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<blockquote data-quote="Oni" data-source="post: 4369915" data-attributes="member: 380">I've logged an embarrasing number of hours on WoW.&nbsp; Several 60's, got up to Marshal Pvping (for those in the know at the end this took like 40 hours a week playing) and after the expanson level two characters from 1 to 70 played them both quite a bit at the cap before I finally quit.&nbsp; I say all this to show there is some experience behind my statements.&nbsp; I don't think WoW kills the imagination exactly, I could still sit down and paint if I had wanted to.&nbsp; What it killed was my productivity, it took up so much time that I didn't have any left to produce artwork.&nbsp; Ideas are a dime a dozen the time to do anything with them is different as it is finite and one has to choose how their time is spent and when you choose to do one thing you choose not to do another.&nbsp; Also video games in particular have a feature that is unlike say watching tv and movies, it's the interactivity.&nbsp; This level of commitment, the constant involvment the *required* attention and the physicality of interaction prevents you from doing other things.&nbsp; I draw and paint all the time while watching TV, if you went and looked at my gallery I say 90% of that was done watching TV.&nbsp; You can't do that when playing a game like WoW.&nbsp; But I will not go so far as to say that these kind of distractions hurt your imagination, but rather only time spent on them is time not spend using your imagination.&nbsp; It's overall more a matter of productivity and time management.&nbsp; So putting all of your mental resources into a game ties them up with game related things.&nbsp; Of course putting all of you mental resources into table top gaming will just net you more tabletop gaming related thought, you're not going to solve world hunger or cure cancer thinking about being an elf.&nbsp; I seem to be ranting a bit, but hopefully there might be some interesting thought here for someone.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Oni, post: 4369915, member: 380"] I've logged an embarrasing number of hours on WoW. Several 60's, got up to Marshal Pvping (for those in the know at the end this took like 40 hours a week playing) and after the expanson level two characters from 1 to 70 played them both quite a bit at the cap before I finally quit. I say all this to show there is some experience behind my statements. I don't think WoW kills the imagination exactly, I could still sit down and paint if I had wanted to. What it killed was my productivity, it took up so much time that I didn't have any left to produce artwork. Ideas are a dime a dozen the time to do anything with them is different as it is finite and one has to choose how their time is spent and when you choose to do one thing you choose not to do another. Also video games in particular have a feature that is unlike say watching tv and movies, it's the interactivity. This level of commitment, the constant involvment the *required* attention and the physicality of interaction prevents you from doing other things. I draw and paint all the time while watching TV, if you went and looked at my gallery I say 90% of that was done watching TV. You can't do that when playing a game like WoW. But I will not go so far as to say that these kind of distractions hurt your imagination, but rather only time spent on them is time not spend using your imagination. It's overall more a matter of productivity and time management. So putting all of your mental resources into a game ties them up with game related things. Of course putting all of you mental resources into table top gaming will just net you more tabletop gaming related thought, you're not going to solve world hunger or cure cancer thinking about being an elf. I seem to be ranting a bit, but hopefully there might be some interesting thought here for someone. :) [/QUOTE]

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