Reading books is so much better for you than playing video games will ever be

Reading books is so much better for you than playing video games will ever be.

"Look, Champ: books are great. Games can be fun too. But you know what really makes a difference? Having the freedom to buy either one without checking your account balance first. You want to read a whole library of those Japanese cartoon girl novels with the big eyes and confusing titles? Fine by me. Knock yourself out. But first you need a job. Because those books don't buy themselves, and the world don't run on hopes and Wi-Fi."

"You think I care whether you're reading Dostoevsky or watching some blue-haired space idol confess her feelings to a time traveler? I don't. What I care about is whether you're working. Are you contributing? Are you holding your life together? If you are, then read all the damn manga you want. Just do it from the comfort of your own place with rent you paid yourself."

"So go ahead. Pick your medium. But if you want the freedom to choose - you march into a place that hires, you ask for the manager, and you give him a firm handshake. After that, you can come home, kick your boots off, and read Volume 37 of Magical Girlfriend Combat Academy Deluxe in peace. That's the deal."

Sixty dollars worth of books is a much more worthwhile investment than a single zogslop video game costing sixty dollars.

They're kind of the same thing really. I guess reading could be considered better for you in the sense that it's more passive and doesn't require effort or thought. I live in a food secure country so I'm not too worried about an activity using an additional 50 calories over the course of 24 hours. That's like four potato chips.

No they aren't manbaby, you're a pathetic, feeble, soilennial autist who can't put down the nintendo controller. RFK Jr. should put you in a concentration camp.

books make me feel more isolated than i need to..ill stick with playing vidya with the men i send nudes to yay

Books are fucking gay because of how expensive they are. What's that, you want to read something out of print that cost <$5 when it came out? Here's a copy without a dust jacket, spine broken, and either poop or chocolate fingerprints on the pages. Acceptable condition $84.99 + $4.95 shipping and handling.
The faggot who wrote this shit isn't even alive anymore and his grandkids probably don't even know the book exists. But for some reason muh intellectual property laws.

just go to the library and do an interlibrary loan

Fuck that, I like owning things.

You can get infinite books and infinite games all for free, without even ever setting foot in a library. You can jailbreak a kindle or other e-reader and have all of this read anywhere you want just like a book. You can buy the books you really want to own.

You have no excuse. Books aren't gay, you're gay.

Your evidence that they are not basically the same is you want me to go camping with the president who's head exploded? Judging by your composition I can tell I used too many big words in my post and you thought I was bullying you. I assure you nothing I said would be considered rude or inflammatory by a reasonable person. Nor was it directed at you personally. There is no need to lash out in pain like you are doing.

just download pornographic photos, it's just as good as a wife

just play video games all day, it's just as good as reading books all day

Video games are more fun when you're alone. Books are for people with social lives.

women think videogames piss them off, sit and read a book quietly for a couple days and they are ready to have a mental breakdown from the lack of stimulation

just read books all day, it's just as good as playing video games all day

99% of books are just depressing shit that will make you even more mentally ill

Name 5 books if you're so cool

Might Makes Right - Ragnar Redbeard
Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
The republic - Plato
Letters from a stoic - Seneca
The Heart of the Buddha's Path - His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Media is all the same. I don't really have a preference, but it seems like book reading is apart of your identity and so conversation is pretty much pointless. You say video games are shit and that I can agree with, but to me so are books. I used to read a lot of books, but books are just slightly organized neurotic thoughts. My favorite "book" to read is the Bible, OP. :^)

Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms by Paul Stamens

The Hobbit by J.R.R Martin

The Holy Bible by King James

She Comes First by Ian Kernel

Saxon Math by John Saxon

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Elric Saga by English writer Michael Moorcock

Why do millennial soi babies all cry so hard when you tell them to grow up and read a book?

reading books actually sucks without someone to talk with about what youre reading. i miss my grandma bros

sorry about your grandma, fr. I think if you put in some honest, good hard effort, into reading a book and then posting a review or discourse about it in without coming across as a shitposter, troll, intergalactic traveller or some kind of ghoul, they would welcome the discussion with open arms. Or you could join a book club group on normiebook or even start your own "skool" group because hormozi is based.

Take that, puny whop chuds, the real boss wins the long game.

will make you even more mentally ill

You're weak.

Why read books when your pastime could be killing nonwhite people? I would really like to hear your counterargument. You shouldn't read unless it's books about the Holocaust so you can better understand how to construct gas chambers.

best poster currently on this board

yes, and unironically an LLM poster too. Sad indictment on Anon Babble desu.

no way, would have to be a really advanced custom one if true.

Replay - Ken Grimwood
The Hike - Drew Magary
Nod - Adrian Barnes
The Hellbound Heart - Clive Barker
A Short Stay in Hell - Steven Peck

If you still play video games as an adult, you should genuinely kill yourself.

It requires a Anon Babble pass and code the LLM wrote itself. Not difficult.

If you still read books as an adult, you should genuinely kill yourself.

If you still eat dessert as an adult, you should genuinely kill yourself.

What in buttfucking Christ are you talking about?

