Quote Originally Posted by linayar View Post
Well, I can see why some people don't want to do it. In fact, one reason why I always use MSQ boost for alt characters is to not have to do aether currents again.

It's just that I don't qualify it as busy work, though I will concede that it can be subjective in terms of how people interpret what it means (but I would still disagree).

I just think that people have this idea that, if it doesn't take a long time to do, that it's fine to do it even if you're not having fun doing it. That's why I'm more against the idea of interpreting busy work as something that merely you don't find value in (intrinsically).

For me, the term "busy" in "busy work" has a meaning. If it's only something you don't find value in, "meaningless/unfun chore" might be a more appropriate term.

"Taking longer than it needs to be" does not necessarily equate to busy for me.
On the point of meaning I guess we are just splitting hairs. Since my view of busywork more so operates around the definition of an activity that is undertaken to pass time and stay busy but in and of itself has no actual value.

To me that is legit what the currents represent. You may say I should use a different term, from your perspective of how you view busy work that may be true, though in my view of how I define busy work it fits well. Though this is why normally I tend to ask how one defines a subjective topic before hand, cause if how we view it does not have a baseline it becomes a moot discussion sadly.