Video games and productivity

Imagine if games were never invented. All those billions of hours could of gone to productive use. We might've have been to Mars by now

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STEM in 1950 sent men to the moon
STEM in 2010s make flappy bird

>All those billions of hours could of gone to productive use.
Damn. Think of all the cool video games that could have been made.

Video game and VR is so degenerate its mind blowing.

And by 2020 holographic gf for Sup Forums!!!!

I'd also like to add that I say this in regards to education in modern day. Millions of kids growth has been stunted because they placed their time into videogames instead of education. You can argue, "But the parents" but still

m8, the first moon landing was in 1969

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I remember testing Moira's anti mole rat stick in there. Damn Bethesda makes retarded NPCs though.

You know how when people called us faggots for voting for trump.
You know how you're calling us faggots for playing video games.
Good track record so far.

You aren't more than one person dipshit.

3% of the population used to go to uni now 30% does not to mention the muh opressed womens n minoritys bullshit, stem has become a joke because education has, also was there a private entupneur (elon) back when man landed on the moon.

Or you could keep inferior races out of your first world countries and humanity would be terra forming Mars.

> implying games dont make young men want to join the military or do something epic with their lives etc

They're the books of our time chill out mane.

Video games aren't the problem, people are. Its human nature to piss your life away. Why do you think we remember the great people in history, If they where average we wouldn't even know their names.

my weight is that of 2 people though so b-back the fuck off

spent all day playing battlefield 1 and doom, should have been sending out resumes and preparing for graduation D:

And you can't suck but one cock at a time but you awful sure try hard to leafy boi.

VR hasn't even begun yet.
It will make anime real.

Books use more brain function than videogames

>2020

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to work and then what?

Oh yah, real anime, great.

Why do people want this? Don't they spend enough time jerking off to cartoons?

I know people who has logged 5000+ hours in just one game...

To say video games as a whole are degenerate is ridiculous and myopic.
Video games are an interactive simulation of anything you can imagine.
Play games that are good for your brain. The future of education will be through video games.
Play games like TIS-100, Shenzhen I/O, Hardware engineering, KSP, Car mechanic sim, Human resource machine, etc.
Exploit video games to encourage neuroplasticity and make yourself smarter. This was the whole idea of lumosity too. Brought my memory into the 99th percentile even.
The only degenerate here is anyone who fails to see the potential in that.
The TYPE of games you play say a lot about you. Of course a kid who plays exclusively cod will be dumber on every level maybe other than reflex when compared to someone who plays a varied type of games.

I play left 4 dead 2 fairly regularly and I know people who have logged over 20k hours.

Nah they wouldn't be spent on STEM they'd be spent doing horrific dumb shit like men throughout history.


Video games help dull the population which I guess is somewhat of a plus

Vidya would be fine in moderation. A couple hours on the weekend, big whoop. The problem is the saturation and the pervasiveness. People spend 3 - 5 hours every day playing them, sometimes even more. If we had any self control or higher purpose it wouldn't get in the way, but we sure do love an interactive distraction.

That's my point, and as a collective. That time spent (Near trillions now I believe) could've been sliced in half if a culture of moderation and spent making something great.

Shit get pretty dull in even 100 hours. Didn't even like to play the second one after first.

People had other time wasting hobbies before videogames

too addictive. i really just have to avoid them completely

red rocks would solve all our problems

Left 4 dead did get pretty dull after a few hours of playing it

kek, so if you play 9 hours a day... that's like 6 YEARS "wasted"

I see and understand the appeal of a game - solving a puzzle, achieving an objective, overcoming obstacles with problem solving, being critical of your strategy, adapting to the opponent... These are all things that should be a net positive to our human experience. How the Jews have taken something with so many pros and made it into one big con is actually really impressive.

Imagine if we all were great lucid dreamers and in the game we create a user interface, like in games , and we could control the dream as we cannot imagine now. One night = 100 hundread hours in the best simulator.

games aren't inherently bad. They allow kids to learn how to mentally model conflicts without exposing them to danger. The problem is when they're designed to be addictive time and money sinks.

>Imagine if we all were great lucid dreamers and in the game w

i mean in the dream

Anything that humanity has dedicated so much time and money towards is probably going to be incredibly valuable at some point that is yet foreseen.

dammit, all those billions of nighttime hours that could've been spent drinking and engaging in violence

A painting may be worth millions with a functioning society, but it will always be nothing but something to look at.

>Implying all the processing power used to run AI vision would have been developed if it wasn't for vidya

you know what, i have an engineering degree.

if companies wanted the youth to be productive... they could hire the most productive ones. But that is not how the world works, is it?

Instead i'm here playing video games at the age of 28. might start a janitorial contracting company.