Take pride in your work

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This was something i learned and heard while growing up. And as such, its reflected in my day to day workings.

Given that, and my competitive nature, i like to try to be decent in a video game. But it doesnt get to the point of turning the game into a second job just to perfect a singular aspect.

But in a dungeon run i like to compete for most interrupts and dispels (especially with afflicted this week) while trying to out DPS everyone.

And the reason i bring this up is i read a few posts about “how pathetic is it to garner your value based on a video game” - while they’re raging about the same pixels.

But it got me thinking
maybe its not self worth (although some people do have their entire identity revolve around their video game skills), but they just take pride in what they do?

Does this apply to anyone else?

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I think the people who throw shade at those who put effort into a video game are sad.

if you’re going to do something, do it as well as you can.

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About 90% of me self worth comes from games. The other 10%, i can make my friends laugh.

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I take pride in making my characters look good with transmogs, because I’m an artist and I like to make things look good.

I’ll do whatever it takes to get good mogs, even reaching 1800 in rated PvP for elite sets.

But, at the end of the day, I know this is a video game. Nothing I accomplish here translates to real life, no one is going to be impressed, even other WoW players likely won’t care. And why should they?

Everything you do, is for your own enjoyment.

I know people are proud of their skills, but others generally don’t care, unless they are friends or guildmates or something.

There’s nothing wrong with being prideful, just don’t force it upon others lol.

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I take pride in my work like most people, but this isn’t a job. Look, you guys can take as much pride in how you play a video game all you want. But if you start belittling people who don’t take pride over a computer game, that’s 100% a you problem.

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You’re right OP. I’ll knock out the extra 0.3 percentile overall on my heroic logs to attain legendary status and a job well done. I slacked off for the last two weeks. I’m sorry!

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I don’t see that very often. More likely it’s someone who decides to put massive amount of time into the game throwing shade at others who feel WoW is a light hearted pass time.

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that happens too, but there’s a ton of derisive “it’s just a game, go touch grass” crap that gets thrown at people who put effort into it.

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This is how ive always looked at it. Yes WoW is a video game. Its down time. Its relaxing. But I still want to be as effeicient as i can without turning it into a job

Usually the other way around from what ive seen. Lot of it being time sensitive things like mage tower OG appearances or specific achievements. Lots of “i put in the work for it, you can too. No need to make it easier when we all went through it” followed by the “imagine getting your self worth from pixels and trying to stop others from obtaining the same thing”

But a few cases i have seen it the way you described. Just not nearly as often

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I try to take pride in my work so I can be happy about something. I don’t let that overwhelm me though but I need to be happier as time goes on.

Being happy is good! :slight_smile:

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I take pride in my work. But I don’t count WoW as work. Which is why I prefer to play the fool here. I don’t take the game, or myself, or anyone else here, all that seriously.

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I used to try and take pride in my work, until I realized there was nothing to be proud of.

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I was going to ask if I fell into an alternate universe or if this was gaslighting lol. But people are just sensitive to being attacked. If you are casual it can feel derisive for being told you don’t take a video game seriously enough to talk about it, but you wouldn’t see it that way. You would get a response with “it’s just a game,” but I guess you would see that as equally derisive and I wouldn’t.

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For me i just think wow is a silly video game that provides entertainment. Since my only interest is casual PvP I play for the fun I can get from it. I don’t min-max but try to gear and play as best I can and that works for producing fun.

I think it’s weird that some people would spell out they “take pride” in how they play wow or any video game. They wouldn’t be people i’d want to play with.

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Why? I play hockey for fun and also take pride in my performance in that, I also workout for fun and take pride in that. Same goes for cooking and my art. Just because you do something for fun or too unwind doesn’t mean you can’t take pride in it.

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Oh I dare and I will dare again good sir :rofl:

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Taking pride in your achievements is fine.

Start lording them over other and think you are better because of them just makes you a douche.

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This is how I see it as well. Games are more of a personal enjoyment and stress-relief function for me

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I said “‘take pride’ in how they play wow or any video game.” Video games aren’t worth taking pride in. And again, i wouldn’t want to play them with people who are so insistent on spelling it out that way. They wouldn’t be chill.