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people are right to be upset their hobby is pricing them out. (hexbear.net)
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"Mario 64 was 60 dollars in 1995 meaning that it would be about 100 dollars today"

Pay has NOT kept up with inflation. People are poorer.

Folk need to stop pretending like people have as much money as they did in the 90s. Rent costs, house prices are astronomical.

Xbox's business is still impacted today by outpricing people with their initial Xbox One reveal pricing a decade ago.

Nintendo Treehouse comments are absolutely packed with people complaining about prices.

Again, I'm vastly aware that game budgets, inflation etc have increased!

but Pay has NOT increased accordingly. I don't know the solution, but that's the reality.

And I make these points as someone who is lucky enough to earn well enough to just buy them regardless. Most aren't as fortunate.

Game bubbles regularly disregard the poor, unfortunately, as the industry has an above-average number of middle-class background workers.

Price increases combined with physical knock effectively prices the poor out of legally gaming (Buying directly from them/the digital store)

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[–] 9to5@hexbear.net 6 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

That is certainly a hot take. I guess you also dont consider reading books a hobby since that is basically the same as watching tv ? Or working out also isnt a hobby since its not creative ? And gaming also isnt a hobby. So I guess I dont have hobbies :^)

[–] LaughingLion@hexbear.net 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Working out is absolutely not a hobby by any definition of the word. Reading books and watching TV are definitely past-times. Sure, it can be enriching, like how a sport can exercise the body. Not a hobby, though.

[–] SnakeEyes@hexbear.net 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

First, where did you get this from? "Working out is absolutely not a hobby by any definition of the word" It falls in the denotation of the word given it's sense being:

Cambridge dictionary: "An activity that someone does for pleasure when they are not working"

Collins dictionary: "A hobby is an activity that you enjoy doing in your spare time"

Oxford Learners dictionary: "An activity that you do for pleasure when you are not working"

Wiktionary: "An activity that one enjoys doing in one's spare time"

Second is your meaning of hobby is not defined enough, paraphrasing: A hobby is something creative or that develops creative skill. But later on you disagree on videogames that are used to create and express creativity being a hobby.

Your meaning of hobby seems to relate more with if something is manual/physical media than about just relating to creativity or creative skill.

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hobby. (2025). Retrieved April 5, 2025, from https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/hobby

Hobby definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary. (n.d.). Www.collinsdictionary.com. Retrieved April 5, 2025, from https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/hobby

hobby noun - Definition, pictures, pronunciation and usage notes | Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary at OxfordLearnersDictionaries.com. (2022). Oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com. Retrieved April 5, 2025, from https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/hobby

hobby - Wiktionary, the free dictionary. (2025). Wiktionary. Retrieved April 5, 2025, from https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/hobby

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