> 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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