🍹Early to RISA 🧉@sh.itjust.worksM to Greentext@sh.itjust.works · 23 hours agoAnon plays World of Warcraftsh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square118linkfedilinkarrow-up1745arrow-down17
arrow-up1738arrow-down1imageAnon plays World of Warcraftsh.itjust.works🍹Early to RISA 🧉@sh.itjust.worksM to Greentext@sh.itjust.works · 23 hours agomessage-square118linkfedilink
minus-squareQuadrexium@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up174·23 hours agowhy do real chores when virtual chores
minus-square🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up116·22 hours 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-squareJcbAzPx@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·9 hours 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-squarejballs@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·11 hours 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-up3·7 hours agoI’ve been playing Hitman: World of Assassination all weekend. Not sure if that’s better than the alternative.
minus-squareSpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up69·23 hours agoReal chores give us no sense of pride and accomplishment
minus-squareUnstoppable_Flop@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up2·10 hours 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
minus-squarerumschlumpel@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down2·15 hours 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-up4·14 hours 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-down2·13 hours agoI’m sure lots of people don’t feel a sense of accomplishment from gaming, either.
minus-squareplutopos@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up4·11 hours agobut gaming is fine-tuned to be fun, real life isn’t
minus-squarerumschlumpel@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down2·10 hours agobut real life achievements are much more real and often more lasting than in-game achievements
minus-squareTubularTittyFrog@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 hours agolol what world are you living in? chores never stop.
minus-squarerumschlumpel@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 hours agoThat doesn’t diminish the sense of accomplishment.
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! 😩”
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.
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.
Real chores give us no sense of pride and 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
Pride And Accomplishment™ 🤤
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.