I'd argue that most people shouldn't have 100 free hours to sink into a video game within a week to two week period. And with games like this they are best experienced within a time-frame like that.
If you do, you probably aren't prioritizing what's important in life. Such as, working on your own personal challenges/issues, advocating/lending a hand when and where needed, or spending time with family/building towards having a family.
Using vacation days for a video game release also seems extremely short-sighted as well. Traveling to Asia or Europe, going to a music festival, or experiencing what numerous cities have to offer sounds much more enriching. Old school video games were much more arcadey and packed full of fun gameplay with good story elements. At least, all my best experiences (Halo, SWTOR, Ratchet and Clank) in gaming were. They respected your time. Now, however, all of it just feels extremely grindy in the name of player retention.
It's funny to see how people pushing their idea of what's important in life, the definition of short-sightedness onto others. Spoken as if he found out about the meaning of life in the universe.
Agreed. But a silver lining of the pandemic is that my wife is now my office mate. As a result, we've spent the majority of most days together over the last 8 months and I could not be happier!
Yeah, I imagine this is testing some marriages, but I think my spouse and I are both happier for spending more time together. It really depends on living arrangements as well - just our office space is nearly as large as our first apartments entire living space so we can take the time apart we need.
It also depends on personalities - my wife and I share 650 square feet, have for years. This year has been pleasant even though there’s no “time apart” and no privacy. We also have a dog in that small area.
There’s more to it than just affording large luxury housing.
In many situations (daycare, elder care) the caregivers are by no means strangers. My 2 year old spends as much or more time with her daycare teachers and classmates than she does with my wife and I.
They love her and she loves them. Just because they aren't blood doesn't mean they don't play a huge part in her day to day experience and growth. In fact, they play a much larger part in her world than her grandparents or other family that she only sees several times a year.
It feels to easy to dismiss these folks as 'not as good as family' when, at least in my experience, they are much more than just paid baby sitters.
Parents and children are a generation away, there are flights over cultural differences that drive wedges. I'm glad I only see my Fox News repeating parents once a week.
However my co-workers are my peers who I can bounce ideas off.
This isn't new or Western either. Japan has a phrase "Foolish father" that both means what it sounds like, but also respect that everyone has a father. A more general term "filial piety".
When frequent contact with parents is stigmatized after certain age, which it is in USA, then old people get lonely as they age and their contact with children will go down ...
