Quote Originally Posted by Blarp View Post
Pretty large difference between studying martial arts with other people, and playing an online video game. You're trying to better yourself, and surround yourself with people doing the same thing when you do something like martial arts. Not so much in a video game.

Walk up to a woman in her mid-20s and talk about martial arts training. Then try talking about how you spent 12 hours playing a video game. See which one gets you further. Not exactly as though you're going to ask her to join you for a 12 hour gaming session for a first date.
I know the difference between the two, but it is still applies. You do in fact play video games to surround yourself with people doing the same thing. Why else you would be playing an MMORPG?
You're investing time to get some gratification out of the process. If you're doing martial arts for others instead of yourself, you're obviously missing the point of martial arts, but I guess it's circumstantial--perhaps you want to fight worthy opponents.
Whatever the case, I know what you're getting at but like I said before, it does apply to gaming.