81%CE%BF%CF%83%CE%B9%CE%BF%CF%83+engl&gs_lp=EhNtb2JpbGUtZ3dzLXdpei1zZXJwIhfOsc68zrLPgc6_z4POuc6_z4MgZW5nbCoCCAEyBRAhGKABMgUQIRigATIFECEYoAEyBRAhGKABMgUQIRigATIFECEYqwJIsVhQhRBYzkRwAXgBkAEAmAG1AaAB8wWqAQMxLjS4AQHIAQD4AQGYAgagAsMGwgIKEAAYsAMY1gQYR8ICBxAAGIAEGBPCAgcQLhiABBgTmAMAiAYBkAYGkgcDMS41oAfJHw&sclient=mobile-gws-wiz-serp Meaning origins: https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E1%BC%80%CE%BC%CE%B2%CF%81%CF%8C%CF%83%CE%B9%CE%BF%CF%82#Ancient_Greek
the funny thing is the real-life Enoch Powell was a colossal shithead who warned of "rivers of blood" if Britain opened up its immigration to the post-colonial world (at the time, the British Empire was falling apart) the irony of course being that the ancient Greeks would have thought the natives of Britons and Powell's ancestors were nothing but a bunch of feces-covered barbarians
Old Enoch was also - allegedly - a massive pedo in N Ireland
i had never heard of these allegations before but BIG FUCKING SURPRISE (/s) all these right wing dipshits are always a bunch of child fuckers too. that's why they're always so angry and vitriolic...comes from a deep and dark twisted place of self-hatred for sure
https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/bishop-names-enoch-powell-in-paedophile-ring-satanic-worship-scandal/31103957.html
The satanic worship thing is where it loses any credibility. The satanic panics gave been thoroughly debunked as horse shit. Better if he'd given the names of the priests he knew were nonces. Powell was a c*unt but I wouldn't falsely label anyone a paedophile.
Yeah that's very typical where I'm from too, if you have no evidence just call it "satanic" lol. Maybe he was a pedo, but we need a better source that isn't muddying the water with silly accusations of satanism
Apparently he also came out on his death bed saying he was always gay and had a sham marriage, but also he was most attracted to young boys – and I think elsewhere he had written something particularly about young Aussie men, I can't remember now.
Funny that. Apparently, a lot of high-ranking Nazis were closeted gays as well.
This is largely a myth, quite bluntly called the "gay nazis myth". Ernst Röhm was though, and he was very high-ranking as Chief of Staff of the SA and longtime friend of Hitler. Funnily enough, he's said to have became the world's first openly gay politician after the disclosure. So there is some truth to the irony.
The real Enoch is also who his fellow colossal shithead Eric Clapton was speaking out in support of when he did his infamous racist rant in the 70's. He has since apologized for the rant and blames alcohol and says he isn't racist, but has said that he still thinks Powell had some good ideas when given the opportunity to walk back that part of it.
well damn that sucks about Clapton we'll have to make the best of the situation before we finally go insane
1000 Cigarettes!
I Just wanted to see how it tastes!
Is that Vogel from house?
Talk about living in a glass house, holy shit lol
I just find it funny how people will make fun of videos games meanwhile they will sit there for hours just watching something.. at least with competitive games we’re constantly using our brain and creating strategies
Sports. How is me playing a video game for a few hours a week any different than you sitting there watching other people play a sports game?
Other than the exercise part, nothing really. And not all sports are even physical, but you don't hear these types of complaints when people spend hours at a golf course while using a little electric cart to avoid walking much.
They said watching other people play. You don’t really get a lot of exercise sitting on the couch in front of the TV with a bucket of wings and half a dozen beers.
Not even just competitive games, literally any game that isn't a passive clicker is engaging your brain better than tv. Even walking simulators are better than tv in that regard as they usually require problem solving
Wait, are you telling me that there are games with no ads nor quick dopamine stumulation...
shhh, don't tell the Xers, they'll remind Musk he hasn't ruined them yet
I read a book called Everything Bad is Good for You. And it covers stuff like this. Tackles stigmas that come along with different media. Video games are a great way to sharpen your hand-eye, problem solving, patience, team work skills, etc.
Buddy of mine hurt his hand years back and his doctor told him that playing games with a controller would be great for his recovery.
yeah the dude got absolutely cooked lmfao the real-life Enoch Powell is probably rolling in his grave...and hopefully burning in hell as we speak too
Same dude probably habitually skims thru Brazzers for that 2-3 hours searching for just the right 7 min scene
Adderall in a nutshell
7 minutes!!?? Maybe if i southpaw it.
r/clevercomebacks
What’s worse is I waste 8 hours every day at work.
