Everything is a waste of time. Life has no intrinsic purpose and we are all just carbon-based flesh sacks under the delusion that what we are doing day in and day out is connected to some chain of events that will eventually bear some sort of relevency to the universe, never considering that our means never truly fulfill any ultimate ends but only feed into other futile efforts to make some sort of mark on a small planet that will one day be returned to the space dust from whence it came along with all other matter in the universe.

Starcraft is pretty fun, though.

Humbug

United States264 Posts

June 01 2009 06:19 GMT

#22

I agree that you should do what makes you happy, but when it comes to WoW on Team Liquid...Every time I see a WoW related thread, a large amount of people always say that it's a waste of time, it will "steal your soul" and other crap like that and generally burn WoW players, which frustrates me because when it comes to SC here, everyone is okay with spending hours playing that but when applied to World of Warcraft, it suddenly becomes a waste of time.

ffswowsucks

Greece2294 Posts

June 01 2009 06:25 GMT

#23

Im 25 and my dad will always hunt me down for what I do: Play StarCraft in my free time nOn stOp!!! lol

obesechicken13

United States10467 Posts

June 01 2009 06:27 GMT

#24

haha, I loved this blog!

feathers

United States236 Posts

June 01 2009 06:29 GMT

#25

life is a waste of time.

niteReloaded

Croatia5281 Posts

June 01 2009 07:06 GMT

#26

Everyone should do whatever they want to.

ppl are too afraid of life in general and play too defensively.

evanthebouncy!

United States12796 Posts

June 01 2009 07:08 GMT

#27

If it's getting into other things you would probably value more in the long run then definitely.

jello_biafra

United Kingdom6635 Posts

June 01 2009 07:31 GMT

#28

On June 01 2009 13:05 FakeSteve[TPR] wrote:
i've been at this for many years and i wouldn't call a single moment 'wasted time'

I'd have to say the same. And I've always had the feeling that time was never wasted as long as you are enjoying yourself.

Initial_H.C.

Canada560 Posts

June 01 2009 07:47 GMT

#29

I just say everything is a waste of time. Or you can say everything you do is time consuming. I mean even if you're not doing anything, time is still going by. I'm already spending time thinking of this post and typing it. I should probably be sleeping right now, but it seems like it's a waste of time when you could be doing something "productive". Sigh, I need to get myself out of this wasting/consuming/spending time loop =(

0xDEADBEEF

Germany1235 Posts

June 01 2009 08:00 GMT

#30

If you don't make anything good out of it (money, new real friends, etc.), or if your life quality decreases as a result, or if you're not really having fun anymore but still playing, then yes.

selboN

United States2523 Posts

June 01 2009 08:02 GMT

#31

Life is simply the pursuit of happiness, might as well get a head start!

infinity21

Canada6683 Posts

June 01 2009 08:05 GMT

#32

We should all have a main means of achieving your goals in life. For most people that's studying hard and getting a good job after university. In that sense, SC is a waste of time since most skills you learn in SC are not transferable to school or can be better learned from other methods.

But as long as you put in sufficient effort into school so that your main goals are met and you play SC on your free time, then I think it's completely acceptable.

Xusneb

Canada612 Posts

June 02 2009 04:16 GMT

#33

On June 01 2009 15:16 3clipse wrote:
Everything is a waste of time. Life has no intrinsic purpose and we are all just carbon-based flesh sacks under the delusion that what we are doing day in and day out is connected to some chain of events that will eventually bear some sort of relevency to the universe, never considering that our means never truly fulfill any ultimate ends but only feed into other futile efforts to make some sort of mark on a small planet that will one day be returned to the space dust from whence it came along with all other matter in the universe.

Starcraft is pretty fun, though.

That basically describes exactly how I feel about life. It's utterly pointless but it doesn't make it any less enjoyable!

Chef

10810 Posts

June 02 2009 04:24 GMT

#34

SC builds character, lets you interact with people from other cultures, and develops a lot of skills that can translate to other parts of your life. Anyone who thinks SC is a waste of time is mad.

I would not be the same person today if I did not play SC, regardless of how entertaining it was

araav

Armenia1590 Posts

June 02 2009 07:01 GMT

#35

my problem with this is that playing SC does not add to human wealth (as well as watching TV, etc).

so, when you divide your time to joy and something productive, then for joy you can do whatever brings you that thing

FakeSteve[TPR]

Valhalla18444 Posts

June 02 2009 13:28 GMT

#36

On June 01 2009 17:05 infinity21 wrote:
We should all have a main means of achieving your goals in life. For most people that's studying hard and getting a good job after university. In that sense, SC is a waste of time since most skills you learn in SC are not transferable to school or can be better learned from other methods.

But as long as you put in sufficient effort into school so that your main goals are met and you play SC on your free time, then I think it's completely acceptable.

or you're me and you use starcraft as a means of achieving your goals hahaha sup i just owned the whole forum

foeffa

Belgium2115 Posts

June 02 2009 16:36 GMT

#37

I kinda don't play the game anymore at this moment in time (plan to restart during holidays ^^), but I do spend a lot of time on TL / VODs. I wouldn't call it waste of time at all, because:
a) I thoroughly enjoy it so it creates that happy feeling, makes me more productive
b) it complements studying a lot better than other past times since you can easily watch a VOD while taking a 10-15 minute break or just speed browsing TL, this in contrast to watching TV series or movies since I tend to get hooked really fast, the result being me ending up watching 10 episodes of Stargate and not studying a damn thing.
It just complements "useful" things really well for me personally.

QuanticHawk

United States32058 Posts

June 02 2009 17:29 GMT

#38

On June 02 2009 13:24 Chef wrote:
SC builds character, lets you interact with people from other cultures, and develops a lot of skills that can translate to other parts of your life. Anyone who thinks SC is a waste of time is mad.

I would not be the same person today if I did not play SC, regardless of how entertaining it was

If you enjoy what you're doing, it's not wasting any time. But I'm pretty sure SC doesn't build character

obesechicken13

United States10467 Posts

June 02 2009 18:06 GMT

#39

So I have a question, how do you balance work and play, specifically? Or do you just do it...?

YPang

United States4024 Posts

June 02 2009 20:43 GMT

#40

On June 03 2009 03:06 obesechicken13 wrote:
So I have a question, how do you balance work and play, specifically? Or do you just do it...?

The question is sorta ambigous, because the current "Work" you're doing might not be actually leading you to the goal that you want. You must first realize your goal and then decide if what you're doing is the "work" leading up to it. But in all honesty, you should probably enjoy the work leading up to your goal anyways. (But not always though, sometimes of course there will be boring moments).