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8 hours gaming is a lot. Just to be clear. You need other hobbies.
I game while my 3d printer chugs away next to me. I've got to make sure the print doesn't fail. If the print is going to take 12 hours, I guess I play for 12 hours. I'm very dedicated to my 3d printing hobby.
I have lots of hobbies.
One of them is occasionally spending all day playing video games.
Bite me.
Gaming is a very diverse hobby, especially considering that the captions do not specify type of game.
Would 8 hours of D&D with friends be a lot? Seems like quality time to me.
an 8 hour D&D session is insane... do you hate your DM?
8 hours in a week seems reasonable. 8 hours in one day, for one session? That's too much. I don't even know how you get a table full of players all the schedule that much time. 3-4 hour long sessions sounds reasonable.
I haven't actually done 8, but I have played for 6 hours before. Our games move really slowly, definitely more role-playing than roll-playing, so it's a lot of narrative and story-telling. Doesn't help that the DM is very into D&D enough to run multiple campaigns.
Yeah it'd definitely be a marathon though. But my point was that even if it is too many hours (e.g. for practical reasons), I think it would be unfair to say that it's too many hours in the sense of "you need other hobbies."