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

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- dwindling7373@feddit.it ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  My teenage years were spent in Warcraft III. I sucked at it, I’m terrible at multitasking.
  
  It could very well be that you were already good at that and that translated both into enjoying strategy game and succeeding as a Project Manager.
  
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  - latenightnoir@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Well, there ya’ go! I still suck at Warcraft III, and not for a lack of trying!:))
    
    Maybe you do have a point about having predilections for certain skillsets, but I can say with certainty that I’ve never aced a game the first (dozens of) time I picked it up. But they helped me narrow down my thinking in terms of priorities, they helped me develop a “nose” for strengths and shortcomings in someone’s skillset, they basically taught me what the practical side of management entails.
    
    Same with long-form sim games, those taught me how to plan for the long-term, how to form contingencies, how to deal with the unforeseen, etc.
    
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    dwindling7373@feddit.it ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    
    they helped me develop a “nose” for strengths and shortcomings in someone’s skillset
    
    In an actual human being? What kind of game are you thinking about here?
    
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finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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