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It says 120tw/h a year right there, which is the same as bitcoin now. Do you think it's a bogus paper or what are arguing against?

I agree with the criticism about bitcoin, I just find gaming industry as useless burning carbon and trying to milk money from the naive.



> Some get kick out of games, some out shitcoins.

> I just find gaming industry as useless burning carbon and trying to milk money from the naive.

Can Video Games be divorced from the Gaming industry? Are you saying that gaming is as invalid a form of entertainment as crypto mining and speculation is? So other forms of entertainment are more valid, or is entertainment not a valid use of time?

If we assume that video gaming is not an invalid form of entertainment, how many gamers are measured compared to miners and speculators? I suspect that entertainment person-hours per joule is substantially better for video games than it is for bitcoin. In which case, if video games were a valid form of entertainment, then what we want are video games that use less energy.

If video gaming is a lesser form of entertainment, why? People said 100 years ago or thereabouts that books were a bad influence on society.

I don't quite understand what the naive part of video gaming is though. Is that in reference to gatcha?


Are you in favor of banning movies too then? We burn a lot of resources (both physical resources and electricity) to film and distribute and show movies, and we could repurpose all of that for other pursuits


No, all I said is that in my eyes they are on par, not that we should ban any of them.




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