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Re:Ask HN: What are your (non-hn-related) hobbies? by tptacek on Monday October 05, 2009 @08:56PM (#863237)
Video games suck up lots of time and leave you with nothing when you're done. Two hours spent bickering on IRC or Hacker News at least teaches you things. I'm not sure if that's exactly what mahmud said, but that's my reasoning, and I thought his was close to mine.
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Re:Ask HN: What are your (non-hn-related) hobbies? by unalone on Tuesday October 06, 2009 @08:55AM (#864014)
So you don't watch movies, either? Or read books? Two hours of time in which you learn nothing?
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Re:Ask HN: What are your (non-hn-related) hobbies? by tptacek on Tuesday October 06, 2009 @01:22PM (#864654)
I definitely watch movies and read book, but I feel like I come away from them with something, unlike with video games.

I get that some people do feel like they get something out of playing video games, and I'm not indicting them.

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Re:Ask HN: What are your (non-hn-related) hobbies? by unalone on Tuesday October 06, 2009 @01:41PM (#864711)
It's a matter of playing the right games. I tend to play shorter arthouse games. Braid, Blueberry Garden, Everyday Shooter, and its kin.
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