Spend 20 hours reading literature

>spend 20 hours reading literature
>become a wiser man
>spend 20 hours playing videogames
>???

>spend 2000 hours reading literautre just to be able to understand a game on a deep level

>spend 20 hours playing videogames
>become wiser man
Thank you Gone home

So what did you do for the other 19 hours and 20 minutes?

>translation
C・A・S・U・A・L

>tfw to intelligent too read literature

>spend 20 hours playing videogames
>???

Judging by the average poster here, you become dumber.

>Eyesight and motor skills improve

Plato is philosophy not literature. I wont penalize you too much because there is overlap here but another example would help this shit post more.

what if you play 20 hours of this

>Plato is philosophy not literature
Retarded semantics aside (as expected from Wittgencuck), Plato wrote in a very literary fashion

>spend 20 hours shitposting on /v
>become a retard

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Gothic should be prescribed to weebs and Elder Scrolls fans to cure their shit taste.

I said there was overlap, but that another example would be better. Shit posts have an art and quality to them in the right hands.

Reading a book, listening to podcast, fapping, watching dome yt poop, eating and sleeping

not him but cmon nigger you aint even being subtle
>trying to play a smart educated guy while being amerifat

too obvious

>Pokepower deals 30 damage

I dont even play Pokemon and that's dumb.

I'm educated but me being smart is debatable.

"Reading books makes you smart" is a meme. Unless you're reading actual history books, dictionaries, scientific studies or philosophical pieces, you're not gonna be learning jack shit from reading a fictional piece like a Steven King novel or Dune.

> spend 20 hours shitposting on Sup Forums
> become australian

>Reading

Haha dork

>"Reading books makes you smart" is a meme
>unless you read books that make you smart
what the fuck are you even trying to say

>shitpost 20 hours on Sup Forums
>???

he literally explained it in the post
care to read?

That a majority of people's reading now a days consists of fictional works and strictly recreational reading rather than anything useful?

Watching movies can make you smart if you watch documentaries but when someone says they're a big movie buff they're usually not talking about works like that.

>spend 20 hours reading literature
>shitpost on Sup Forums
FTFY

>now a days

Reading Stephen King or Dune is still a more intellectually stimulating experience than playing videogames.
Now, "videogames make you a master strategist with perfect reaction" IS a true meme

>be wise man
>still die like any common fool
>none of your wisdom matters anymore
what's the point?

Philosophers would literally be labeled stoners in modern times.

reading and education is for cucks

>none of your wisdom matters anymore
>platonism defined western and middle-eastern civilizations for 2500 years

>you're not gonna be learning jack shit from reading a fictional piece like a Steven King novel or Dune.

nigger, Dune contains one of the best description (outside of scientific papers) about how the big, basic resources starved ecosystems works on the large scale

>reading le nazi vns for manchildren

>spend 41 hours and 6 minutes watching Western Anime
>become redpilled af
>trigger thirdies to oblivion
>elect a President Of the United States of America
??

>be a Barneyfag

>weebs will never be able to bait you again with a "well written" VN
Feels fucking good man.

>spend 20 hours posting on /r/cuckhold
>become American

> Plato

Playing The Talos Principle for 20 hours will make you a wiser man than reading reading 20 hours worth of shitty romance stories.
Literature is a heterogenous medium and it also has its share of trash.
I still love you, Plato.

Steven King does a great display of degeneracy in the "ordinary folk". Everyone treats his novels as just horror but there's always social criticism inlaid.

plato was a hack

>spend 3 hours reading high quality literature or listening to a good philosophy/history podcast
>spend 2 hours playing video games with friends
>got wiser and had fun too in the same day

Not every person is an actual solitary autist who can sit in a library and read for 12 hours a day.

Reading a high level book only once definitely won't make you wiser.

>makes threads on Sup Forums
How about you try doing the first thing you wrote?

Nowadays, you get social recognition from playing video games.
Along with this gamer social status, you get better at
>competition
>flexibility
>teamwork
>rhetoric
>memorizing
>learning
and
>buying power

>rhetoric
???

>implying plato wrote

Diogenes was an overly pedantic poorfag.

>losing an argument
>DUDE LE CAKE IS A LIE XDDDD
>everybody forgets about the argument

>multiplayer and shilling

>get into cryptocurrency
>games feel irrelevant

Well as time went on Philosophy and Literature actually began to merge, the books that were written by philosophers were stories to convey conecpt and meaning.

wisdom is actually a deceit, never presume to be wise and never accept anything as wisdom.

