Again, no one is arguing playing a game is equal in skill to playing olympic level sports.
But to argue that its not a skill at all is false.
"Sorry but pressing 1, 1, 2, 2, 5, 5, 7, 7, still does not require much more skill than tapping a finger"
You're right. And strumming a chord doesn't require much more skill than moving your hand and tapping a finger on a string.
When you strip away all thought process and knowledge required from an action, and boil it down to just its simple motor movements, anything sounds simple. "throwing a football is really just swinging your arm"
Why did you pick songs 1, 2, 5, and 7? When do you play songs 3 and 4 and 6 and 8? What songs did you pick for 3/4/6/8? What are you doing while twisting 1/2/5/7? Just standing stationary completely zoned out? Are you moving/positioning based on fight? Are you reacting to any fight mechanics? Are you helping coordinate the raid via chat or voice communication?
You seem to be under the impression that video games are always 100% rote memorization of a task, and other things are dynamic skills.
I can show you people "playing" a guitar that have simply mechanically memorized a motor movement to specific timing. They don't understand notes or music and if you asked them to deviate from what they're doing and personalize it at all, they could not.
I can show you people playing a video game that are reading and reacting and making decisions/judgement calls based on variable inputs. You put them in the middle of a raid and throw a whole new mechanic at them that they were not expecting and they could adapt to it and survive.
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