EPTEnough said
Yes video games are a "waste of time" but so is every single other recreational activity.
Not much to discuss here really.
11 y.o college graduate says gaming is a waste of time - P…
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TheFoReveRwaR
United States10657 Posts
Enough said Yes video games are a "waste of time" but so is every single other recreational activity. Not much to discuss here really. | ||
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Motiva
United States1774 Posts
On June 09 2009 01:03 Rotodyne wrote: Martial arts and scuba diving are helping humanity how? QFT | ||
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tinman
United States287 Posts
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{CC}StealthBlue
United States41117 Posts
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armed_
Canada443 Posts
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StalkerSC
Canada378 Posts
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scwizard
United States1195 Posts
On June 09 2009 04:35 armed_ wrote: Graduating from college suddenly makes an 11-year-old's opinion on the purpose of life and the ultimate worth of one's actions meaningful now? Yeah, because people care what geniuses think since they're smarter than us. | ||
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Shizuru~
Malaysia1676 Posts
i'm just gonna quote SDM on this 1 "If you're gonna talk shit, you'd better make sure you're the best!" only things is, i doubt he has any idea what he's talking about anyways,for the better of humanity? Waste of humanity? what does an 11 year old know about humanity lol... This kid is just another theme park attraction, unless he really did succeed in the future, now we should all just take the ride then forget about it... | ||
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Juanpe
Uruguay283 Posts
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QuoC
United States724 Posts
another cool thing about starcraft though is how it can relate to so many things in life. my dad gets scared about me using the GPS mounted to my window in my car.. and says "keep your eye on the road! it's hard to look back and fourth on the road and the GPS" and i just laugh inside my head because it reminds me of how i have to check my mineral count during games hahahaha ^_^, but i wouldn't dare mention that to him because he'd just probably look at me like im crazy. damn vietnamese dads lol | ||
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Archaic
United States4024 Posts
On June 09 2009 01:38 FakeSteve[TPR] wrote: lol i bet he never got laid in college It was probably illegal! | ||
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Mastermind
Canada7096 Posts
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Leath
Canada1724 Posts
On June 09 2009 05:04 Mastermind wrote: the kid sounds like an idiot to me. It is clear he is good at retaining what he hears/reads, but It appears he is not very good at thinking. Jealousy o_O | ||
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QuoC
United States724 Posts
agreed. we value what he really says because if you can find another 11 year old that wise and mature, THEN i'll retract my statement. i wish i had a brother like that =[ | ||
Jibba
United States22883 Posts
On June 09 2009 05:07 QuoC wrote: agreed. we value what he really says because if you can find another 11 year old that wise and mature, THEN i'll retract my statement. i wish i had a brother like that =[ He's intelligent, but it doesn't seem like he's wise or mature. I don't expect any 11 year old to be wise and mature though. | ||
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EchOne
United States2906 Posts
Video Games are a waste of time if your goals in life do not involve having fun. The ultimate transience of humanity makes questioning the legitimacy of individual humans' goals an illegitimate pursuit. | ||
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Nevuk
United States16280 Posts
On June 09 2009 03:47 ssenwen wrote: How do you get up in the morning? Or do you just realize that this emo bullshit is only relevant in the philosophical world of the ivory tower. I don't get up in the mornings. I'm a night person. Although, I don't actually think any of this is a bad thing, it doesn't bother me at all. The essential point of what I posted is that the only value is whatever you assign to something. Not really sure how that's emo... | ||
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BeJe77
United States377 Posts
If your passion is to play games as a recreation so be it. If your more of an outdoors type of person then that's your thing. He's doing martial arts and trying to do scuba-diving as somebody else mentioned, that's also recreation activity like gaming. No matter how much his parents are looking out for him, trying for him to get best education at what not, at that young of an age, the kid should be playing with other kids and interacting. Developing his social skills, knowing himself and experiencing the world. The only thing I see what his parents have done is put massive amount of pressure on the kid to produce results at an early age, trying to make him grow up too fast while skipping the most important development aspects of life.. I wish the kid good luck in his future... Props to him if he does something for humanity, but I see him going crazy due to all the pressure way before he does any good. Taking small steps is the sure way to go. -BeJ | ||
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Jayme
United States5866 Posts
On June 09 2009 05:07 QuoC wrote: agreed. we value what he really says because if you can find another 11 year old that wise and mature, THEN i'll retract my statement. i wish i had a brother like that =[ Actually the kid isn't wise and mature at all. Education =/= Wise and Mature... nor does it equal worldly intelligence. In fact I'd be more liable to believe that the kid still has absolutely no idea how the world works because... HES ELEVEN Geniuses like him or whatever all get slapped in the face when they hit the working world because all their knowledge is useless in the face of greedy exploiting people. | ||
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Nevuk
United States16280 Posts
On June 09 2009 04:02 Liquid`NonY wrote: I don't get this post. What are you saying? Especially with the question. Perceived value is not only relevant outside of philosophical discussions, it's a blatantly obvious reply to the kid's statement about video games. Irrelevant how? Kid says video games don't have value for humanity and, in response, the notion of value is questioned. But beyond this thread, the idea of perceived value as the only value is incredibly important for the market/economy/business, for social issues (cultural disputes, etc) and even for mental health (self-esteem issues, etc). And I don't know what you consider emo bullshit but going from the most popular meaning of emo, I see none of it here. Thank you. I think he assumed that I was using this theorem to argue for nihilism, that nothing has value (or meaning), which is what a lot of nihilists I know do argue. In my point I merely argued that this kid's idea of thinking something was valueless was problematic, as everything is valueless in some way. However, this is based upon the idea that value is subjective and relative - and that it does exist. The statement the kid gave is a bit more absurd than usual, because he gives the reason as to why he thinks video games are a waste, as "they contribute nothing to humanity", which is a highly subjective, hollow statement - maybe wasting time is a good contribution to humanity. The future doesn't contribute anything to the present humanity, does that mean that the future is useless? And while this sounds like an absurd statement, this is a guy who is studying light from stars that is billions upon billions of years old, usually. | ||
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