Since they don’t have any useful value other than providing entertainment to the user, why they exist?

  • AreaKode@lemmy.worldEnglish
    20·
    9 小时前

    I believe you just answered your own question. Sometimes people just want to have fun.

  • KillerTofu@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    9 小时前

    Ask the same about any other art like music, paintings, sculptures. What useful value do they have other than entertainment?

  • grrgyle@slrpnk.netEnglish
    2·
    8 小时前

    An excellent philosophical question, that we all ask ourselves at some point - why do we play?

    I’ll answer your question with one of my own: what is productive labour for after all? To allow for more productive labour?

    I could cite some evolutionary hypotheses about how we came to enjoy play and beauty for their own sake, but that doesn’t tell you what we ought to value.

    For my own part I think thoughtfully maximising life’s pleasures is a good goal (though I would rank diminishing pain as higher priority).

  • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
    4·
    9 小时前

    Other than entertainment? Why do any games exist?

    Develop cognitive function, mental plasticity, social engagement with the group.

  • dontgooglefinderscult@lemmings.worldEnglish
    41·
    9 小时前

    The same reason the literal entirety of society exists. After we completely figured out food, water, and shelter, we got bored. We stopped being at risk of famine 10k years ago, we pretty quickly figured out fermentation and distillation makes water not kill us, and we figured out how to house everyone.

    Then we kept just making that faster and easier to accomplish.

    Well what do we do with all that free time? Fuck play games, do some entertainment, kill other people over petty nonsense, create pointless class based societies that generate artificial scarcity simply because a few people are greedy and most are too trusting of those greedy people, enrich out lives through momentary joy.

    So in the dark ages of computing this tradition was continued and a very smart, highly paid scientist in charge of tens of millions of dollars of equipment made some of that equipment play table tennis.

    A few decades and massive corporate funding of naive over enthusiastic nerds with much cheaper but more powerful equipment later and we have video games instead of going to the pub to play dice or doing a war…