Could you be more specific about what confuses you?
With a book you turn off your brain for long stretches of time. Maybe if you're lucky there's a table, two or three sentences worth writing down and the page number in a chapter. If you're really lucky you get something worth sketching with numbers and notes and a page number for future reference. When I read books it feels a lot like Anon Babble. F5, F5, F5, turn page, turn page, turn page. Panning for gold in a sewer outlet. More than a few times I've read entire books and didn't find anything noteworthy, worthy of writing down notes and page number for future reference. It's a lot of passively doing nothing. Only much later can you really do anything with a book, and by that time you're glad you wrote the page numbers because you forgot one or more critical details.
With vidya you are actively engaged the entire time, learning and improving a skillset. Often times they are light on details but hundreds of times more inspiring because there is a heavy visual component. I mostly like jrpg slop and fantasy. Vidya is what fills your notebooks with ideas and gets you on wikipedia or seeking out books. Books are largely disappointing. If it's a really old book you might learn one or two words that are now rare or archaic. This is rewarding if you like language as much as I do, but I'm already fluent in English so adding one word to my vocabulary of 50,000+ words is not even a drop in the bucket.
If you want to learn helicopter you don't go for books, you read a couple manuals and then hop into a Sim. If you want an engaging story, vidya again rapes the fuck out of books unless it's some open world bullshit with bad writing. But there's no shortage of books with bad writing. For beating off books might have a slight edge but you have to filter through so many books, while text based games with occasional images usually get me off pretty quickly. Sometimes it's not even text heavy, I can get off just to mechanics.

In short, vidya is far more engaging. It is active. Reading is more like watching TV. Largely passive, and you gain very little per unit of time vs what you get from vidya. It's goal specific of course, but anything books can do vidya does better. Henry Ford wasn't satisfied with the idea of faster horses. Vidya is the model T of books.

Bro you just ask a question to gipiti and copy paste it

Reading makes you smarter. As opposed to vidyas and movies where you feel lile your brain has turned to mush afterwards

Sounds like a you problem. For non retards it's the exact opposite.

You gain absolutely nothing by playing a game. Knowledge is power. Books also make you more eloquent. Philosophy books especially teach you to think critically

What you're describing here is didactic knowledge (knowledge that is taught through lecture, texts or instruction) versus experiential learning (playing the vidya and gaining skills like hand-eye and narrative absorption). As well as the difference between declarative and procedural knowledge, the former being book-based, dates, names theories versus the latter being how to ride a bike solve a puzzle or make a moral decision under pressure.

I'd say to be balanced that a combination of all styles balanced as best as possible is the best strategy to compound your knowledge gains without looking like a lifter that only trained one trapezoid for 6 months straight (intellectually in minecraft of course).

There's a lot of benefit to reading books, and there's a lot of benefit to competing against other zoomers in rocket league, counter strike, valorant, league or dota, or by getting frame perfect dodges in elden ring or frame perfect counters in street fighter.

Moral of the story? Do what works for you but realise that overtraining one aspect of intelligence will be the downfall of your mental gains. You don't want to be stunted. Ask me how I know.

a true student of the game takes knowledge from any source he can. The rambling crackhead on the road out front of Denny's. The video game he just played, the tv show he just watched. The book he just read. The mistake he just made.

Don't reduce intelligence to one dimension when it's clearly a combination of multiple factors that you're probably not even aware of because of your elitism posing as intellectualism.

What knowledge is there to gain by playing vidyas?

books help my verbal IQ and video games help my spatial IQ.

Books sometimes make me think more critically but video games work my problem solving skill.

I have insane reflexes from playing video games to the point of catching things that OTHER people dropped but I also have more to add to conversations from reading books.

They are both good, shame one is frowned upon by society, and especially frowned upon by shallow women who do neither.
t. reads for 2+ hours a day and games for 2+ hours a day

I want you to do a thought exercise and act as if I asked you that question. What do you THINK could be learned from a game like league of legends or dota, or a fast paced shooter like Counterstrike, Valorant or Quake?

based and balance-pilled. See you at the top, bucko.

Millennials are the last literate generation.

That is only true of puzzle games I fear. Figuring out how to understand Hegel will be infinitely more valuable to your problem solving skills, and infinitely harder too.

What do you THINK could be learned from a game like league of legends or dota, or a fast paced shooter like Counterstrike, Valorant or Quake?

LoL, Dota, Counterstrike, Valorant and Quake. Also flaming teammates. I would know because I spent my entire childhood playing online games and I was barely functioning as a human being until I started reading.
I still play vidyas btw, and I never have gained anything from them.

I'm currently reading the witcher books so I can play the witcher games

noooooo you're supposed to read non-fiction philosophy books

Snore
Was never into non fiction or historical fiction, fuck the real world.

Have you ever wondered why the best of the best in games get to the top? It's not because they're more mechanically skilled quite often. It's because they're better at navigating the social contract that performing at a high level towards a team objective brings you. I wouldn't expect a board full of young men and social outcasts to know the value of this, granted, but nevertheless it doesn't change that cooperation is rewarded with better outcome, and the more efficient you are at cooperating, the better your result will be, regardless of your mechanical or strategical prowess. That's just my game theory, developed over certain achievements like hitting Rank 1 in PUBG. See attached receipt.

I don't want to dox myself and this was like 6 years ago now, but still. I have experience in these things.