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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jack7" data-source="post: 3753313" data-attributes="member: 54707">Simple deduction. Saying he played every weekend, involved in multiple games through each day of the weekend, then answering my reply by saying that the game was golf for him and his buddies led me to conclude (an imperfect conclusion given lack of direct supplementary data) that it was his primary if not singular recreational activity, or that given the situation with his girlfriend that it was his most time-consuming activity.I also deduced from the fact that his girlfriend did not appear to like gaming and had furthermore questioned him (on her own volition) on the appearance of the girl that she considered the game, either consciously or sub-consciously, a time consuming and possibly slightly distracting activity which was time that could be better spent in her company. Think about it this way, if the game were not the likely most important and time consuming recreational activity then the thread would have never been posted, the time spent never mentioned, or the girlfriend mentioned. The posting about these matters speaks to behavior, and words as direct verification of anything are not necessary, because it is behavior being expressed and described. Behavior expresses true intent, words can either clarify or obscure behavior, but when words are contrasted against behavior always assume behavior to be the more immediate and trustworthy portrait of intention and objective. That might not be true if someone is working specifically to modify their behavior to mask a secondary or covert intention, but in this particular case I think that an unlikely possibility.I'm not making value judgments on any of these matters (indeed I don't think he's done anything wrong, just personally individualistic to taste and interest) based on these deductions, I know only what I read in the thread and furthermore I read nothing but Jeff's view of the matter(s) but given the clues it is a perfectly logical, if necessarily incomplete deduction to make given no other background. I am merely describing how I arrived at that conclusion.As I said different people are different and some people like consistency in the activities, some like variety, but all evidence was, given the information available, that Jeff's primary, time consuming recreational activity is the game.Then again this is further supported by the very idea that he spends enough time on the game to post on a website dedicated to the game about a personal game situation. Therefore this fact alone is likely verification of my assumptions.Anyway I can see both his point of view regarding how much time he consumes at the activity, given his expressed proclivities, and I can understand his girlfriend's suspicions about how much time he spends engaged at the game. That's for them to work out, but it's not hard to see given the clues in the post that much time is consumed at the activity. For good, or ill, or maybe both.Lastly, none of that directly relates to his question and I didn't want to get off track concerning the real purpose of the thread, and as I said I'm not drawing any value conclusions, but it might be interesting for him to think about in an objective fashion.</blockquote>

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