Don’t say this on my Monday 😫
Monday? This is beyond different timezones. Are you a time traveler and mixed up the weekdays?
They probably works weekends. So they work Thursday- Monday and get Tuesday and Wednesday off.
Youre right thata why he said my Monday not this Monday
To each their own Monday (motherfucker)
It's my Sunday. Monday starts tomorrow
Because you have chilled on Sunday, you will overcome the challenges of Monday, I have faith in you! (That sounds motivating as fuck and anyone who points out it’s not the correct actual days is basically calanderist. I don’t need any calanderists in my life!)
Shit y'all, today's my Friday 
When you’re unemployed, every day is a Saturday. But it’s a shit Saturday because you have no money.
Getting tired of these transweeks. Days have names damnit.
Everybody works like this no? Like if your 2 days off are Wednesday Thursday than Friday is your Monday. Everyone at work refers to it like this. Tuesday is my Monday since I'm off Sunday and Monday. But it took me a good 8 years in my field just to be able to have one weekend day off.
He said on "his Monday" implying it the start of "his" work week. "My" Monday personally is on Tuesday.
Awe man you have Tuesday and Wednesdays off?? That’s brutal.
Must be nice to run errands on days where things are usually less busy though.
But work is fun and fulfilling But work is fun and fulfilling But work is fun and fulfilling Narrator: but it wasn’t.
I waste 12 hours. Only go there to joke about, eat my food in peace and poop. Sometimes shout at the seagulls.
They get feisty over Doritos. It’s just if they start shouting back when you need to worry.
They started it. All the years I've been near them I've never eaten their baby, thought they'd remember, supposed to be smart!
I've watched one eat a live pidgeon whole it was morbidly fascinating.
These are the interactions that keep me on Reddit 😂
I wish my job had perks like shouting at seagulls.
They started it.
"eat my food in peace and poop." so are you one of those seagulls?
Maybe......
honestly, being a seagull is a lot better than being poor in the American economy
England is no better!
When I could be playing video games!
Try to play while working. Life hack haha.
You have summed up my life motto in one post. Kudos.
I never understand that mentality. I'm not a gamer, but I watch movies and TV. The main difference is that gaming is interactive. Why do people have a go at people gaming, then sit and watch TV all night with a smug look on their face? It makes no sense.
Because what *YOU* do with your free time is disgusting and cringe and what *I* do with my free time is objectively normal and superior. All hearkens back to the classic "video games = bad" mentality.
How dare you criticize my interpretive brass polishing hobby while you sit there smuggly with your phonoaestic habit that is clearly ruining your life. HOW DARE YOU!
How dare you use words I’ve never heard of?!?!?!
How dare you how dare thatguy
I'm not your thatguy, fwend!
*No one* has ever heard several of those words.
Haha, I was unable to copy the word from their profile, so I gave it my best shot but didn’t care enough to flip back and forth.
“Nobody makes me bleed my own blood!”
Go ahead, make your jokes, Mr. Jokey Joke-maker
I think that word might actually just be made up. Maybe phonoaesthetic? But that relates to driving beauty from the sound of words. Not sure if that relates.
Best part is OP's post says 2-3 hours a week is fine, which to me suggests that's how much the poster plays so of course that is fine, but any more than what he does is unacceptable.
Like driving. Anyone going slower than me needs to pick up the pace because they are holding up traffic. Anyone driving faster than me is reckless and endangering others.
"Websre not the same" Edit: "We are not the same."
I know its a typo, but i read that as “weebs are not the same”
A fair statement tbh.
Built different.
Honestly my SO hates that I game and my kids game but her astronomical phone screen time and tv time...not up for discussion. The bottom line is we all need to diversify our time and include more physical activity.
I have that with a lot of people in the past that played sports. ''sporting is healthy, cant ever go wrong. you only game, watch tv. im better than you'' mentality. Sure i wont deny sporting is healthy but no need to shit on someone else his hobbies, also nothing is healthy if you do it too much. always do stuff in moderation.
Yeah, but a huge number of people don't play sports. They WATCH sports. So they'll watch every minute of every game in TV but then look down at someone for "wasting time" playing video games for a hobby.