>get fucked in the ass
>post this shit

>being nihilistic
>wondering why your life is so shitty

pleb

>inb4 I make 100k a year at Wendys who's 6'4 with a 9 inch penis

>nocoins

Intelligence is the fucking bait, not wisdom.

good 1

>to smrt fr wrds

Books teaches vocabulary and speech. And description.
Videogames can teach grand strategy and priorities.

That said, neither of them has to accomplish anything.

And you are a featherless biped.

>Videogames can teach grand strategy

*with broad flat nails.

I'm aware friend, the best example of Platonism in action is the Divine Comedy in my humbly arrogant opinion. My favorite philosophical quote is from James Joyce. The point was to delineate a better example away from mixed subject matter to something more purely literary. This tickled my autism as the kids today with the hair and the clothes say.

>Videogames can teach grand strategy

>reading that lunatic retard
>not reading aristotel

>spend 20 hours watching reality tv
>???

>spend 20 hours watching (not playing) sports
>???

>spend 0.1 hours having sex
>???

>spend 2 hours talking with your friends about your tabletop RPG campaign
>???

>spend 200 hours building model planes
>???

>Videogames can teach grand strategy and priorities.

Why would I play a video-game for that when I can just read Clausewitz and Sun Tzu?

Nigger faggot

God fucking dammit OP, does this mean I can't do anything my whole life except read books, otherwise I'm wasting my time? Fuck

Any honest men here?

Ah yes, grand strategy, truly the most useful of skills needed in an average day

Dies Irea is pleb tier now, EOP scum

Actually, video games helps you to ignore how things actually works.
Like economy.
Be a better consumer now.

that's why I only play RPGs and I make sure to at least one in game book per session
best of both worlds IMHO

>spend 20 hours playing video games while listening to audiobooks
>???

Aristotle said that a life well-lived by necessity must involve pleasure, so long as it doesn't habituate vices, so playing video games for entertainment, provided that it's with moderation, isn't wrong.

Let's be real, being knowledgable on many philosophical themes won't save you from your 9-to-5 either.

Unless you read young, it takes a real concerted effort to overcome the ingrained retardation of society. If you do read young, you will forever find yourself surrounded by retards. It is depressing how poor the grasp of the english language is among college students today, from basic grammatical mistakes to being completely incapable of writing formally.

ok, read books, play games, stay mega nerds while I lift and party and get chicks

>audiobooks
Shit.
>playing video games while listening to audiobooks
Shittier. How? You don't get to understand or even enjoy either one of them.
You are basically wasting time.

ah yes, philosophy sure will help the average person flip burgers or whatever

>this thirdie grammar
>being triggered by The Bounty of The White Man, earned rightfully

No, it won't, which is why this thread is pretty retarded.

Philosophy is fun to read and fun to discuss at a somewhat decent level, but only pseudo-intellectual managers and the like "apply it to their work ethic" or whatever.

>tfw your boss reads Sun Tzu and pretends it has any use whatsoever in a fucking retail job

>not learning japanese solely for the purpose of reading Dies irae and Masada's works in original despite the translation having been released

One advantage of studying philosophy is you might not end up flipping burgers for a living.

You are right, partially.
Reading meaningfully and learning makes you smarter but even if you just read some shit that is properly written you expand your vocabulary, improve grammar and spelling.
So, yes, you can get smarter just by reading.( not on Sup Forums)

It help the average person to STOP flipping burgers or whatever.

>philosophy majors
>getting any sort of job at all

nope

The trick is to not think your degree = your job

Hes saying that reading only makes you smarter if you read applicable material that you intent to pursue, and that theres no point attempting to read merely for the sake of it beyond entertainment, unless it pertains directly to your career.

You know I am native American whitie

>read book
>+ 2 int

Grand strategy drilled geography and history into me.

You mean swedish

>faggots actually believe """philosophical pieces""" are teaching them anything
I bet you read all those autobiographies that dumbass news pundits and ex-politicians write too

oh, right, I forgot. the actual knowledge behind a degree is fucking worthless, unlike the "I spent 4 years and $80,000 to show up lol" paper you recieve

>>tfw your boss reads Sun Tzu and pretends it has any use whatsoever in a fucking retail job
it does though, retail is about being competitive so a lot of it applies

Correct, because your job is still burger flipping

I wish I could stop vidya once and for all, OP

but I'm too addicted, I've never done anything else in my life