I spend $12 on a movie ticket. I watch for 2 hours. $6/hr entertainment, maybe a little less if I think about the movie after I leave, maybe a lot more if i also buy a popcorn.
I spend $30 on a game for sale on steam. I play it for 100 hours over the course of 4-5 weeks. $0.30/hr entertainment.
Just the value math alone checks out, regardless of the fact that the video game is a more interactive and interesting experience compared to the vomit that Hollywood spits out these days.
That’s assuming you only see movies in a theater or rent them. You can get plenty of hours of movie watching by subscribing to a single streaming service.
You know that there are free altwrnatives to streaming? I still enjoy (paid) games more than free movies/series.
Yeah, but some people need to take polygraphs and swear they don’t do little things like pirate media or smoke pot. I’m not even kidding. The stupidest little thing will be made a big deal of. It’s easier to mostly follow the rules. Mostly.
duh? One is a completely passive ‘experience’, while the other is more akin to a hobby: You perform an action, gain a skill and overcome obstacles that become more and more difficult.
Best skills from video games:
Puzzle solving / abstract thinking
Hand / eye coordination
Not flying into a blind rage when playing Rocket League, Apex, Deadlock, etc.
Still working on that last one.
I remember when Rocket League first came out and I thought it was going to be this silly, fun game. Boy, was I wrong. Totally not my crowd.
Competitive games always attract the most toxic people. I stick with co-op games for that reason.
Same. Which is a shame because I could enjoy a silly game where you play soccer in a car. But not the way people play it in real life. Those ultra competitive types have to ruin anything with the littlest bit of competitive dynamic.
I remember my friends getting me to play LoL when it came out (we were big WoW people who were all very comfortable and good at WoW-style PvP). Didn’t stay there long!
Let’s be real. The type of movies that don’t suck total ass in 2024 are not the kind of movies conducive to watching if you have an attention span shot to shit by tiktok. Vidya games are just going to be more stimulating to younger people, blanket statement, and probably millennials for that matter as well.
Yay, ageism!
TikTok users are pretty evenly spread from age 10 to 50.
The post is about Gen Z.
We’re talking about why Gen Z prefers games to movies. Attention span is part of that equation. Gen Z is the predominant demographic on the social network famous for lowering attention spans.
Do I need to pre-qualify any other statements for you?