> I can't see a single valueable thing about that 100th hour of playing Diablo - it's a pure time waster.
I wasted a lot of time playing Diablo II in college; but most of that was in a social context; is playing grindy games with friends that bad?
> It's not great for an adult, but especially bad for a child/teenager, which should be growing instead of wasting time.
You can't / shouldn't try to schedule all of a child's time to avoid any waste. For one thing, wasting time is a skill that needs to be developed -- there is so much boredom and drudgery in life that is unavoidable, learning how to deal with that requires practice and doing boring, wasteful things. But also, having some amount of mindless time in your day or week allows you to decompress and relax. Diablo probably isn't the best way, but it's alright. Caveat: I only played a lot of Diablo 1 and 2, maybe 3 was worse; when I tried to play it in Beta, I realized I had no real desire to run around and click on everything anymore.
I wasted a lot of time playing Diablo II in college; but most of that was in a social context; is playing grindy games with friends that bad?
> It's not great for an adult, but especially bad for a child/teenager, which should be growing instead of wasting time.
You can't / shouldn't try to schedule all of a child's time to avoid any waste. For one thing, wasting time is a skill that needs to be developed -- there is so much boredom and drudgery in life that is unavoidable, learning how to deal with that requires practice and doing boring, wasteful things. But also, having some amount of mindless time in your day or week allows you to decompress and relax. Diablo probably isn't the best way, but it's alright. Caveat: I only played a lot of Diablo 1 and 2, maybe 3 was worse; when I tried to play it in Beta, I realized I had no real desire to run around and click on everything anymore.