So many ppo spend massive chunks of their lives gaming & I wonder how they live with themselves. I suppose there isn't much time to think about it, but I also imagine that they have some dark moments of clarity, like a heroin junkie hitting a drought.
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The medium of a book, however shitty, develops skills that no video games do
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Even this is doubtful, reading good books is qualitatively different from reading trash (there's that annoying content again), but even if I grant its true, Faker and Flash have more aesthetic value than trash novels in the same way that Roger Federer does
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You really don't understand what I mean. Reading develops skills of imagination vocabulary & internality that no other medium has, even "bad books"
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A child that reads only trash novels will not get to the same place as a child that reads good ones. My guess. Fire up the lab lets run the experiment
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I read copious quantities of trash, & when they grew tiresome, I read better books (but only because I had developed the requisite skills) no such phenomena in vidya
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It just occurred to me I've stepped into your McLuhan nonsense again unwittingly, fuck how do I keep letting this happen
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>nonsense
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>monocausal explanation of complex phenomena >actually true pick one
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"Muh gesture to ineffable complexity without making an argument"
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