Comment on Anon is a gamer

• dwindling7373@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I know I guy that put Overwatch among his experiences. It was for an IT position and he contextualyzed it as some kind of acquired soft skill.

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  • latenightnoir@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I strongly believe that video games are underappreciated in just how much they help us develop certain skills.

    I’m talking long-term planning, resource distribution, tactics, hand-eye coordination, teamwork, skillset comprehension and task allocation based on it, language skills, interpersonal skills (ironically), and can even serve as font of self-knowledge if one dives deep enough!

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    • dwindling7373@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Yea, no. It surely has some positive, just like pretty much anything. But if you look at it as something you do instead of something else, you start accumulating a lot of negatives.

      There’s no way any fine motor skill is somehow more developed than, say, playing almost any sport, that involves more than just two hands, and a similar thing can be said as far as teamwork and resilence goes.

      On the fantasy side you have to compete with reading or, more broadly, studying.

      It probably wins against binge watching b-rated tv series or idlessly watching TV, but if you get the wrong tytle you won’t bring home that much value. (Say you are stuck playing COD on a loop).

      I think an healthy varied diet of activities and stimuli is still the way for getting the best out of life.

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      • latenightnoir@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I respect your opinion, and the fact that it differs from mine:))

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      • finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        A study once showed that pro gamers did actually have better reaction times than professional athletes of other types.

        As far as the other stuff in their list, though, games are too shallow to have any weight towards experiencing the real life equivalent of their themes.

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