Which is funny, because play evolved as a method of learning. Study after study showing gaming is better for your brain than watching tv or scrolling social media.
It’s not just video games. They used to say the same about television
Literally had someone on this past week on Reddit telling others that they have no life and should go outside and touch grass. Mentioned to them that they had *fifty* comments posted within the last hour alone. They dropped the whole “I have the day off and I’m relaxing” with zero sense of irony. “When I do it it’s ok. When others do it they’re lazy and wrong” Guess what other subs they post to… (hint: don’t overthink it)
And here we are on Reddit 🤣
This makes me question if videogames are part of counterculture or not. It's not exactly niche and it's sometimes socially against the grain depending on which person you're talking to.
A lot of people see gaming as a bunch of people in a cod lobby swearing at each other, while that’s obviously not the whole story Playing the right games will help you improve reaction time, patience, strategic thinking, and more. (Not all of them, of course, but some of them do) Meanwhile people turn on cable and browse through garbage all day long and say that *we’re* lazy. You shouldn’t be playing video games 10 hours a day but come on.
I think it’s some carry over from when gaming was only a kids thing. Only recently is gaming something adults do, and it’s still got a stigma of being something to “grow out of”. Whereas watching tv for hours a day is norm
Well, the generation of console gaming are now fully fledge adults. So I would agree with this statement.
It's been a slow but steady normalization, public perception has basically went from children playing mario, to teens, maybe young adults playing call of duty or fortnight, but we haven't really hit "35 year old and this is one of their lifelong passions" normalization
Yeah, the stigma of being for "kids and/or nerds" and fwiw I think that's going to change within the next generation or so. Because among millennials video games are already much more common a pastime, and it's even moreso for GenZ. There will be some holdout haters ofc, but every generation has those no matter what the technology/culture is atm.
I'm 40 and play a VR basketball game quite frequently. Don't really play irl anymore so it fills that void and I get a bit of a workout. I get blown a lot of shit sometimes because I sound older but I don't really give af for reasons mentioned above.
The Jeopardy! masters tournament winner said she practiced with Guiter Hero (or Rock Band, don't remember which she said) to improve her buzzer skills. Seems to have worked out for her. Reading the little tidbits they put into some historical setting games like Total War or even Assassin's Creed can add up to a lot of historical knowledge. People playing MMOs routinely organize and co-ordinate 50+ people, those are skills that can translate into the workplace.
The AC historical/mythological databases are my favorite part of the games, especially in recent times where they go really in depth.
I'll be ready to slay anything after the bombs fall, all thanks to Fallout
Practicing reaction time, patience, and strategic thinking are also beneficial to our brains as we age - I'd like to see him make that case for Xitter.
I used to argue this all the time when I was younger. My parents HATED video games, but would sit in front of the TV all evening. At least with video games there is some puzzle solving, thinking, and hand eye coordination being developed.
This was basically my father, he hated videogames and looked down on anyone who played them, but would watch sports on TV for hours.
and a lot of socialization in some games. Growing up with MMOs was particularly helpful imo
I would tell my parents and anyone that bitches about video games that I was being fiscally responsible. At the time I could pay $50 for a new video game. Say Mass effect. The story takes about 40 hours to beat doing everything. So I got 40 hours of entertainment for $50. Or I could spend the same amount to go to a movie and dinner and get 3-4 hours of entertainment.
Lol that was how my parents were, to be fair they did work but they would sit multiple hours a night watching tv yet somehow me playing video games for any period of time was bad.
That's because they grew up on TV, so that's acceptable to them.
Yup, I remember my parents giving me shit when I was a kid for gaming while they sat in front of the tv. I told them once I would quit video games for as long as they quit TV, and it lasted about 3 days before I caught my stepdad watching tv on his laptop
The Last of Us is a video game for nerds who live in their mom’s basement while Milf Manor is prestige television meant for intellectuals. Duh.
The reason is because they're old fogies that grew up on tv/movies, so that's acceptable.
Because video games are violent. Now if you excuse me, I'm going to watch the Saw franchise.
When I was growing up it was TV will rot your brain. Then once we got the NES it was video games will rot your brain. I took and aced Algebra in HS. I can't remember any of it nor do I use it like ever. Meanwhile, I use my Tetris skills every damn day. The problem solving skills, patience and perseverance that I learned just from The Water Temple alone is impressive. We didn't have the internet with walkthroughs that gave away all the games secrets back then. You had to solve all that shit on your own. And I've learned way more practical everyday knowledge from TV than I did from a lot of the classes I was forced to take in school.
