Talk:Accomploshrine/@comment-109.79.224.28-20140116014353/@comment-184.91.222.18-20140126113811

"Games are hardly pointless," supported with "scientific data assumed to be there about increasing rapid decision making, is a false statement. Nobody ever sat down one day and decided "I'm going to dedicate a good portion of my daily life from here on out in order to improve my decision-making abilities."

"All art is quite useless." - Oscar Wilde

"It's more about the decidedly unfun things that people will do just for an electronic badge that says they did it." If it's not fun they won't do it. View SOCOM 3 trophies for evidence, or Hotline Miami. (Even then, earning those 'electronic badges' from that game would say something about the person's abilities.) Steam, PSN, XBL, and so on achievements are there to show other people how much someone's done; a measuring contest, really, of who has the most time wasted playing video games and not becoming a successful entertaininer, engineer, world leader, etc.