But seriously, I owe much of my competence and motion ability to gaming. Let me explain
I am a poker dealer. Because of years playing Counter-strike and Diablo 2 (and typing at > 120 wpm) my hands are so honed I can flick cards, pick up chips, throw them around the table, stack them, cut them, etc. extremely quickly.
Let's not forget that this is a digital world, and all of the skills I've learned just being in an operating system come in handy daily. My boss needed a flier for a poker tournament edited in Publisher and he had no idea how to do it. I've never used Publisher before and it took me all of 5 minutes to print up 3 different versions for him to choose from.
But competence? I also played WoW for way, way too long. I learned how to do everything as efficiently as possible. Grinding, leveling, any achievement, really any task or goal I had in the game came down to "what is the fastest way to do this?" so that "how can I accomplish as many tasks as possible in the limited gaming time I have?" When I go to work (I'm actually a dual rate so I also supervise 2 days a week) I end up doing everything so radically efficiently it actually amazes some of my coworkers. I come up with systems and algorithms for accomplishing my work tasks, doing paperwork, etc.
But here's the crux of the problem:
I'm efficient so I can be lazy. I get my work done quickly so I don't have to work as much, although at this point I'm not even sure what I classify as work. I sat there and grinded Insane in the Membrane in WoW and didn't think anything of it, but the idea of having to get up and fold some laundry for 5 minutes abhors me.
IMO they need a UI for real life that pops up achievements when you do mundane garbage.
Edited for readability.
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But seriously, I owe much of my competence and motion ability to gaming. Let me explain
I am a poker dealer. Because of years playing Counter-strike and Diablo 2 (and typing at > 120 wpm) my hands are so honed I can flick cards, pick up chips, throw them around the table, stack them, cut them, etc. extremely quickly.
Let's not forget that this is a digital world, and all of the skills I've learned just being in an operating system come in handy daily. My boss needed a flier for a poker tournament edited in Publisher and he had no idea how to do it. I've never used Publisher before and it took me all of 5 minutes to print up 3 different versions for him to choose from.
But competence? I also played WoW for way, way too long. I learned how to do everything as efficiently as possible. Grinding, leveling, any achievement, really any task or goal I had in the game came down to "what is the fastest way to do this?" so that "how can I accomplish as many tasks as possible in the limited gaming time I have?" When I go to work (I'm actually a dual rate so I also supervise 2 days a week) I end up doing everything so radically efficiently it actually amazes some of my coworkers. I come up with systems and algorithms for accomplishing my work tasks, doing paperwork, etc.
But here's the crux of the problem:
I'm efficient so I can be lazy. I get my work done quickly so I don't have to work as much, although at this point I'm not even sure what I classify as work. I sat there and grinded Insane in the Membrane in WoW and didn't think anything of it, but the idea of having to get up and fold some laundry for 5 minutes abhors me.
IMO they need a UI for real life that pops up achievements when you do mundane garbage.
Edited for readability.