> > Seriously. (May I? For just a moment?) Next time > you contemplate a > > book?s retail price, try dividing it by the number of > hours of > > pleasure you?ll get, reading it. Then tell me of > any other pastime > > with a better minutes per pennies ratio of sheer joy! > > Video games. It's easy to see that Good Quality video > games gives a > much better ratio (I'm not talking about all these first > person shooter > games which are basically 100% interchangable and are > basically Doom > clones). > > Lets see, you probably get 3-5 times (average) from high > quality > games--Ico, Shadow of the Colossus, etc, You probably get > 4-10 times > from any given Zelda game (including handheld), 2-20 times > from High > quality fighter Games--Soul Caliber, Tekken, etc. > Possibly 100's of > times from open ended games--Tetris, Angband, Darklands, > Minesweeper, etc. > > I know I spent more time playing Betray at Krondor than I > did reading Magician (Apprentice & Master). > > Then we get to TV shows/Movies. The average person > probably rewatches > their favorite TV shows & Movies over and over again, so > your conception is wrong.
For me time is too precious to waste playing video games. I canceled my cable and minimized my time on Facebook because they were cutting into my reading time. _______________________________________________ http://box535.bluehost.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com
