> David Brin:
Seriously. (May I? For just a moment?) Next time you contemplate a book’s retail price, try dividing it by the number of hours of pleasure you’ll get, reading it. Then tell me of any other pastime with a better minutes per pennies ratio of sheer joy!
Video games. It's easy to see that Good Quality video games gives a much better ratio (I'm not talking about all these first person shooter games which are basically 100% interchangable and are basically Doom clones).
Lets see, you probably get 3-5 times (average) from high quality games--Ico, Shadow of the Colossus, etc, You probably get 4-10 times from any given Zelda game (including handheld), 2-20 times from High quality fighter Games--Soul Caliber, Tekken, etc. Possibly 100's of times from open ended games--Tetris, Angband, Darklands, Minesweeper, etc.
I know I spent more time playing Betray at Krondor than I did reading Magician (Apprentice & Master).
Then we get to TV shows/Movies. The average person probably rewatches their favorite TV shows & Movies over and over again, so your conception is wrong.
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