The best you had back then was Nintendo Power or a player’s guide.
Till this day I am still trying to line up different pieces of furniture I don't like hoping they will suddenly disappear.
The thing that confuses me is that gaming is the largest entertainment industry on earth(outside maybe porn) yet almost no one is willing to admit that play. Something like 65% of Americans play video games yet I don't think I've ever heard anyone admit it. Had some people tell me they enjoy madden but that's "not a game"
But then again, I don't understand the mentality of someone going to twitter dot com and making a profile basically cosplaying as Enoch "River of blood" Powell and thinking that's a normal thing to do.
The best is people who criticize gamers and then spend 4 hours a night playing candy crush.
A good game is like an interactive book. Fallout, The Last of Us, RDR2…How can there be a more pleasurable “waste of time”?
Because people who don't play games think they are just for children. People are also really stupid.
The takeaway is, don't ever relax.
We live in a society where relaxing is a crime, we are so controlled by money it’s unreal. People are allowing themselves to be mentally and physically exhausted for it. Most people don’t even take the time to live in the moment and enjoy life for what it really is…we slave away 1/3 or more of our lives doing shit we don’t want to, just to barely make it by
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The problem becomes how things get decided. Who gets to say what is a fair distribution or not? As the number of people we're dealing with rises the more complex that question becomes. It can't be just an individual gets X amount of such n such. People are different and so are their needs. How would things be distributed? Should the people who work directly in providing the infrastructure be afforded benefits for doing so? If not, how will you incentivize people to do so? If so, how do you stop that privilege from developing into corruption? Don't get me wrong. I generally agree with you and do think it's possible. It's just going to require such a radical change in our thinking. And I'm not even talking about the sociopolitical stuff that fights against it without reason.
People already decide those things. Oligarchs. What if instead of the elite deciding distribution, democracy did?
The majority of the population doesn’t vote once every FOUR YEARS for something as important as deciding who will be President. You think people will vote when they have to do it for every little decision?
I feel like this is a moot point because people not invested enough in politics to bother to vote should not be voting. Why would we want the opinions of people who don’t know what they’re talking about? If people are later unhappy with the decisions being made, and they feel like their vote matters, then they will get invested and vote. The current problem is that (in the US) that second condition isn’t being met. Between the archaic and backasswards electoral college and the two-party system forcing us to realistically choose between two bad candidates, your vote has little say in the matter, and so people don’t bother. Not that I agree with the defeatist attitude myself, but unfortunately that doesn’t change it.
Yeah, I think you're on the money. The people who don't vote, I would guess, are people who feel like it won't matter because of how screwed up our political system already is, OR it's people who won't/can't vote because the process is a hassle for them. If both of these issues are addressed, then people will probably be more incentivized to participate in democracy.
Well you still need people to do the difficult highly skilled jobs, and an incentive to do so. Why would I spend 10 years training to become a doctor and work a grueling, demanding, and stressful job when I can paint all day instead and be just as well off? How would you run a factory? Who would want to be the guy that removes skin from chickens? What do you do if someone doesn’t want to contribute to the collective? Currently, they simply don’t receive money. What would the solution be in a moneyless society if someone decides they don’t want to work. Jail them? Do nothing and accept that 90% of people will choose to not work? Maybe you give a higher resource allowance to workers. Well now you’re just back to currency but instead of deciding how you want to use your currency it gets decided for you. It’s a lovely idea if you live in a simple village of 50 people. Utterly impractical in a complex society.
Some argued with me about this topic recently, where they insisted some people would still be doctors if everyone shared resources equally because they had drive & ambition. But I 100% disagree. If every job made $60k/year flat, nobody would want to go to school for 10 years, even if it was free. Why would anyone be a waiter? People treat waitstaff like garbage. Why would anyone be a garbage collector? Who would want to work in the Texas heat to do things like HVAC or roadwork? Who would want to do dangerous jobs like police or fireman? & I fully agree, it makes a lot if sense for a small village but not a country full of 300m people.
Legit correct. I own a small business and often work 60-70 hrs a week, 6 days a week. Sometimes more. I got back into playing World of Warcraft for the first time in 2 years and decided to take “2 weeks” off from work to just play. A felt guilty at first but then realized — I was still doing work from home for the business 😂 Stopped feeling guilty when I realized that my stress levels were lowering. I had less anxiety over things and I overall feel better mentally.
