>>15624715Not for a fucking video game, no. I put effort into grad school. I put in effort to my job. I put effort into maintaining my health, my appearance, and my social life. If I'm playing a video game, it'd better be fun, and effort only sometimes figures into it. Fun for me in Pokemon is honing my skills in competitive battles, practicing my predictions, getting my ass beat, winning hard-fought victories. Its planning teams and finding cool mechanical interactions. Its exploring the world of the game, fighting the gym leaders, customizing my character, and enjoying the story, no matter how bad. All of those things require an expenditure of time and effort, but they're fun for me, and its for a video game, so its the fun that matters. Riding a bike up and down route 7 is effort, and it isn't any fun at all for me. For a GAME, its the fun that matters, not the effort, so if I have a way out, why should I bother with it? I can spend the time studying or working out instead.
It seems to me that the problem you anti-genners have isn't really with the genners at all - its with yourselves. You don't do anything productive with your lives whatsoever, so you desperately need lie to tell yourself that the time you sink into your games is worth something more than just the fun you have with it. Genners break that illusion. To acknowledge them with anything other than scorn and hostility would mean having to take a long, hard look at the way you spend the fleeting hours of your own life, and you're just not ready to do it.
People who breed pokemon for fun are cool. People who breed pokemon because they think its proof that they are a superior class of people with an actual work ethic and are trying to avoid acknowledging that they're wasting their lives on more than just Pokemon need psychological help.
And with that, I'm out. Later /vp/, its always fun.
