On: Ask HN: What are your (non-hn-related) hobbies?

[unalone]

So you hate video games for the same reason theatergoers hate the cinema at the turn of the century. You hate the current offering rather than the medium itself.

[tptacek → unalone]

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.

[unalone → tptacek]

So you don't watch movies, either? Or read books? Two hours of time in which you learn nothing?

[tptacek → unalone]

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.

[unalone → tptacek]

It's a matter of playing the right games. I tend to play shorter arthouse games. Braid, Blueberry Garden, Everyday Shooter, and its kin.