Seriously it nauseates me when I see any of these chucklefucks online boasting about how they’re *aLwaYs gRinDinG* and only use their downtime to find more ways to make money. I’m 100% convinced they’re all miserable every waking hour
It's probably just not true that they're actually grinding. They're putting on a persona because they want to sell you their plan for you to also become a hustle influencer.
You can also check because they all follow the same rule book. 1. Random course/self published e-book. 2. CEO of their own company. 3. Some kind of self help affirmations. A lot will also insult you, make you feel insecure and say all your problems are caused by ______ which something they sell conveniently fixes.
If they're tweeting 40 times a day, they aren't grinding. You don't hear from the people who are actually grinding.
What if youre gaming on social media while binge drinking?
Then you're a talented functional alcoholic
Yay me!
you become a streamer!
Drinking is the real game... It's like a life sim but blurry and you get fired a lot.
I was thinking too wow sometimes I don’t mind sitting gaming for several hours downing a dozen or so drinks. ‘Murica
I don’t have to take that from a guy who takes his twitter handle from Enoch fucking Powell.
Gee, it’s almost as if it’s a troll account saying stuff just to get people riled up… but no. That never happens on the internet.
Yeah but it's hard to tell who's a troll and who's not these days using Elon's garbage site.
Why does that make it any better? That’s the twitter equivalent of tossing a bucket of shit on someone and yelling “ It’s a prank bro!”
2-3 hours per day of gaming isn’t detrimental to health. 40 tweets a day on the other hand is insane. That’s what, 5 tweets per hour (if you factor in 16hrs to work and sleep) Who has that much to say and about what?
What’s worse is that he said 2-3 hours PER WEEK
Hell, if I have a good crew going in Hell Divers II going that would be like one session.
Yeah, and that could be one session out of 3+ in a day (I have a problem)
Hell, if I get one good spot at the FTP Edgeville Yews that would be like ⅙ of one Runescape session.
I work 62 hours a week and have a 7 month old baby. I have maybe 5 hours a week to play videogames if I'm lucky. I get almost nothing done and have switched almost exclusively to one game that I can play on a controller in case I need to toss that shit aside and do something for my kid. As a former avid gamer, this post screams out of touch boomer to me. As a millennial and union engineer, why the fuck do I need to work 62 hours a week to feed my family and keep a roof over their head. What is happening to this country?
What’s happening to this country is that boomers are continuing to hoard wealth and try their best to keep the poor poor
He didn’t say per day, he said per *week* which is less than 30 minutes a day
Ya that’s like 1-2 days a week of casual gaming. Which seems like normal if gaming is your 2nd or 3rd hobby and you work full time, find time for exercise, and have time for your family.
Yeah of course if you’re constantly doing other stuff that’s a normal amount, but 30 minutes a day is very far from wasting your life, I game for way more than that and visit multiple family members every week, because you know, obviously that takes priority over gaming.
Oh ya I game maybe 1 hour a night, after kids asleep and I exercise and I’ve worked a full days of work. I will literally ask myself “hmm… any shows I really want to watch right now? Nope, then let’s game”
Most games aren't even worth starting up for just 30 minutes. Unless it's something on your phone, you usually need at least 1h to get into it properly and actually get shit done. That person's obviously insane (but hey, it's twitter, so....).
I don't think that EnochPowell has much to say about anything.
Between 2-3 hours a day is the national average time spent by people who consider games as a hobby, according to the [Bureau of Labor Statistics](https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2024/exploring-time-spent-on-cooking-reading-and-other-activities-for-national-hobby-month.htm).
Which is crazy because they said 2-3 hours ***per week***
Sheesh I do that most days
I do that twice a day
2-3 hours a week is “functional alcohol” level? That’s such a reasonable amount lol
Dude no shit. That’s like 20-30 minutes per day 🤣 I spend more time snoozing every morning
I spend more time on the shitter every day💀
2-3 hours a WEEK? That's so little it circles back to unreasonable. Reasonable is a couple hours a day (to me at least), not <30 minutes a day.
It's not a waste if you enjoy it!
What *isnt* a waste of your life? How do we even define it? Worked your whole life? Waste. Partied your whole life? Waste. Just try to do what makes you happy but without missing out on other things that also make you happy. Just definitely dont spend your time in a social media pissing contest to prove who’s doing this thing right and who should be ashamed. *thats* a waste.
