I love various sports including basketball tennis and billiards.
Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that though full of a thousand reasons for weariness the least thing such as playing billiards or hitting a ball is sufficient enough to amuse him.
It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.
I have been wildly enthused about gaming since I was younger and a career path I chose not to go down but did really consider was getting into programming and game design.