Unpopular opinion: it feels weird to call pc gaming a hobby. It’s like calling watching TV or masturbating a hobby. It occupies time to be sure, but it seems a lot more like a way to blow extra time than to invest it, and I played WoW for 13 years.
A hobby is just something someone does in their free time for pleasure, so yeah, watching TV would certainly qualify. I suppose masturbating could too but I would argue that falls closer to a physiological desire rather than a hobby. Hobbies can be just about anything - bird watching, walking, caring for a pet, reading, playing sudoku, etc. Playing video games has been shown to be good for mental acuity and hand eye coordination, so I would argue it’s even good for you! Hobbies don’t need to be an investment of time at all, they just need to bring you pleasure. We as humans need relaxation and decompression time, and that’s exactly what a hobby is. Sure some hobbies produce things or results of some kind, but they don’t have to.
Unpopular opinion: it feels weird to call pc gaming a hobby. It’s like calling watching TV or masturbating a hobby. It occupies time to be sure, but it seems a lot more like a way to blow extra time than to invest it, and I played WoW for 13 years.
A hobby is just something someone does in their free time for pleasure, so yeah, watching TV would certainly qualify. I suppose masturbating could too but I would argue that falls closer to a physiological desire rather than a hobby. Hobbies can be just about anything - bird watching, walking, caring for a pet, reading, playing sudoku, etc. Playing video games has been shown to be good for mental acuity and hand eye coordination, so I would argue it’s even good for you! Hobbies don’t need to be an investment of time at all, they just need to bring you pleasure. We as humans need relaxation and decompression time, and that’s exactly what a hobby is. Sure some hobbies produce things or results of some kind, but they don’t have to.
I don’t think by your own definition you can exclude masturbation. It’s free time for pleasure. It’s non obligatory.
It also makes looking out the window a hobby… which makes me think this definition is overly broad.