OK, people say vidya is worthless as shit as a hobby and I would argue otherwise.
Of course, every hobbies got its forte (bar maybe masturbation by yourself, letting loose aside, and hardcore BDSM/gay shit), but vidya does teach you some valuable skills.
- money management/min-maxing, the average gamer learns of item and money management through any RPG and RTS and would grow up to plan/save money better than people who just read book and movies - map-reading skill, this you can learn by book, but you would be naturally good at map reading in the real world IF you experience and read map in games - task-solving mindset, of course, vidya doesn't teach you to solve problem, but it creates a mindset where you separate a problem and classify them through their relative importance, of course, you learn this when you play RPG due to the main quest/side quest divide
These are all useful skills you can acquire without playing vidya, but surely vidya help.
I'm not going to mention shit like reflexes gained through you fighting games/FPS or micro-management/logistics skill acquired in RTS/RTT, or risk management skill acquired in TBS/SRPG because these skills are less valuable/noticeable in an office working environment.
Adrian James
The Paradox games improved my geographical knowledge by quite a lot.
Ryan James
Typing of the dead increased my typing speed
Jace Anderson
I dunno about skills but I sure have a fuckload of useless knowledge about certain topics from playing games. For example I played 300h of Kerbal space program and know a good bit about orbital mechanics because of it, but I have no real interest in that topic outside of playing the game.
James Hernandez
Resource management, basic tactics, basic strategy, a notion of ballistics and logic skills are some that can be cultivated by some games.
Austin Reed
Was about to say this. Also authoring if the writing is good, and languages if you are ESL or playing nip game and studying moon.
MMO teaches you a lot about socialising, how to make friends for the shy and meek, how to avoid/identify human shaped cancers, why sperging out is a one-way ticket to be a lolcow, spirit of cooperation, kikery, etc.
Alexander Gomez
What an interesting time in human history.
Nicholas Martin
You have obviously never had a meaningful relationship if you think MMOs teach you any form of social skills. Doubly delusional, since MMOs usually have the lowest of the low when it comes to well-adjusted individuals who have lives outside of playing video games.
Jacob Watson
They also teach you how to attract the opposite sex as well.
Christopher Peterson
Rage management.
Ethan Powell
Basic online decency for starters. And people play MMOs with their friends mostly and made more in game friends by simply not being a fuckwit, at least in Japan because faggotry is not tolerated.
Just how thoroughly fucked you guys are in the west regarding the MMO community?
Josiah Foster
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Joseph Parker
Patience Perseverance Disappointment Futility
Eli Hall
It obviously doesn't teach you history faggot.
Kevin Peterson
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Aiden Cruz
I grew up playing economic and management games and I never saved up a cent. Probably because I was too adsorbed in my digital world to pay attention and retain things in school. I believe many people who play too many video games can feel this detach from the real word that sets them back. For example, the faggot who makes a "things vidya teach" thread on an imageboard in an attempt to validate all the hours in Total Jewhammer.
Nigger please.
So does everything in life.
B-but they have breastplates.
Brody Peterson
Vidya can give you good reflexes if you play stuff like FPS or shmups. RTS games help you think fast since you need to not only have good awareness but also develop a strategy that counters what your enemy is doing. RTS games also teach you to multitask real good.
Any historical game can teach you a little bit of history if it tries to be accurate, but this extends to any sort of media. Multiplayer games can teach you how to work in/coordinate a team and be a decent leader, if they're the sort of game that relies heavily on teamwork.
That's about it, really. Everything else OP said is bullshit. The worst kind of job TBH.
Austin Hall
Being a guild leader teaches you manager skills, yes those skills are fully applicable in management for a company.
Nolan Allen
I learned budgeting wages from runescape. Granted it wasn't on a stable wage rate, but from my starting minimum wage job I moved out in like, 2 years.
Adam Garcia
How is everything else I said bullshit?
Good luck learning map reading via books, certainy possible but a very dry way to do it. And reading books and watching movies will not teach you a task-solving mindset.
Sebastian Sanders
They teach me how to use an escapist medium so I don't have to face my crippling depression and hopelessness every day.
Asher Lee
All I see in this thread is absolute horseshit
Nolan Rogers
Even masturbation by yourself teaches you to delay your cum.
You learn that by just buying things in real life, in a much more efficient and effective way too. Games don't teach you any map reading skills applicable to real life at all. More like it teaches you to just blindly follow orders and objectives and work on smaller problems which are bigger problems that are already broken down. If anything, it makes you more of a retard because you're going to always subconsciously expect an obvious path to follow in order to solve problems.
Grayson Ward
You need to play better games, I can tell already you've never played anything older then final fantasy. I can also tell you'd quit any old game because it'll make you feel like a retard for not holding your hand.
Caleb Ramirez
getting 40 assholes together to raid is probably the hardest shit i've ever done and i sure as hell don't miss it.
Justin Young
If things are easy then they are boring
Dominic King
Except you can lose REAL fucking money when you try to do that in real life without experiences in doing so, vidya provides a virtual economy where you can learn the basics which you apply in real life plus things you can't do in vidya like hagging. Bull fucking crap it doesn't, I learn to navigate city map from playing GTA VC, and you can learn to navigate military map via Arma. It teaches you the mindset though, everything can be solved if they are broken into simpler things. No, since in vidya, you still have to find the path yourself, unless you use a walkthrough, and real life walkthrough is various book and experiences from real life people.
Brody Turner
Or maybe, maybe you are just a retard?
My favorite genre is RTS/RPG, and I always manage to stay net positive, in fact, I have hoarding tendency due to playing too much RPG. Ain't nuthing wrong with Total Warhammer though, best TW in years.
Gabriel Hughes
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Gabriel Wilson
I hope they find the soulless beta cucks they are looking for
Joshua Cooper
meant for
Asher Sanchez
Warthunder taught me about planes.
Joshua Nelson
Mmo's thought me that people are shit and throw hissyfits over the smallest of things. Also if your friend bring his girlfriend the entire group will fall apart.
Isaiah Moore
PRESS X TO WIN
Asher Thompson
Vidya taught me ballistics and how to properly aim using iron sights over different distances. I was the best shot in my military service because of this. Other than that, they didn't teach me anything else.
Zachary Stewart
I call bullshit.
Josiah Sanders
this tbh
anything else is a bonus or something that ill forget in a couple of days.