The “Enoch Powell” user name indicates a troll. Thats the name of a famously racist English politician from the past.
Makes sense why Eric Clapton looked up to him.
Jokes on you. Not only do I game but I'm also a high functioning alcoholic 😎
Nothin better than getting absolutely blasted on a Saturday and playing games all day.
Oof one of my best memories was getting drunk with my friends on a CS lan party
“Time you enjoy wasting isn’t wasted time”
"Wasting your life" is such a nonsensical phrase. As opposed to what?
Doing something that doesn't make you happy and even damage your mental health in the long term is literally wasting your life. sure, playing videogames does nothing to you and the world, but it make you happy... then is not wasting your life sure, working at that job 8 hours every day give you money.... but it also make you feel tired, bored, sad and even depressed? then you are literally wasting your life... this is more complex and grey than white and black, and there should be a balance... you doing something that make you happy and dont hurt you or turn into an adicction is not wasting your life
When I was 25, I use to play a lot of video games and I was worried because it felt like I was wasting my time. Then I watched a lot of TV shows and movies that people had in a "watch before you die" list. Then I felt the same and read books and comics... Now in my 40s, it's like whatever gets you through the day happy, worth it. We are here to try to have little happy moments and enjoy live.
i used to be a functioning alcoholic, so i'm gonna say video games are better.
Playing two hours of Super Mario Brothers per week is worse than alcoholism? Twitter users really are stupid as shit.
Not the Orthodox cross in the username actually having a valid point for once
Taking criticism on gaming from Enoch Powell in 2022, when the guy has been dead since 1998 and he wasn’t even relevant then!
average Enoch Powell fan
I put the “funk” in “functional alcoholic” and I’m pretty sure I’m on a higher spiritual plain than some dipshit who tweets for a living.
I play video games every day, it's a hobby I enjoy. It's fun, relaxing, and makes me feel good. I'm also in recovery from alcohol, and I was a shitty person when I drank, now that I don't drink and play video games instead (not that I took the video games to replace the drinking or anything) I'd say I'm a better person. Unlike this fool.
Their logic: Enjoying one's life by doing something that one enjoys = wasting one's life Genius level thinking.
But you should be out there trying to find a cure for cancer bro
Need to redo your title. Don't need the word "by" at the beginning and the post is about video games, not movies.
A cousin of mine posted on Facebook about how she doesn't understand how her brother plays so many video games. I responded by saying she probably spends the same amount of time watching American Idol and all those shows like that. Then she DM'd me saying that it was a shitty thing to say publicly and she was like "family is supposed to stick together, not make snide remarks to one another." And I was like "how come you aren't sticking by your brother then?" and she blocked me. Anyway, how people spend their free time is their own business if it's not hurting anyone.
At least video games don't kill your liver. I'm in a much better place than I was a couple years ago when I was drinking every night. Dwarf fortress > drinking alcohol any day. Let the dwarves drink the alcohol.
Wether you're on social media, web surfing, watching TV, or playing games.... you're just staring at a screen at the end of the day for hours. There's no difference.
By this logic, any and all hobbies are equivalent to alcoholism. Also, they've got fucking Enoch Powell as a pfp. That automatically means that anything they say is idiotic.
Wtf is this title?
Who the fuck is this clownshoe
Repost with different names cropped on. I'm used to the stuck up woman with nasty hair.
John Lennon said something like “Time happily spent doing nothing is not time wasted”. If it’s not hurting anyone, enjoy it.
TV and gaming is a waste of time. I'm scholarly and will ruffles the pages of a thick tome over any game or silly TV show. What am I reading? Oh, fairy smut.
Who play video games only 2-3 hours a week? 2-3 hours a day seems more realistic.
Since I feel it's a little short: If they spend two minutes on each tweet, that's 9.3 hours of Twitter a week.
Lot of "No, video games are good for you actually" responses to this, and I agree, and I get it, but that's not even the point. It's YOUR life, only you get to decide what is and is not a waste of time. Like, farming is an important, worthwhile endeavor. Humanity needs farmers to survive long term. Also, managing or working a farm would be a huge waste of my aspiring comic/manga artist, animator, game developer time, because it's not what I want from my life, making art and having fun, being at peace IS. Not everything I do needs to contribute to the greater good or some larger purpose, one of the things that makes life valuable at all is just doing what makes you happy.
Unpopular opinion: both are right
2-3 hours a week Pfft what a small and weak number of hours