The guy who gave a negative review to Battlezone 98 Redux after playing 8k hours

OMG, imagine he spent the 8k hours learning to program or play the piano or walking across the country. I’m not into games that much even though I’ve played a bit. From the outside this looks like a sad way to spend our time on this planet.

To help contextualize it - this is roughly 2h 45m every day, for 8 years.

That's an INSANE amount of time which - as you say - could be spent learning to play the piano solo from Scenes from an Italian Restaurant.

If he wanted to play piano, I’d imagine he’d have done that instead.

It's about same amount of time people in the US watch traditional broadcast TV each day. Streaming TV is way longer (4 hours)

https://www.statista.com/statistics/186833/average-televisio...

Others would say spending 8k hours learning to program or programming is sad.

Just do what makes you happy, don't judge other peoples hobbies.

On a side note: I'm actually not sure why games specifically still have such a negative connotation in a day and age where most people spend more time doomscrolling social media or watching reality TV slop every day.

Time you enjoyed 'wasting' -- was not wasted.

You assume people gain no skills from playing video games which is false.