Why is gaming such a big thing these days?

@in10RjFox I could argue that about literally any hobby.

As to "man hours", we're not drones in a beehive. Why should everything revolve around labour? Is happiness now considered less in important than selling your soul to the company?

@basilfawlty89 sure .. argue.

Let me rephrase it as human hours or human time, since you only see man hours as labour..

@in10RjFox no, you do. You act as if the only measure of man is productive labour.

Do you watch television? Use social media (you're on SW after all)? How is that productive?

@basilfawlty89 SW I meet people, have interesting conversations and developed relationships.

SW I visit just once every 1-2 hours for 5 to 10 minutes as there is nothing to spend hours together on SW

I mastered AI book writing and have written two books in collaboration with AI.

During my prime I have invested all my time in learning and not wasting it.

I learnt a lot about human psychology using social media.

@in10RjFox and you can learn a lot from games too such as hand eye coordination, narratives, story telling, world building, and in some cases history and economics.

Games aren't just pacman anymore.