Brin: Book / Time = Joy% (KZK)

> > Seriously. (May I? For just a moment?)  Next time
> you contemplate a
> > book?s retail price, try dividing it by the number of
> hours of
> > pleasure you?ll get, reading it.  Then tell me of
> any other pastime
> > with a better minutes per pennies ratio of sheer joy!
> 
> Video games.  It's easy to see that Good Quality video
> games gives a 
> much better ratio (I'm not talking about all these first
> person shooter 
> games which are basically 100% interchangable and are
> basically Doom 
> clones).
> 
> Lets see, you probably get 3-5 times (average) from high
> quality 
> games--Ico, Shadow of the Colossus, etc, You probably get
> 4-10 times 
> from any given Zelda game (including handheld), 2-20 times
> from High 
> quality fighter Games--Soul Caliber, Tekken, etc. 
> Possibly 100's of 
> times from open ended games--Tetris, Angband, Darklands,
> Minesweeper, etc.
> 
> I know I spent more time playing Betray at Krondor than I
> did reading  Magician (Apprentice & Master).
> 
> Then we get to TV shows/Movies.  The average person
> probably rewatches 
> their favorite TV shows & Movies over and over again, so
> your conception is wrong.

For me time is too precious to waste playing video games. I canceled my cable and minimized my time on Facebook because they were cutting into my reading time.