• dwindling7373@feddit.it
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        3 months ago

        I know I guy that put Overwatch among his experiences. It was for an IT position and he contextualyzed it as some kind of acquired soft skill.

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          I strongly believe that video games are underappreciated in just how much they help us develop certain skills.

          I’m talking long-term planning, resource distribution, tactics, hand-eye coordination, teamwork, skillset comprehension and task allocation based on it, language skills, interpersonal skills (ironically), and can even serve as a font of self-knowledge if one dives deep enough!

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      3 months ago

      I have several hundred hours in PAYDAY 2 because I didn’t have heat one winter and the main menu kept my room warm lol

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    3 months ago

    one of my steam friends has a program that farms steam hours, just for the shock factor

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    I honestly don’t get it. I’ve been playing the same game for about three months of real time now and clocked in about 120 hours. I didn’t play anything else and and it’s consuming most of the time I have to myself. The game is Witcher 3.

    Now, that means every 1000 hours would take me 25 months or just over two years of playing a game exclusively. Probably more since my data above includes my Christmas vacation, which was quite lengthy. No single game is good enough to take such a big place in my life. I could play so many shorter better games.

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      No single game is good enough to take such a big place in my life

      You obviously never played Warcraft 3 between 2004 and 2014.

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        The level and art design of the latest expansion is amazing, but nothing compares to classic gameplay. Retail is boring IMO.

        Activision agrees and started hosting the classic servers themselves.

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    3 months ago

    i have 1200h in skyrim, 1000 of which i clocked in because as pre-teen who was yet to learn that being trans is a thing i unknowingly used it to escape dysphoria. can’t feel bad if i’m spending most of my days as male cat, the chosen one at that!

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      I wouldn’t be surprised if basically every person with over 1k hours in a game isn’t seeking some sort of escapism, not counting the anomalies like people leaving servers running etc.

      I suppose every minute in a game is escapism of some sort, but escapism from dysphoria or something else significant, I think would be common.

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        I don’t think you need 1k hours to indicate games are being used as an escape. It could be a social thing where a group plays regularly and has invested time in the group and world such as Starcraft or WoW. I don’t disagree at all that games can be an escape for people with life issues, I just don’t know if hours invested is a great indicator. I’ve got over 3k in one game, but that’s mostly because it’s got quick rounds, I can start and stop between other things with no penalty, it’s been out for 4 years, and I still find it fun. The time adds up.