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Slimebeast on 28 June 2009
The_vagabond7 said:
Just as a frame of reference there is 8,760 hours in a year. So when thinking that you've put thousands of hours into a game, think about how many months of your life have been spent in that game. Food for thought.


8,760 hours in a year, that is interesting to memorize.

IMO gaming is quality time though. Only spending time with relatives (or friends that feel bad or need emotional support or something) is more valuable in your free time.

Now work, that's a huge waste of time. I wonder how many hours that'll add up to, and it's going on year after year.

Can u calcluate that, Vagabond? To give sum more perspective.



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Slimebeast on 28 June 2009
The_vagabond7 said:
Just as a frame of reference there is 8,760 hours in a year. So when thinking that you've put thousands of hours into a game, think about how many months of your life have been spent in that game. Food for thought.


8,760 hours in a year, that is interesting to memorize.

IMO gaming is quality time though. Only spending time with relatives (or friends that feel bad or need emotional support or something) is more valuable in your free time.

Now work, that's a huge waste of time. I wonder how many hours that'll add up to, and it's going on year after year.

Can u calcluate that, Vagabond? To give sum more perspective.



Slimebeast on 28 June 2009
Son1x said:
All my characters together, my WoW has something like 80-90hours played (or less, been some time since I played last time).


lol that wasn't very much!



Phobos on 28 June 2009

At the moment:
Halo Wars - about 200+ hours

In the past:
Jagged Alliance II, Halo 2



 

 

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Alan Greenspan, 1967

Son1x on 28 June 2009
Slimebeast said:
Son1x said:
All my characters together, my WoW has something like 80-90hours played (or less, been some time since I played last time).


lol that wasn't very much!

Well I raided MC, some BWL then stopped when AQ came, later returned to BC just to lvl to 70 and try some arenas and raiding, both were boring. And around december last year, my brother activated our account, so I played some WotLK but I couldn't get into it,  now I haven't played for like 2-3 months. 

In conclussion, after a year or so, WoW became boring.

Lets see...
My lvl 71 Priest has (this was my main char) 32 days
60 Paladin (leveled 1-58 or something in vanila then just hit 60 in BC) has 8 days
60 Rogue (played only in vanila) has 15 days
70 Shaman has (I played him 1-60 in BC and 60-70 WotLK, yea I was kinda behind with him, made this character to play with some other friends on different server) 6 days 

So all that together is 61 days

And add all those low lvl's I played and stopped or when I played my friends/brothers characters, it should round up to around  65-80days. I used to raid with my brother hunter, MC/Onyxia and played my friends mage in BC before I got hands on it.



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Slimebeast on 28 June 2009

^ well you said "80-90 hours".



Son1x on 28 June 2009

Oh haha, sorry my bad :D



"And yet, I've realized that maybe living a "decent" life means you won't ever have a "good" life."

 

The_vagabond7 on 28 June 2009
Slimebeast said:
The_vagabond7 said:
Just as a frame of reference there is 8,760 hours in a year. So when thinking that you've put thousands of hours into a game, think about how many months of your life have been spent in that game. Food for thought.


8,760 hours in a year, that is interesting to memorize.

IMO gaming is quality time though. Only spending time with relatives (or friends that feel bad or need emotional support or something) is more valuable in your free time.

Now work, that's a huge waste of time. I wonder how many hours that'll add up to, and it's going on year after year.

Can u calcluate that, Vagabond? To give sum more perspective.

Oh yeah, definitely, preaching to the quire. Don't think I meant to imply it's time wasted, just interesting food for thought.

Work is most certainly time wasted, unless you just happen to have a super fulfilling job you love such as teacher or scientist or what have you, where you actually WANT to go to work (couldn't we all be so lucky?). And assuming you work a normal 40 hour work week, you're looking at 2,080 hours a year working. What a total waste of time. But at least it funds the good parts I suppose.



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Slimebeast on 28 June 2009
The_vagabond7 said:
Slimebeast said:
The_vagabond7 said:
Just as a frame of reference there is 8,760 hours in a year. So when thinking that you've put thousands of hours into a game, think about how many months of your life have been spent in that game. Food for thought.


8,760 hours in a year, that is interesting to memorize.

IMO gaming is quality time though. Only spending time with relatives (or friends that feel bad or need emotional support or something) is more valuable in your free time.

Now work, that's a huge waste of time. I wonder how many hours that'll add up to, and it's going on year after year.

Can u calcluate that, Vagabond? To give sum more perspective.

Oh yeah, definitely, preaching to the quire. Don't think I meant to imply it's time wasted, just interesting food for thought.

Work is most certainly time wasted, unless you just happen to have a super fulfilling job you love such as teacher or scientist or what have you, where you actually WANT to go to work (couldn't we all be so lucky?). And assuming you work a normal 40 hour work week, you're looking at 2,080 hours a year working. What a total waste of time. But at least it funds the good parts I suppose.

Exactly. A scientist, artist, entrepeneur in an exciting niche, or game developer or something. There indeed exist fullfilling great jobs.

Most of us dont have them though. =(

So, you say total time is 8760 hours a year.

Subtract 2000 for work. And what about sleep? Should amount to a lil over 2500 hours.

So there's still 4000 hours left for other stuff (minus boring stuff like getting ready for work and transportation, lunch time at work, personal hygien, buying groceries and cooking food, cleaning the house, going to the dentist or changing tyres on your car... and taking care of your kids if you have any (nightmare, I dont even want to go into that and try to calculate those hours).

I wonder what "fun time" amounts to.

Vagabond, calculate again lol.




The_vagabond7 on 28 June 2009
Slimebeast said:
The_vagabond7 said:
Slimebeast said:
The_vagabond7 said:
Just as a frame of reference there is 8,760 hours in a year. So when thinking that you've put thousands of hours into a game, think about how many months of your life have been spent in that game. Food for thought.


8,760 hours in a year, that is interesting to memorize.

IMO gaming is quality time though. Only spending time with relatives (or friends that feel bad or need emotional support or something) is more valuable in your free time.

Now work, that's a huge waste of time. I wonder how many hours that'll add up to, and it's going on year after year.

Can u calcluate that, Vagabond? To give sum more perspective.

Oh yeah, definitely, preaching to the quire. Don't think I meant to imply it's time wasted, just interesting food for thought.

Work is most certainly time wasted, unless you just happen to have a super fulfilling job you love such as teacher or scientist or what have you, where you actually WANT to go to work (couldn't we all be so lucky?). And assuming you work a normal 40 hour work week, you're looking at 2,080 hours a year working. What a total waste of time. But at least it funds the good parts I suppose.

Exactly. A scientist, artist, entrepeneur in an exciting niche, or game developer or something. There indeed exist fullfilling great jobs.

Most of us dont have them though. =(

So, you say total time is 8760 hours a year.

Subtract 2000 for work. And what about sleep? Should amount to a lil over 2500 hours.

So there's still 4000 hours left for other stuff (minus boring stuff like getting ready for work and transportation, lunch time at work, personal hygien, buying groceries and cooking food, cleaning the house, going to the dentist or changing tyres on your car... and taking care of your kids if you have any (nightmare, I dont even want to go into that and try to calculate those hours).

I wonder what "fun time" amounts to.

Vagabond, calculate again lol.

Well lets see, factoring in the various things you've added to the list....carry the one...add the five...reticulate the spleens...you've got negative 700 hours a year.



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