🍹Early to RISA 🧉@sh.itjust.worksM to Greentext@sh.itjust.works · 2 months agoAnon plays World of Warcraftsh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square123linkfedilinkarrow-up1803arrow-down110
arrow-up1793arrow-down1imageAnon plays World of Warcraftsh.itjust.works🍹Early to RISA 🧉@sh.itjust.worksM to Greentext@sh.itjust.works · 2 months agomessage-square123linkfedilink
minus-squareQuadrexium@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up180·2 months agowhy do real chores when virtual chores
minus-square🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up117·2 months ago“Honey, can you go out and powerwash the side of the house this weekend?” “Awww, c’mon… I was planning on playing Powerwash Simulator this weekend! 😩”
minus-squarejballs@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·2 months agoNow I kind of feel guilty for enjoying Crime Scene Cleaner. At least in my defense, my house is not covered in blood.
minus-squareLeon@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·2 months agoI’ve been playing Hitman: World of Assassination all weekend. Not sure if that’s better than the alternative.
minus-squareJcbAzPx@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·2 months agoA real power washer can run out of water or power unless you tether it to outlets. Meanwhile in the simulator, you can parkour onto the roof with an infinite water tank.
minus-squareSpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up73·2 months agoReal chores give us no sense of pride and accomplishment
minus-squareMac@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down2·2 months agoSurely you are referencing the EA comment, yes?
minus-squarefigjam@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·2 months agoIf powerwashing the house got me new socks that gave me +.25 an hour pay I’d be doing all kinds of side quests
minus-squareSpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 months agoI hear those are in the next patch release of Earth
minus-squarerumschlumpel@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down2·2 months agoTBH they kinda do. It’s just that there’s all sorts of real-world issues attached to them, while a game is at worst boring.
minus-squareTubularTittyFrog@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 months agoFor a lot of people. they don’t. Chores are just painful and annoying and unrewarding and they hate them objectively.
minus-squarerumschlumpel@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down2·2 months agoI’m sure lots of people don’t feel a sense of accomplishment from gaming, either.
minus-squareplutopos@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2 months agobut gaming is fine-tuned to be fun, real life isn’t
minus-squarerumschlumpel@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down2·2 months agobut real life achievements are much more real and often more lasting than in-game achievements
minus-squareTubularTittyFrog@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agolol what world are you living in? chores never stop.
minus-squarerumschlumpel@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·2 months agoThat doesn’t diminish the sense of accomplishment.
minus-squareUnstoppable_Flop@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 months agoNeither did WOW ones, every time I’d complete an impossible task and get my reward they’d nerf it and start giving it away the next week
why do real chores when virtual chores
“Honey, can you go out and powerwash the side of the house this weekend?”
“Awww, c’mon… I was planning on playing Powerwash Simulator this weekend! 😩”
Now I kind of feel guilty for enjoying Crime Scene Cleaner. At least in my defense, my house is not covered in blood.
I’ve been playing Hitman: World of Assassination all weekend.
Not sure if that’s better than the alternative.
A real power washer can run out of water or power unless you tether it to outlets. Meanwhile in the simulator, you can parkour onto the roof with an infinite water tank.
Real chores give us no sense of pride and accomplishment
Pride And Accomplishment™ 🤤
Surely you are referencing the EA comment, yes?
If powerwashing the house got me new socks that gave me +.25 an hour pay I’d be doing all kinds of side quests
I hear those are in the next patch release of Earth
TBH they kinda do. It’s just that there’s all sorts of real-world issues attached to them, while a game is at worst boring.
For a lot of people. they don’t. Chores are just painful and annoying and unrewarding and they hate them objectively.
I’m sure lots of people don’t feel a sense of accomplishment from gaming, either.
but gaming is fine-tuned to be fun, real life isn’t
but real life achievements are much more real and often more lasting than in-game achievements
lol what world are you living in? chores never stop.
That doesn’t diminish the sense of accomplishment.
Neither did WOW ones, every time I’d complete an impossible task and get my reward they’d nerf it and start giving it away the next week