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they helped me develop a “nose” for strengths and shortcomings in someone’s skillset

In an actual human being? What kind of game are you thinking about here?

My teenage years were spent in Warcraft III. I sucked at it, I'm terrible at multitasking.

It could very well be that you were already good at that and that translated both into enjoying strategy game and succeeding as a Project Manager.

Yea, no. It surely has some positive, just like pretty much anything. But if you look at it as something you do instead of something else, you start accumulating a lot of negatives.

There's no way any fine motor skill is somehow more developed than, say, playing almost any sport, that involves more than just two hands, and a similar thing can be said as far as teamwork and resilence goes.

On the fantasy side you have to compete with reading or, more broadly, studying.

It probably wins against binge watching b-rated tv series or idlessly watching TV, but if you get the wrong tytle you won't bring home that much value. (Say you are stuck playing COD on a loop).

I think an healthy varied diet of activities and stimuli is still the way for getting the best out of life.

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.

Is it depressing if you had fun?

I love my time on earth and I think it's wild that we can experience the intricacies of a realtime mind-battle with hundred of thousands of fellow humans around the world. #noregrets

Now, World of Warcraft... 🤮

This is the real answer and the reason online bubbles are so sad.

There's so many different way to live your life and we are atrofied around a couple of equally bad options.

In this limited scope it could be more feasible but the weirdness there stems from the fact that... The system is meant for people to... Stop voting for those that betray you?

You mention money in your arguments but you never provide pricing of those components. It doesn't help in the current wild pricing environment.

I'd also like to mention https://www.logicalincrements.com/ that basically does what you are doing on a wider scale.

I share the sentiment but I'm terrified of what that means.

Now there's people documenting facts and polititians saying stuff, sometimes cherry picking, sometimes lying to get an advantage.

If you tie the two you will bring this pressure primarily onto the documentation of facts themselves.

You would get (even more) fake paper for fake research, no more journalist on the ground, officer making statement that contradicts reality.

I mean, even more than what you do have today.

I quit League some half a year ago after 10 years of playing. I can see now how impossible it seems to play that consistently when you just consume different games rather than having a single title.

It's a completely different experience.

As a side note, what's up with all the people saying "I played a game", just say what game it is, we are all nerds in here.

Tor inside a VPN is fine. Some argue it will make you stand out in comparison with other users of your VPN but that's only a problem if they retain data, and if they do you really wish you'd have used tor...

POV, not even once.