Some people have this idea that playing games is a hobby and it puts me off. Playing games is not a hobby it is a pastime. Hobbies are often communal activities that encourage socialization, not pseudo online congregations. You can engage with your hobby in isolation and it can be your own activity for yourself, or you can share your hobby with others which I believe is the prime function of maintaining a hobby the goal being socialization. Just because you play a game with other people or groups of people does not then make playing a game a hobby, you are merely interacting with others inside of a video game which is very dystopian.
This same phenomenon of pseudo relationships exists in the streaming world where people congregate behind their screens to watch a person do a thing or play a game, but together, it’s essentially gooning without the sexual pathology.
The definition of hobby has been stretched to include video games. Video games are not a hobby, they facilitate the atomization of the self and promote further isolation of the human spirit. I can play a game with other people without having met the other people, in essence they become the medium itself exempt from the human form. I do not know you nor have I met you, if we did meet would we even share a common interest outside of the pastime we bonded over?
The system that relies on atomizing its people to the point of creating virtual subjects with no corporeal being and promoting socialization through video games is entirely bizarre, the amalgamation of things that are present in my existence pushes me closer to reaching peak psychosis.
There needs to be a material value to a hobby, it can’t just be data on a computer highlighting one’s achievements. Without computers, without all that data stored, your hobby seizes to exist.
Video games must be abolished, they are just another barrier preventing our escape from a doomed virtual world created for the sole purpose of pushing us further away from our physical bodies. Like the universe shifting, the same process is existing within society, they call it the red shift and we are Red Dead shifting away from ourselves.
I agree that videogames aren't a hobby though.
Unless you make videogames, then that can be a hobby.
Hobbies involve making a thing, and sometimes sharing that thing you made with other people who also make things. This can stretch to making a collection, which you share with others, such as tabletop card games.
Some specific videogames are however a hobby, by themselves. Minecraft can be a hobby. People make stuff, and share the things they made with each others.
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You're describing creative hobbies
Sports and exercising are quintessential hobbies but nobody except the best players make anything
Sports are pastimes that are played competitively.
Exercise for personal gains is a hobby because you are working on creating something, it's just biological.
Right as always, Awoo
I'm pretty sure playing video games create biological changes too in your brain and certain muscles too then like reaction speeds, new neuron pathways, and muscle memory
Maybe so but you're playing the game for fun, not for those changes.
You do the exercise for those changes. Some find it fun as well but the primary goal is the physical changes.
Nobody is playing games for the physical changes unless it's like some old person doing nintendo brain training or something.
What about the people exercising for good feelings vs people who play video games also for good feelings
If you wish to reply you can get the last word in, I'm checked out of this debate now tbh
Does this mean playing a sport isn't a hobby?
Sports are pastimes that are played competitively.
I've never heard "hobby" and "pastime" used as non-synonyms in any context before this thread.
I mostly don't care and just enjoy deeply semantic arguments.